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Victory, O Lord !

Academician / British / Millais / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 7 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Victory, O Lord!” by John Everett Millais of 1871.  It is a depiction of Moses being supported by his brother Aaron and Hur during the battle of Rephidim against the Amalekites as recorded in Exodus 17.  Millais was forty-two when he created this masterpiece and was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite School.   This work dates from the period in which the artist grew bolder in his use of color and drama and marks a significant transition in his style.  He was very influential among British artists and died in 1896.  This masterpiece is 141.3 cm wide and 194.7 cm high and is in the Manchester Art Museum in Manchester, England.

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The Shipwreck

Academician / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Shipwreck” of 1775 by Hendrik Kobell.  This Dutch artist was twenty-four years old when this was produced having been born in Rotterdam.  He had studied in Rotterdam and England but returned to the Netherlands in 1770 when he began to study in Amsterdam under Jacob de Vos and Cornelis Ploos van Amstel.  He was soon elected to the Academy after which he settled in Rotterdam.  His oils and watercolors were noted for their realism.  He was quite successful and died in Rotterdam on August 3, 1799.  This work is 134 cm wide and 92 cm high and is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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Watson and the Shark

American / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 8 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Watson and the Shark” of 1778 by John Singleton Copley.  The artist was forty years old when this was produced having been born probably in Boston, Massachusetts, of Irish parents.  His earliest work was a portrait executed in 1752.  By the age of seventeen he was fully engaged in portraiture.  In 1774 he left America due to increasing threats due to his Loyalist family connections.  After American Independence, Copley maintained good relations with friends in Massachusetts.  During the Napoleonic Wars his finances declined and the artist died in England in 1815.   This work is 229.7 cm wide and 182.1 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

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La Roche Tarpéienne

British / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 9 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Tarpeian Rock” of 1780 by Francis Towne.  This is a scene from the late eighteenth century in Rome of the famous Tarpeian Rock from which the Roman hurled traitors from the earliest days of their history.  Francis Towne was forty-one years old when he created this watercolor masterpiece.  He was from Middlesex in England.  He supported himself with portraits and teaching in Devon and in 1777 during a tour of North Wales began focusing on watercolors.  He created this work during a stay in Rome which was followed by a month in Naples in 1781.  Returning to England, he moved to London where he died in 1816.  This work measures 18.58 inches wide by 12.6 inches high and is in the British Museum in London.

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The Lock, John Constable, 1824

Academician / British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 10 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Lock” of 1824 by John Constable.  The artist was a native of Suffolk who died in 1837 at the age of sixty-one years.  He is one of the greatest English landscape painters but did not become recognized until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of fifty-two.  He struggled financially until then with his works selling better in France than in England.  This landscape features the lock and canal system of England which led to its industrial growth in the Nineteenth Century.  The painting is 120 cm wide and 142.2 cm high and is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

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Lady Godiva by John Collier, 1898

Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Lady Godiva” of 1898 by John Collier.  This English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite School painted this work when he was forty-eight years old.  He studied at the Munich Academy and was one of the most prominent portraitists of his age.  The Prince of Wales was his major patron and he died in 1934.  This painting of a major English mythological tale which depicts the naked wife of Earl Leofric of Mercia riding through Coventry to protest an unfair tax.  The legend dates from the Thirteenth Century and was popular in Victorian England as a morality tale.

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Going to the Ball, William Turner, 1846

British / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Going to the Ball (San Martino)” by Joseph Mallord William Turner of 1846.  This master artist was one of the foremost English Romantic painters of all time.  He was controversial in his own day but he raised the art of landscape to rival that genre of historical painting.  He not only created wonderful oils, but he also was a master of watercolors and printing.  He created this wonderful work at the age of seventy-one.  He had receive formal training at the Royal Academy of Art from the age of fourteen and within eight years he was receiving enough patronage to insure his career in art.  He died in 1851 in London.  This masterpiece depicts a party in Venice on its way to a ball via gondola.  The painting is in a private collection.

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Val d’Aosta, John Brett, 1858

British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Val d’Aosta” of 1858 by John Brett.  This British artist is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement having been born in 1831 Reigate, south of London.  After studying under landscape artists, he entered the Royal Academy schools at the age of 22.  In his thirties he journeyed to Switzerland attempting to incorporate scientific principals in his paintings.  His reputation mounted and his patron John Ruskin sent him to the Val d’Aosta in northern Italy which produced this masterpiece.  Brett became quite financially comfortable and continued to produce scientifically precise paintings until his death in 1902.  He was also an astronomer and had been elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1871.  This masterpiece is in a private collection.
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Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1868

Academician / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s “Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends” of 1868.  Phidias is the figure in the middle with Alcibiades and his lover Socrates to the sculptor’s right and Pericles and his companion Aspasia facing Phidias.  Alma-Tadema was born and trained in the Netherlands and Belgium, notably at the Royal Academy in Antwerp.  He moved to England in 1870 and there became very famous for his incredibly realistic depictions of ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt.  He died in 1912.  This masterpiece is in the Birmingham Museun and Art Gallery, England.

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The Old Oak by Jules Dupre, ca. 1870

Academician / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproducition of “The Old Oak” of about 1870 by Jules Dupre.  Dupre was about 49 when he painted this landscape which is an excellent example of the Barbizon School in that it shows a pronounced dramatic effect.  At the age of twenty Dupre had visited England where he was deeply impressed by John Constable.  In 1848 as a token of his fame and contribution, he was awarded the cross of the Legion of Honor.  He died in 1889.  This masterpiece is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

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