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Jun 17 2011
Sir Isaac Newton
Academician / Baroque / British / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Sir Isaac Newton” of 1689 by Godfrey Kneller. The artist was forty-three when he painted Newton who was then aged forty-six. Kneller was the court portraitist for the British kings from Charles II to George I. Newton, of course, was the greatest scientist of his age being the founder of physics, discoverer of Gravity, the Three Laws of Motion, the co-inventor of differential and integral calculus, builder of one of the first reflecting telescopes,. In short he was one of the most influential persons to have ever lived.
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Jun 3 2011
Boy in Blue
Academician / British / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 8 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Boy in Blue” of 1770 by Thomas Gainsborough. This is his most famous work and is regarded as a homage to Anthony van Dyke influenced by the Belgian artist’s portrait of Charles II as a boy. The painting remained in private hands until 1921 when it was sold by the second duke of Westminster to the art dealer Joseph Duveen in 1921. The painting was then sold to the American railway pioneer Henry Huntingdon amid public outcry in Britain. Gainsborough was forty-three when he completed this masterpiece, a year after he began exhibiting works to the Royal Academy. He gained a national reputation but ceased displaying at the academy in 1773. He moved to London the next year and became favored by the court of George III. He continued to be a favorite of the royal family until his death I n1780. This work is 122 cm wide and 178 cm high and is in the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, California.
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Apr 10 2011
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.
Mar 17 2011
Ovid Banished from Rome, J. M. William Turner
British / Greco-Roman / Impressionist / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Ovid Banished from Rome” of 1838 by J. M. William Turner. The infamous Roman author of erotic poetry had often irritated Augustus who was intent on restoring the "old morals" to the Roman Empire. In the scandal over his own daughter’s infidelities, Publius Ovidius Naso was exiled from Rome to the barbaric lands on the shore of the Black Sea where he died after ten years. This masterpiece was produced when the artist was sixty-three years old and well advanced into the eccentricity which marked his life after the death of his father. He had repeated bouts of depression and died twelve years after completing this painting. The original painting is 49.2 inches wide and 37.24 inches wide and resides in a private collection.
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Mar 13 2011
Le Pandemonium, 1841, John Martin
British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of John Martin’s “Le Pandemonium” of 1841. The artist created the masterpiece when he was fifty-two years old. He was already deeply influencing the French Romanticists such as Delacroix, Victor Hugo and Saint-Beuve. The work depicts a scene from Milton’s Paradise Lost representing the capital of Satan’s kingdom. This painting in the Louvre also retains its original frame designed by the artist, the only one of his works that does. The original painting is 72.8 inches wide and 48.4 inches high and is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Mar 11 2011
View of Saint Peter’s in Caen by William Fowler, II
British / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “View of Saint Peter’s Church” of 1841 by William Fowler the Younger. This English Victorian artist produced this masterpiece when sixteen years old. The precocious young artist was named after his father who was also an artist. He died in 1867. The church of St. Peter’s in Caen was built between 1250 and 1545. The Eastern Apse was built by Hector Sohier between 1518 and 1545. It is a Gothic masterpiece though the last additions show the transition to Renaissance.
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Mar 6 2011
Sketch of Constance on the Bodensee, J. M. William Turner
British / Impressionist / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Sketch of Constance on the Bodensee” by J. M William Turner of 1842. 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 sixty-seven. 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 is in the British Museum, London.
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Feb 23 2011
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.
Dec 27 2010
Reading from Homer, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885
Academician / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was created in 1885. It depicts a scene from ancient Rome when three listeners are intent in listening to a reading from the Blind Bard, the founder of their religion. This work is currently in a private collection.
Oct 11 2010
The Gods At Play by William Blake Richmond, ca. 1889
British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of a work by William Blake Richmond who died in 1921 at the age of eighty-nine years. His career began in 1861 and he was well received having studied in England and in Italy. He was knighted in 1897. This work is a beautiful imaginative rendition of the gods of Olympus at play, but we have been unable to find the real name of the work or where it may now be displayed.
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