Archive for posts tagged with ‘James II’


Jun 17 2011

Sir Isaac Newton

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

Sir Isaac Newton

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 15 2011

The Battle of Texel

British / Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 11 months ago - troycapc

The Battle of Texel

This is a reproduction of “The Encounter between Cornelis Tromp on the Gouden Leeuw and Sir Edward Sragg on the Royal Prince during the Battle of Kijkduin” of 1707 by Willem van de Velde the Younger.  This battle occurred on August 21, 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch War.  The painting was created when the artist was seventy-four years old having been born in Leiden to Willem van de Velde the Elder.  He moved to London in 1673 into the employ of Charles II.  Also patronized by the Duke of York, the future James II, Van de Velde the Younger died on April 6, 1707.   This work is 183 cm wide and 114 cm high and is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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