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Horse Attacked by a Lion

Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Horse Attacked by a Lion” of 1765 by George Stubbs.  The artist was born in Liverpool and worked for his father as a leather merchant until he was sixteen.  He was apprenticed to a painter  a year later in 1741 after his father’s death.  In the 1740′s he worked as a portraitist in the north of England and travelled to Italy in 1754.  He moved to London in 1759 and in 1766 published an illustrated book on The Anatomy of the Horse.  Commissions by the nobility enabled him to buy a comfortable home in a fashionable part of London where he lived for the rest of life which eneded in 1806 at the age of eighty-one.  This work is 97 cm wide and 66 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
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Isle of Skye, Richard Ansdell, 1856

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

This is a reproduction of “Isle of Skye” by Richard Ansdell of 1856.  This wonderful landscape of the largest of the Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland.  It features the wonderful scenic mountains of the wild island as well as its traditional economic foundation, sheep-raising.  The artist was born in Liverpool and he was educated in the Bluecoat school for orphans.  Working as a portraitist and sign painter in his late teens, he exhibited at the Liverpool Academy in 1835 when he was twenty years old.  His depictions of animals secured him wealthy patrons and within five years he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London.  He continued to produce wonderful work until his death in Surrey in 1885.  The original size of this beautiful work is 72 by 42.5 inches.  This masterpiece is a private collection.

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The Frigate Toivo by William Howard Yorke, 1872

Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian - 1 year ago - troycapc

This a reproduction of William Howard Yorke’s “The Frigate Toivo” of 1872.  William Howard York was born in Canada, the son of the painter William Gay York.  He moved to Liverpool with the family when he was eight years old.  Within three years he was painting portraits of sailing ships and he continued this for the rest of his life in Liverpool even when his father left for America in 1871.  This sailing ship, Toivo" was built in Oulu, Finland and its name means Hope.  This ship came out of service in 1895.  William Howard York died in 1921 at the age of seventy-four years.  This masterpiece is on display in the Northern Osthrobothia Museum, Oulu, Finland.

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