Fine Canvas Art Blog
The Art of Making Art
Archive for posts tagged with ‘Lord Byron’
Mar 28 2011
Lord Byron in Albanian Dress, Thomas Phillips
Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Lord Byron in Albania Dress” of 1835 by Thomas Phillips. This masterpiece was created when the artist was sixty-five years old, ten years before his death. Phillips was well-known for his portraits and historical paintings and served as a professor of Painting at the Academy for the seven years ending in 1832. Lord Byron had died eleven years before the painting while fighting for Greek Independence. There were several versions of this painting. This one is 63.9 cm wide and 76.5 cm high and is in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Click here for more information
Nov 23 2010
Rape of Ivan Mazeppa by Theodore Gericault, 1820
French / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of “Rape of Ivan Mazeppa” of about 1820 by Theodore Gericault. This French master executed this work while in London when he was twenty-nine years old. This was during a period in which Gericault was refining his efforts to depict the human body. He returned to France where he inspired many young painters, among them Delacroix. He died in Paris in 1824. Ivan Mazeppa was a hero of the Ukraine being hetman of the Left Bank Don Cossacks who was caught up in the power struggles between the Russians, Swedes and Poles in the eighteenth century. This scene depicts an episode in his life immortalized in Lord Byron’s poem of 1818.
-
-
More options
0
107