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Watson and the Shark

American / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Sea Scapes - 12 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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Abraham Lincoln

American / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Abraham Lincoln” of 1869 by George Peter Alexander Healy.  Healy was an American artist from Boston, Massachusetts who studied in Paris and in Rome.  He began to produce portraits when eighteen years old in 1831.  Three years later he left for Europe where he stayed for sixteen years.  In Chicago in 1855, he returned to Europe for a second stay of twenty-one years.  He created more portraits of the famous that any other American artist and returned to Chicago for a last time in 1892.  He died there on June 24 two years later.  This masterpiece measures 141.3 cm wide and 187.3 cm high.  It is in the White House Collection in Washington, D. C.

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The Athenaeum

American / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Gilbert Stuart’s “The Athenaeum” which was begun in 1796.  Stuart never finished the original painting and sold his own copies of it for $ 100 each.  He was forty-one when he produced this masterpiece which has been used as the template for the one-dollar bill and many United States postage stamps and other documents.  Stuart went on to become the foremost American portraitist and completed paintings of the first six American presidents.  Originally from Rhode Island, he died on July 9, 1828.  The original of this masterpiece measures 88 by 101 cm and is in the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Oxbow by Thomas Cole, 1836

American / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This masterpiece by Thomas Cole was created when the founder of the Hudson River School was thirty-five years old. The work was originally entitled “View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a thunderstorm”. Cole’s work set the mode for the Romanticism and Naturalism which became the hallmark of the American Hudson River School. The artist died in 1848.

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