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A Woman Bathing

Dutch / Paintings (Reproductions) / Rembrandt - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “A Woman Bathing” of 1654 by Rembrandt van Rijn.  This is probably a portrait of Hendrickje Stoffens who was the artist’s common-law wife.  She bore him a daughter in the year of this painting.  The red robe in the painting may indicate that the subject matter was originally Bathsheba or Diana.  The brushwork appears to be unusually spontaneous for Rembrandt and several sections appear to be unfinished.  Yet the artist signed the work which indicates that he considered it completed.  The masterpiece is 47 cm wide and 61.8 cm high and is in the National Gallery, London.

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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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Snow in New York by Robert Henri, 1902

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

A reproduction of “Snow in New York” of 1902 by Robert Henri.  This is a masterpiece of the leading figure of the Ashcan school of Art.  He began studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1886 when he was nineteen years old.  He studied in France and Italy and began teaching in Philadelphia in 1892.  He married six years later and continued to paint in Philadelphia and Paris.  He began teaching at the New York School of Art in 1902, the year in which this painting was completed.  In 1908 he organized a showing of art by himself and seven others which became known as the eight and was later considered the founding of the "Ashcan" school.  He continued to paint and attract significant following of clients and painters.  He was chosen one of the top three living American artists by the Arts Council of New York in 1929, the year of his death.  The painting is currently at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

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