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The Shepherd Struck by Lightning by Jacob Becker, 1844

Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Shepherd Struck by Lightning” by Jacob Becker of 1844.  Jacob Becker was a German landscape artist who produced this masterpiece at the age of thirty-four.  He studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art for the eight years ending in 1841.  The next year he became a professor of genre and landscape painting at the Städel in Frankfurt.  He retained that position until his death in 1872 having moved his focus to subjects in the countryside often concentrating on the problems of the peasants.  He was very influential in the development of German art in the Nineteenth Century.  This masterpiece is in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.

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Val d’Aosta, John Brett, 1858

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

This is a reproduction of “Val d’Aosta” of 1858 by John Brett.  This British artist is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement having been born in 1831 Reigate, south of London.  After studying under landscape artists, he entered the Royal Academy schools at the age of 22.  In his thirties he journeyed to Switzerland attempting to incorporate scientific principals in his paintings.  His reputation mounted and his patron John Ruskin sent him to the Val d’Aosta in northern Italy which produced this masterpiece.  Brett became quite financially comfortable and continued to produce scientifically precise paintings until his death in 1902.  He was also an astronomer and had been elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1871.  This masterpiece is in a private collection.
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The Shepherd’s Concert by Wojciech Gerson, 1862

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

This is a reproduction of Stanislas Lepine’s “The Shepherd’s Concert” of 1862.  This is an intimate rendition of country life in Poland.  This masterpiece was in the Kroneberg Collection but was lost in World War II.  It was found in a sale on January 21, 2004 and restored to the Polish nation.  The artist was born in 1831 Warsaw.  He graduated from St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, returned to Warsaw and left for Paris in 1850 for further studies.  He established a school in Warsaw in 1858 and was made a professor of the St. Petersburg Academy in 1878.  He died in Warsaw at the age of seventy, never seeing the resurrection of his native land into an independent country.  This is a fine example of his work and it is in the Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland.

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Jonathan’s Token to David by Frederic Leighton, 1868

Academician / British / Inspirational prints / Leighton / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

A reproduction of Lord Frederic Leighton’s “Jonathan’s Token to David” of 1868.  This masterpiece portrays a scene from the Old Testament where Jonathan is preparing to shoot three arrows as a warning to David.  Jonathan is the son and heir of King Saul, yet the prophet Samuel has anointed David to be the next king over Israel.  Leighton choses this moment in the story of David and Jonathan to center the heroism of the prince in betraying the evil designs of his father, the king.  The original work is in the Minneapolis Institutes of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Frederic Leighton was born in 1830 in Scarborough, England and did not study art until after attending University College School in London.  He studied on the continent, notably in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1854.  He was in Paris between the ages of twenty-five to twenty-nine and there met Ingres, Delacroix, Corot and Millet.  He returned to London where he joined the Pre-Raphaelites and began to create sculputes as well as paintings.  A great success, he was knighted when aged fifty-eight and was created Baron Leighton in 1896.  He died the next day.  As a bachelor, he left no children and his home became the Leighton House Museum.

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