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May 18 2011
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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May 17 2011
Thomas Jefferson
Academician / American / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Portrait of Thomas Jefferson” of 1800 by Rembrandt Peale. Please was thirty-two when he painted the soon-to-be third president of the United States. He was native of Pennsylvania and was taught painting by his father. He was introduced to George Washington in 1787 and he made his debut seven years later with a portrait of the first president. He studied and worked in Europe on several occasions and was influenced by the Neoclassicism of David and others. He continued a successful career primarily as a protraitist and died at the advanced age of 82 on October 3, 1860. The original of this masterpiece is in the White House, Washington, D. C.
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May 16 2011
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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Mar 30 2011
City of Washington, 1833, George Cooke
American / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The City of Washington from Beyond the Naval Yard” of 1833 by George Cooke. The artist was careful to accurately portray both the architecture of the city as well as the natural contours and hills of the area. The representation of the White House is enlarged to provide balance with the Capitol and the bulk of the city lies in the low ground between the two governmental buildings. Cooke was a Southern American landscape and portrait painter who was forty years old when he created this. He died in 1849 after having contracted cholera in New Orleans. This masterpiece is 63.5 cm wide and 45.7101.5 cm high and is in the White House in Washington.
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Mar 29 2011
Fanciful Landscape, Thomas Doughty, 1834
American / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Fanciful Landscape” of 1834 by Thomas Doughty. This masterpiece was created when the artist was forty-one years old, twenty-two years before his death. Doughty was an artist of the Hudson River School founded by Thomas Cole and was able to work exclusively as a landscapist. He was self taught and was a native of Philadelphia. This masterpiece is 101.5 cm wide and 76.3 cm high and is at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Feb 21 2011
Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze, 1851
American / German / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emanuel Leutze of 1851. This wonderful dramatic historical scene was first painted in 1849 and housed in the Bremen Kunsthalle. It was damaged by fire in 1850 and destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942. This version was painted in 1850 and put on display in New York in October, 1851. It was bought by Marshall O. Roberts and has been re-created and reproduced many times. The original of this version is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Emanuel Leutze was a Germany artist who was thirty-three when he first painted this scene. Brought to America as a child, he early began to paint portraits and supported himself with them after his father died when he was fourteen. He obtained sufficient orders when he was twenty-four to study in Dusseldorf and established his reputation in Europe in the following years. He settled in Dusseldorf where he lived for fourteen years. He returned to America in 1859 and gained a wide reputation as a creation of works of patriotic emotionalism. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1868.
Feb 8 2011
Independence Hall in Philadelphia by Ferdinand Richardt
Academician / American / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Independence Hall in Philadelphia” by Ferdinand Richardt, completed in 1863. Joachim Ferdiand Richardt was born in 1819 Denmark and studied at the Royal Danish Academy from the age of seventeen. He received an annual stipend from the crown for the five years ending in 1852 and three years later first visited the United States. He returned to Europe where he married and had good success with his paintings. He moved permanently to the United States In 1873, to California in 1875 and finally to Oakland in 1876 where he died on October 29, 1895. This is wonderful example of Richardt’s masterful portraits of buildings and natural wonders. This is one of two of his works that hang in the White House.
Feb 5 2011
Le Pont de la Tournelle by Stanislas Lepine, 1862
French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Stanislas Lepine’s “Le Pont de la Tournelle” of 1862. This is a lovely landscape of the Tournelle Bridge in Paris as it appeared in 1862. The artist was twenty-eight when he painted this having been a student of Corot for three years. His favorite subject was the river Seine which he repeated represented. He participated in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and he won the first prize at the Exhibition of 1889. He died in Paris in 1892. This is a fine example of his work and it is in The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Jan 29 2011
The Old Oak by Jules Dupre, ca. 1870
Academician / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproducition of “The Old Oak” of about 1870 by Jules Dupre. Dupre was about 49 when he painted this landscape which is an excellent example of the Barbizon School in that it shows a pronounced dramatic effect. At the age of twenty Dupre had visited England where he was deeply impressed by John Constable. In 1848 as a token of his fame and contribution, he was awarded the cross of the Legion of Honor. He died in 1889. This masterpiece is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.
Jan 25 2011
The Girl I Left Behind Me by Eastman Johnson, 1875
Academician / American / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of Eastman Johnson’s “The Girl I Left Behind Me” of 1875. Johnson produced this masterpiece when he was 51 years old. He was born into a prominent family in Maine and moved with his family to Washington in 1840 when he was apprenticed to a lithographer. Nine years later he was studying in Dusseldorf, Germany. He continued his studies in the Netherlands and Paris before returning to America in 1855. Four years later he established his studio in New York City. He was a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870 and became famous as the American Rembrandt due to his style and having studied in the Netherlands. He died on April 5, 1906. This masterpiece is at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C.
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