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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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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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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.
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