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Henry Wallis - Chatterton [1856]
This highly romanticised picture created a sensation when it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. Thomas Chatterton was a poet whose 'gothic' writings, melancholy life and youthful suicide...
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Eugène-Louis Boudin - Beach at Étretat [1890]
Boudin first painted at Étretat in the autumn of 1890, when he made several views of the cliffs and beach. Although he was well known for painting beach scenes filled with fashionably dressed ladies...
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Camille Pissarro - Afternoon Sunshine, Pont Neuf [1901]
Troubled by eye infections, Pissarro visited a doctor in Paris in 1893 and was advised to avoid dust, wind, and bright sunlight, since they might further irritate his eyes. Forced to work indoors, he...
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Leo von Klenze - Der Camposanto in Pisa [1858]
Leo von Klenze (Buchladen, February 29, 1784 - Munich, January 26, 1864) was a German architect, painter, and writer. In many of his paintings ancient buildings were depicted. Those served as models...
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Elizabeth Shippen Green - The Journey [1903]
This illustration depicts a young boy absorbed in watching the scenery from his seat in a railway car for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody entitled The Little Past. The poems relate...
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Nicolas Poussin - The Judgment of Solomon 1649]
Solomon was the son of David and Bathsheba, and third king of united Israel; his wisdom was proverbial. Solomon's rein saw the construction of the Temple at Jerusalem. According to the biblical story...
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Pierre-Narcisse Guérin - Jeune Fille en Buste [1794]
[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 60.6 cm]
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John Frederick Kensett - Lake George [1869]
Kensett (Cheshire, Connecticut, 1816 - New York City, 1872) visited Lake George in the Adirondacks on numerous occasions and made many studies of the area. This painting is Kensett's largest and most...
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Isaac Israels - Lady in a Hat with a Fur Collar
[Sold for GB £35,000 at Sotheby’s Auctions - Oil on panel, 27 x 21.5 cm]
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Rene Magritte - La Folle du Logis [1948]
Executed in 1948, the original impetus for the beguiling imagery of La folle du logis was a series of drawings that Magritte produced in 1946 as illustrations for a collection of Paul Eluard’s poetry....
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Attributed to Jean-Augustin Franquelin - The Mariner’s Wife [c.1825]
Here a woman, wearing a costume from the Mediterranean island of Ischia, despairs over the fate of her husband, a seaman. Such subjects, which combine the pathos of history painting and the exoticism...
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Eugenio Alvarez Dumont - Malasaña and Daughter Fighting the French [1887]
Awarded third medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1887, the picture honours two legendary heroes who achieved more glory in the struggle of the people of Madrid against the French troops...
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Caravaggio - Martha and Mary Magdalene [c.1598]
The painting shows the sisters Martha and Mary from the New Testament. Martha is in the act of converting Mary from her life of pleasure to the life of virtue in Christ. Martha, her face shadowed,...
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Mary Cassatt - Mother and Child (Baby Getting Up from His Nap) [c.1899]
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 73.7 cm]
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Nicolas Poussin - Moses Saved from the Water [1638]
[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 94 x 121 cm]
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John Singer Sargent - Mosquito Nets [1908]
After 1900, no longer bound to his London portrait studio, Sargent (American, 1856–1925) travelled extensively, usually in the company of family members and friends. In September 1908 he made his...
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