Gandalf's Gallery

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February 28, 2015, 3:12 am

Gandalf's Gallery was founded as a non-profit making, educational website dedicated to the exhibition of art. The gallery claims no copyright over the art exhibited. Visitors may, therefore, download...

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Franz Gerhard Von Kügelgen - Andromeda

March 1, 2015, 3:10 am

Franz Gerhard Von Kügelgen (Bacharach, February 26, 1772 – Dresden, March 27, 1820) was a German portrait painter. In 1820, Kügelgen was killed by a thief while en route from his studio in Loschwitz...

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Jacob Duck - Almsgiving in a Notary’s Office

March 1, 2015, 3:12 am

Here, the military officer at the left looks directly at the viewer but points to his left, directing our attention across the room where a notary is seated with an elderly couple. While notaries were...

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March 1, 2015, 3:13 am

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Willem van Haecht - Apelles Painting Campaspe [c.1630]

March 2, 2015, 2:19 am

This room is filled with paintings that are all existing Flemish, German and Italian works of art. The statues, too, are well-known classics. In the left foreground, Van Haecht depicted a story from...

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Nicolae Grigorescu - Apple Blossom [c.1868-90]

March 2, 2015, 2:21 am

Nicolae Grigorescu (Pitaru, May 15, 1838 - Câmpina, July 21, 1907) was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting. [Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 34 x 24.5 cm]

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March 2, 2015, 2:21 am

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Carl d’Unker - Arrest Order [1857]

March 3, 2015, 1:52 am

Carl Henning Lutzow d'Unker (Stockholm, February 9, 1828 - Düsseldorf, March 24, 1866) was a Swedish artist. He was mostly known as a socially-oriented genre painter whose works depicted contemporary...

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Cornelis Bega - An Astrologer [1663]

March 3, 2015, 1:54 am

The celestial globe on the table in the background and the open book on the right suggest that the man wearing a scholar's cap and gown is an astrologer. The illustration of a hand in the book may...

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March 3, 2015, 1:55 am

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Frederick Child Hassam - Autumn [1909]

March 4, 2015, 1:22 am

This painting was sold by Sotheby's on May 23, 2007 for US $480,000.[Oil on canvas, 59.1 x 81.3 cm]

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Frits Thaulow - Babysitter, Interior with Child and Woman [1893]

March 4, 2015, 1:24 am

[Private Collection - Oil on relined canvas, 60 x 51 cm]

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March 4, 2015, 1:24 am

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Margaret Allen - Bad News in Troubled Times [1886]

March 5, 2015, 2:13 am

[Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Hamden, Connecticut - Oil on canvas, 38 x 32 inches]

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Gerrit van Honthorst - The Backgammon Game [1624]

March 5, 2015, 2:14 am

Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players, approximately 5,000 years ago to the present day. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and a player wins by removing...

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March 5, 2015, 2:15 am

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Richard Parkes Bonington - Barges on a River [1826]

March 6, 2015, 2:07 am

[Yale Centre for British Art - Oil on millboard, 25.1 x 35.2 cm]

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Adolph Menzel - The Balcony Room [1845]

March 6, 2015, 2:09 am

Of all the examples of the painterly spontaneity of the young Menzel’s (Breslau, December 8, 1815 - Berlin, February 9, 1905) art, The Balcony Room is one of the earliest and also most admired. Unlike...

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March 6, 2015, 2:09 am

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Biagio d’Antonio - Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts [c.1465]

March 7, 2015, 2:47 am

In this and its companion panel, the story of Jason and the Argonauts unfolds in a continuous narrative. At the left, Jason is charged by King Pelias to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Jason then mounts...

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