Month: November 2021
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Alfred de Breanski
Alfred de Breanski was a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted a variety of landscape subjects, but his clear preference was for mountains. You will sometimes see him listed as Alfred de Breanski Sr., because his son was also a painter.
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Geographer
The Geographer, Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, roughly 18×20 inches(45 x 51 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staedel Museum, Germany. Twenty six years ago this month, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC debuted a most remarkable exhibition of…
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Drawings of Andrew Fisher Brunner
Andrew Fisher Brunner was an American artist active in the late 19th century. He is noted for his landcape watercolors and for his drawings, particularly those in pen and ink. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a nice collection of his drawings, visible online in reasonably large images. Many of these are of Venice. He…