Month: May 2026
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Eye candy for today: Johannes Verspronk portrait
Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, oil on canvas, 41 x 31 in. (104 x 79 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. I hadn’t heard of 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Verspronk until I came across…
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Lynn Boggess (update)
I first wrote about West Virginia painter Lynn Boggess back in 2014. As an introduction, I will quote myself from that post: —In writing about painters who work with thick impasto (such as Antonio Mancini), I have sometimes used “troweled on” as a metaphor to describe the heavy application of paint. In the case of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jasper Cropsey’s Autumn – On the Hudson River
Autumn – On the Hudson River, Jasper Francis Cropsey, oil on canvas, 60 x 108 in. (152 x 275 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Aart, DC, which has both a zoomable image and a downloadable high res file available. Cropsey was a 19th century American architecht and first generation Hudson River…