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Author: cparker

  • Johann Wilhelm Preyer

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    Johann Wilhelm Preyer was a 19th century German painter who specialized in still life of fruit and glassware, often in simple arrangements that allowed him to focus great attention on individual objects. Preyer had a richly visceral approach. In good reproductions, you can get a sense of the immediacy and palpable textural quality of his…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Alexander Cozens ink and wash landscape drawing

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    Landscape with Ruined Temple, Alexander Cozens Brown ink and wash over graphite; roughly 12 x 16 inches (32 x 40 cm); in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. Use the Zoom or Download links under the image on their site. Also available as a a zoomable image on Google Art Project and…

  • Patrick Saunders

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    Often when I feature a contemporary artist, I start by pointing out their geographic region, but plein air painter Patrick Saunder’s location might best be described as “America”, as he and his wife, photographer Kimberly Saunders, travel across the U.S. with an Airstream trailer, following the plein air circuit or going where the spirit takes…

  • Anton Fadeev

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    Anton Fadeev is a concept artist based in Sochi, Russia, whose focus is on environments. Fadeev works with an unusually bright high-chroma palette and complementary color schemes, that give his work an immediate appeal. He sets a nice balance between naturalistic textures and pleasingly graphic rendering with lots of areas of flat color. Much of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of Maria Mancini, Jacob Voet

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    Portrait of Maria Mancini, Duchess of Bouillon, Jacob Ferdinand Voet In the Rijksmuseum; English language page for the work here. There is a zoom icon under the image. The download link requires a free Rijksstudio account (worth signing up for to my mind). There is also a downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Apparently, cautious historians…

  • Hugo Mühlig

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    Hugo Mühlig was a German painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both his father and his uncle were landscape painters. After initial study with his father, Mühlig studied painting in the tradition of academic realism at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, but he eventually moved to a more impressionist influenced…