Author: cparker
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Élisabeth Sonrel
Élisabeth Sonrel was a French painter and illustrator who was active from the late 19th century to the mid-20th. She worked in both Art Nouveau poster style and in a more naturalistic Victorian style of painting.
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Eye Candy for Today: Richard Emile Miller’s Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea, Richard Emile Miller; oil on canvas; roughly 39 x 32 in (99 x 81 cm). This 1910 painting by American Impressionist Richard Emile Miller is in Newfields, part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The museum has a nicely large image of the painting (4596 x 5636 pixels, over 15mb) that can be…
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Arantza Sestayo
Arantza Sestayo is a Spanish painter and illustrator who works promarily in the genres of fantasy and imaginative realism. Her highly refined paintings and drawngs show the influence of Victorian painting, Art Nouveau and the Pre-Raphaelites. (Her image above, bottom, may be a nod to J. W. Waterhouse’s depiction of jealous Circe.) Sestayo applies her…
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Eye Candy for Today: Maxfield Parrish landscape
Autumn Brook, Maxfield Parrish, oil on board, roughly 23 x 18 in (60 x 46 cm). Link is to past auction on Christies; large image here. Another beautifully realized imaginary landscape by the great American painter and illustrator, Maxfield Parrish.
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Mme Lethiere
Madame Guillaume Guillon Lethière, née Marie-Joseph-Honorée Vanzenne, and her son Lucien Lethière, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; graphite on paper; roughly 9 x 7″ (24 x 19 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. I’m a great admirer of Ingres’ sensitive pencil portrait drawings. This one is a bit unusual, more finished…
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William H. Hays
William H. Hays is a printmaker who works in linocut and woodblock color printmaking methods. These involve either multiple blocks or a reduction process, in which additional areas of the block are cut away for each successive application of color. There is a blog post on his website that describes his process, and a short…