Category: Eye Candy for Today

Still life with cherries and stoneware can, Jan Bogaerts; oil on canvas; roughly 14 x 18 inches (35 x 46 cm). Link is to sold listing on Simonis & Buunk gallery, which has a zoomable version of the image. Large image here. Early 20th century Dutch painter Jan Bogaerts elevates his simple, commonplace still life…

View of Ischl, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, roughly 18 x 22 inches (45 x 57 cm), oil on wod panel; in the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. This landscape by the early 19th century Austrian painter is a view of a mountain village in 1838. The museum’s site has both a zoomable…

Gossip, John William Waterhouse; oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 36 inches (72 x 93 cm). Link is to image page on Wikipedia; image is via a previous Christie’s auction; the painting is now in a private collection. English post-Pre-Raphaelite (if that makes any sense) John William Waterhouse — whose usual metier was dramatic mythological…

Blue and White, Louise Jopling, oil on canvas, roughly 49 x 34 inches (123 x 86 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons; the page indicates the original is in the Liverpool Museums, but I can’t find mention of it on their site. Louise Jopling was a Victorian era painter and apparently well known, though I…