Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Franz Richard Unterberger
Franz Richard Unterberger was an Austrian painter active in the late 19th century. Though his early work featured mountains and Alpine scenes, the work for which he is best known is from his later career, and consists of landscapes that focus on architecture, — largely of locations in Italy like Venice, Naples, and the Amalfi…
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’ Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs, Edward Coley Burne-Jones On Wikimedia Commons. Zoomable version on Google Art Project. Original is in the Tate, London
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Ben Haggett
Ben Haggett is a painter from Montana, who also happens to make some of the best and most cleverly designed pochade boxes out there, under the name of Alla Prima Pochade (as I described in my extensive article on pochade boxes). Somewhat ironically, Haggett has in recent years become fascinated with digital painting, working in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gossaert’s Merchant
Portrait of a Merchant, Jan Gossaert On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. Gossaert has surrounded his subject with items relevant to his profession. For more, see my post on Jan Gossaert.
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Ann Kraft Walker
Largely self-taught, Texas painter Ann Kraft Walker started out in a folk art style, but eventually evolved into a refined realist approach for her still life and portrait subjects. Since 2010, she has supplemented her study with several workshops, and has been featured in a number of juried exhibitions and art magazines. Walker’s still life…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bargue’s Bashi-Bazouk
A Bashi-Bazouk, Charles Bargue In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like Jean-Léon Gérôme, his contemporary and collaborator in the well known drawing course that bears his name, Bargue’s paintings were often of Orientalist subjects. A Bashi-Bazouk was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman Army. Bargue has here rendered the objects with which he is surrounded…