Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Vermeer restoration unveiled with revealed Cupid
Johannes Vermeer, the remarkable 17th century painter from the city of Delft in the Netherlands, is revered for his transcendent portrayals of the effects of light and atmosphere in domestic scenes. He is best known for his series of compositions in which people, predominantly young women, are seen engaged in simple activities in front of…
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James Patterson
Scottish artist James Patterson, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was known for his atmospheric landscapes, concise insightful portraits and tactile still life subjects. Patterson studied at the Glasgow School of Art and also in Paris. He was adept at painting with both watercolor and oil. The best online representation…
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Cathy Hillegas
Cathy Hillegas is a painter in watercolor based in Indiana, who combines vibrant color with a tactile sense of texture in her paintings of flowers, trees, woods and fields. Particularly appealing to me are her paintings of small natural elements, leaves, branches, the heads of ferns and other aspects of nature, seen up close. In…
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Edwin Deakin
At the age of 18, when his family emigrated from England to the United States, Edwin Deakin was already established as a landscape painter. 17 years later, in 1873, he left his adopted home in San Francisco and traveled back across the Atlantic, painting in England, France and Switzerland and exhibiting in the prestigious Paris…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hubert von Herkomer’s Miss May Miles
Miss May Miles, Hubert von Herkomer I have not seen the original of this painting, but my experience with comparing art images on the web with their originals — in the case of paintings I have seen in person — gives me the impression that some well-intentioned but misguided individual along the way has increased…