Category: Gallery and Museum Art

I’ve mentioned in the past that high-end auction sites, like Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonham’s often have online auction previews that feature nice large images of museum quality artworks (as do their listings for past auctions.) The upcoming 19th Century European Paintings auction at Sotheby’s for July 9, 2019 is a case in point, and features…

James McIntosh Patrick was a Scottish painter active through much of the 20th century. Though he started as an etcher, and also painted portraits, he is known primarily for his landscape paintings of the Scottish countryside, both in watercolor and oil. His approach was often immediate and painterly but with rich textural detail and often…

Ferdinand Knab was a German painter active in the latter half of the 19th century. He trained as an architect, but after working in the field for two years, he left to devote himself to architectural painting. Aside from that, I can find little information and only a few image resources. Knab frequently focused on…