Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Portrait of Maria Mancini, Jacob Voet

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    Portrait of Maria Mancini, Duchess of Bouillon, Jacob Ferdinand Voet In the Rijksmuseum; English language page for the work here. There is a zoom icon under the image. The download link requires a free Rijksstudio account (worth signing up for to my mind). There is also a downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Apparently, cautious historians…

  • Hugo Mühlig

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    Hugo Mühlig was a German painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Both his father and his uncle were landscape painters. After initial study with his father, Mühlig studied painting in the tradition of academic realism at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, but he eventually moved to a more impressionist influenced…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Emil Carlsen Still life with roses and mandolin

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    Still life with roses and mandolin, Emil Carlsen Another beautiful still life by turn of the century Danish-American master Emil Carlsen. This is from the Emil Carlsen Archives, larger image here. The Emil Carlsen Archives is a terrific resource, but I haven’t figured out their thinking in terms of image display. If you click on…

  • William Russell Flint

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    Originally from Scotland, William Russell Flint was an illustrator and watercolor painter who spent much of his career in London, and traveled and painted in France and Italy. Flint’s illustrations of literary or mythological scenes, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan operas, have a nice quality of Golden Age illustration to them. He is also…

  • Charles Conder

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    Born in England, Charles Conder spent a significant part of his career in Australia, where he became integral to the Heidelberg School of Australian art, becoming friends with notable figures like Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts, and sharing a studio with the latter. Conder spent the latter part of his career in Europe, where he…

  • Edmund Blair Leighton (update)

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    When I first highlighted Victorian painter Edmund Blair Leighton back in 2006, resources for images of his paintings on the web were pretty thin. Since then, some new images sources have made it much more rewarding to view his work. Leighton’s two main themes were of romanticized medieval subjects — knights in armor, chivalry, elegant…