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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • 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…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Watanabe Seitei ink and color on silk

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    Bird on Branch Watching Spider, Watanabe Seitei Ink and color on silk; roughly 14 x 10 inches (36 x 26 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the Download or Enlarge links under the image on their site. Even though the color in the image looks much like watercolor, when the…

  • Merry-Joseph Blondel

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    Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French Neoclassical painter active in the early part of the 19th century. He studied with the well known painter Jean-Baptiste Regnault, and from fairly early in his career formed a lasting friendship with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Blondel had a tremendously successful career, garnering numerous awards and prestigious commissions, including major works for…

  • César de Cock

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    César de Cock was a 19th century Belgian (Flemish) painter who spent much of his career in France. He initially studied at the School of Fine Arts in Ghent, where he was born, but in France became a pupil of Charles-François Daubigny, Cesar de Cock, along with his elder brother, painter Xavier de Cock, became…