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Camille Doncieux and Claude Monet
My next two blogs deal not with a particular painting but with the subject of a series of paintings completed lovingly by one artist. The subject is Camille-Léonie Doncieux, who was the beloved model,...
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Un atelier aux Batignolles (A Studio at Les Batignolles) by Henri Fantin-Latour
Un atelier aux Batignolles (A Studio at Les Batignolles) Today I am looking at a work of art by the French painter, Henri Fantin-Latour, or to give him his full name, Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore...
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The Swineherd, Brittany, The Schuffenecker Family. Madame Gaugin by Paul Gaugin.
Life Story of Paul Gaugin (Part 2) In my last blog I gave you a brief outline of Gaugin’s life up until April 1871 when Gauguin, having completed his military service, returned to his late mother’s...
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Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight and Eugène Manet and His Daughter in the...
Although I could write numerous blogs about Berthe Morisot and her works, this is not a Berthe Morisot site and therefore after today’s offering I will drag myself away from this talented artist and...
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La Loge by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
La Loge by Renoir (1874) Today’s featured work of art was not my original intended offering. That sounds somewhat strange but actually there is logic to my decision. I was researching a painting when...
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Une loge aux Italiens (A Box at the Theatre des Italiens) by Eva Gonzalès
Une loge aux Italiens (A Box at the Theatre des Italiens) by Eva Gonzalès (1874) I had intended this offering to be my previous blog but when I researched into today’s featured artist and her painting...
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Peasant Girl Lighting a Fire. Frost, by Camille Pissarro
Peasant Girl Lighting a Fire. Frost by Camille Pissarro (1888) My Daily Art Display’s featured painting today is entitled Peasant Girl Lighting a Fire. Frost, which was painted by Camille Pissarro in...
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Winter Harmony by John Henry Twachtman
Winter Harmony by John Twachtman (C.1890-1900) When we hear the word Impressionism we immediately think of French painters such as Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Degas et al, but how much do we know about...
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The Magpie by Claude Monet
The Magpie by Claude Monet (1868) Being in a much milder, wetter and windy climate it is always a novelty to see snow except atop distant mountains and for those of you are knee-deep in it, you have my...
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Marie Bracquemond
Self Portraitby Marie Bracquemond(1870) I was reading the other day about the short list for the National Portrait Gallery – 2014 BP Award. Apparently the judges, who decide on which works should be...
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Cézanne, Jas de Bouffan and the peasant workers
Paul Cézanne aged 22 Four years ago I visited the Courtauld Gallery in London to see the Cezanne exhibition which featured three of his five Card Players paintings. I was fascinated by the figures...
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Federico Zandomeneghi – the Italian Impressionist
Lesendes Mädchen (Girl reading) by Federico Zandomeneghi (c.1900) When I was in Germany, just before Christmas, I bought myself a desk calendar which gave you a new painting every day. I was...
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Theodore Robinson. Part 1 – the early years of the American Impressionist
Theodore Robinson When we think of Impressionism and Impressionist painters we immediately think of French artists and if I was to ask you to name a few French Impressionist painters, I guess you...
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Theodore Robinson. Part 3 – Monet, Giverny and Robinson’s muse, Marie.
At the Piano by Theodore Robinson (1887) Whilst Robinson often depicted women at work, other paintings of his portrayed women at rest, sometimes relaxing at the piano as was depicted in his 1887...
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Julia Beck, the Swedish Impressionist
Julia Augusta Lovisa Beck. The blog today features the very talented nineteenth century Swedish female landscape and portrait painter, Julia Augusta Lovisa Beck. The Artist, Julia Beck by Richard Bergh...
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Alfred Sisley. Part 2 – London and Paul Durand-Ruel
Alfred Sisley by Renoir (1876) The year is 1870 and on July 19th France had declared war on Prussia. The war went badly for France and the siege of the Paris ended in an armistice on January 28th...
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Alfred Sisley. Part 3 – the latter years.
1882 photograph of Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley returned to France late on October 18th, 1874 after his four-month summer holiday spent in London. Sisley had been living in the town of Louveciennes...
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Fern Isobel Coppedge. Part 1
Fern Isabel Coppedge in her studio My featured artist today was one of the Pennsylvania Impressionists, an artistic movement of the first half of the 20th century that was centred in and around Bucks...
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Fern Isabel Coppedge. Part 2.
The Coal Barge by Fern Isabel Coppedge One of Fern Coppedge’s later paintings, The Coal Barge, which she completed around 1940, featured the...
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Hilda Rix Nicholas. Part 2. Morocco and many family tragedies
Morocco, marketplace with pile of oranges by Hilda Rix Nichols painted during one of her two trips to Tangier It would have been almost impossible to actually paint plein air in oils in the chaotic...
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