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Lilla Cabot Perry. Part 2.
Portrait of Alice Frye Leach by Lilla Cabot Perry (c.1880) It was in 1889 that Lilla Cabot Perry first encountered Claude Monet’s work at the...
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Eugène Boudin. Part 2.
Sky, Setting Sun, Bushes in Foreground. by Eugène Boudin (ca. 1848-1853) One of Boudin’s earlier paintings which featured his mastery of depicting skies is his work entitled Sky, Setting Sun,...
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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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Lilla Cabot Perry. Part 2.
Portrait of Alice Frye Leach by Lilla Cabot Perry (c.1880) It was in 1889 that Lilla Cabot Perry first encountered Claude Monet’s work at the...
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Eugène Boudin. Part 2.
Sky, Setting Sun, Bushes in Foreground. by Eugène Boudin (ca. 1848-1853) One of Boudin’s earlier paintings which featured his mastery of depicting skies is his work entitled Sky, Setting Sun,...
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