1929. Towards the end of his life Tuke knew that his work was no longer fashionable. In hiswillhe left generous amounts of money to some of the men who, as boys, had been his models. Today he is remembered mainly for his oil paintings of young men, but in addition to his achievemen...
Boydell's Shakespeare gallery. There were 47 Milton paintings, many of them very large, completed at intervals over nine years. The exhibition proved a commercial failure and closed in 1800. In 1805 he brought out an edition of Pilkington'sLives of the Painters, which did little for his ...
I wanted to include some of these images of mine. The two on the left of the screen are sumi ink paintings I did, and the photograph on the right is a photo I took that inspired the style of both of them. B...
Once he was independent and could paint freely, Sharp’s output was enormous. He had been a hard worked ever since he had to support himself at 14, and this attribute never left him. He sometimes completed hundreds of paintings in a year. The Northern Plains Indians remained the focus of ...
Henry showed no surprise. He took the gorilla to a table and handed him a menu. He treated him politely and pretended there was nothing at all strange about having a gorilla in his restaurant. The gorilla looked through the menu and ordered a salad. Henry served the gorilla his salad ...
Benjamin West,the father of American painting, showed his talent for art when he was only six years of age. But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him he needed one. In htose days ,a brush was made from camel’s hair. There were no camels nearby. Benjamin decided ...
In 1830, Edwin Landseer was elected to full honors at the Royal Academy. He was knighted in 1850. While many of Landseer's animal paintings were pretty animal portraits, there were also a number of works with quite dark themes. InThe Cat's Pawhe painted a scene where a monkey struggles...
the Academy in 1885 and showed for two years at the New English Art Club from 1887. In 1910 he was commissioned to paint the state portrait of Queen Mary (Royal Collection), and two years later was elected associate of the Academy, with full membership in 1920. He was knighted in 1918...
Paintings Holiday worked in both oils and watercolours. In 1858, his first picture, a landscape painting, was exhibited at the Royal Academy and immediately sold - from that year his work was frequently shown at the Academy and elsewhere. Other pictures include: ...
When StART founder David Ciclitira spoke to Ohnim, Yooyeon and Lau about selling their art, they were at a loss for how to value them – or even whether to sell them at all. (Ciclitira, a prolific collector of Asian art, purchased one of Ohnim’s paintings ahead of the fair, but...