To be honest books about just portrait painting are few. A book that, long time ago, helped me very much is The Portrait Painters Problem Book by Paul C. Burns, edited by Watson-Guptill Publications N.Y. Among the painters that are very important for me are: John Singer Sargent and Joa...
Portrait d'une négresse (fig. 1) was painted in 1800 by Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist (born Marie-Guillemine Leroulx-Delaville) (1768-1826), a woman of aristocratic lineage who belonged to a small elite circle of professional women painters that included, among others, Anne Vallayer-Coster (...
5 Bohn, 254. The red knot that is placed on the instrument was a symbol of love and betrothal at the time, which can also tie into Fontana’s interest in maintaining social decorum. For more information, see Liana De Girolami Cheney, et. all,Self-Portraits of Women Painters(London: Ashg...
Educational value: This asset is an example of the work of one of New Zealands significant 20th-century painters, perhaps best known for his figurative work and dark-hued palette - this large work uses a compressed sense of space within the composition to characterise a particular unease. It ...