Arthur Melville - part 1
Arthur Melville (1855-1904) was one of the most innovative Scottish painters of his generation. The intensity of his colours, his fascination with effects of brilliant light and his dramatic...
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Unsigned portrait of Arthur Melville watercolour 47 x 36.8 cmArthur Melville (1858–1904) was a Scottish painter of Orientalist subjects, among others.He was born in Guthrie, Anngus in 1858 and brought...
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Arthur Melville (1858–1904) was a Scottish painter of Orientalist subjects, among others.He was born in Guthrie, Anngus in 1858 and brought up in East Lothian. He took up painting while working as a...
View ArticleFilm Posters 2000s - Part 1
This is the ninth part of an occasional series on Film / Movie posters. I have previously featured posted from (as indexed in the side-panel indexes):Film Posters 1913-1929Film Posters 1930sFilm...
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This is the ninth part of an occasional series on Film (of Movie) posters, I have previously featured posted from (as indexed in the side-panel indexes):Film Posters 1913-1929Film Posters 1930sFilm...
View ArticleDame Laura Knight - part 1
1927 Dame Laura Knight bromide print 19 x 24.3 cm Creative Commons Licence © National Portrait Gallery, LondonDame Laura Knight nee Laura Johnson (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who...
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1926 Portrait of Laura Knight by Harold Knight oil on canvas 40.6 x 31.7 cmDame Laura Knight nee Laura Johnson (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours,...
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1930 Dame Laura Knight bromide print 15.4 x 11.3 cm Creative Commons Licence © National Portrait Gallery, LondonDame Laura Knight nee Laura Johnson (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist...
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1936 Dame Laura Knight bromide print 17.6 x 23.1 cm Creative Commons Licence © National Portrait Gallery, LondonDame Laura Knight nee Laura Johnson (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist...
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1936 Dame Laura Knight half-plate glass negative Bassano & Vandyk Studios Creative Commons Licence © National Portrait Gallery, LondonDame Laura Knight nee Laura Johnson (4 August 1877 – 7 July...
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1936 Dame Laura Knight half-plate glass negative Bassano Vandyk Studios Creative Commons Licence © National Portrait Gallery, London 4Dame Laura Knight nee Laura Johnson (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970)...
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1960s Dame Laura Knight by Jitendra Arya bromide print 20.3 x 15.5 cm Creative Commons Licence © National Portrait Gallery, LondonDame Laura Knight nee Laura Johnson (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was...
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1936 Dame Laura Knight bromide print 17.6 x 23.1 cm Creative Commons Licence © National Portrait Gallery, LondonDame Laura Knight nee Laura Johnson (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist...
View ArticleHarold Knight - Part 1
1927 Harold Knight by Ernest A. Bachrach © reserved: collection National Portrait Gallery, LondonFollowing on from the series on Dame Laura Knight I am featuring her husband Harold Knight.Harold Knight...
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1937 Harold and Laura Knight © National Portrait Gallery, LondonHarold Knight (1874 – 1961) was an English portrait, genre and landscape painter.Knight was born in Nottingham, England, the son of...
View ArticleAndré François - part 1
Influenced at first by the French cartoonists Jean Effel (François Lejeune) and Raymond Peynet, François quickly developed his own unique and much admired approach. He drew with a rough-hewn, scratchy...
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André François was born to a Hungarian family in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Timisoara, Romania). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1932–33). He moved to Paris in 1934 and entered...
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André François was born to a Hungarian family in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Timisoara, Romania). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1932–33). He moved to Paris in 1934 and entered...
View ArticleRobert Campin - part 1
Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 1444), now usually identified with the Master of Flémalle (earlier the Master of the Merode Triptych, before the discovery of three other similar panels), was the first great...
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Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 1444), now usually identified with the Master of Flémalle (earlier the Master of the Merode Triptych, before the discovery of three other similar panels), was the first great...
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