“Not a day without drawing,” was a motto often repeated by Menzel and recalled by…
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“Not a day without drawing,” was a motto often repeated by Menzel and recalled by…
Read the PostForgotten Master: Adolf von Menzel (Polish/German, 1815-1905)
[This post was inspired by a conversation I had with the talented and thoughtful painter…
Read the PostThe Ideal versus the Observed in Nineteenth-Century Painting
“One of the un-constestable masters of our epoch.” “All of us will be forgotten, but…
Read the Post“The Greatest Painter in the World” Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815-1891)
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, c. 1900 Bridgman was a born in Tuskegee, Alabama and died in…
Read the PostForgotten Master: Frederick Arthur Bridgman (American, 1847-1928)
Francois Joseph Heim (French, 1787-1865) Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon…
Read the PostThe Paris Salon or “Exhibition of Living Artists”
Note: To protect privacy, the names used in this story have been changed. Peter Paul…
Read the PostThe Rubens That Loved Me: My James Bond Adventure with an Old Masters Painting
William Adolph Bouguereau. Pieta (1876) Oil on canvas. 230 BY 148CM. Dallas Museum of Fine…
Read the PostManet versus Bouguereau: The 100 Year Prediction
Via BibliOdyssey is a series of drawings by the Polish painter and illustrator Józef Rapacki.…
Read the Post“Warsaw Street Types” by Józef Rapacki (1871-1929)
William Dyce (English, 1806-1864) Titian’s First Painting, Oil on canvas. Private Collection. Eating in a…
Read the PostOverheard in London: The Three Pillars of English (and Painting)