Co-founder of the British school of landscape painting, he specialised in trees and woodland, and was greatly admired by John Constable. A selection of some of his finest paintings.
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Achilles returns in vengeance, his Myrmidons slaughtering many of the Trojans. He then kills Hector, the lead warrior of the Trojans, and finally succumbs to Paris’s arrow.
Paintings of real, often poor, people in the Netherlands, the extreme west cost of Brittany, and foothills of the mountains. She also remained in Paris to help there during the First World War.
After training and a promising start to her career in Cincinnati, she moved to Paris, where she painted social realist portraits through northern Europe.
Manet’s only pupil, she exhibited regularly at the Salon, and never with the Impressionists, although her oil and pastel paintings are thoroughly Impressionist.
Constable’s painterly sketches were never intended to be seen by the public, but JMW Turner’s later works are rich in marks, scratches and radical in appearance.
More challenging than figurative paintings, landscapes painted in the studio could avoid shadows altogether, or adopt other solutions to look right even if not optically faithful.
The most characteristic tree of the north coast of the Mediterranean, it has long been associated with cemeteries and other places of grief.
With Achilles refusing to take any part in the war against Troy, defeat is looming for the Greeks. His close friend Patroclus drives the Trojans back, but is killed by Hector. Achilles is thrown into deep grief.
From John Singer Sargent’s alligators near Miami, through Anna Althea Hills’ fall in Orange County, to Grant Wood’s Spring in the yard in Iowa.
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