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Barbizon

Painting landscapes from Corot to Cézanne

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Michallon taught Camille Corot, who in turn taught Camille Pissarro. In their early Impressionist years, Pissarro painted alongside Cézanne.

September 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Achille Michallon, a bright star over the landscape 2

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Two hundred years ago today, Achille Michallon died, the most brilliant landscape painter of his day in Europe. He was only 25.

September 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Achille Michallon, a bright star over the landscape 1

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A brilliant landscape painter taught by Valenciennes, who in turn taught Corot. Died at the age of only 25 from pneumonia.

September 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Barbizon, the road to Impressionism 2

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From 1853, painters of the Barbizon School continued to innovate. Then in 1865, the young Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir came to paint there.

April 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Barbizon, the road to Impressionism 1

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When Constable’s ‘Hay Wain’ won a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1824, it inspired the foundation of the Barbizon School, and led to Impressionism.

April 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Animalière Extraordinaire: the bicentenary of Rosa Bonheur 2

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Admitted to the Legion of Honour in 1865, when she was 71 she became the first woman artist to be promoted to Officer, in recognition of her achievements.

March 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Patrons & Painters: Constable’s French connection

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Most of his paintings before 1829 flopped when shown in Britain, but from the Salon of 1824, his work was highly praised in Paris.

March 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Calm meadows: the bicentenary of Henri Harpignies 2

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He continued to exhibit at the Salon until he was almost 94, and was one of the leading painters of trees of his time. Celebrating his bicentenary today.

June 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Calm meadows: the bicentenary of Henri Harpignies 1

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A late starter, his career spanned the whole of the last half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th. Wonderful landscapes.

June 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Carl Larsson: 1 Finding the idyllic family

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Brought up in a Stockholm slum rife with cholera, Larsson went on to paint his family life in the idyllic Swedish home. Here’s how he started.

January 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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