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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

Landscapes of Martín Rico: 1 1852-1872

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Leading Spanish landscape painter of the late 19th century, he went to France to train in the 1860s, where he painted with Calame and Pissarro.

December 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Carl Larsson’s Ideal Home: 1 France 1877-1885

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Known best for his watercolours of his wife and family in their ideal and idyllic Swedish home, his work is far richer and more varied.

June 12, 2017 General, Painting

Different Fields: Jules Breton and Jean-François Millet

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How to tell Breton from Millet, and trying to settle the question as to which was the greater artist.

May 16, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Jean-François Millet: Ploughing a lonely furrow 1869-1875

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Some extraordinary paintings exploring transient and unusual effects of light, culminating in a retrospective, and his most radical work of all.

May 10, 2017 General, Painting

Jean-François Millet: Ploughing a lonely furrow 1861-1868

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As the social message in his paintings faded, so they became brighter, and more appealing. Then he painted Ceres and dandelions…

May 5, 2017 General, Painting

Jean-François Millet: Ploughing a lonely furrow 1856-1861

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Two of his most famous paintings were made in this period: The Gleaners, and The Angelus. Initial reaction was hostile, and neither became popular until after his death.

April 28, 2017 General, Painting

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