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Bastien-Lepage

Paintings of the Adoration of the Shepherds

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The shepherds become more real and tatty from the Renaissance and Giorgione to Murillo and Bastien-Lepage.

December 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 15 Henry Herbert La Thangue

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When he returned from training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1886, he painted en plein air in an Impressionist style.

November 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 10 Through a lens

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From panoramas to wide-angle views, the optical effects of Naturalist paintings, depth-of-field effects, and loss of depth through a telescope.

November 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 12 George Clausen

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From 1880, he painted in Naturalist style, then switched to Impressionism in the early 1890s. He finally embraced post-Impressionism in the 1920s.

October 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 9 Edward Stott

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A pupil of Carolus-Duran, he returned to England to be a founder member of the New English Art Club and friend of Steer, who painted bucolic scenes for much of his career.

September 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: Contents

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A selection of masterpieces which were rejected by the person(s) who commissioned them, or from major exhibitions. Illustrated contents with links.

September 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 6 John Lavery

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From around 1884 until after the First World War, he painted a series of Impressionist landscapes. Was he one of the British Impressionists?

August 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: Jules Bastien-Lepage’s Annunciation to the Shepherds

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Submitted for the final round of the Prix de Rome in 1875, the jury rejected it on a trumped-up technicality. The effect was to change the history of painting.

August 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: 1 Introduction

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A new series in which painters pit their work against juries of Salons and exhibitions, who then reject paintings which history judges quite differently.

June 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Life is Short: 1 Brilliant painters killed by tuberculosis

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From the brilliant pioneer animal painter Paulus Potter to the short and intense star of Amedeo Modigliani, King Death shortened the art of far too many painters.

January 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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