JMW Turner photographed in a dageurreotype in 1847, paintings mocking early photographers, then their influence over views, and used by Thomas Eakins.
Breitner
The urban poor, painted by Raffaëlli, George Breitner, Fernand Pelez, Christian Krohg, Geoffroy, Henningsen in cities across Europe.
Meunier’s paintings of the Borinage in Belgium, Breitner’s construction in Amsterdam in the late 19th century, and Maximilen Luce’s of Paris in the early 20th century.
Paintings from Norway to California, from Nikolai Astrup, Ants Laikmaa, Lovis Corinth, George Breitner, George Clausen, Paul Nash and Colin Campbell Cooper.
Another boating party, William Merritt Chase’s family in Brooklyn, an 18th century pique-nique, and Bonnard’s friends by the sea.
Paintings by Velázquez, Manet, Renoir, Sorolla, and others.
Less often painted than the rural poor, Naturalism did show the growing pains of the 19th century cities. Paintings from Lhermitte, Luce, Bellows, and more.
‘Girl in a Red Kimono’ is a major work of Japonisme, and relied on photos as well as drawings and sketches. His name has even entered the Dutch language.
In 1882, he painted with Vincent van Gogh in The Hague. A Naturalist without realist style, he showed street life as it was, and loved Japonism too.
If anyone led Impressionism during the 1860s and early 1870s, it was surely Jongkind.
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