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Next year in paintings: Ford Madox Brown, Antoine Watteau, Fernand Khnopff

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A look forward to the eclectic collection of painters whose anniversaries I’ll be marking here, and a glimpse of some of the paintings to come. Happy New Year!

January 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Muses and Models 1

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Great Pre-Raphaelite women didn’t stand behind their partners, but in front of them, as their muses and models. Masterpieces with two stories to tell.

November 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of reading and books 1: Learning and devotion

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Reading and the book in paintings from 1235 to 1849, a period in which they were mainly associated with religious devotion.

November 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Sisters 2

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Five more forgotten women artists with Pre-Raphaelite style, including the prolific and brilliant Kate Bunce, whose work should be much better-known.

November 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Marie Spartali Stillman 1: Love’s Messenger

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Friend and model of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, taught to paint by Ford Madox Brown, and photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, her paintings are truly Pre-Raphaelite.

November 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

On the road: Itinerants and travellers in paintings 1

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Bosch’s two wayfarers, Courbet’s Stone Breakers, and wonderful paintings by Brett, Troyon and Ford Madox Brown show those who lived on the road.

October 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Mother and baby in paintings 1

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Features Harriet Backer’s masterpiece, and paintings by Giorgione, Ford Madox Brown, Jules Breton and his daughter, and others.

May 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

… or Pre-Raphaelite

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Why did the Pre-Raphaelites want to return to the ‘purity’ of painting before Raphael? Did they succeed?

April 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Faithful Friends: Dogs in paintings

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Loyal to their master or mistress, often to the point of self-sacrifice. Paintings by Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Courbet and Bonnard.

February 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The story of painted narrative 2

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Examples of a ‘dead’ narrative technique used by JMW Turner, Corot, Ford Madox Brown, Edvard Munch, Lovis Corinth and others.

February 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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