Parrots in still life paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, accompanying a Turkish page, in English summer, or passing Pierre Bonnard in Saint Tropez.
Chase
Many aspiring painters visited the Prado in Madrid to study its collection of works by the masters. Here are some views of Spain they and its locals painted.
From the Royal Parks in London at the turn of the 19th century, through the parks of Paris, Rome, Vienna, New York City and Brooklyn.
A portrait with unusual references, many bravura watercolours of Venice and his travels through the Alps on the way, and a short visit to North Africa.
Although of ancient origin, it took 7 centuries for Europeans to use them to cover the floor. They can be exotic in chinoiserie, luxuriant, worn and threadbare, or vibrant.
William Merritt Chase’s leafy suburb of Brooklyn in the late 1880s, Robert Henri’s Ashcan view of busy streets in the snow, and the first of Colin Campbell Cooper’s skyscrapers.
Paintings of the wild and undeveloped country in Shinnecock when Chase was teaching summer classes in the closing years of the 19th century.
He was invited to teach hundreds of students attending a plein air art school each summer. For 12 consecutive years he taught and painted in the east of Long Island.
Studio interiors from John Ferguson Weir, Cézanne, Bazille, William Merritt Chase, William McGregor Paxton, Olga Boznanska, and Carl Larsson.
A member of many of the royal courts of Europe, and featured in several of the plays of William Shakespeare, a jester and entertainer.
