How painting in oils in front of the motif became popular fifty years before paint became available in tubes, and how it was done by the experts.
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Some of the most famous Impressionist paintings celebrated their role and their distinctive beauty, and how they show Mondrian becoming modern.
They were once common across northern Europe, now only 31 remain. JC Dahl salvaged one and painted, and Harriet Backer painted the unique interior of another.
From the founding father, JC Dahl, through Hans Gude, to the prolific Adelsteen Normann, who lured tourists by selling them paintings of the spectacular fjords.
Constable and Turner both paint the burning of London’s Parliament, a scene of a prairie fire in the US, a burning castle in Denmark, San Francisco on fire in 1906, and more.
Paintings by JC Dahl, LA Ring, and Erik Henningsen of this large island and its archipelago at the south-west edge of the Baltic Sea.
The origin of werewolves, early psychiatry, colourful Venice, a coast of foreboding, a brilliant plein air nocturne, London’s best paintings, visual truth, and more.
Paintings by Thomas Jones, Giovanni Battista Lusieri, JMW Turner, Achille Michallon, JC Dahl, Carl Gustav Carus, Ivan Aivazovsky, and Clarkson Stanfield.
An overview of the German Romantic painters including Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl, with links to all the original articles in this series.
A Norwegian trained in Düsseldorf, he painted studies in oils in front of the motif, then developed them into finely detailed finished works in the studio.
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