Paintings of open fires and stoves from 1565 to 1884 show how we lived through the winter before central heating.
Degas
Describing himself as a Realist, normally avoiding painting landscapes, but concentrating on ballet dancers and ‘modern life’, he was the odd one out.
From Venus covering herself with her hair, to combing through the hair for nits and lice. Artists include Botticelli, Rossetti and Degas.
More accomplished as a print-maker, his views of the beach at Berck are desolate. A good friend of Degas, he exhibited at the Salon, so dropped from the 3rd exhibition.
As tried by Pissarro, Degas, Carl Larsson, Gauguin, Anders Zorn, Charles Conder, and Louis Welden Hawkins.
From Robert Nanteuil’s first pastel portraits in the 1660s to Ants Laikmaa in 1929, a history of the greatest pastel painters and links to articles about individual artists.
An amateur artist until 1883, he was a collector and patron, and continued to show his work at each of the Impressionist Exhibitions until 1886.
One of 30 artists exhibiting at the First Impressionist Exhibition, his painting was still realist, he achieved success, but died suddenly at the height of his career in 1884.
Possibly taught by the portraitist Charles Chaplin, she painted pastels with Edgar Degas but took a different approach to composition, specialising in mothers and infants.
Pastel paintings were central to his art, from empty beach landscapes of 1869, through the ballet, to women bathing and dressing in the 1880s, and fantasy landscapes of 1892.
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