It moved from depicting the rural poor in the countryside, to scientists teaching, a major research meeting, technology in the workplace, and the rise of the clinic in hospital medicine.
Eakins
Pairs of oil studies and finished paintings by Rubens, Géricault, Constable, Frith, Seurat, Eakins, Bierstadt and Cross.
Pygmalion painted by Edward Burne-Jones and Gérôme, the painted frieze of the Parthenon, Eakins and the sculptor Rush, Lovis Corinth’s portrait, and a cheeky monkey by Watteau.
Portraits by Lovis Corinth, Thomas Eakins’ widow Susan, a great Estonian pastellist, and others, and insights into Pierre Bonnard’s conflicted personal life.
JMW Turner photographed in a dageurreotype in 1847, paintings mocking early photographers, then their influence over views, and used by Thomas Eakins.
An artist’s workshop with his assistant, several sculptors working with their models, watchmakers in Madrid, an assistant in a print shop, artisans, tinker and repairer.
Knitting and crochet as a sign of history, Welsh identity, the bored chaperone, the height of a party, or a peaceful and productive pastime.
Some of the greatest works of Impressionism, including Monet and Renoir’s ‘Bathers at la Grenouillère’, and one of Bazille’s last works.
Badminton, tennis, rowing regattas and races, and boxing, pictured by George Bellows, Alfred Sisley, Thomas Eakins and others.
The only way to impart perception of motion of a spinning wheel is to blur it, which is what we naturally perceive. Examples of motion blur.
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