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Crowded Cities: paintings of urban crowds 1

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Crowded streets in town and cities, from Jan van Eyck in 1435 to Pasini’s market in Constantinople in 1877.

September 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

William Powell Frith 2: Moral series

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After his greatest human panorama showing Paddington railway station, he painted two moralising series, similar to those of Hogarth.

January 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

William Powell Frith 1: Dickens and Social Panoramas

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The quintessential Victorian painter. His grand social panoramas include Ramsgate Sands and The Derby Day, shown here.

January 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Next Year in Paintings: da Vinci, Courbet, Renoir, and more

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Plans to celebrate anniversaries of major painters, series on narrative paintings, and more, for the coming year.

January 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Collins and Copping: Words, paintings, and Charles Dickens

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Two painters: one married Charles Dickens’ daughter and stopped painting, the other became a prolific illustrator, including books by Dickens’ grand-daughter. The Victorian Web at work.

December 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Seeing History: Every picture tells two stories

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We’re easily convinced of the reality of 2D images – as when early audiences panicked as the Lumières’ train ran at them in a movie. How has our exposure to pictures changed, though?

December 20, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The Artist as Explorer: François Auguste Biard 2 – Tropics

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Two notable paintings about slavery, some genre scenes of travel, and a final expedition to South America.

October 26, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Richard Dadd: 7 An appreciation

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In memory of Richard Dadd: ten of his best, and thoughts about his life and work. Would we have been any better towards him even now?

August 1, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Richard Dadd: 6 To Broadmoor 1860-1886

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In 1864, he was transferred to the newly-built Broadmoor Asylum. Despite that disruption, he continued to paint.

July 28, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Richard Dadd: 1 Family and faeries

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To celebrate his bicentenary, here are some early works, including some of his ‘faerie paintings’ of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

July 10, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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