Hay carts and the last working horses in central London, houses of the rich in St John’s Wood, country views from East Devon during summer visits.
history of painting
In his last year of intensive painting, he concentrated on landscapes of the Walchensee, his family, and final narratives of the Trojan Horse and Balzac.
Three views by the elusive Elisabeth Grüttefien, and the paintings of Nikolai Astrup, the only artist among these who lived in the fjords for much of his life, and was buried there.
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.
The fall of Icarus, Calydonian boar hunt, Philemon and Baucis, the origin of the Horn of Plenty, death of Hercules, Orpheus and Eurydice, death of Hyacinthus, Pygmalion and Galatea, death of Adonis, and of Orpheus.
An early view inside the Uffizi, a Baron who couldn’t stop collecting, views inside the Royal Academy and jury selection for the Salon, and much more in the Louvre.
Member of the Fitzroy Street and Camden Town Groups, he recorded the final years of the working horse in London, and landscapes in southern England.
Indian Yellow was allegedly made from the urine of cows fed on mango leaves, dried into balls, but was outlawed as it cruel to the cattle. Chrome Yellow was widely used by the Impressionists.
Self-portraits during his recovery show how he was changing style to Expressionism, oddities with depth, Odysseus battling with the suitors, Ariadne on Naxos, and Joseph with Potiphar’s wife.
Perseus and Andromeda, the death of Medusa, Proserpine abducted by Pluto to Hades, weaving contest between Minerva and Arachne, Lycians turned into frogs, Marsyas flayed, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and the origins of Theseus.
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