Second-generation Icelandic painter, who died tragically young at only 32 of TB. Mostly views of Iceland, and religious works.
history of painting
Sixteen views of the River Thames and Houses of Parliament, painted between 1745 and 2006, showing where they were painted from.
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.
Just monkeying about in the Dutch Golden Age, with cats in a barbershop, as a sculptor, and the amazing paintings of Gabriel von Max.
In some of the earliest European paintings, the Fall of Man, the fable of the cat’s paw, in Vanitas paintings, and for their mischief and mayhem.
Paintings of Istanbul and its surroundings by Alberto Pasini, Anders Zorn, Michael Zeno Diemer, Paul Signac, and pioneer Osman Hamdi Bey.
Paintings of Istanbul and its surroundings by Gérôme, Delacroix, Richard Dadd, Ivan Aivazovsky, and Alberto Pasini up to 1877.
In seascapes with waves, and on land with the foliage of trees. Paintings by Turner, Courbet, Gainsborough, Monet, Winslow Homer and more.
Taught in Ivan Aivazovsky’s studio in Crimea and the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg, he painted unusual nocturnes, including the River Dnipro.
The incredible myth of Leda and the swan, the transformation of Phaëthon’s brother Cycnus, King Arthur, Hesiod, Swan Pie and more.
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