Painter to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she was a friend of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. But the Royal Academy refused her, because she was a woman.
history of painting
After the First Impressionist exhibition, he concentrated on achieving success at the Salon, and Durand-Ruel represented him.
Two strategies illustrated: painting in the valley and de-emphasising the surrounding hills, or painting from above the valley, with the hills not visible.
One of the founding fathers of modern Icelandic painting, he trained in Copenhagen and painted landscapes in the early 20th century.
Between 1880 and 1886 he painted 5 different versions of ‘Island of the Dead’, which owes much to German Romanticism.
The satyr Marsyas became an outstanding player of the aulos, and played in a contest against the god Apollo. He can’t win, and ends up being flayed alive.
Daughter of the King of Sparta, she was first given in marriage to Orestes, then taken away and married to Pyrrhus, who already had a concubine. She wanted to return Orestes, though.
Having mysteriously lost his first wife during their escape from Troy, Aeneas falls in love with Queen Dido of Carthage, a relationship doomed from the start.
Mentor to the young Claude Monet, he was successful at the Salon, and took part in the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874.
Rolling countryside in the Downs of England, the Alban Hills near Rome, Normandy, Pontoise, the Jorat in Switzerland, and the rural Midwest.
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