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Impressionism

Patrons & Painters: Constable’s French connection

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Most of his paintings before 1829 flopped when shown in Britain, but from the Salon of 1824, his work was highly praised in Paris.

March 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Calling the Tune: patrons, donors and dealers in paintings 2

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The vital relationship between painter and patron, donor, dealer and others. Shown in examples from Rubens, Velázquez, Brett, Renoir and Bonnard.

March 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Willard Metcalf, American Impressionist 2

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With his fresh light style, he painted the country around Old Lyme, the Cornish art colony, and up into Vermont.

February 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Willard Metcalf, American Impressionist 1

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Barely known in Europe, he studied in France for 5 years, then from 1888 was a major landscape painter in the US, one of The Ten.

February 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Ford Madox Brown constrained by Pre-Raphaelite ideals

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His four best paintings viewed in their historical context, and consideration of the constraints that he painted under. What if?

January 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Desert, skulls and steelworks: Paintings of Eugen Bracht 2

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After Symbolism, he turned to Impressionism, with a wide range of motifs from mountain peaks to smoky steelworks.

January 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Desert, skulls and steelworks: Paintings of Eugen Bracht 1

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A pupil of Hans Gude, he stopped painting for over 10 years. When he resumed, he painted unusual landscapes, peaking in a Symbolist masterpiece of the apocalypse.

January 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Martyrs’ Mountain: Paintings of Montmartre 1

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The hill that rises from the densely-packed streets of Paris, painted by Jongkind, Alfred Sisley, Ilya Repin, Renoir, and others.

January 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the centenary of Auguste Renoir’s death

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He excelled across all genres, one of few painters of the time to do so. He was, and remains, one of the greatest European painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

December 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Auguste Renoir as landscape painter

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A short illustrated history of Renoir’s career as a landscape painter, from Barbizon to La Grenouillère, Post-Impressionism and the influence of Corot and Cézanne.

December 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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