The final four and a half years of De Nittis’s career were busy, productive, and successful.
Impressionism
Almost forgotten today, he was technically brilliant, and a full-bore Impressionist. Here is his life and paintings to 1879.
An overview of an extraordinary art exhibition, and its 30 contributors.
An established sculptor, a maker of stained glass, one who has truly vanished, and a successful industrialist and patron.
A painter in enamel, three assorted landscape painters, and probably the most gifted artist of the whole group.
Marines painted by the grandson of one of Napoleon’s generals, and views of the Seine and its bridges.
We still associate brushmarks with sketchiness, speed of painting, spontaneity, bravura, and panache – and smooth paint surfaces, assembled from multiple layers and glazes, as being heartless mechanical essays in technique.
An innovator and major influence in the Impressionist movement, he seems to have been judged on his poorer works, not these, his best paintings.
Two justifiably popular Impressionist painters who are now largely forgotten, and a third who has simply vanished from the records.
One of the finest print-makers and porcelain designers (and his Impressionist wife), another vanished painter, and another who died just after the Second Exhibition.
