He was on board the Carpathia when it rescued survivors from the Titanic, and moved to the West Coast in 1915, where he painted its lush vegetation and rich light.
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Trained in the US and Paris, he started painting New York skyscrapers around 1900, the right painter in the right place at the right time.
Trees play a major role in many of his paintings, particularly the holm oak. He models variation in colour and texture of bark and other subtle details, to set a high standard.
Collaborated with Jan Brueghel the Elder in early paintings, created his own landscapes from 1625, and a wonderful series of landscapes during his retirement in 1635-1640.
Piero della Francesca’s common walnut tree, several types by Giorgione, mixed woodland by Albrecht Altdorfer, wonderful examples from the Brueghels, and two plein air oil sketches by Velázquez.
Humans have lived with trees since our origins, and trees feature in many paintings. This explains the importance of sketching them from life, and shows examples of different species and contrasting artists from Rubens and van Ruisdael to van Gogh and Cézanne.
Two groups of paintings: figures seen mostly in planar mirrors arranged vertically, and landscapes reflected by a horizontal water surface.
The botanical painter Marianne North, Val Prinsep who was born in Kolkata and painting for Queen Victoria, Colin Campbell Cooper, and Nicholas Roerich, who died there in 1947.
From William Hodges in around 1780, Edward Lear nearly a century later, and Vasily Vereshchagin at about the same time, views of the Taj Mahal and the Himalayan mountains.
Following another visit to Ecuador and Colombia in 1857, he painted his masterwork ‘The Heart of the Andes’, which had to be viewed using opera glasses to appreciate its intricate detail.
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