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Painting Within Tent: How Titian Ramsay Peale has been overlooked

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Between 1817 and 1842, he went on a succession of expeditions in the US, Colombia, and the Pacific islands, as artist and naturalist. Yet he was even buried in an unmarked grave. Does modesty pay?

June 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Edward Lear in the Land of the Jumblies 2

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Edward Lear paints his visits to Palestine, Greece, Albania, and India, including a breathtaking view of Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling.

May 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Edward Lear in the Land of the Jumblies 1

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Once Britain’s foremost natural history artist, when he realised his eyesight was failing he turned to painting landscapes on his travels.

May 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Maria Sibylla Merian’s metamorphoses 2

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She was in Suriname for two years, painting butterflies, moths, their relationships with plants and their lifecycles, but had to return early with malaria.

May 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Maria Sibylla Merian’s metamorphoses 1

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She set out to investigate, document and paint the lifecycles of butterflies and moths at a time when most thought they arose spontaneously.

May 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Soul in Flight: paintings of butterflies after 1860

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From Gustave Doré and Winslow Homer, to Vincent van Gogh and Odilon Redon – modern paintings of butterflies.

August 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Soul in Flight: paintings of butterflies to 1860

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From Pisanello and Dosso Dossi to William Holman Hunt and Richard Dadd: paintings showing butterflies.

August 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

No Greater Naturalist: Paintings of Bruno Liljefors, 2

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After a rough patch in the 1890s, he found his earlier form and painted spectacular works showing seabirds around the fragment coast of the Baltic.

March 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting

No Greater Naturalist: Paintings of Bruno Liljefors, 1

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Following Dürer’s 1502 painting of a Young Hare, Liljefors painted wild birds and animals in their natural environment. He remains one of the most important wildlife artists.

March 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Travels with Edward Lear: 1 Italy, Greece, Albania

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Come travel through Europe and beyond in the magnificent watercolours painted by the author of ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’.

September 16, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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