Maids toiling at food preparation and washing clothes in the sculleries and utility rooms in the basement. Among them is Vermeer’s Milkmaid, and some of Degas’ working women.
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Paintings of police from lictors in ancient Rome, through ‘Peelers’ in London, to those regulating prostitution and trying to control striking workers.
Hay carts and the last working horses in central London, houses of the rich in St John’s Wood, country views from East Devon during summer visits.
In his last year of intensive painting, he concentrated on landscapes of the Walchensee, his family, and final narratives of the Trojan Horse and Balzac.
Three views by the elusive Elisabeth Grüttefien, and the paintings of Nikolai Astrup, the only artist among these who lived in the fjords for much of his life, and was buried there.
From the founding father, JC Dahl, through Hans Gude, to the prolific Adelsteen Normann, who lured tourists by selling them paintings of the spectacular fjords.
The family moved to live, as much as possible, in their chalet on the shore of Walchensee, where he painted more than 60 landscapes with new-found energy.
The fall of Icarus, Calydonian boar hunt, Philemon and Baucis, the origin of the Horn of Plenty, death of Hercules, Orpheus and Eurydice, death of Hyacinthus, Pygmalion and Galatea, death of Adonis, and of Orpheus.
An early view inside the Uffizi, a Baron who couldn’t stop collecting, views inside the Royal Academy and jury selection for the Salon, and much more in the Louvre.
Member of the Fitzroy Street and Camden Town Groups, he recorded the final years of the working horse in London, and landscapes in southern England.
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