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Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 4 Travels

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After he had closed his portrait studio in 1907, travelling with friends, more watercolour views of Venice, and a look at some of his sophisticated techniques.

April 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 3 Venice

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A portrait with unusual references, many bravura watercolours of Venice and his travels through the Alps on the way, and a short visit to North Africa.

April 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 65 The Cumaean Sibyl

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Aeneas’ ill-fated and brief affair with Queen Dido of Carthage, past the Cercopes who had been turned into monkeys, and on to the Sibyl to take him to visit his father in the underworld.

April 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

All aboard: a century of painting railways 2

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With Frits Thaulow in Norway, van Gogh in Arles, the construction of what is now the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and what can happen a railway carriage.

April 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

All aboard: a century of painting railways 1

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Taking the train with Turner, William Powell Frith, Manet, and Claude Monet, who became something of a railway buff in the 1870s.

April 5, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Interiors by Design: Dressing table

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Originally the toilet, this is where ladies prepared themselves for the day. Paintings from Hogarth. Degas, Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard and others.

April 4, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 2 London

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Spanish dancers, Madame X and scandal, Monet painting at Giverny, loose oil sketches, and a husband who became a surrogate dog.

April 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Commemorating the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death: 1 Pupil

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Early paintings from his time as a student in Paris, a series painted when he was on Capri in 1878, a portrait of his teacher, and exotic smoke.

April 2, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 202 Rabbit & Hare

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From Dürer’s groundbreaking hare to the fable of the hare and the tortoise, a hidden hare in a well-known Turner and a white rabbit for the first of the month?

April 1, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 64 Scylla meets Glaucus

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Scylla accosted by the grotesque sea-god Glaucus. When she runs away from him, he seeks the help of Circe, only for her to turn Scylla into a pack of hounds, then into a hazard to navigation.

March 31, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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