Classical history paintings are rarer than those of myth. Even fewer show the most anomalous of classical societies: the Spartans.
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In 1864, he was transferred to the newly-built Broadmoor Asylum. Despite that disruption, he continued to paint.
Domenicus van Wijnen’s paintings are radically original, quite unlike other works before him, and not matched for more than a century after. Why don’t we know him and these paintings better?
Painters of the early northern Renaissance founded modern Western landscape painting, and developed the first examples of staffage.
An unusual story of sorcery used to restore youth has seldom been painted – even after Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein became popular.
In which Dadd becomes a nineteenth-century Bosch on some seriously psychotropic drugs. It is a masterpiece like no other.
Among his last paintings are six superb landscapes, painted for his pleasure. What a wonderful end to such an illustrious career.
In less than a decade of painting, he rose as a brilliant star among America’s Impressionists. Why then has he been forgotten?
A couple of watercolours give some insight into those around him, and pose a perplexing puzzle. He ended the 1850s with another masterpiece based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
He painted many wonderful oil sketches and watercolours of other artists painting outdoors. Here are a few to enjoy.
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