A summary chronology of the major milestones in the history of oil painting, with copious illustrations from the masters.
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He kept a pictorial record of his wife and children in more formal portraits too. Here’s a selection.
He seems to have loved painting children. Here is his family, at leisure and play, in informal views, often in pastel.
His second vast canvas almost brings him to financial and artistic failure, but he recovers.
Full membership of the Royal Academy, a gigantic landscape of the sublime, and several important commissions: the peak of his career.
One of the major figures in British painting in the first half of the 1800s, but usually ignored today. His oil sketches are exceptional.
His studio was a recurrent motif which tells us much about his promotional activity, and his extended persona.
Delacroix’s famous painting of Marianne, personification of the French nation, does not stand alone. Here is a small collection.
A precocious painter who became more famous in Britain than in her native France, she liked painting powerful animals like oxen and lions.
For 15 years, his delicate nudes seen in dappled light were popular throughout Europe. They shocked the folk back in the US, though.
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