Her time in Florence brought maturity to her work. She then painted a series of major paintings, although you’d be pushed to find any in European collections.
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Initially a favourite model, she became an accomplished and original painter in watercolours, whose works were seen across Europe and in the US.
A rich and successful painter of portraits during the Belle Époque, did he paint any proper fine art?
Brother of the architect Richard Morris Hunt, he painted portraits of the ‘Boston Brahmins’, then landscapes in Barbizon style.
A summary chronology of the major milestones in the history of oil painting, with copious illustrations from the masters.
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.
