From 1859, he established himself as a detailed realist, and painted scenes from Goethe’s Faust. They were followed by the return of the prodigal sone and more.
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The interiors of an artist’s studio, realistic or fantastic, those of the Netherlands a century earlier, a cotton office in New Orleans, and more.
He finally achieved success in 1890, and even became a member of the State Parliament. Here’s his curious mix of landscapes and mythology.
The humble vegetable that enabled Europe’s population boom in the 19th century. When diseased by blight, it resulted in more than a million deaths.
Juana the Mad, who refused to let her husband be buried, resurrection of the drowned, funerals in the Carpathians, and fear of being buried alive.
Juno won’t let the labour of Hercules’ mother progress, so one of maids tricks Lucina into allowing the infant’s delivery, for which the maid is turned into a weasel.
Louise Upton Brumback moves from the harbour to the beaches, and with Marsden Hartley visits the abandoned settlement of Dogtown.
Paintings by Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Homer, Willard Metcalf, Frederick Childe Hassam, and Frank Duveneck.
Middle class collectors came to like paintings of interiors, sometimes without any figures at all. Others were Orientalist, or told open-ended narrative.
A prolific painter of everything from landscapes to mythology, he trained in Karlsruhe, travelled widely, but struggled to establish his art in the years to 1885.
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