Brilliant, painting over 4,000 oil paintings in little more than 15 years, arrested as a French spy, and finally succumbed to bouts of heavy drinking and mounting debts.
Reynolds
Co-founder of the British school of landscape painting, he specialised in trees and woodland, and was greatly admired by John Constable. A selection of some of his finest paintings.
Brushstrokes and painterly marks in the portraits of Gainsborough, Reynolds, Angelica Kauffmann, Jacques-Louis David and James Tissot.
Both Joshua Reynolds and Albert Pinkham Ryder had learned traditional and proven methods of painting in oils, but abandoned them in search of the secrets of the Master. Here’s what happened.
Applying thinner layers of paint, or glazes, developed optical effects that were widely used into the late 19th century, but have now fallen from favour.
To the depths of Hell, to see the giant triple-headed Lucifer eating Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius. Then as dawn draws near, back to the world above.
The horrific story of a count locked away to starve to death, who turned to cannibalism. How that came to be used falsely in Lavater’s physiognomy.
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.
More from Raphael, Reynolds, and the artist’s family of Frédéric Bazille, Lovis Corinth and others. All you need to know is who, where and when.
From its origin in portraiture, through to experiments by Renoir, and many oil paintings by Anders Zorn, control over edges can be highly effective.
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