Some very good original illustrations: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/century/paris.html#51images
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Great Exhibition online catalogue 1851
Some very good original illustrations: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/century/paris.html#51images
W Goscombe John - Childhood – Head of a Girl’ 1896
This is a bust of the artist’s only daughter, Muriel, aged four. It is cast in gilt bronze and set on a marble base. http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/childhood/childhood.asp
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life – review
[1831 engraving of a young Venetian woman, aged 23, depicted before and after contracting cholera. Photograph: Wellcome Images] http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/mar/27/dirt-filthy-reality-wellcome-collection http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/dirt-grime-and-reason-2247592.html#
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Frank Holl - Newgate - Committed for Trial
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=267&page=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Holl
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jholl.htm
Holloway collection.
oil on canvas
60 x 83"
painted 1878
The painting made Holl's reputation when it was exhibted at the RA in the same year and he was subsequently elected an ARA. Holl visited Newgate and the Governor became a friend. The section painted was called the Cage where prisoners on trial were allowed at certain times to see their friends. Holl wrote it moved him to see prisoners of all sorts awaiting the results of their trials.
Holl himself died of heart disease at the early age of 43.
In the same year as this painting, 1878, he began painting portraits which mt with a lot of success. He painted many famous people such as the Price of Wales, Gladstone etc. His range of subjects is impressive.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
The Victorians: Britain Through the Paintings of the Age by Jeremy Paxman
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5662284.eceInterview with Jeremy Paxman
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7889617.stm
Reviews by A N Wilson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/22/history-victorian-artists-jeremy-paxman
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/a-n-wilson-the-victorians-grand-designs-were-the-work-of-shameless-monsters-1622334.html
BBC Shop - DVD
http://www.bbcshop.com/history/the-victorians-dvd/invt/bbcdvd3006/
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
A restrike etching
When an etching has been made, prints are made from the metal block. Very often these are not numbered. However, for collectors' items there is often a fixed number, say 200, and the individual copies are numbered, very often in the form 1/200, and so forth. Sometimes the block is then destroyed and cannot be used again.
Sometimes, however, the block is kept and used again. If this happens there should be a clear indication that the 'print run' is that of a re-use or to use the technical term, a re-strike. One common way of doing this is to use Roman numerals for the re-strike.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_restrike_etching#ixzz1HAMaanow
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Thomas B. Seddon - Boats on the Nile
Watercolour, 14 x 7.5 inches (35.56 cm x 19.05 cm). Private collection, Canada. This watercolour appears to be a sketch painted on site that Thomas Seddon likely used to paint the oil-on-canvas painting titled View on the Nile.
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/seddon/index.html
John Frederick Lewis - The Street and Mosque of the Ghoreeyah, Cairo
Watercolour and oil on paper, 29 3/4 x 40 1/2 inches. Forbes Magazine Collection
Visions of the harem
Of all the British artists who went east in the 19th century, for Ahdaf Soueif, only John Frederick Lewis looked beyond colonial stereotypes to capture its true spirit. Cairo gave him the colours, light and architecture to become a great painter.
includes gallery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/05/art.exhibition
Frank Moss Bennett - Late But Welcome
Signed and Dated 1931 Oil on Canvas 24 x 30 inches / 61 x 76.2 cms Literature : Frank Moss Bennett (1874-1952) The Forgotten Artist by M. Son, 2006, p 24
http://www.burlington.co.uk/original-paintings/frank-moss-bennett-late-but-welcome-25009.html
Frank Moss Bennett
[Won't you come with me?]
Price Realized £3,500
signed and dated 'F M Bennett 1929' (lower left)
oil on canvas
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.5 cm.)
[An excuse for a glass]
Price Realized £3,500
signed and dated 'F M Bennett 1924' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.5 cm.)
http://www.artiquesroadshow.com/Frank_moss_bennett.htm
http://www.fada.com/browse_by_artist.html?gallery_no=2&artist=5868&bio=1
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