Monday, February 29, 2016

Giuseppe Canella painting

View of Rouen
by Giuseppe Canella (1788–1847)
1831, gouache on paper, 11.5" x 16.6"
Italian artist, born in Verona

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Paintings of Samuel Bough

Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street
by Samuel Bough (1822–1878)
by 1878, oil on canvas, 61.4" x 49.2"

Bough was an English landscape painter, born in Carlisle, Cumbria.
Helmsley Castle in North Yorkshire
by Samuel Bough (1822–1878)
oil on canvas, 18.3" × 26.3"
Fishing at Sunset
by Samuel Bough (1822–1878)
oil on panel, 10.5" × 14.5"
Peeling oak bark, Cadzow Forest
by Samuel Bough (1822–1878)
1851, oil on canvas, 40.5" × 60.2"

Monday, February 22, 2016

Charles Gleyre painting

Egyptian Temple
by Charles Gleyre (1806-1874)
1840, oil on canvas, 14.2" x 19.3"
Swiss Painter, born in Chevilly, Switzerland

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

William Westall artwork

The Quadrangle, Hampton Court Palace.
by William Westall (1781-1850)
The aquatint engraving of this picture was published as plate 35 of W.H. Pyne (1819), The History of the Royal Residences.
Westall was born in Hertford, England

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Bernardo Bellotto paintings

A Capriccio River Landscape with a Church to the Left
by Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780)
Oil on Canvas

Bellotto was born in Venice, and is the nephew of Canaletto.
 
View of Pirna from the Fortress of Sonnenstein
by Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780)
circa 1753-1755, Oil on Canvas, 53.1" × 94.9"
 
View of Pirna from the Sonnenstein Castle
by Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780)
1750s, Oil on Canvas, 53.5" × 93.3"