Monday, October 24, 2016

Literature Pick #103

The New Catacomb
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A masterful short story, first published in 1898, and included here in the 1922 short story collection, Tales of Terror and Mystery.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Michele Marieschi painting

Rialto Bridge in Venice
by Michele Marieschi (1710-1744)
1740s, oil on canvas transferred from wood, 51.2" x 77.2"
Marieschi was born in Venice

Monday, October 17, 2016

Friedrich Nerly painting

Piazzetta San Marco in the Moonlight
by Friedrich Nerly (1807–1878)
Oil on cardboard, 20" x 17"
Nerly was a German painter of the Romantic era; he was born in Erfurt, Germany.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Dominic M. Serres painting

Figures on a Bridge
by Dominic M. Serres (1761-after 1804)
1798, watercolor, 15" × 22.2"

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Franz Niklaus König painting

View of Lake Lungern, from the Northeast
by Franz Niklaus König (1765–1832)
Between 1800 and 1810
König was a Swiss painter.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Michael Zeno Diemer painting

The Ahırkapı Lighthouse
by Michael Zeno Diemer (1867–1939)
oil on canvas, 32.48" x 43.31"
Zeno Diemer was born in Munich, Germany.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

George Caleb Bingham painting

Landscape; rural scene
by George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879)
1845, oil on canvas, 29" × 36"
Bingham was an American artist, he was born in Augusta County, Virginia.

Friday, September 16, 2016

Ludwig Hermann paintings

Fantasy View of a City on the River
by Ludwig Hermann (1812-1881)
Oil on canvas, 26.77" x 37.8"

Venice, View of Santa Maria della Salute
by Ludwig Hermann (1812-1881)
Oil on canvas, 35.43" x 56.3"

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Amelia Hotham painting

Riverside Landscape with a Castle in the Distance
by Amelia Hotham (before 1775-1812)
1793, Watercolor, 19.6" x 26.7"
Hotham was a British watercolor painter.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Copley Fielding painting

A Scene on the Coast, Merionethshire - Storm Passing Off
by Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855)
1818, oil on canvas, 52.99" x 78.27"
Fielding was an English painter; born in Sowerby, West Yorkshire.

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Edmund Marriner Gill painting

Falls in the Clyde Corry Lynn
by Edmund Marriner Gill (1820–1894)
1866, oil on canvas, 27.95" x 33.07"

Gill was an English landscape painter.

Monday, August 22, 2016

Literature Pick #102

A Country Idyl
by Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841-1916)
A romantic short story from the 1898 book A Country Idyl and Other Stories.

Friday, August 19, 2016

David Johnson painting

Brook Study at Warwick
by David Johnson (1827-1908)
1873
Johnson was a Hudson River School artist, he was born in New York City, New York.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Eilif Peterssen painting

Summer Night
by Eilif Peterssen (1852-1928)
1886, oil on canvas, 59.4" x 52.4"
Peterssen was born in Christiania, Norway

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Jean-Léon Gérôme painting

Summer Afternoon on a Lake
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)
circa 1895, oil on canvas
Gérôme was born in Vesoul, Haute-Saône, France.