Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Ferdynand Ruszczyc painting

The Soil
by Ferdynand Ruszczyc (1870–1936)
1898, oil on canvas, 67.3" x 86.2"
Ruszczyc was a Polish painter, printmaker, and stage designer, he was born in the village of Bahdanava in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus).

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Carl Johann Spielter painting

A Discerning Collector
by Carl Johann Spielter (1851–1922)
1911, oil on canvas, 18.8" x 27.1"
Spielter was a German painter, he was born in Bremen.

Monday, June 8, 2020

Franz Xaver Hoch painting

Italian Coastal Landscape with a Monastery
by Franz Xaver Hoch (1869–1916)
1893, oil on canvas, 59" x 78.7"
Hoch was a German landscape painter and graphic artist, he was born in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Francis Wheatley painting

View on the Medway
by Francis Wheatley (1747 - 1801)
1776, oil on canvas, 25" x 30"
Wheatley was an English artist, he was born in London.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Johannes Herman Brandt painting

View from Døndalen on Bornholm
by Johannes Herman Brandt (1850–1926)
1885, oil on canvas, 35" × 39.3"
Brandt was a Danish painter, he was born in Copenhagen.

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painting

Christ Carrying the Cross
by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770)
circa 1737-38, oil on canvas, 14.7' x 16.9'
Located at the Sant'Alvise church in Venice, Italy.


Saturday, March 21, 2020

Ferdinand Keller paintings

Coastal Landscape at Rio de Janeiro
by Ferdinand Keller (1842–1922)
1864, oil on canvas, 25" x 34.2"
Keller was a German painter, he was born in Karlsruhe.
Lady Absinth (Arcade, Avenue of Sighs)
1901, oil on canvas, 35" x 45.6"

Rocky Landscape with Centaur
Oil on cardboard, 22.4" x 17.3"

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Hendrick de Clerck painting

Adoration of the Magi
by Hendrick de Clerck (circa 1560 - 1630)
Flemish painter, his work was in the Mannerist style. 

Monday, November 11, 2019

Leopold Scheiring painting

Hochalm with Serles near Innsbruck
by Leopold Scheiring (1884-1927)
1917, oil on cardboard, 27.56" x 37.4"
Scheiring was born in Nassereith, Austria

Saturday, November 9, 2019

Literature Pick #117

On the Northern Ice
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935)
From the 1898 short story collection, The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales.

Friday, August 30, 2019

Hugh Bolton Jones painting

Brittany Landscape
by Hugh Bolton Jones (1848–1927)
1877, oil on canvas, 16.2" x 22"
Jones was an American landscape painter, he was born in Baltimore, Maryland.


Thursday, August 29, 2019

Luc-Olivier Merson painting

Rest on the Flight into Egypt
by Luc-Olivier Merson (1846–1920)
1880, 28.2" x 50.5"
Merson was a French painter and illustrator, he was born in Paris.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

François-Xavier Fabre painting

Saint Anthony of Padua Introducing Two Novices to Friars in a Mountainous Landscape
by François-Xavier Fabre (1766–1837)
1815, oil on canvas, 28.7" x 38.5"
Fabre was a French artist, he was born in Montpellier

Monday, August 26, 2019

Ivan Shishkin & Konstantin Savitsky painting

Morning in a Pine Forest
by Ivan Shishkin (1832–1898) & Konstantin Savitsky (1844–1905)
1889, oil on canvas, 54.7" x 83.8"

Friday, August 9, 2019

Raden Saleh painting

Javanese Temple in Ruins
by Raden Saleh (circa 1811 –1880)
1860, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, 41.4" x 73.6"
Saleh was born in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)