Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Pierre-Athanase Chauvin painting

A Convent Near Naples, with a View of Capri
by Pierre-Athanase Chauvin (1774-1832)
1816, oil on canvas, 15" x 19.3"
Chauvin was a French painter, he was born in Paris.
 

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Literature Pick #118

Flight Through Tomorrow

by Stanton A. Coblentz (1896-1982)

An astonishing science fiction short story from Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1947).

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Ludwig von Hagn painting

In the Colonna garden in Rome
by Ludwig von Hagn (1819–1898)
circa 1867, oil on panel, 32.7" x 26.4"
Von Hagn was a German painter, he was born in Munich.

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Benjamin Williams Leader painting

The Wetterhorn from above Rosenlaui
by Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923)
from 1889 until 1898, oil on canvas, 36.2" x 29.9"
Leader was a English landscape painter, he was born in Worcester.

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.