Nikolay Dubovskoy painting

The Forest River
by Nikolay Dubovskoy (1859-1918)
Dubovskoy was a Russian landscape painter.

Anton Raphael Mengs painting

The Adoration of the Shepherds
by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728- 1779)
1770, oil on oak wood table, 100.8" x 74.8"
Mengs was born in Aussig, Kingdom of Bohemia.

Francisco Collantes painting

Winter Landscape with the Adoration of the Shepherds
by Francisco Collantes (1599–1656)
oil on canvas, 28.4" x 41.6"
Collantes was a Baroque era painter, he was born in Madrid, Spain.

Utagawa Toyoharu artwork

A Winter Party
by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735 - 1814)
Color and gold on silk, 20.83" x 38.03"
Toyoharu was a Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e style, he was born in Toyooka.

Léon de Wailly artwork

Great Panther, quarter of the size
by Léon de Wailly (French, active 1801-1824)
1812
Ink, watercolour, and bodycolor on vellum, 14 3/16" x 20 7/8"

Benjamin West painting

Eagle Bringing cup to Psyche
by Benjamin West (1738–1820)
circa 1802, Oil on wooden panel, 11 3/4" x 16 3/4"
West was an American artist; he was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania.

James Ward painting

Gordale Scar (A View of Gordale, in the Manor of East Malham in Craven, Yorkshire, the Property of Lord Ribblesdale)
by James Ward (1769–1859)
circa 1812, oil on canvas, 131" x 166"
Ward was a Romantic painter; he was born in London, England.

Adolf Gustav Schweitzer painting

Fjord Landscape
by Adolf Gustav Schweitzer (1847-1914)
1888, oil on canvas, 26" x 39.8"

Meindert Hobbema painting

Wooded landscape with a Water-mill
by Meindert Hobbema (1638–1709)
oil on panel, 24.37" x 33.62"
Hobbema was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

Painting attributed to Jan Tilens

Rocky Landscape with Travelers
attributed to Jan Tilens (1589–1630)
Oil on Canvas, 41.3" × 54.1"

Antonietta Brandeis painting

Porta della Carta
by Antonietta Brandeis (1849–1910)
1886, oil on cardboard, 13.6" × 9.4"

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.

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

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.

Dominic M. Serres painting

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

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Edward Frederick Ertz artwork

The Harbour, Polperro
by Edward Frederick Ertz (1862-1954)
circa 1910s

Adalbert Waagen painting

Mountain Scene
by Adalbert Waagen (1833-1898)
Oil on Canvas, 9.6" × 12.4"
Waagen was born in Munich, Germany.

Louise Rayner painting

The East Gate at Warwick
by Louise Rayner (1832-1924)
Watercolor heightened with bodycolor, 9.4" x 6.7"
Rayner was born in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, England.

Charles Leslie painting

Landscape
by Charles Leslie (1839–1886)
Oil on Canvas, 12" x 24"
Leslie was an English landscape painter, he was born in the Islington borough of London.

Henry John Boddington painting

Devonshire
by Henry John Boddington (1811-1865)
Oil on canvas, 29" x 42"
Boddington was born in London, England.

William Trost Richards painting

Rocky Cliff with Stormy Sea, Cornwall
by William Trost Richards (1833-1905)
1902, oil on canvas, 18" x 24"
Richards was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Literature Pick #101

High Man
by Jay Clarke
An amusing science fiction short story from the June 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Alfred Jacob Miller painting

Lake Scene
by Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874)
Between 1858 and 1860, watercolor on paper, 9.2" × 12.3"
Miller was an American artist, born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Prints of Tintern Abbey by Frederick Calvert

The Grand West Entrance of Tintern Abbey
by Frederick Calvert
A view of the ruins of the interior of Tintern Abbey showing the remains of the vaunted roof, the ornate windows and sightseers.
1815, color print on aquatint

South Window of Tintern Abbey
A view of the interior of he ruins of Tintern Abbey, showing several sightseers wandering around.
1815, color print on aquatint

North View of Tintern Abbey
A view of the ruins of Tintern Abbey from the opposite bank of the River Wye, showing boats on the river and fishermen in the foreground.
1815, color print on aquatint

South East View of Tintern Abbey
A view of the overgrown ruins of Tintern Abbey. A woman and child can be seen in the foreground, and mountains and the river Wye can be seen behind the abbey.
1815, color print on aquatint

Literature Pick #100

The Last of the Legions
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
First published in the December 1910 issue of The London Magazine, and here republished in the 1925 short story collection The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago.

Katsushika Hokusai artwork

Lake Suwa in Shinano Province
by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
First publication: circa 1830. This edition: circa 1930.
Woodblock color print

Edward John Poynter painting

Funchal, Morning Sun
by Edward John Poynter (1836–1919)
1877, watercolor

Nikolay Dubovskoy painting

Calm Before the Storm
by Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy (1859-1918)
1890, oil on canvas, 30.1" × 50.4"
Russian landscape painter, he was born in Novocherkassk, Russia

Jean Jacques François Taurel painting

Artists Approaching Paestum from the Sea
by Jean Jacques François Taurel (1757-1832)
1793, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Lusieri painting

The Monument to Philopappos, Athens
by Giovanni Battista Lusieri
1805, oil on canvas, 32.48" x 24.49"
Lusieri was an Italian landscape artist, he was born in Rome.

Govert Dircksz Camphuysen painting

Castle Tre Kronor in Stockholm
by Govert Dircksz Camphuysen (1624-1672)
1661
Dutch painter, born in Dokkum, Friesland.

Salomon van Ruysdael painting

Estuary by Fortified City
by Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602-1670)
1648
Ruysdael was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter; he was born in Naarden, Holland.

James Pollard painting

Hatchetts - The White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly.
by James Pollard (1792–1867)
oil on canvas, 17.9" × 26"
Pollard was a British painter, he was born in Islington.

Luigi Deleidi painting

Piazza Vecchia
by Luigi Deleidi (1784-1853)
Deleidi was an Italian landscape artist, he was born in the city of Bergamo.

Literature Pick #99

On the French Shore of Cape Breton
by Harry James Smith
An account of life in the small Nova Scotian village of Arichat, first published in 1908, and here included the the book Cape Breton Tales.

Théodore Géricault painting

Two Horses
 by Théodore Géricault (1791–1824)
circa 1808-1809, oil on canvas, 0.4" x 0.63"
A Romantic painter who was born in Rouen, France.

Peter Gertner painting

Crucifixion
by Peter Gertner
1537, oil on panel, 27.1" × 38.1"
Gertner was a German painter.

Thomas Fearnley paintings

Duck Hunter
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
Oil on paper mounted on panel, 12.6" × 16.5"
Fearnley was a Norwegian romantic painter. He was born in Frederikshald, Østfold county, Norway

 

Tjugum Church, Balestrand
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
1839, oil on canvas, 10.4" × 13"

 

From Romsdal
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
1836, oil on cardboard, 11" × 15.2 "

 

The Labro Falls at Kongsberg
by Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842)
1837, oil on canvas, 59.1" × 88.2"