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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

Hendrick de Clerck painting

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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"

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)