
Thomas Seddon (1821—1856) was an English landscape painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who painted colourful and highly detailed scenes of Brittany,...

Thomas Seddon (1821—1856) was an English landscape painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who painted colourful and highly detailed scenes of Brittany,...

Claude Monet’s lifelong affinity for the landscape of Normandy and its dramatic coastline can be traced back to his childhood. The son of a commercial officer who worked...

Inspired by the bold, flat style Post-Impressionist movement of the late 1890s — the Nabis — a group of painters with whom he was briefly associated — Swiss-born artist...
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“To wisely live your life, you don’t need to know much. Just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than...

At the turn of the 20th century, the population of Maine’s Wabanaki people had reached its lowest point from the impacts of colonization. Yet Frederic Edwin Church’s...

Otto Pilny (1866—1936) was a great admirer of Orientalist subjects and in 1889 he travelled to Egypt for the first time. He was enthralled by its landscape, its people...

Otto Pilny (1866—1936) was a Swiss-born artist, who specialised in Oriental genre scenes. Started his artistic education in Prague. Later he lived in Vienna for a time,...

Mauritz Frederik Hendrik De Haas (1832—1895) was a Dutch-American marine painter. Contemporaries lauded his work for its realistic nature, which was attributed to his...
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American painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826—1900) traveled to northern Maine soon after the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods.” In...

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” ― Mark Twain. Georg Eduard Otto Saal, Forest Landscape in the Moonlight, 1861, Rijksmuseum,...

Caspar David Friedrich (1774—1840) was born in Swedish Pomerania (nowadays a German town of Greifswald), at that time a part of Sweden. He studied at the University of...

Gillis Mostaert the Elder (1528—1598) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman active in Antwerp in the second half of the 16th century. Gillis Mostaert was known in...

“The magnificent beauty of the natural world is a manifestation of the mysterious natural laws that will be forever obscured from us.” — Albert Bierstadt. Albert...

“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and...

In his long, globe-trotting career, the great American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826—1900) depicted icebergs, jungles, deserts and, of course, the Hudson...

A moving Eastern bazaar scene over an orange sunset, dark-blue shadows and the thin sickle of the moon. The vibrant colours of this landscape is usual for avant-garde...

English painter Abraham Pether (1756—1812) was also a musician and inventor, constructing telescopes and microscopes for his own use, and lectured on electricity using...

A native New Yorker, Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823—1900) practiced as both a painter and an architect. In this wide view of one of the most visited areas in the...
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