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| Albert Bierstadt |
| Autumn Woods |
| Autumn Woods communicates a mood of quiet melancholy unusual for Bierstadt, and it is hard to resist the speculation that this oil painting of 1886 (in the New-York Historical Society, New York City) reflect the artist's reaction to growing older as well as to suffering professional setbacks and the loss by fire of his country estate, Malkasten, in Irvington, New York. |
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| Sir Frank Francis Bernard Dicksee |
| Startled |
| Frank Dicksee’s artistic home remained the Royal Academy throughout his career, and he became ARA in 1881, and was elected a full RA ten years later. “Startled” was his Diploma work. The painter’s art, and taste were totally in sympathy with that of the public, and his career at this time was one of unbroken success. Dicksee’s paintings were often of historical scenes, involving drama, and sentiment. He was a competent portrait painter of men, and a great portrait painter of attractive women - happy was the fashionable lady who was painted by Dicksee! |
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| Vincent van Gogh |
| Almond Blossoms |
| A perfect oil reproduction of the famous painting of Branch of an Almond Tree in Blossom, with green branches, and almond flowers fluttering against a blue sky, by Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. |
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| George Stubbs |
| Molly Longlegs |
The bay ?lly Molly Longlegs was retired from racing in 1762, the year Stubbs exhibited this painting in London. In this early work, Stubbs animates the conventional thoroughbred portrait by vividly capturing the horse’s individual character and circumstances.
Stubbs was preparing his publication The Anatomy of the Horse (1766) when he painted Molly Longlegs, and he emphasizes his anatomical mastery through attention to every detail of the ?lly’s skeletal structure and sinewy musculature.
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| Lord Frederick Leighton |
| Biondina |
Best known for his use of classical themes, Leighton often painted portraits in Grecian Neoclassical style. His famous original portrait of Biondina remains in Hamburger Kunsthalle.
The painting reproduction was even cracked surfaced for maximum similarity with the original. |
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