By the window ...

Jan Vermeer

Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window,

Leonard Campbell Taylor (1874-1969).

GERRIT DOU 1667

Reading news. J. 1874. Tissot

Kathleen Newton in his chair. J. 1878. Tissot

Portrait of Madame Valerie-Rado. 1888A. Edelfelt

Marianne. 1888 IK Prinsep

JD Leslie. Solar and lunar flowers

VD Montague. Memories. 1864

Family lawyer. 1957 U.P.Fris

Late spring. 1911 A Hacker

"Lady Olivia Bailey with his daughters," the author?

Moravians Alexander (1878 - 1951) "Interiors" in 1913

Lomonosov and Chichagov artist A.I.Vasilev

Kropacheva Svetlana Woman with a mirror

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garrett

Raimundo de Madrazo and Garrett (Rome, 1841 - Versailles, 1920) was a Spanish painter of the nineteenth century realism. He was the son and pupil of the famous portrait painter Federico de Madrazo, no less famous brother Mariano Fortuny and grandson of the artist Jose Madrazo. Today, some of his works are exhibited in the best museums in Europe and in the Prado Museum.
His first teachers were his father and grandfather. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where his teacher was Carlos Luis de Ribera and Carlos de Haes. He completed his training, traveling to Paris, where he went in 1860 as an apprentice painter Leon Cogniet
Topics works mainly portraits, always cheerful and optimistic. He is considered one of the most accomplished portrait painters of his generation and a worthy successor to his father Federico. His careful and elegant realism was key to its success among customers of the bourgeoisie of his time. Works are widely recognized in France and throughout the world.

Garreta Raimundo de Madrazo Hot Chocolate

Madrazo y Garreta Raimundo de LADY WITH A MASK

Garreta Raimundo De Madrazo y La Toilette

Garreta Raimundo De Madrazo Y Preparing For The Costume Ball

The Reluctant Mistress

Title and date unknown

Garreta Raimundo De Madrazo YA Portrait Of Aline Masson

Garreta Raimundo De Madrazo portrait Of A Lady In Pink Ribbons

Madrazo y Garreta The Model Aline Masson with a White Mantilla

Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin

January 14, 1834 Perm-January 16, 1886 St. Petersburg
Peter Vereshchagin was, like his brother Basil, initial art education in the family and also to continue it in the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1858-1865). However, his artistic interests brothers differed markedly. Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin is primarily known for its scenery. After graduation worked as a teacher and created a lot of landscapes. His views of cities or specific locations ("View of Reval from Kadriorg," 1864; "View Dinaburga", 1867; "The market in Nizhny Novgorod", 1867; "View of the Kremlin," 1868) brought him recognition, expressed in the assignment of titles artist of the second, and then the first degree, academic landscape painting (1873), and known among art lovers.
After retiring from teaching work the artist has traveled extensively and has written: Caucasian types (Sukhum-Kale), Crimea ("View of Sevastopol by Malakhov Hill"), the Urals ("Chusovaia River. Stone" Red ""), the North-West of Russia ("Pskov", "View of the embankment of the Neva River at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg on a summer evening").
During the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 is in the army and wrote a series of pictures without changing, however, his inclinations - mostly landscapes associated with the image of the Danube.
In landscape painting artists of academic direction sought above all to create an ideal and therefore beautiful images of nature and the city, although the imaging fidelity was for them not the last value. It was such an artist and PP Vereshchagin.

View of the Moscow Kremlin. 1879. Oil on canvas, cm 53h107

Stone wrote on the river Chusovaya. 1877. Oil on canvas, cm 72h150

Neva embankment. Oil on canvas

Market in Nizhny Novgorod. 1872. Oil on canvas. 90h140 see

Urals. Station Chusovaia [1870-1880]


Sukhum Calais

Mtskheta. Valley Chickens

Levens style. Ferdinand Kiss

Ferdinand Kiss

(Vienna 1800-1886 Pörtschach)

Frederick Childe Hassam

Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859, Dorchester, Massachusetts - August 27, 1935, Long Island, New York) - American Impressionist painter.
Already in his youth was an enthusiastic painter and watercolorist. In 1877, dropped out of school, the first time he worked woodcuts, making graphic illustrations for magazines such as The Century Magazine, Harper's Weekly and Scribner's Monthly. In 1878 he began attending evening classes at the Boston Art Club and the Lowell Institute. During this period he wrote his first landscapes in a naturalistic style, mostly views of Boston and its environs. In 1882 his first personal exhibition Gassama on which he first sold his paintings.

In the summer of 1883 for the first time to go to Europe, visited Italy, France, Holland, England and Spain; a great influence on him had a watercolor W. Turner. In 1884, after returning home, set in Boston, 67 made it to Europe watercolors. In the same year he married Kathleen Maude Doane (1862-1946).

In 1886, visited the exhibition of French impressionists and in the same year he went to Paris, where he lived for three years; studied at the Académie Julian. At this time, the source of his income is to illustrate the unreleased books in Boston, as well as paintings on American auctions. In 1887, first exhibited his paintings at the Paris Salon. He participated in the World Exhibition in 1889, which won the bronze medal. In the same year went to New York. In 1909, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art bought one of his paintings.

In 1897 joined the American Society of Artists, and together with John and Julian Weir Tvahtmanom created a group of American artists of the Ten (Ten (The Ten)). Becomes the leading representatives of American Impressionism. Great success enjoyed his cityscapes (Washington Square, Fifth Avenue, Gloucester, and others.). Made several trips to the US and Europe.
In 1919 he settled in East Gempton on Long Island in New York City, where he lived the rest of his life.

improvisation

Poppies. Island Shoal (1891)

Juan Fortuny (Spanje)

Naam Juan Fortuny (Juan Fortuny) is beroemd in zijn geboorteland Spanje en is alom bekend om liefhebbers van hedendaagse kunst in de wereld.
Sinds 1975, Juan Fortuny (Juan Fortuny) werkt in een uniek schilderij techniek, de zogenaamde lakken. Het stelt hem in staat om het effect van multi-layered brieven te bereiken maakt zijn schilderijen tot leven komen voor onze ogen. In 1995 werd de naam van de kunstenaar is opgenomen in de lijst van de meest beroemde Spaanse schilders van onze tijd, en het werk gepubliceerd in de officiële staatsgodsdienst directory Artistas.