Robert receiving the Sculpture prize from Andrew Festing President of the Royal Society of Portrait PaintersThis week the servicemen and women of Great Britain serving and retired have an exhibition of paintings and sculpture at the Mall Galleries in London near Admiralty Arch. I recommend a visit. See here for some more pictures taken at […]
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The Watts Gallery (G.F. Watts Pre Raf.)
Lord Tennyson Thank you Musee D’Orsay Thank you Art and Architecture I am so glad to hear that The Watts Gallery has been granted funds from the Lottery. I wish them luck in spending it wisely!!
Drawing techniques, Art and practice
Some books increase in value when second-hand, here is one. There are a myriad of books on drawing. A few are very good. This is one of them and the one I would probably choose if I was only allowed one on a desert island. Text by Karel Teissig and selection of pictorial material by […]
More Lady American Sculptresses 3
Today I add some more of Bessie Potter Vonnoh works, a portrait by her husband with her below. She had a tendancy to add little birds and buterflies. Both the Vonnohs were keen on wild life. Central park New York, The Secret Garden memorial for Burnett. Burnett’s story is well worth reading. Her best known […]
More Three Graces- Carpeaux
Here is another Terracotta by Jean Baptiste Carpeaux ‘The Three Graces’ 1874 which I have added to the three graces post however I still think the Daphnis et Chloe of 1875 is a better work. The three graces is big; 31 inches high (79cm). Does anyone have a picture of the other side? Thank you […]
Tempera Harry R Mileham
Swallows Tempera, when oil was ‘invented’ I have posted up a couple of images for you. The first, Vintage Harvest is from the 1995 100th anniversary exhibition brochure held at Leighton House in London. It was a sketch submitted for a competition for a decoration in a public building in 1894 whilst Harry R Mileham […]
Paul Philippe French Sculptor
This delightful work by Paul Philippe (1870-1930) would do justice to Michelangelo’s adage that one should be able to roll a marble down a hill without the limbs breaking off! 63cm high it is perhaps the best I have seen of his work to date. Thanks to again Sotheby’s
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
Is one allowed to fall in love with a girl who died 166 years ago aged 87? She was clearly a very colourful lady. She survived the French Revolution despite being very closely connected to the French Queen (25 portraits) and continued on to be a celebrated painter for the rest of her life. Her […]
Violence in the arts, Pierre Puget, Milo of Crotona
Violence in the arts is nothing new. The ‘Greek Athlete Attacked By A Lion’ contrasts vividly with Bernini’s Proserpine in dealing with pressure on the flesh which seems to have been quite popular at this time. Had there been added colour in the marble bright red blood would have been flowing freely down the Athlete. […]
Pierre Julien and Augustin Pajou seated figures
The ‘Psyche Abandoned’, ‘Adriadne Abandoned’ and ‘The Bacchante’, by Augustin Pajou (1730-1809) that The French Site has chosen today are of interest. All in very similar pose they show significant differences. The difference in size and the quality of photograph have to be taken into account. Lighting and foreshortening can destroy a carefully considered opinion. […]
