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Linnell was famed for his landscapes which celebrate the English countryside. Often they contain religious allusions. By 1850 he was doing well enough to buy a house. The Storm (1853), Estuary with Setting Sun (1856) & The Sandpits (1856)
In 1805 he attended the Royal Academy Schools & excelled. In 1808 he moved in with Mulready. Richard Trevithick (1816), John Varley (1820) & William Mulready (1833)
She was in Naples by 1630. There she worked in a Cathedral for the first time; San Gennaro. Salome with the Head of John Baptist (nd). It’s likely she excised her demons through her work & also that collectors liked the work in that it referred to her then famous trial.
In Florence the painter was her own woman, she had a child with her husband as well as an affair which her husband accepted. However she fell out with the latter over spending her money & she moved to Rome in 1621. Allegory of Painting (nd), Bathsheba (1650) & Adoration (1636)
Artemisia painted for both Charles I of England & the Medici. Her reputation as a painter was of the highest order & her support by the rulers of Florence indicated her importance in Italy. Lot & His Daughters (1635) & The Birth of St John the Baptist (1635)
The Gentileschis won the trial, but with the reputation of the daughter besmirched in public eyes. Artemisia’s father quickly married her off to a minor artist from Florence - to which the pair moved. Judith (1623), Aurora (1625-7) & Venus & Cupid (c1625-7)
Artemisia was born in Rome & her father was the great painter Orazio. He originally hailed from Tuscany & was a disciple of Caravaggio’s. Artemisia would also have the same style, having been taught by her father. Madonna (1609)
St Sebastian (1610-14), View & Plan of Toledo (1610) & Picasso’s (c1899) painting inspired by El Greco (1590s). That El Greco was a giant is demonstrated by Picasso’s fascination with him. Do search him out!