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Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British and European art.
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'Coastguards.' (c1915) Christian Krogh's powerful and straightforward style made him one of the leading figures in the transition from Romanticism to Naturalism in Norwegian art; a regular mentor to younger artists he influenced and provided support to Edvard Munch.

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Good to see many more artists joining the National Portrait Gallery and Art Fund’s campaign to save Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai 1776 for the nation. Almost half of the £50m needed to buy the work has been raised. To help, visit https://t.co/px1VtoJxbm

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Of all the children who sat for Joan Eardley, Andrew Sampson was her favourite. In this painting, he appears to be reading a comic, eating a biscuit and drinking a mug of milk. He would have sat for this painting in her studio with Eardley laying in his image on the canvas.

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'Mimosa Wood,' (1926) was painted by Paul Nash while he and his wife, the writer Margaret Odeh, were staying at Pension de la Plage in Cros de Cagnes, France. The wood, full of fragrant mimosa flowers, could be seen from their bedroom window.

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In this, his greatest surviving landscape (c1599) El Greco portrays Toledo where he lived and worked for most of his life. The view of the eastern section of Toledo from the north would have excluded the cathedral, so El Greco moved to the left of the Alcázar (the royal palace)

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Lawyers were Honoré Daumier's chief bêtes noires, and provided the subject matter for the paintings most commonly associated with him in the public imagination. Growing up, Daumier saw his father pursued by creditors, and later, he himself was imprisoned. This is from 1878.

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'Rincon de la Boca.' (1963) Argentina's most famous artist, Benito Quinquela Martín rarely strayed from the docks in La Boca, the port district of Buenos Aires. Abandoned at birth and adopted by a dockworker, he was drawing with bits of charcoal before he could read or write.

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Picasso's portrait of his daughter Maya is from 1943. 'I had just turned eight; my mother had ordered a dress from Dior, in brown velvet with a lace collar from Caen.'

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Peter Ilsted's work (1908) is similar in style to the work of his brother in law Vilhelm Hammershøi. Together with Carl Holsøe, they were famous for their interiors and were leading members of the 'Free Exhibition,' a Danish progressive art society at the end of the 19thC.

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The depiction of the daily life of women was a major subject matter for Léon de Smet, one the great Belgian artists of the 20thC. Here he portrays his second wife Claire reading a book with the viewer occupying the role of voyeur.

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