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Like Auerbach and Kossoff, Joan Eardley made expressive, luminous figurative paintings. She worked exclusively from life on a few motifs she cared passionately about and dug deep into her subjects to bring a whole world into existence through paint, that transforming substance.
This pastel 'La Coiffure,' (c1892) is a study for the oil painting of the same title, once owned by Henri Matisse. The subject of the coiffure, where a solitary woman combs her hair or has it brushed by a maid inspired some of the finest pictorial inventions of Degas's last years
'Moonlit Landscape.' (1835) Johan Christian Dahl was one of the leading painters of the German Romantic era and was Norway’s answer to Turner. Created decades before Edvard Munch came along, this picture established the deep north as a new territory for art.
'And Did Those Feet...' (1978) Harold Hitchcock's work falls recognisably into the English romantic tradition of William Blake and Samuel Palmer and in some of his pastorals, Palmer's manner appears almost untouched.
In his watercolour 'The Laundress,' (1883-84) van Gogh depicts a woman bending to her do her work in early winter. It is an image he repeated in his later paintings where he explored themes inspired by Millet, often using earlier drawings and watercolours as source material.
After a nearby bomb blast damaged his London studio in 1941 Henry Moore moved to Hertfordshire. He used his petrol allowance as an official war artist, driving weekly to London; a special permit enabled him to stay in any tube station, later drawing the sleepers from memory.
'The House with Closed Shutters.' (1926) Primarily a painter, Sydney Lee was widely acclaimed as a printmaker for his landscapes, town scenes and historic buildings, executed in a remarkable variety of media. There was a long overdue reappraisal of his work @royalacademy in 2013
The correct answer to today's quiz is that it is a picture done in the style of van Dyke by Eric Hebborn. It was bought by the British Museum in 1970 as a study for the painting now at @museodelprado and was denounced as a fake in 1978. Congrats to @idriches
Although earlier realism was in vogue on both sides of the Atlantic, Winslow Homer's 'On a Lee Shore,' (1900) is painted with an earthy sense of honesty when depicting a time and place, a style exemplified by such painters as Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet and Honoré Daumier.
'Green Park, London,' (1957) Howard Veal was a great exponent of Australian Tonalism. It involves no under drawing and is based on the rapid and direct recording of tonal impressions of light and dark to create an exact illusion of nature.