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Born into a German family who emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts, Albert Bierstadt was one of the most prominent members of the Hudson River School.
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Evening on the Prairie
ca. 1870 Albert Bierstadt 🏛 @museothyssen
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Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1787 A still life of mackerel, glassware, a loaf of bread and lemons on a table with a white cloth
'When I saw Francesca in a performance I thought she had the combination of softness and strength that make for an interesting model and painting.’
🏛 @NPGLondon Francesca Hayward, Principcal Dancer at the Royal Ballet
by Vanessa Garwood
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Claude Monet himself said, "There is only one master here: Corot." 🏛 @MFAH Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld by Camille Corot 1861 📖📲 https://t.co/bLFZbqB3PA
Born in Paris, Julie Manet was the daughter and only child of artist Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, younger brother of painter Édouard Manet.
Julie Manet and her Greyhound, Laerte by Berthe Morisot 1893 @Musée Marmottan Monet
Portrait of a lady sitting on a sofa by Jan Rudnicki Polish artist who worked mainly in the Art Deco style.
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Bruegel is famous for his paintings of scenery and nature. Most of his paintings of the countryside tell a story or have a moral message. 🏛 @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna a detail The Gloomy Day by Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1565 https://t.co/UENzlyvoQ0
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The sky, the ships crashing against the shoreline. 🏛 @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna a detail The Gloomy Day by Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1565 https://t.co/UFOpbkiTod
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The bleak atmosphere and leafless trees.
🏛 @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna a detail The Gloomy Day by Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1565 https://t.co/YXJ4Gwx1K3
The castle of Muiden, seen here from the north-east, is about seven miles east of Amsterdam at the entry of the Vecht river into the Zuider Zee. Jan Beerstraaten 1658 @NationalGallery