Martin Oldhamさんのイラストまとめ

A couple of Thomas Lawrence's more unusual sitters: Mirza Abu’l Hassan ambassador of the Shah of Persia (Harvard College) and Pope Pius VII (Royal Collection) 4/5

Born OTD, Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). His best female portraits have a seductive dazzle: bravura brushwork, glistening lips and sparkling eyes. Countess of Blessington, Elizabeth Farren, Mary Hamilton (pencil & chalk, British Museum), Lady Caroline Lamb (Bristol Museums) 3/5

Paintings for Holy Week: two of the body of the dead Christ. Andrea Mantegna, c.1480. Hans Holbein the Younger, 1520-22. And a modern take on the same subject, Ron Mueck, Dead Dad, mixed media 1996-7.

Paintings for Holy Week: but on Good Friday, not paintings, but two masterly etchings by Rembrandt, who had talent for drawing a crowd. Christ Presented to the People (1655), a tawdry scene of mob justice. Christ Crucified: The Three Crosses (1653), drama told in darkness & light

Paintings for Holy Week. "Jesus went into the Temple, drove out all who were buying and selling in the sacred buildings..."
Three different treatments by Quentin Matsys, 1500-1530 (Antwerp), El Greco c.1600 (National Gallery, London), and Jacob Jordaens, 1650 (Louvre).

Today’s outdoor exercise, a visit to the Italian Gardens in Hyde Park. There sits a statue to Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who pioneered vaccination against smallpox, which at the time killed c.10% of people in Britain. The statue is by Scottish sculptor William Calder Marshall. 1/3

Monstrosities of 1818:

Cruikshank made a series of annual "Monstrosities" prints, each set in Hyde Park and satirising that year's metropolitan fashions. This is the 1816 print:

George bought art and bought well, some fine paintings by Rembrandt (Portrait of Jan Rijcksen and Griet Jans, “The Shipbuilder and his Wife”), Rubens and other Old Masters. He also bought British art, this Gainsborough (Diana and Actaeon) and an excellent James Ward, for example.

I saw the Titian exhibition at the National Gallery today, ahead of the shutdown of galleries and museums. Small show, just 7 pictures, but each one a stunner. Here’s a few Titian dogs. Woof!