# onthisday art beautifulbizarre womenartists otd 18thcentury onthisday1503 mannerist painter painted journorequest prrequest journalrequest journalmatters mardibiographie

Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, the most celebrated and accomplished pastel portraitist of the age of the Enlightenment, died 1788. His Self-portrait with Lace Jabot (1750) was exhibited at the 1751 Salon, and it is now held at .

0 2
2021-02-17

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (1871–1950) was a French painter, draftsman and illustrator. Painter of flowers, still-lifes, scenes of alcoves and landscapes, Guirand de Scévola also had a brilliant career as a portraitist.

58 249
2021-02-12

Flûte, je n’ai pas fini mon book... hum . Bonjour , Lucie 32 ans , illustratrice/portraitiste. J’aime les longues balades sur la plages et passer des heures à dessiner des petits détails nuls.
Vous pouvez me joindre au 01 45... https://t.co/ASbDLaKCdi

0 2
2021-01-27

Behold Thierry Bruet's ( on Instagram) whimsical nod to King Louis XIV's official portraitist, Hyacinthe Rigaud (otherwise known as Hyacinthe François Honoré Mathias Pierre André Jean Rigau y Ros!).

🎨: "Art Capillaire", Oil/acrylic (2020).
...

11 31
2021-01-26

crazy how i invented self portraits and no one else has before me i am the first self portraitist that’s crazy

12 46
2021-01-21

Ethel Ashton was an American artist who was both a subject of Alice Neel and a portraitist of Neel.Her early works reflect the influence of Ashcan realism. She worked on the WPA's mural project and has works in the collections of many museums.

(self port left)

6 17
2021-01-16

Hi! I’m a portraitist! I mainly post on Insta:@/tibby_tibs, but I’m trying to branch out more on Twitter! Congrats on the 10k MJ!

14 216
2021-01-12

in 1941, Sir John Lavery passed away. Lavery always wanted to be a portrait painter although his earliest successes were with landscapes, picking up prizes at the Paris Salon. When Queen Victoria sat for him, however, his success as a fashionable portraitist was assured.

8 62
2021-01-10

Tom Philips built up quite a reputation for himself as a portraitist a few years ago with portraits of sitters which feel physically constrained in their frames. This is his pleasingly cool-to-the-point of glacial likeness of the novelist Iris Murdoch.

8 63
2021-01-06

Jean-Marc Nattier, an acclaimed 18th-century portraitist, was known for his mythological style, painting women in imagined costume that was only loosely based on fashionable trends, as is true in his 1750/60 Portrait of a Woman. Read more!

https://t.co/vpqnMP3wb2

2 17
2020-12-22

8 décembre naissent ...
1851 Émile Schuffenecker († 1934), peintre post-impressionniste, "aurait" peint de faux Van Gogh et Cézanne ? (1&2)
1869 Georges Delfosse († 1939), peintre, portraitiste et muraliste (églises) canadien. Oeuvre estimée à 3000 tableaux ! (3&4)

0 1
2020-12-09

Born Bronzino Florentine and court to Cosimo I de’ Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany Bronzino was predominantly a but also elegant stylish religious & allegorical subjects inc. his renowned Venus Cupid Folly & Time (c. 1544–45)

0 0
2020-11-17

From 1929 until 1941, Bull was exclusively “the man who shot Garbo.” The one exception was in 1930 when MGM execs wanted new portraitist hire George Hurrell to take her photos for Romance. She hated the experience and called Hurrell “that crazy man.” More Garbo by Bull, 1936:

0 11
2020-11-09

English portraitist William Dobson died in 1646.

🎨Self portrait
🎨The Executioner with the Head of John the Baptist

1 1
2020-10-28

Thomas Hudson(1701-1779)English portrait painter. Most prolific between 1740 & 1760 &, from 1745 until 1755 was the most successful London portraitist. Works may be seen in art galleries throughout the United Kingdom.

1 6
2020-10-25

Pet-dog portraitist looking forward to guest-'paint' (post) for journalists....Anyone here interested?

0 1
2020-10-06

Pet-dog portraitist looking forward to guest-'paint' (post) for journalists....Anyone here interested?

0 1
2020-10-06

Like Gainsborough, Sargent was a superb portraitist & indeed like the English painter he was not keen on painting heads. Gainsborough liked painting kids & beautiful women & Sargent was of the same mind. Sargent was so sought after that he chose who to paint, however!

1 5
2020-09-26

Hi, I’m Illustranimations!
Art is my oxygen. I’m French dessinatrice, youth Illustrator, watercolorist, portraitist & more. I believe in the Fairy & in PeterPan. I love witches, fantasy worlds & many more🔮

🌸 https://t.co/VGu5nMZ2Qo
💌 For any order contact me
🛍 & 📚 Link Bio

1 19
2020-09-21

Élève de Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀-𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗻 fut le protégé du duc de Luynes avant de devenir portraitiste de la famille royale (1783-1789) et de son entourage.

📚➡️https://t.co/qUFEsPWydi

26 68
2020-09-08