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□Noli me Tangere(1514) ☆TITIAN (1490-1576)▪︎London's National Gallery has declared this masterpiece The picture of the month for October 2022, just as it was in 1942! when a long tradition began: https://t.co/hYT3h4aV8J▪︎🏛-LONDON

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2022-10-28


A painting today from a great contemporary watercolour and mixed media artist, this is 'Poppy Meadow' by Ann Blockley.
Her pictures are evocative, atmospheric and intuitive.

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2022-02-05


"The entrance to the Port of Marseille" (1754) by French painter Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789).
Today, Joseph Vernet is considered the greatest European port painter of the 18th century...
This large painting (2mx3m) is in the in Paris.

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2022-01-23


I can't do a feature on without mentioning John J. Audubon’s 'Birds of America'. Around 1820, Audubon declared his intention to paint every bird in North America.
This is 'Mocking Bird' (plate 21)

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2022-01-14


A Lincolnshire Stream (1882) by Joseph Crawhall (1861-1913), one of the boys, and another of my favourites. He painted many birds in his career. Technically this one is a landscape but it's the birds that bring the magic to the composition.

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2022-01-13


'Winter Landscape' (1811) by Caspar David Friedrich
Alongside other Romantic painters, Friedrich helped position painting as a major genre within Western art.

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2021-12-04


'A Canyon' 1878, oil on canvas by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) held at the Kremlin Armoury, Moscow, Russia.
I am more used to seeing his prints and it's interesting to see what a great in oil he was.

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2021-11-19


Claude Monet 1840–1926.
French Impressionist.
The Series, approximately 250 oil depict his at his home in Many of the works were painted while he suffered from cataracts which affected his perception of colour and form.

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2021-07-21

Tomorrow/Fri18June I’m honoured to be 1 of the guest experts on ⁩ talking re the most famous of the countryside ever painted. Considered a failure by loved by the &

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2021-06-17

We've go 3 originals in our house now, all of our own cows!

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2015-02-15