Tag Archives: Artist

Sir Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens’s highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.

Artist/Engraver  Edward Mitchell  after Antonio Van Dyck
Size 24 x 17 cms
Price £16.00

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Lucas Cranach 1472-1553 painter

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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Carl Joseph Begas 1794-1854

His family (originally “Begasse”) came from Belgium, in the region near Verviers and Liège. He was the third child of Franz Anton Begasse (1764–1842), a judge, and his wife, Susanne née Hoffstadt. In 1802, they moved to Cologne, where he received his first artistic training from the miniaturist, Franz Katz [de]. Later, he studied at the Lyceum in Bonn with Clemens August Philippart (1751–1825). In 1813, he went to Paris, where he became a student of Antoine-Jean Gros. While there, shortly after the Battle of Paris, his talent was noticed by King Friedrich Wilhelm III, who bought one of his works and became his patron. He remained in Paris until 1821. His first works dealt exclusively with Christian themes.
Artist: Weger
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Nicholas Poussin 1594-1665 painter

French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors
Artist: Geoffroy
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) 1483-1520 artist

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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Bernard Palissy 1510-1590 Potter

Bernard Palissy was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain
Artist: Durupt
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Anton Rafael Mengs 1728-1779 Artist

Anton Raphael Mengs was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, which replaced Rococo as the dominant painting style.
Artist: A.Schule
Date:1821
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 1606-1669 artist

Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Annibale Carracci, 1560,-1609, Italian painter

Italian painter who was influential in recovering the classicizing tradition of the High Renaissance from the affectations of Mannerism. He was the most talented of the three painters of the Carracci family.
Artist: D.Koch
Date:
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2464