Untraced since 1960, the rediscovered work of Frederick Leighton, Sea Echoes from 1861, is a triumphant early example of his mastery of Aestheticism.
How much do you know about Romanticism?
What’s a better inlook inside the past world than the art? Today I want to take you back to the 19th-century Polish countryside (mostly the 2nd half of that century) and therefore I prepared …
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Unknown Artist, Daydreaming (Detail), 19th Century
What’s a better inlook inside the past world than the art? Today I want to take you back to the 19th-century Polish countryside (mostly the 2nd half of that century) and therefore I prepared …
Feel free to fan yourself with your powdered wig.
Pictures and details of 19th Century European, Victorian & British Impressionist Art at Bonhams London, New Bond Street, September 26, 2019
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) French academic painter. Oil on canvas During his life he was highly popularity in Euorpe and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work. By the early twentieth century, Bouguereau and his art fell out of favor with the public, due in part to changing tastes. In the 1980s, a revival of interest in figure painting led to a rediscovery of Bouguereau and the genius of his work.
From the Regency era to the end of the 1860s, there was no fashion accessory as versatile and ubiquitous as the shawl.
