
TWO SEATED ANGELS (AFTER 1583): 2xPrints
Text on the tag: From The Angel’s Concert, the image portrays two seated angles reading from a song book. By Cherubino Alberti (1553-1615).. Con...
View full detailsText on the tag: From The Angel’s Concert, the image portrays two seated angles reading from a song book. By Cherubino Alberti (1553-1615).. Con...
View full detailsText on the tag: Illustration by draughtsman Jean Bernard in 1815. There are over 500 million domestic cats in the world, and are one of, if not th...
View full detailsText on the tag: According to Google, the number of books published in all of modern history totals to around 13 million. With publishers constantl...
View full detailsText on the tag: Painted by Carl Spitzweg c.1850, the library is decorated in rococo style with a man standing at the top of a ladder. His love for...
View full detailsText on the tag: We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars. Mary Carolyn Davies, 20thC American Poet.. Conservation acid-free ...
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View full detailsText on the tag: By Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The artist placed a copy of ‘La joie de Vivre’ by Emile Zola, a novel he regarded as a bible for ...
View full detailsText on the tag: English social realist painter and illustrator, Frederick Walker (1840-1875) was born in London and exhibited regularly at the Roy...
View full detailsText on the tag: English painter, Frederick George Cotman (1850-1920), born in Ipswich, was a member of the Norwich School of painters although he ...
View full detailsText on the tag: French portrait painter, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) portrays Emma, also known as Lady Hamilton, performing the dance of B...
View full detailsText on the tag: Prominent Victorian female English painter, Louise Jopling (1843-1933), was born in Manchester, and later studied in Paris. In 190...
View full detailsText on the tag: English painter, William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), wrote in the Royal Academy Exhibition catalogue that “the scene was painted at S...
View full detailsText on the tag: British painter, Edward John Gregory (1850-1909), born in Southampton, studied at South Kensington Art School and briefly at the R...
View full detailsText on the tag: Painting by Scottish painter Joseph Farquharson (1846-1935). Famous for landscapes, especially those of winter scenes that often i...
View full detailsText on the tag: Painting by British painter Charles Burton Barber (1845–1894) who gained popularity from painting children and their pets. Several...
View full detailsText on the tag: British painter, Samuel Luke Fildes (1843-1927), was born in Liverpool and studied at South Kensington Art School and Royal Academ...
View full detailsText on the tag: The original painting, destroyed by fire in 1698, was painted by Hans Holbein the Younger. The king commissioned several copies to...
View full detailsText on the tag: Elizabeth I (1533-1603), the last Tudor monarch, ruled England and Ireland for over 40 years. Through bringing peace to the realm,...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro painted this from his balcony at No.1 Gloucester Terrace, with Kew Green in the foreground, Kew Road to the left, and Riv...
View full detailsText on the tag: The painting depicts the road connecting Valhermeil with Pontoise, a village northwest of Paris where the artist lived for many ye...
View full detailsText on the tag: The view here is of the daily life of Paris, looking down from the window of Grand Hotel de Russie. Pissarro’s works of Paris in t...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro moved back to the Pontoise area where he had lived previously, and remained there for ten years producing over three hund...
View full detailsText on the tag: One of Pissarro’s best known pointillist images, the view depicts his neighbour’s yard. It was a piece Pissarro took pride in, and...
View full detailsText on the tag: After moving to Eragny-sur-Epte, Pissarro’s works took on the subject of the French countryside of Normandy and the rhythm of the ...
View full detailsText on the tag: View of Pontoise, located northwest of Paris. The critic Émile Zola’s described Pissarro’s work of the rural French landscape: “Fr...
View full detailsText on the tag: Similar to several other great artists, Pissarro found refuge in London to escape the Franco-Prussian war and first visited in 187...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro moved back to the Pontoise area where he had lived previously, and remained there for ten years producing over three hund...
View full detailsText on the tag: Camille Pissarro worked mainly in the Paris area but painted in London during visits. Similar to several other great artists, he f...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro’s home in Normandy was in Eragny, where he lived from 1884 until his death. Painted during the last artistic phase, the p...
View full detailsText on the tag: Pissarro described the city of Paris as having a “silvery atmosphere”. He painted the cityscape of Paris from his window of an apa...
View full detailsText on the tag: Visiting Rouen in 1896, Pissarro wrote of the "motif of the iron bridge on a rainy day, with much traffic, carriages, pedestrians,...
View full detailsText on the tag: A landscape painted near his rural home, Pissarro uses pointillism but using slightly broader brushstrokes. His revelatory approac...
View full detailsText on the tag: St. Thomas, where the artist Camille Pissarro was born, is an island in the Southern Caribbean. Having been sent to a boarding sch...
View full detailsText on the tag: It is said that from not wanting to paint outdoors for his vulnerability to eye infections and his aversion to the busy outdoors d...
View full detailsText on the tag: Two children reading c.1919 by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, an Australian illustrator of children's books. The artist first published he...
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