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John Russell, self-portrait c. 1780 John Russell RA (29 March 1745 – 20 April 1806) was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels , and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques.
Pages in category "English pastel artists" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... John Russell (English painter) Anne Russell (artist)
John Peter Russell (16 June 1858 – 30 April 1930) was an Australian impressionist painter. Born and raised in Sydney , Russell moved to Europe in his late teenage years to attend art school. There, he befriended fellow pupil Vincent van Gogh and, in 1886, painted the first oil portrait of the artist, now held at the Van Gogh Museum .
Leon Dabo, Flowers in a Green Vase, c. 1910s, pastel. A pastel (US: / p æ ˈ s t ɛ l /) is an art medium that consist of powdered pigment and a binder.It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms.
Anne Russell (1781–1857) was an English pastellist. Russell was born in London, and was the daughter of painter John Russell . She produced copies of her father's pastels as well as those of Rosalba Carriera , and was said to assist her father not only in his painting but also in making his pastels.
Painted in a realist and academic manner, the portrait shows hints of the impressionist techniques that Russell and Van Gogh began experimenting with in the latter half of the 1880s. It is the earliest of three portraits painted of Van Gogh from life by his contemporaries, the other two being Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 's Portrait of Vincent van ...
Francis Cotes R.A. Portrait of Maria Walpole, Countess Waldegrave, Later H.R.H. Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736-1807), 1765, oil on canvas He was born in London, the eldest son of Robert Cotes, an apothecary (Francis's younger brother Samuel Cotes (1734–1818) also became an artist, specialising in miniatures).
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