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Alain J. Picard (born April 30, 1974) is an American figurative, landscape, and portrait pastel painter, art instructor, and writer.He resides in Southbury, Connecticut. [1] [2] He has lectured and demonstrated at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Arts Club in New York City, Vose Galleries in Boston, Massachusetts, the International Association of Pastel Societies Convention in ...
Portrait of his daughter Emma Jane, 1815. Hodges was a pupil of John Raphael Smith and had visited Amsterdam in 1788; after a two-year stay in Dublin, he moved with his family to The Hague in 1792. [1] In 1797, he and his family moved to Amsterdam, where he lived with his teacher Johann Friedrich August Tischbein at the Prinsengracht N° 205.
30 in x 25 in (76.2 cm x 63.5 cm) Subject: Elizabeth Tyson Russell (as child). Study for Portrait of My Daughters: pastel on paper: 1907: 19.1 in x 15.1 in (48.5 cm x 38.4 cm) SIRIS Collection Number 20110007 [3] Portrait of My Daughters: oil on canvas: 1907: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
The couple would have thirteen children, only five of whom, two sons and three daughters, were still alive at the time of her death. [2] Their daughter married the painter Antoine Boizot. Marie–Marguerite Oudry produced engravings after her husband's paintings; she also produced portraits in pastel of him and of one of their sons. [1]
One of Gegoux's finest portraits is a "The Portrait of Two Sisters" 1908, which is a portrait of Agnes Louis Flanders (1905–1979) and Helen Mary Flanders (1903–1994) commissioned by their grandfather and executed in oil on canvas. [19] One of Gegoux's finest pastel works is the "Keewaydin Mansion in Moonlight" c. 1895.
By the late 1760s, his portraiture of the royal family had ceased. De La Tour was popularly perceived as endowing his portrait subjects with a distinctive charm and intelligence, while his delicate but sure touch with the pastel medium rendered a pleasing softness to their features. [citation needed]
The family traveled throughout New England region as itinerant portrait painters, looking for work and making inexpensive copies from the originals portraits they had made of popular and well-known figures, such as George Washington and James Madison. The Sharples family built both a reputation for accurate portraits and a modest fortune.
Proudhon and His Children is an oil-on-canvas group portrait by the French painter Gustave Courbet, created in 1865, now held in the Petit Palais in Paris. The main figure is a posthumously produced image of French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , who appears with his two children reading and playing.