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Mrs. Pawling is credited with a small number of crayon, pastel portraits at the end of the 17th century. Her work has been compared to that of Henrietta Johnston. [1] Three examples of Mrs. Pawling's work can be found at Belton House; a portrait of Sir Pury Cust (1655-1698/9), a portrait of Lady Alice Savile Cust (1666/7-1712), and a portrait of Savile Cockayne Cust (1698–1772) as a child. [2]
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 for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Arts Club in New York City, Vose Galleries in Boston, MA, the International Association of Pastel Societies Convention in Albuquerque ...
Ellen Wallace Sharples (4 March 1769 – 14 March 1849) was an English painter specialized in portraits in pastel and in watercolor miniatures on ivory. [1] She exhibited five miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1807, and founded the Bristol Fine Arts Academy in 1844 with a substantial gift.
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.
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.
Henrietta Door, 1814, Princeton University Art Museum, an example of Phillips's earlier work. Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, on April 24, 1788, to Samuel Phillips (1760–1842), a farmer by trade and veteran of the Revolutionary war, and Millea Phillips (1763–1861), as one of eleven children, beginning a life that spanned the period from George Washington's presidency to the ...
Pastel portraiture became popular in France with the arrival of Rosalba Carriera from Venice, an artist of the Italian Rococo who was in great demand in Paris for her portraits in 1720 and 1721. Navarre followed in her footsteps, and as she gained prominence, "her pastel portraits were appreciated for their skill, realism, and warmth." [3]
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]