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William Etty, 1823, shortly before The Combat was painted. William Etty was born in 1787, the son of a York baker and miller. [1] He began as an apprentice printer in Hull. [2] On completing his seven-year apprenticeship he moved at the age of 18 to London "with a few pieces of chalk crayons", [3] with the intention of becoming a history painter in the tradition of the Old Masters. [4]
Agnolo Bronzino's painting Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune (c. 1530) and Michelangelo’s statue David (1501–1504) were Renaissance examples. The convention is occasionally also described in the modern era, such as Antonio Canova 's statue of Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (1802–1806) or George Bellows ' anti-lynching lithograph The ...
Charles Edward Stuart was the remaining member of the House of Stuart, the line of descendants of James II, in 1745, when he headed the Second Jacobite Rebellion.. The Jacobite risings were a series of rebellions affecting all of the British Isles except for Wales and that occurred between 1688 and 1746, four years before the painting of March of the Guards to Finchley.
The 1917 Bath Riots occurred in January 1917 at the Santa Fe Street Bridge between El Paso, Texas, United States, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.The riots are known to have been started by Carmelita Torres [1] and lasted from January 28 to January 30 and were sparked by new immigration policies at the El Paso–Juárez Immigration and Naturalization Service office, requiring Mexicans ...
German official war artists were commissioned by the military to create artwork in the context of a specific war. [1]Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield; [2] but there are many other types of artists depicting the subject or events of war.
Fight with Cudgels (Spanish: Riña a garrotazos or Duelo a garrotazos), called The Strangers or Cowherds in the inventories, [2] is the name given to a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Goya did not give names to his Black Paintings. These names are courtesy of art historians. [3]
This painting by Pablo Picasso is in the public domain in the United States because it was first published before 1923: Maurice Raynal, Picasso, 2., verm. Aufl. Aus dem französischen Manuskript übers. von Ludwig Gorm. Published 1921 by Delphin-Verlag in München.
The Valpinçon Bather (Fr: La Grande Baigneuse) is an 1808 painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), held in the Louvre since 1879. Painted while the artist was studying at the French Academy in Rome , it was originally titled Seated Woman but later became known after one of its nineteenth-century ...