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Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism.
Dupont took over Gainsborough's studio in Schomberg House in 1788, and moved to Bloomsbury in 1793, following the death of Gainsborough's widow. [2] He painted portraits and landscapes in a style of similar to that of his uncle, and also landscapes with architectural ruins, in which he imitated Nicolas Poussin .
Charleston Farmhouse, near Lewes, East Sussex. Charleston, in East Sussex, is a property associated with the Bloomsbury group, that is open to the public.It was the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and is an example of their decorative style within a domestic context, representing the fruition of more than sixty years of artistic creativity. [1]
46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London.The economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) lived here from 1916.. The Bloomsbury Group was a group of associated British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. [1]
Though the Louvre Museum had turned down the opportunity to purchase it for €100 million, [8] the painting was estimated to sell for $110 to $170 million. [9] The actual purchase price was not disclosed, because of a confidentiality agreement attached to the private sale. [7] Another example is a 2019 sale of The Seated Zouave by Vincent van ...
Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon; War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet; Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings) We Are Making a New World; The Weeders (Jules Breton) The Wheat Field; Wheat Fields; World War II Victory Medal
Emil Torday collected in Central Africa, Aurel Stein in Central Asia, D. G. Hogarth, Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence excavated at Carchemish. Around this time, the American collector and philanthropist J. Pierpont Morgan donated a substantial number of objects to the museum, [ 37 ] including William Greenwell 's collection of prehistoric ...
Surviving Roman paintings include wall paintings and frescoes, many from villas in Campania, in Southern Italy at sites such as Pompeii and Herculaneum. Such painting can be grouped into four main "styles" or periods [42] and may contain the first examples of trompe-l'œil, pseudo-perspective, and pure landscape. [43]