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While Delacroix was widely noted for his figure-centric romanticist paintings, he produced a number of expressive landscape works during his later years. [1] Among these works is Sunset, done by Delacroix circa 1850.
The large oil on canvas painted by Robert Farren circa 1850 based on earlier versions by De la Beche and Scharf. The Swiss professor of geology Francois Jules Pictet de la Rive had a small version of Duria Antiquior redrawn for inclusion in the last volume of his Elementary Treatise on Paleontology (1844–1846). It was an accurate copy of the ...
Oil field in California, 1938. The modern history of petroleum began in the nineteenth century with the refining of paraffin from crude oil. The Scottish chemist James Young in 1847 noticed a natural petroleum seepage in the Riddings colliery at Alfreton, Derbyshire from which he distilled a light thin oil suitable for use as lamp oil, at the same time obtaining a thicker oil suitable for ...
Pál Fried (1893–1976), oil painter, dancers, nudes, and portraits Wanda Gág (1893–1946), printmaker, illustrator George Albert Gale (1893–1951), nautical themed artist
The List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...
Oil on canvas, 1850–52. Museum of London, London. [1] Artillery Arms, 102 Bunhill Row, where Tiny the Wonder fought in the rat pits underneath. Tiny the Wonder was an English Toy Terrier (Black & Tan) famous in the City of London in the mid-19th century for being able to kill 200 rats in an hour in the city's rat-baiting pits.
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William Henry Powell (February 14, 1823 – October 6, 1879), was an American artist who was born and died in New York City.. Powell is known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the Ohio state capitol building and the other, in the United States Capitol.