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John Russell, self-portrait c. 1780 John Russell RA (29 March 1745 – 20 April 1806) was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels , and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques.
Sydney artist Thea Proctor, a cousin of Russell's, did much to promote his work in her later years. She died in 1966. [15] Her cousin was Emmie Russell who was an orthoptist and she gained a large collection of paintings by Proctor and her uncle John Russell. She had a large collection of art that she donated to Australian galleries. [16]
Vincent van Gogh is an 1886 oil on canvas portrait painting by Australian artist John Russell. It depicts Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, who befriended Russell after meeting him at Fernand Cormon's atelier in Paris, which they both attended. Painted in a realist and academic manner, the portrait shows hints of the impressionist techniques that ...
The pastel still life paintings and portraits of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin are much admired, as are the works of the Swiss-French artist Jean-Étienne Liotard. In 18th-century England the outstanding practitioner was John Russell. In Colonial America, John Singleton Copley used pastel occasionally for portraits.
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The painting is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, catalogued "d693V/1962". The brightly coloured Impressionist work, mainly of blues, oranges, and yellows, measures 57 cm × 46 cm (22 in × 18 in). It portrays Van Gogh in early 1887, during the time he was living with his brother, Theo, in the Montmartre district of Paris.
Jane de Courcy Russell (1779–1810) was an English pastellist. Born in London, Russell was the daughter of painter John Russell ; her siblings William , Anne , and Maria also became artists. She married Joshua Jowett (1776–1845), a “furnishing ironmonger & brazier”, in 1802, two years before he patented a fire-guard stove.
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. Art critic John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century [1] while Lucy Peltz says he was "the leading portrait artist of the 18th-century and arguably one of the greatest artists in the history of art."