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Most fancy pictures depict children or young women, life-size or somewhat smaller, but some are landscapes with figures. [1] The people depicted are more "democratic" than the upper-class subjects of portraits, [2] and are characteristically portrayed with what has been termed "a sort of contrived innocence", [1] sometimes eroticised. [1] [2]
Most of the 18th-century portraits occupy a placid middle ground between the styles of the two dominant male artists of the time, Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, typified by Katherine ...
Portrait of Ferdinand VI as a Boy; Portrait of Frederick Muhlenberg; Portrait of George II; Portrait of Horatio Gates; Portrait of James Stanhope; Portrait of Maria Luisa of Parma; Portrait of Mathilde de Canisy, Marquise d'Antin; Portrait of Mrs. Theodore Atkinson Jr. Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan; Portrait of the Marquise de la Solana ...
He took refuge in a family home at Rigny near Gray occupied by the postmaster Georges Anthony, his wife Louise (née Demandre) and their children. As a thank-you for their hospitality, Prud'hon painted this work and a portrait of Georges beside a horse (now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon), both completed in 1796, the year he left their home.
Catherine Read (or Katherine; 3 February 1723 - 15 December 1778) was a Scottish artist. Born in the early 18th century, she is most known for her work as a portrait-painter.
Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ər ə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, [1] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [2]
The 18th-century marked the "emergence of a recognisably modern celebrity culture" [4] and Siddons was at the heart of it. Portraits depicted actresses in aristocratic dress, the recently industrialised newspapers spread actresses' names and images and gossip about their private lives spread through the public.
18th century MuMa Museum of modern art André Malraux: Helmingham Dell. Vallon dans le parc de Helmingham: 1800s Department of Paintings of the Louvre: Vue de Salisbury: 1800s Department of Paintings of the Louvre: The White Horse: 1819 The Frick Collection: Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden: 1800s Metropolitan Museum of Art