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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]
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. B. ... Pages in category "18th-century portraits"
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 ...
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.
A typical signature is the inscription on the reverse of her portrait of Philip Perceval: Henrietta Dering Fecit / Dublin Anno 1704. [1] Johnston was almost exclusively a portraitist; the only landscapes attributed to her hand are the backgrounds of a pair of children's portraits from New York, which are also her only known portraits of ...
Mary Cassatt was an American portrait painter who specialized in portraits of women and children, 1878. Marie Bashkirtseff self-portrait , 1880 was a Russian born artist who died at twenty-five. A large number of Bashkirtseff's works were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.
Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons is an oil on canvas group portrait by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, from 1796. It is held in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon , which acquired it in 1892. Two years earlier the artist had fled Paris to escape the Thermidorian Reaction , following Robespierre's fall.
Marie-Denise Lemoine was born in Paris to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rouselle. Two of her three sisters, Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754–1820) and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou (1755–1812), as well as distant cousin Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (1767–1832), were all trained as portraitists.