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The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
[2] During that time he completed numerous drawings and watercolors and nearly 200 oil paintings. [1] In November 1884, van Gogh taught some friends from Eindhoven, a large town near Nuenen, to paint inanimate objects in oil. Van Gogh, in his enthusiasm, created a series of still life paintings of bottles, bowls and pots and other objects. [3]
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 – August 22, 1927) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered one of the most prolific American bird artists, second only to his guiding professional predecessor John James Audubon.
List of drawings by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete collection of drawings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) that form an important part of his complete body of work. The listing is ordered by year and then by catalogue number. While more accurate dating of Van Gogh's work is often difficult.
At the end of the 17th century, the first manuals for amateur painters appeared: in 1679, Claude Boutet published École de la mignature : Dans laquelle on peut facilement apprendre à peindre sans maître [38] (Miniature art school: where you can easily learn to paint without a master'.). Chapters 88 and following are dedicated to the painting ...
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
The drawing is related to the painting W213 : Head of an Oriental in a Turban: c. 1636?? Private collection: The drawing is related to the painting W213 : Old Man in a Turban: c. 1636: Pen and iron-gall ink on paper tinted with a pale yellow wash: 17.3 x 13.5 cm: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne: The drawing is related to the painting W213
The assertion that the drawing is of Bosch's hand is used by Lynda Harris to support her theory that Bosch was a practitioner of the Cathar religion. The "Death and the Usurer" drawing is paired with a similar "Ship of Fools Drawing" which has also been erroneously attributed to Bosch. Group of Male Figures Type: Pen. Size: 124 x 126 mm