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John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. [1] During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.
Bannister received his first oil painting commission, The Ship Outward Bound, in 1854 from an African American doctor, John V. DeGrasse. [4] Jacob R. Andrews, a gilder, painter, and member of the Histrionic Club, created the commission's gilt frame. [12]: 60,67 DeGrasse later commissioned Bannister to paint portraits of him and his wife.
The painting was completed and exhibited at the Royal Exhibition in 1819, where it was well received. Constable was voted an Associate of the Royal Academy on the strength of it. [ 5 ] The painting was purchased for 100 guineas by Constables friend John Fisher , the Bishop of Salisbury, [ 6 ] who would later commission his painting Salisbury ...
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The Cornfield is an oil painting by the English artist John Constable, completed from January to March 1826 in the artist’s studio. The painting shows a lane leading from East Bergholt toward Dedham, Essex, and depicts a young shepherd boy drinking from a pool in the heat of summer. The location is along Fen Lane, which the artist knew well.
Charles Burton Barber (1845–1894) was a British painter who attained great success with his paintings of children and their pets.. Barber was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and studied from the age of 18 at the Royal Academy, London - receiving a silver medal for drawing in 1864, and first exhibiting there in 1866.