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By 1774, he was working in New Haven, Connecticut, as a portrait painter. In the autumn of 1774, Earl returned to Leicester, Massachusetts, to marry his cousin, Sarah Gates. A few months later, their daughter Phebe was born in January 1775. Earl left them both with Sarah's parents and returned to New Haven to continue painting portraits.
Portrait of Maurice, Prince of Orange; Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici; Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child; The Melancholic Man; Portrait of a Man (Hans Memling) The Merry Drinker; Mirth & Girth; Portrait of Juan Martínez Montañés; Mr and Mrs Andrews; Mr and Mrs William Hallett; Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes; Portrait of a ...
Rococo artists, who were particularly interested in rich and intricate ornamentation, were masters of the refined portrait. Their attention to the details of dress and texture increased the efficacy of portraits as testaments to worldly wealth, as evidenced by François Boucher's famous portraits of Madame de Pompadour attired in billowing silk ...
A Mannerist tended to show close relationships between human and nature. [12] Arcimboldo also tried to show his appreciation of nature through his portraits. In The Spring, the human portrait was composed of only various spring flowers and plants. From the hat to the neck, every part of the portrait, even the lips and nose, was composed of ...
Eastman Johnson's career as an artist began when his father apprenticed him in 1840 to a Boston lithographer. After his father's political patron, the Governor of Maine John Fairfield, entered the US Senate, the senior Johnson was appointed by US President James Polk in the late 1840s as Chief Clerk in the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair of the Navy Department.
Image credits: Roberto Serra - Iguana Press / Getty Images #3 Rembrandt (July 15, 1606 — October 4, 1669) Rembrandt is regarded among the greatest portrait painters and printmakers of all time.
The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace in Saunderstown, Rhode Island Portrait of William Hunter's spaniels. Stuart was born on December 3, 1755, in Saunderstown, a village of North Kingstown in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and he was baptized at Old Narragansett Church on April 11, 1756.
Though he was a German-born artist who spent much of his time in England, Holbein here displays the influence of Early Netherlandish painting.He used oils which for panel paintings had been developed a century before in Early Netherlandish painting, and just as Jan van Eyck and the Master of Flémalle used extensive imagery to link their subjects to religious concepts, Holbein used symbolic ...