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The Artist's Garden at Giverny (French: Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny) is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900, now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of his life.
Water Lilies (French: Nymphéas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during
John Constable RA (/ ˈ k ʌ n s t ə b əl, ˈ k ɒ n-/; [1] 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting [2] with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of ...
Abbott Fuller Graves (1859–1936) was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in decorative open air garden paintings and floral still-lifes.His use of thick brushstrokes, bright colors, and natural light shows the influence of European impressionism.
Gertrude Jekyll VMH (/ ˈ dʒ iː k əl / JEE-kəl; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. [1] She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1000 articles [ 1 ] for magazines such as Country Life and ...
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]
Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860–1911) English garden writer, The Heart of a Garden; Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist and landscape architect; Thomas Whately (1726–1822), English landscape gardening writer; Albert Wilson (1903–1996), American botanist, landscape architect, author and broadcaster; Andrew Wilson (living ...
She was one of the select group of 'garden painters' that included George Samuel Elgood and Helen Allingham [1] whose primary subject was the English garden. A prolific artist, whose work became widely known through reproductions, first showed at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1898 and exhibited twenty-eight watercolours of garden ...