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Paul Sandby (1725-1809) is commonly called “the father of British watercolor.” While other artists favored foreign scenes, Sandby stuck close to home and thus won fame as the first artist ...
Fred Taylor (Frederick Charles Taylor) was a British artist born in 1875 in London, England. Known for his watercolor landscapes and marine scenes, Taylor studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He ...
When one thinks of landscape watercolors, it is hard not picture pastoral scenes of England’s green and pleasant land, to quote William Blake. But in the history of art, British landscape ...
The watercolor artists eventually broke out into their ... The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th Century British Landscapes and Beyond. Bold named artists whose works are represented here ...
As Museum of Fine Arts, Houston celebrated the 100th anniversary of its inaugural building last fall, MFAH director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair Gary Tinterow acknowledged that women were ...
It had previously been falsely attributed to the Victorian art critic and artist John ... it immediately piqued the interest of British drawings and watercolors specialist Rosie Jarvie.
“The [submitted] image was poor, and the painting was behind old glass, which had a greenish tint,” Jarvie, the auction house’s specialist in British drawings and watercolors, tells the Art ...
A rare painting by Emily Brontë, the British author best known for her ... recently placed the winning bid on the watercolor painting known as The North Wind (1842). Following restoration work ...
This wood engraving, by British artist William Carpenter, from 1858, depicts Raja Jowaher Singh, a high-ranking official and adviser of the Sikh Empire, along with his attendants A new exhibition ...