Historical painting

Art Gallery on Instagram: “The Lunatic of Étretat, 1871 by Hugues Merle (1822-1881) O Lunático de Étretat, 1871 de Hugues Merle…”

An architectural capriccio with an apostle preaching

Battle of Trafalgar

(Albano 1843–1931 Venice) The curious, signed, dated Eugen von Blaas 1897, oil on canvas, 145 x 75 cm, framed Provenance: Galerie Heinemann, Munich, 1897–1898 (Heinemann no. 3937); Acquired by Rosa von Klinger, née Riedel (1860–1932), Neustadt an der Tafelfichte / Nové Mesto pod Smrkem, Bohemia, Czech Republic, on 28 November 1898; European Private Collection.

Princess Helena by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1861.

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Paintings can be far more complicated than they appear at first glance. The stories told by works of art are the stuff of novels. Here are a few of the stories behind famous masterpieces.

Lippert: The Young Apprentice. But if course it is the reflection of the older man which grabs the attention, not the apparent and superficial subject of the picture. re-blogged from blastedheath

Annie Stegg Gerard

Richard Buckner 1812-1883 Engeland

View PIA DE' TOLOMEI By Ussi Stefano; oil on canvas; cm 81 x 56.5; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

"A Cavatina" {1888} By ~ Briton Riviere

“❝He remembered the way love had burned through him like a flame under glass, grasping outward, devouring what air it had left before it choked. How he hated it; desperately he had tried to keep it burning.❞ ──𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐡 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, These Violent Delights.”

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