#Portraitist

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The portraitist

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Tito Conti (Italian 1842-1924) • The Musician • Late 19th — early 20th century

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Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz (Polish, 1854–1893) • Self-Portrait with Apron and Brushes • 1887

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John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) • Portrait of Louise Pomeroy Inches • 1887 • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Evening Dress • Unidentified Maker • American • Silk velvet with silk plain weave lining

How wonderful that such a well-preserved dress exists to enliven a famous portrait painting! This dress is one of my favorites for a couple of reasons – firstly, I love velvet and this silk velvet is the real deal – gorgeous. Secondly, I've seen the portrait many times at the MFA in Boston. The dress was in a glass case at the blockbuster Fashioned by Sargent exhibition also at the MFA.

I've read that Louise Inches was expecting her third child when she sat for this portrait and that the dress had been designed to accommodate extra panels as her figure expanded. She and Sargent got on well. Both were music lovers and accomplished musicians.

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Self Portrait

Artist: Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778–1860)

Date: 1840

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Description

Rembrandt Peale was sixty-two and a distinguished portraitist and history painter when he made this handsome self-portrait as a wedding gift for his second wife, the artist Harriet Cany Peale. Painting his first self-portrait at age thirteen, he completed at least a dozen during his long life. In this work, his meticulous execution and masterful rendering of light and shadow defines and illuminates his face, forehead, and silver curls, imparting a soft yet dramatic dimension to the picture.

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Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children, c. 1604-5. Painted by Lavinia Fontana, possibly the first female career artist in Western Europe.

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I had the pleasure of watching a beautiful Chinese crime drama called 'Under the Skin'. This was on someone's recommended list on Tumblr and I'm always excited to check out new shows and stories from Asian countries. Boldly I set out to start this show and what a beautiful ride it has been. Tan Jian Ci as Shen Yi and Jin Shi Jia as Du Cheng was truly a wonderful pairing.

There were so many stories surrounding women and involving women that I was surprised and happy to see how the cases were solved. There were some far reaching elements in the plot occasionally but then which crime drama doesn't have these unbelievable elements.

I loved this show because it brought into focus a side of investigation that we rarely see on screen - Portraitist, the one who sketches and brings to life the person from just a description. Shen Yi was a well rounded character with great motivation to do what he did as an artist and Du Cheng was equally compelling as the officer who strove to fight for justice.

These are some of the paintings and sketches Shen Yi drew and we see this in the last scene of the last episode. He kept a record of all the cases he was involved in and look how beautifully he brought out the pain and joy involved in each story.

And we were left with this cliffhanger and I heard there's a season 2 that they've been considering and talking about. I'd be delighted to watch season 2 of Under the Skin. If anyone wants to watch something different, give this show a chance.

A hearty thanks to @lurkingshan for the recommendation. I'll probably get to all the other recommendations soon.

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Portrait of Francis I of Austria

Artist: Thomas Lawrence (English, 1769-1830)

Date: 1818-1819

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle

DESCRIPTION

Thomas Lawrence was the most fashionable portraitist of his generation in Britain. He was made Principal Painter to George III in 1792 after Sir Joshua Reynolds’s death, and received occasional commissions; however it was only after 1814 that George IV began to employ him in earnest.

This portrait of the Emperor of Austria was commissioned by George IV at a cost of 500 guineas. Lawrence ventured across Europe to undertake the King's commission of a group of portraits of the allied military and political leaders involved in the Napoleonic Wars. Although Lawrence met the Emperor during the Congresses of Aix-la-Chapelle and Vienna in 1818-9, the dates during which he undertook this painting itself are not known, as it remained in the artist's studio at his death in 1830.

The Emperor is shown in military uniform with his plumed hat on a table beside him; the riband and star of the Order of the Garter worn under that of the Golden Fleece. In addition to enabling him to render details of military dress with accuracy, the artist attached particular importance to capturing his sitters from life, in order to imbue a sense of liveliness. The Emperor’s countenance, he described as 'rather long and thin, and when grave, is grave to melancholy; but when he speaks, benevolence itself lights it up with the most agreeable expressions, and making it the perfect image of a good mind.’ (letter of 5 November 1818).The conception of this group of twenty-eight portraits began in 1814 when George IV

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Arnold Newman📸 The brilliant portraitist, classic photographer Arnold Newman🎨

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Bartolomeo Veneto, Lady Playing a Lute

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Paul Mathey (French, 1844-1929) • Enfant et femme dans un intérieur (Woman and Child in an Interior) • c. 1890 • Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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Ellen Emmet Rand (American, 1875 - 1941) • Self-Portrait • 1927

Ellen Emmet Rand was a painter and illustrator. She specialized in portraits, painting over 500 works during her career including portraits of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and her cousins Henry James and William James. Rand studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston and the Art Students League in New York City and produced illustrations for Vogue Magazine and Harper's Weekly before traveling to England and then France to study with sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies. The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut owns the largest collection of her painted works and the University of Connecticut, as well as the Archives of American Art within the Smithsonian Institution both have collections of her papers, photographs, and drawings.

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Painting to Dress Match-up: Queen Maria's portrait and her Romanian traditional outfits

A 1924 photograph of artist Philip de László, Queen Maria of Romania and the royal portrait by de László, London, England

Philip de László (Hungarian, ) • Queen Maria of Romania • 1924

I'm only today beginning to read about her, though it appears from photographs as well as a couple of existing gowns, that she was a very well dressed woman.

Court Dress worn by Queen Maria of Romania for the Coronation of her cousin Nicholas II of Russia • 1896 • Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington.

She was passionate about Romanian folk art and costume. There are number of photos online of Maria in traditional Romanian outfits, which were her preferred attire for daytime wear.

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Self-Portrait with a Harp

Artist: Rose Adélaïde Ducreux (French, 1761–1802)

Date: 1791

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux

Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, daughter of Joseph Ducreux, portraitist of Marie Antoinette, was trained by her father. Because the family were not members of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture exhibiting works at the official Salon was barred prior to the French Revolution. In 1791, the Salon became open to other artists and Self-Portrait with a Harp was first displayed in a joint debut with her father in the Salon of the Louvre that year. It was one of two paintings exhibited by Ducreux.

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