#fine art children's portraits

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Fine Art Children's Portraits by Mexican Photographer SalemMcBunny

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Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916) "Orphans" (1885) Oil on canvas Social realism

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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882) by John Singer Sargent. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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A Girl Standing in the Wind, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1893

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Luis de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish, 1825-1897) María Teresa de Madrazo y de Madrazo, 1870 Colección Madrazo. Comunidad de Madrid

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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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Portrait of the two sisters, 1871

By Alexandre Cabanel

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Cottage Children (1787) by Thomas Gainsborough.

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Mrs. Elizabeth Wurtz Elder and Her Three Children

Artist: Jacob Eichholtz (American, 1776-1842)

Date: 1825

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Description

The career of portraitist Jacob Eichholtz exemplifies the flexibility and determination required by artists of the young republic. Although originally a metalworker in his native Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Eichholtz was encouraged to pursue painting by his contemporary Thomas Sully, who was on the verge of his own long career in Philadelphia. Eichholtz sought out the elderly Gilbert Stuart, then dean of portraiture and the most famous artist in America. While Stuart took no formal pupils, he generously shared his experience with aspiring young artists such as Eichholtz and Sully who visited him in Boston. Such mentoring was critical at a time when formal art training in the United States was still in its infancy. The freshness and quickness of this portrait of a lovely young mother and her children reveal that Eichholtz learned his lessons well. The light palette with its silvery accents and sketchy background landscape testifies to the continuing influence of the English school of portraiture. At the same time, the gestural interplay among the figures, as well as their variety of poses, shows Eichholtz's confidence as a mature painter, three years into a successful Philadelphia residency. Eichholtz enjoyed a prosperous career in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Lancaster, where he returned in the early 1840s.

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Léon-Jean-Bazille Perrault (1832 – 1908)

Fillette à l'orange

oil on canvas

16 1/8 by 12 7/8 inches

Signed and dated '68

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Who’s Bad?

© Andrea Passon / www.andreapasson.it

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Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1877) "Mother and Children" Oil on canvas

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Painted Vintage Monochrome Photography By Beth Conklin

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Cecilia Beaux explored the line between portraiture and figure painting in Dorothea and Francesca, which focuses less on the individuality of the sitters and more on their coordinated movements. The composition features two children of Beaux’s friends Helena de Kay and Richard Watson Gilder, an influential couple in New York’s cultural scene. A double portrait of the daughters engaged in a dancing lesson, the work visually evokes the transition from girlhood to adolescence.

A female artist competing for portrait commissions in the male-dominated art market of the turn of the 20th century, Beaux fared exceedingly well. She was also an influential teacher, becoming the first woman to secure a faculty position at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Cecilia Beaux - Dorothea and Francesca (1898)

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Karl Bryullov (Russian, 1799-1852) Portrait of the Volkonsky children with a blackamoor. 1843 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

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Facing Future - The Exhibition is now Open!

Facing Future – The exhibition is now open in Arte Spazio Tempo Gallery in Venice. It has been quite a journey getting to this point. Here are some ‘behind the scenes’ shots that were taken during the building up of this project over a decade of photography trips. I am learning that exhibitions are only a short window to years and months of work that culminate in a presentation of the end result,…