#silk canvas

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Devout Childhood of St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Artist: Charles Allston Collins (British, 1828-1873)

Date: 1851-1852

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, United States

Description

Although never a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Charles Allston Collins adhered to their stated mission of selecting subjects that conveyed “heartfelt” ideas rendered through the close study of nature. Here, he portrays the exemplary piety of Elizabeth of Hungary, who, when arriving at the church before the priests had opened the door, fell to her knees at the threshold to begin her devotions. While the story of the thirteenth-century saint derives from Alban Butler’s The Lives of the Saints (1756–59), the visual details - from the wooden door’s grain to the shot silk dress - reflect Collins’s accurate observations of his visual world. He also adopted the arduous Pre-Raphaelite practice of painting on a white wet ground to heighten his brilliant colors.

[portrait-paintings]

Jane Fleming, Later Countess of Harrington

Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792)

Date: c. 1778-1779

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States

Description

Contemporary audiences would have recognized Jane's outstretched hand and arm as a conventional theater gesture that actors assumed when about to speak. Reynolds also refers to contemporary fashion, depicting Jane's hair ornamented by the ostrich feathers that the Duchess of Devonshire had recently made popular.

[fayegonnaslay]

Warhol & Liza

Liza Minnelli, 1978.

Liza Minnelli, 1977.

Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, 1979.

[royalty-nobility]

Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)

Artist: François Flameng (French, 1856-1923)

Date: 1908

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of Edward VII.

Alexandra's family had been relatively obscure until 1852, when her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the major European powers to succeed his second cousin Frederick VII as King of Denmark. At the age of sixteen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the son and heir apparent of Queen Victoria. The couple married eighteen months later in 1863, the year in which her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX and her brother William was appointed king of Greece as George I.

Alexandra was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. Largely excluded from wielding any political power, she unsuccessfully attempted to sway the opinion of British ministers and her husband's family to favour Greek and Danish interests. Her public duties were restricted to uncontroversial involvement in charitable work.

On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became King-Emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as queen-empress. She became queen mother on Edward VII's death in 1910, at which point their son George V acceded to the throne. Alexandra died aged 80 in 1925.

Painting Description

This strikingly sophisticated and composed portrait of Queen Alexandra was painted by the French artist François Flameng in 1908. It is one the highlights of early 20th century royal portraiture. The Queen sits upon a stone step, gazing directly at the viewer; dressed in a white silk dress, diaphanous gauze suggested about her arms and shoulders. She is wearing Queen Victoria's small crown, the riband and star of the Order of the Garter, her collier résille necklace, made by Cartier in 1904, and the Koh-i-nûr in its brooch setting. A wooded landscape and suggestion of a building or castle in the background.

[minimavisibilia]

Silke Otto-Knapp Normalbühne (after Schwitters) II 2017 Watercolor on canvas 51.1875 x 70.875 (130 x 180 cm)

[neonhellscape]

okay his outfit has really been bothering me for absolutely ages so here. bastard man.

[mythologypaintings]

The Bath of Venus

Artist: François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

Date: 1751

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

[cinderellaheist]

Gallant Scene in the Park by Franz Xaver Simm

The Proposal by Charles Soulacroix

[sai-aeko]

藤保 Toh-Yasu

Artist on pencil, oil canvas, illustrations.

[canvasmirror]

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) • Self-portrait • 1966 • Acrylic, silkscreen ink, pencil and ballpoint pen on linen

[portrait-paintings]

Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully

Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)

Date: ca. 1759

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Description

Like Jacques Onésime de Bergeret, Lalive de Jully (1725-79) was an influential collector, amateur, and painter in the Parisian art world of the 1750s and 1760s. One of Jean-Baptiste Greuze's first patrons, Lalive is depicted seated on a chair he had commissioned as part of a suite of furniture à la grecque. This furniture subtly reveals Lalive's avant-garde taste in rejecting the curvilinear forms of the rococo in favor of rectilinear shapes and archaeological decor before the full flowering of the neoclassical style.

Greuze placed Lalive in the center of the canvas; his torso twists toward the harp, as his head, shown in three-quarter pose, turns to the viewer. He is casually attired in a white silk dressing gown, a scarf around his neck, and his britches unbuttoned at the knees. The captivating expression, a faint smile and slightly raised eyebrows, further enhances the contrived informality of the portrait. The emphasis on the face and hands counterbalances the rigid series of parallel vertical lines that define the space.

The prominent display of the harp, accompanied by the furniture with the portfolio of drawings and statue of the Erythrean Sibyl in the background, suggests that Greuze has depicted Lalive as a new Apollo, alluding to his patronage of the arts.

[jadonulrich]

Kenny Nguyen Infinity No. 1, 2021 Silk Fabric, Acrylic, Canvas Mounted on Framed Canvas, Threads 60 × 48 × 5 in

[royalty-nobility]

Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817)

Artist: After George Dawe (English, 1781-1829)

Date: c. 1817-1825

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Princess Charlotte of Wales

Princess Charlotte of Wales (Charlotte Augusta; 7 January 1796 – 6 November 1817) was the only child of George, Prince of Wales (later George IV), and Caroline of Brunswick. She was expected to ascend the British throne after the deaths of her grandfather, George III, and her father, but died in childbirth at the age of 21, predeceasing them both.

[britishhistorycollection]

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805-1873)

Date: 1842

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.

[freshthoughts2020]

[mindstack]

by peace or by war, the heart always wins