Old artwork

This is one of these speed paintings that just happens to end up with a nice composition.

Painted in 1817, this highly important sketch is an early preparatory study for The White Horse, the first of Constable's famous ‘Six-Footers’, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819. One of the artist’s most celebrated works, The White Horse is a seminal painting in the history of British"u2026

““The Bathing Pool” by Hubert Robert”

@dreamersofdecadence posted on their Instagram profile: “Gabriel Ferrier, "The Awakening of the Poet", 1899 🦋 @lisarocaille From the collection…”

“❝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.”

Painting of an extremely surprised man, styled after Caravaggio’s old master Baroque oil paintings.

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A gentleman of the court reportedly requested the French painter represent his mistress being pushed on a swing as he secretly admired her from below.

Frederic Stuart Church American, 1842-1924

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⚜️𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐞 & 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐜𝐨 & 𝐀𝐫𝐭 ⚜️ on Instagram: “👑Title: The Two Crowns 👑Artist: Charles Sims 👑Period/Style: edwardian painter, 19th and 20th century 👑Date: before 1928 👑Medium: oil on…”

Tom Edwin Mostyn, R.O.I., R.W.A., R.C.A. (1864-1930) | The old gateway | 1900s, Paintings | Christie's