Old historical paintings

Auguste Toulmouche 1829-1890 Frankrijk

Art History Gallery on Instagram: "Thomas Cole (1801-1848): Destruction - The Course of Empire, 1836, oil on canvas, 100.3 x 161.2 cm, New York Historical Society, New York . . The fourth painting of 'The Course of Empire' series, Destruction, has almost the same perspective as the third, though the artist has stepped back a bit to allow a wider scene of the action, and moved almost to the center of the river. The action is the sack and destruction of the city, in the course of a tempest…

Stefano Ussi (1822 - 1901)

How would English history have turned out differently, if Queen Jane had ruled the land?

Antique Painting, Landscape painting with Small Lake, proposes an Oil on Canvas Painting of the late Nineteenth Century. Antique landscape painting proposes a painting of a naturalistic environment, Landscape with Hills, XIX century. Old oil paintings with landscapes representing nature, painted in warm and bright colours, the painter in fact paints skilfully painted the clouds in the sky with swift, decisive brushstrokes typical of Impressionist painting. Impressionist painter. The old…

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

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