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Category Archives: Portraiture
Peter Paul Rubens and Hélène Fourment
This superb portrait by Rubens of his wife Hélène and their three year old son, Frans can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Frans is the only one of their children featured which makes us … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Flemish painters, Portraiture, Rubens
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Flemish painter, Hélène Fourment, Het Pelsken by Rubens, Nude portraiture, Portraiture, Rubens
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Peter Paul Rubens and Isabella Brant
This painting, which is housed in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich is entitled The Honeysuckle Bower and was painted by Rubens the year he married Isdabella Brant. It is a full-length double portrait of the happy couple who have the honeysuckle … Continue reading
Rembrandt, Geertje Dircx and Hendrickje Stoffels
It is thought that the woman in the painting is Hendrickje Stoffels, who was Rembrandt’s maid and who shared the second part of the artist’s life. Later she would become his lover and would remain by his side until the … Continue reading
Rembrandt von Rijn and Saskia van Uylenburg
Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume was painted by Rembrandt in 1635, The painting is housed in the National Gallery, London. Saskia who was twenty-three years old at the time and who had been married to Rembrandt for just twelve … Continue reading
The Portraiture of Christen Købke
Today, as I promised in my last blog, I am going to continue looking at the life of the Danish painter Christen Købke and concentrate on some of his intriguing and exquisite portraiture work. In my last blog, I had … Continue reading
Sophie Gray by John Everett Millais
Much has been written about the love triangle of the pre-Raphaelite artist, John Everett Millais, the art critic, John Ruskin and his wife, Euphemia Gray. This year we will be offered two feature films, Effie and Untouched exploring their relationship … Continue reading
Self-portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel by Sofonisba Anguissola
Let me introduce you to a female artist, whom I am ashamed to admit, I had never heard of, but whom Giorgio Vasari, the Italian biographer of artists, made the following comment: “…[She] has shown greater application and better grace … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, Female artists, Female painters, Italian artists, Portraiture, Sofonisba Anguissola
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Female artists, Italian Painters, Portraiture, Self-portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel by Sofonisba Anguissola, Sofonisba Anguissola
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Desiderius Erasmus and Pieter Gillis by Quinten Massys
We are in the run-up to Christmas and many of us will be struggling to come up with ideas for the perfect gift for a beloved friend. The problem is even further exacerbated if the friend is wealthy and wants … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, Portraiture, Quinten Massys
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Desiderius Erasmus, Erasmus, Netherlandish painter, Pieter Gillis, Portraiture, Quinten Massys
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La Fornarina by Raphael Sanzio
My Daily Art Display today features an Italian lady, Margarita Luti. She became known as La Fornarina which in Italian means “the baker’s daughter”. She was the daughter of Francesco Luti, a local baker from Siena who worked in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, Italian artists, Portraiture, Raphael, Renaissance Painters
Tagged Agostino Chigi, Art, Art Blog, Art History, Francesca Ardeasca, Italian Painters, La Fornarina, La Fornarina by Raphael Sanzio, Margarita Luti, Maria Bibbiena, Portraiture, Raphael
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Portrait of a Man and His Wife by Ulrich Apt the Elder
My featured artist today is probably unknown to most of you as he was to me. He is the late Gothic painter Ulrich Apt the Elder, who was born in Augsburg around 1460. The work I am featuring today fascinated … Continue reading
