The Swing is a 1779 painting by Spanish Rococo artist Francisco Goya. It is located in the El Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Analysis of Goya’s The Swing This painting is in the tradition of the fête galante, or a country scene of leisure. The woman on the swing is surrounded by four children and …
J.M.W Turner’s 1839 maritime painting in the Romanticism style, full name ‘The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up’ depicts HMS Temeraire being brought out to sea by a modern steamship to be scrapped. Laid down in 1793 and formally launched in 1798 for the Royal Navy, the HMS Temeraire was …
Horse Frightened by Lightning is an 1829 watercolor by French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix. It is in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts in Hungary. Analysis of Horse Frightened by Lightning During his career, Delacroix painted a number of monumental historical paintings, and in so doing, would become a master horse painter as can be …
Eugene Delacroix displays in 1838’s Medea About to Kill her Children a Romantic focus on a subject of extreme emotion. Taken from a disturbing tale in Ancient Greek classical tragedy, Medea is about to commit the murders of her two sons to avenge the suspected faithlessness of her husband. Delacroix’s Medea grips her two boys …
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The Slave Ship is an 1840 oil painting by J.M.W. Turner in the Romantic Maritime style, which Turner was well known for. On the surface, it looks like an innocent painting of a stormy sea with a ship middle left struggling to find its passage through. Look closer. You will see bodies. You will see …
The Coffee Bearer is an 1857 oil painting in the orientalist style by English artist John Frederick Lewis. Analysis of The Coffee Bearer English painter John Frederick Lewis painted in the Orientalist style, depicting scenes of the Eastern World, predominantly northern Africa The Coffee Bearer is an excellent example of this. He lived in Egypt …
Tea Drinking is a 1904 orientalist painting by Russian artist Andrei Ryabushkin who specialized in genre paintings in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Analysis of Ryabushkin’s Tea Drinking This picture depicts a scene of everyday life and seemingly ordinary people in the traditional genre style which Ryabushskin mostly painted in, and in …
Portrait of a Lady, of an unknown woman, was produced by English painter John Hoppner around 1795 after he became the painter to the Prince of Wales at the time. The painting is unsigned and undated and is currently in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia after being purchased by the gallery in …
This 1760s work by noted English portraitist George Romney is of the Leigh Family – featuring Jarrett Leigh, who was a Proctor at the Doctors’ Commons, and his wife and six children. Jarrett Leigh was known to be something of an amateur painter himself. George Romney’s The Leigh Family is currently on display in the …
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey is an 1833 historical painting by French artist of the Romantic period Paul Delaroche. Depicted in “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey” is the young Queen of England Lady Lane Grey moments before her execution. Lady Jane Grey, also known as the Nine Days Queen was coronated on July …
The Wave is an 1869 Romantic painting by French artist Gustave Courbet. Analysis of The Wave Completed by the French painter Gustave Courbet in 1869, this picture pre-dates the impressionists and is generally considered to be ‘post-Romantic’ is one of a series of paintings he produced of ocean Waves in Normandy, North Western France. Gustave …
This portrait and Study of a model is thought to be of Theodore Gericault’s model Joseph who can be seen in close resemblance in Gericault’s other painting The Raft of the Medusa which is in the Louvre in Paris. A study of a model can be found in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.
Walton Bridges is an 1806 Romantic landscape painting by English artist J.M.W Turner. Analysis of Walton Bridges Here English artist J.M.W. Turner depicts Walton Bridges, a double wooden Bridge at Walton, South-West of London. This setting was also painted by other artists including as the Italian painter Canaletto. The painting was completed in 1806 and …
