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Royal Academy Exhibition Of 1842
The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842 was an art exhibition held at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square in London between 2 May and 23 July 1842. It was the seventy fourth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It took place during the early Victorian era and featured submissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the period. The greatest attention was drawn by five paintings by J.M.W. Turner. These included two cityscapes of Venice and '' Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth''. His '' War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet'' showing Napoleon under British guard in exile on the island of Saint Helena was almost universally savaged by critics, although the praise of Turner's admirer John Ruskin. It was the first exhibition to be held since the death of David Wilkie, a leading member of the Academy for several decades, who has died near Gibraltar while travelling back from the Holy Land. His friend Turner paid tribute to him with hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner - Peace - Burial At Sea
Turner may refer to: People and fictional characters *Turner (surname), a common surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Turner (given name), a list of people with the given name *One who uses a lathe for turning Places Australia *Turner, Australian Capital Territory *Turner River, Western Australia Canada *Turner, Ontario United States *Turner, Mississippi County, Arkansas *Turner, Phillips County, Arkansas *Turner, former name of Tuttle, California *Turner, Indiana *Turner, Kansas *Turner, Maine, a New England town **Turner (CDP), Maine, within the town of Turner *Turner, Michigan *Turner, Montana *Turner, Oregon *Turner, Washington *Turner, West Virginia *Turner Air Force Base, outside Albany, Georgia *Turner County, Georgia *Turner County, South Dakota Businesses *Turner Broadcasting System, part of WarnerMedia, managed a collection of cable networks and properties **TBS (American TV channel), a channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Collins (painter)
William Collins (8 September 1788, London – 17 February 1847, London) was an English landscape and genre painter. His sentimental paintings of poor people enjoying nature became a posthumous high fashion, notably in the 1870s when his market price rose higher than Constable (Cromer Sands, £3780, 1872) and stayed so until 1894. Turner, his model, far exceeded him in value (''The Grand Canal, Venice'', sold to Vanderbilt in 1885 for £20,000). Life and work Collins was born in Great Titchfield Street, London, son of William Collins Sr., an Irish-born picture-dealer and writer. He showed a great aptitude for art from an early age, and was for a while an informal pupil of George Morland. In 1807, he entered the schools of the Royal Academy (at the same time as William Etty), and exhibited at the Academy for the first time in the same year. In 1809 he was awarded a medal in the life school, and exhibited three pictures\: ''Boy at Breakfast'', ''Boys with a Bird's-nest'' and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Robert Leslie
Charles Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859) was an American genre painter. Biography Leslie was born in London to American parents. When he was five years of age he returned with them to the United States, where they settled in Philadelphia. Leslie completed his education and afterwards became apprenticed to a bookseller. He was, however, mainly interested in painting and drama, and when George Frederick Cooke visited the city he executed a portrait of the actor from recollection of him on the stage, which was considered a work of such promise that a fund was raised to enable the young artist to study in Europe. He left for London in 1811, bearing introductions which procured for him the friendship of West, Beechey, Allston, Coleridge and Washington Irving, being admitted as a student of the Royal Academy, where he carried off two silver medals. At first, influenced by West and Fuseli, he essayed high art, and his earliest important subject depicted Saul and the Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Origin Of The Harp
''The Origin of the Harp'' is an oil nude history painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise, from 1842. Inspired by a work by the poet Thomas Moore, it shows a sea nymph metamorphosing into a harp. Strategically-placed seaweed prevents her from being completely nude. It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1842 at the National Gallery, in London. Today the painting is in the collection of the Manchester Art Gallery Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre, England. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupi ..., having been acquired in 1917. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-1origin-of-the-harp-205484 References Bibliography * Ausoni, Alberto. ''Music in Art''. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. * Murray, Peter. ''Daniel Maclise, 1806-1870: Romancing the Past''. Crawford Art Gallery, 2009. * Weston, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Sarah Carpenter
Margaret Sarah Carpenter (''née'' Geddes; 1793 – 13 November 1872) was an English painter. Noted in her time, she mostly painted portraits in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence (painter), Thomas Lawrence. She was a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington. Early life Carpenter was born in Salisbury, the daughter of Captain Alexander Geddes, who was of an Edinburgh family, and Harriet Easton. She was taught art by a local drawing-master. Her first art studies were made from the pictures at Longford Castle, belonging to the Earl of Radnor. Career In 1812, one of Carpenter's copies of the head of a boy was awarded a medal by the Society of Arts, who awarded her another medal in 1813, and a gold medal in 1814. She went to London in 1814, and soon established her reputation as a fashionable portrait painter. She exhibited a portrait of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor, Lord Folkestone at the Royal Academy in 1814, and a picture entitled 'The Fortune Teller' at the Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dogano, San Giorgio, Citella, From The Steps Of The Europa
''The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa'' is an 1842 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. It features a panorama of central Venice, then part of the Austrian Empire, which was a popular subject for Turner and other British painters such as Clarkson Stanfield and Edward William Cooke during the period. It depicts a view from the Hotel Europa where Turner sometimes stayed during his visits. The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842 at the National Gallery in London. The painting was acquired by the art collector Robert Vernon the same year and was donated to the nation in 1847. It is now in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-dogano-san-giorgio-citella-from-the-steps-of-the-europa-202510 See also * List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Maclise
Daniel Maclise (25 January 180625 April 1870) was an Irish history painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England. Early life Maclise was born in Cork, Ireland (then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), the son of Alexander McLish (also known as McLeish, McLish, McClisse or McLise), a tanner or shoemaker, but formerly a Scottish Highlander soldier. His education was of the plainest kind, but he was eager for culture, fond of reading, and anxious to become an artist. His father, however, placed him in employment, in 1820, in Newenham's Bank, where he remained for two years, before leaving to study at the Cork School of Art. In 1825 it happened that Sir Walter Scott was travelling in Ireland, and young Maclise, having seen him in a bookseller's shop, made a surreptitious sketch of the great man, which he afterwards lithographed. It became very popular, and led to many commissions for portraits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mulready
William Mulready (1 April 1786 – 7 July 1863) was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticising depictions of rural scenes, and for creating Mulready stationery letter sheets, issued at the same time as the Penny Black postage stamp. Life and family William Mulready was born in Ennis, County Clare. Early in his life, in 1792, the family moved to London, where he was able to get an education and was taught painting well enough so that he was accepted at the Royal Academy School at the age of fourteen. In 1802, he married Elizabeth Varley (1784–1864), a landscape painter. She came from a family of established artists; her brothers included John Varley, friend of William Blake, Cornelius Varley, and William Fleetwood Varley. Their three children, Paul Augustus (1805–1864), William (1805–1878), and Michael (1807–1889) also became artists. His relationship with his wife however deteriorated gradually over the years, which is detailed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossing The Ford
''Crossing the Ford'' is an 1842 genre painting by the Irish-born artist William Mulready. It depicts two young men carrying woman across a ford somewhere in rural England and suggests she is choosing which of the two suitors to make a future with. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1842 at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square where it was one of the most popular works on display. Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been given to the nation by the art collector Robert Vernon in 1847, who had bought the work from the artist for 600 guineas The guinea (; commonly abbreviated gn., or gns. in plural) was a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold. The name came from the Guinea region in West Africa, from where m .... References Bibliography * Mitchell, Sally (ed.) ''Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia''. Routledge, 2011. * Rorimer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, 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 of Great Britain and Ireland, 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. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was Kensington System, raised under close supervision by her mother and her Comptrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. His best-known work is the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. Life Landseer was born in London, the son of the engraver John Landseer A.R.A. and Jane Potts. He was something of a prodigy whose artistic talents were recognised early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who encouraged the young Landseer to perform dissections in order to fully understand animal musculature and skeletal structure. Landseer's life was entwined with the Royal Academy. At the age of just 13, in 1815, he exhibited works there as an “Honorary Exhibitor”. He was elected an Associate at the minimum age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831. He was an acquaintance of Charles Robert Leslie, who described h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Muhammad Ali Of Egypt
''Portrait of Muhammad Ali of Egypt'' is an 1841 portrait painting by the British artist David Wilkie. It depicts Muhammad Ali, the Albanian-born Pasha of Egypt. A member of the Royal Academy known for his genre and history paintings, Wilkie travelled to the Middle East in order to study scenes of the Holy Land. The outbreak of Egyptian–Ottoman War largely limited history time in Jerusalem and he spent much of his time in Constantinople. He produced this work while waiting at Alexandria for a ship home. The sitter is dressed in traditional costume, but wears a fez rather than a turban. It was Wilkie's final painting. He died on his way home to Britain while onboard a ship off Gibraltar. The work was displayed posthumously at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842 in London. The painting is today in the collection of the Tate Britain Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
