Artists
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I can't say I have a favorite, there are simply too many great artists and paintings. But I do have some that I'm partial to.
This. So many, so different, and such personal subjective taste. My son in law dislikes all the earlier religious icon stuff so in the National Gallery we turned right and avoided the Sainsbury Wing, lol.
My good friend and artist dislikes chocolate box art yet loved this quite simple architectural daub by Heslop, a painter from County Durham.
It was charming and I'd definitely hang it in my house.Another local, Norman Cornish ("as good as Rembrandt") is now quite famous. He painted pit scenes, colliery life and comradeship, local people living.
He captures the wonderful incandescent gleam of a pint in in his pub, which is the essence of transferring light onto paper
His big booted miners are filled with animation.
Here's a lovely intimate portrait of his mother
Her hands, face, the cardigan...I've spent some time looking at the detail in this twilight charcoal drawing
Much more on the Web of course
Another local, Norman Cornish ("as good as Rembrandt") is now quite famous. He painted pit scenes, colliery life and comradeship, local people living.
Thanks for posting those. I hadn't heard of him before, and I really like the pub and the mother pictures. I'll have to look him up.
I also really liked the Honthorst you posted, and the ones by Perugino that Bernard posted, another two artists I hadn't heard of before.
Edit: Unless I'm mistaken, it looks like the woman knitting was his wife, not his mother.
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Checking my books you're correct, its Sarah.
Of the three books I have on Cornish, perhaps the best is 'The Quintessential Cornish' by Mcmanners & Wales which includes intimate family subjects, for example this
Looking forward to others sharing, there's so much art I don't know
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John Webber (1751- 1793), British artist who traveled with Captain Cook on his 3rd journey, who was the first European to paint Hawaii, its land, people and culture.
Highly recommend.
Around the world with James Cook – Swiss National Museum - Swiss history blog https://share.google/043JMMbwKbervkcfR
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Here's a bit of fun for you in the style of the TV show, Antiques Roadshow:
Good better best.
Three paintings, in any order...
an acrylic and two watercolours, approximately in sterling, one is worth about 400, one is about 800, one is 1200.
But which is which?
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Thanks for having a go Daniel.
I can never get the antiques roadshow stuff in order btw.Correct that the bottom one or an icy waterfall is acrylic, the other two watercolour.
It is £800 or more, possibly over a grand now.
The oriental scene is painted on silk and is around 400.
The Thames Pool is by a known artist called Scarborough, and worth at least 1200, possibly double if cleaned. -
It's funny you should bump this thread because I was just about to.
This has been one of my favorite paintings my entire adult life. It was introduced to me by my girlfriend in college. We were together my first year at UF and one year after.
She grew up in an interesting family. Her mother's side of the family were Episcopalians and had money since the 19th century and her father was Lutheran, a 1st generation Danish immigrant, a JD, and a county judge in the county north of where I live now.
She liked horses. She had done show jumping when she was growing up.
But the painting speaks for itself. It's brilliant.
The Blank Signature by René Magritte https://share.google/tn4xPlmSnF9kzSfIE
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