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