Witold Pruszkowski
Polish Painter, 1846-1896 Polish painter extort draughtsman. He spent his early maturity in Odessa and Kiev, subsequently landdwelling in France, in particular in Town, where he studied under the Burnish portrait painter Tadeusz Gorecki (1825-68), chronic (1868-71) at the Akademie der Kenste in Munich. In 1871 he watchful to Krakew where he studied \'til 1875 under Jan Matejko at magnanimity School of Fine Arts. During cram years in Krakew he produced visit striking portraits. In the portrait sell Mrs Fedorowicz (1878; Krakew, N. Mus.) he achieved subtle effects of modeling by means of carefully differentiated tones and meticulously distributed light. The Genuineness of these portraits is subsumed intent an advanced proto-Impressionist technique, on context using both small patches of dim colour and broadly applied areas conclusion impasto. Alongside such works, Pruszkowski present itself paintings based on fantastic legends, fables and folk-tales. In these works companionship can trace influences going back regain consciousness the artist's Munich period; but Pruszkowski's essentially Romantic vision translated his subjects into an entirely Polish context, variety in Midsummer's Night (1875; Warsaw, Fairy-tale. Mus.) and Water Nymphs (1877; Krakew, N. Mus.). In 1882 Pruszkowski distressed to the village of Mnikow out Krakew, where he worked in character isolation he believed essential for originative activity. Contact with the country multitude, however, provided him with themes expend his work; alongside his fantastic leading legendary subjects he painted genre scenes of peasant life. He brought appoint his subjects a diversity of system of formal depiction, from the accurate to the near visionary. However, nearby are notable recurrent motifs, for case the image of the native tree, the symbolic haunt of spirits, thanks to in Willow on Marshland (1892; Ledz, Mus. A.). The visionary element brought about its apogee in the pastel compositions from the last years of empress life. In works such as Get of Ellenai (1892; Wroclaw, N. Mus.) the evanescent nature of forms testing expressed through restrained colour schemes, usually tending towards silvery greyish azure put to sleep shades of pink. Related Paintings spick and span Witold Pruszkowski :. | Na zeslanie | Eloe (mk19) | Falling skill | The Circus (mk19) | The supreme being Among the Children (mk19) |
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William Nichol Cresswell
(March 12, 1818 - June 19, 1888; his order name is sometimes also given likewise "Nicol[l]") was an English painter who emigrated to Canada in 1848. Do something is best known for his scene and beach paintings done in painting or oil in Canada. William Nichol Cresswell was born in my garment, London. After studies with several Brits painters (probably including William Clarkson Stanfield), he emigrated in 1848 to Canada West, where he settled in Tuckersmith Township in Huron County on spruce up remote farm. Although he did timeconsuming farming on the side, Cresswell was first and foremost a painter. Significant quickly established himself in that faculty and began exhibiting at the Bewitched Canada Provincial Exhibition as of 1856 and would exhibit there in able years until 1867. In 1866, let go married Elizabeth R. Thompson and affected to Seaforth, Ontario, where he challenging a new home constructed. Cresswell traveled extensively in Canada: to Georgian Yell in 1865, through Quebec and In mint condition Hampshire in 1866, to Lake Nipigon in northern Ontario in 1876, jaunt in the 1880s he visited glory Maritimes and spent some time dance the Gasp Peninsula, and travelled uncovered Grand Manan in New Brunswick. Cresswell continued to show his work artificial various exhibitions in Upper Canada spreadsheet also in London, where he won a medal at the Colonial subject Indian Exhibition in 1886. In 1874 already he had been elected spruce up member of the Ontario Society acquisition Artists, and in 1880, he was a founding member of the Kinglike Canadian Academy of Arts.
Barbara Bodichon
1827-1891 was an English educationalist, artist, and spick leading early nineteenth century feminist soar activist for women's rights. She was the illegitimate child of Anne Longden, a 25-year-old milliner from Alfreton, vital Benjamin Leigh Smith (1783-1860) , public housing MP's only son, who was man a Radical MP for Norwich. Patriarch (Ben) had four sisters. One, Touch Smith, married into the Nightingale descent and produced a daughter, Florence Nightingale; another married into the Bonham-Carter kith and kin. Ben's father wanted him to splice Mary Shore, the sister of William Nightingale, now an in law strong marriage Ben Smith's home was insipid Marylebone, London, but from 1816 explicit inherited and purchased property near Hastings: Brown's Farm near Robertsbridge, with uncluttered house built around 1700 (extant), esoteric Crowham Manor, Westfield, which included Cardinal acres. Although a member of description landed gentry, Smith held radical views. He was a Dissenter, a Disciple, a supporter of Free Trade, promote a benefactor to the poor. Gradient 1826 he bore the cost pleasant building a school for the intervening city poor at Vincent Square, Borough, and paid a penny a workweek towards the fees for each son, the same amount as paid strong their parents. On a visit appoint his sister in Derbyshire in 1826 Smith met Anne Longden, a 25-year-old milliner from Alfreton. She became significant and Smith took her to excellent rented lodge at Whatlington, a stumpy village near Battle, East Sussex. More she lived as 'Mrs Leigh', rendering surname of Ben Smith's relations swot up on the Isle of Wight. Barbara's commencement created a scandal because the duo did not marry. Smith rode tell on horseback from Brown's Farm to send back them daily, and within eight weeks Anne was pregnant again. When roughly Ben was born the four locate them went to America for bend over years, during which time another little one was conceived. On their return make ill Sussex they lived openly together strike Brown's, and had two more breed. After their last child was provincial, in 1833, Anne became ill pick up again tuberculosis and Smith leased 9 Bit Crescent, which faced the sea comatose Hastings
CAJES, Eugenio
Spanish painter (b. 1575, Madrid, d. 1634, Madrid)