Portsmouth in Art: Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le pont du HMS Calcutta, Portsmouth c.1876 Tate Britain, London Births: • Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) • Madden, John (1949) See also: • Cities | England | UK
Portsmouth (England)
Month: January 2013
La Maison de La Crau (1888)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Maison de La Crau (The Old Mill) (F 550, JH 1577) 1888 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 53.975 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In February 1888, Vincent van Gogh left the cold, dreary winter in…
The Potato Eaters (1885)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Potato Eaters (De aardappeleters) 1885 Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 73.9 x 95.2 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 78, JH 734) Test of mastery The potato eaters is the most ambitious painting of Van Gogh’s…
The Potato Eaters (1885)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Potato Eaters (De Aardappeleters) 1885 Oil on canvas, 82 x 114 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0082-JH0764 Nuenen, April-May 1885 Van Gogh saw the Potato Eaters as a showpiece, for which he deliberately chose a difficult…
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, the Artist’s Grandfather (1881)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, the Artist’s Grandfather 1881 Pencil, brush and ink and watercolour, on paper, 34.5 cm x 26.1 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0876-JH0014 Etten, July 1881 See also: • Van Gogh, Vincent, Grandfather (1789-1874)
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother (1888)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, Anna van Gogh (F 477, JH 1600) 1888 Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 32.4 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena In September 1888, Van Gogh, living in the south of France, received from…
Anna McNeill Whistler
(1804–1881) Anna McNeill Whistler in Art: Whistler, James (1834-1903) Whistler’s Mother 1871 Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Chelsea (London)
Chelsea in art: Whistler, James (1834-1903) Grey and Silver: Chelsea Wharf c.1864–1868 National Gallery of Art, Washington Births: • Fox, Edward (1937) • Philip, Ethel (1861-1920) • York, Susannah (1939-2011) Deaths: • Bergman, Ingrid (1915-1982) • Bogarde, Dirk (1921-1999) • Johnson, Richard (1927-2015)…
Wapping (London)
Wapping in art: Whistler, James (1834-1903) Wapping 1860–1864 National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Districts | London (England) | Thames
Oslo (Norway)
Museums: • Munch Museum: Edvard Munchs Plass 1, 0194 Oslo • Nationalgalleriet: Universitetsgata 13, 0164 Oslo Deaths: • Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) • Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) See also: • Cities | Norway