Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Die Drahtziehmühle (The Wire-drawing Mill) c.1489 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 29 x 42.6 cm Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin The depiction of the landscape environment, which is self-evident and particularly interesting to us, was not common for centuries, from the…
Built: 1616 Location: Blickling, Norwich NR11 6NF, UK Website: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/blickling-estate Births: • Boleyn, George (c.1504-1536) • Boleyn, Mary (c.1500-1543) See also: • Houses | England | UK
Built: 1780 Acquired by Charles Dickens in 1856 Deaths: • Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) See also: • Higham (England) | Houses
Opened: 1778 Address: 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London W1J 7NT, United Kingdom Website: https://www.wellingtoncollection.co.uk/ Collection: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Napoleone come Marte pacificatore (1803-06) • Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660): El aguador de Sevilla (c.1623) Apsley House in Art: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Green Park, London…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Le tre età dell’uomo (The Three Ages of Man) 1512–1514 Oil on canvas, 90 x 150.7 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This early work depicts the three stages of life: infancy, adulthood and old age. Cupid clambers over the sleeping…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Agostina 1866 Oil on canvas, 132.4 x 97.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This model was likely an immigrant from the rural region near Rome. Corot dressed her in traditional costume and placed her in an Italian…
Limes House and Forecourt Piers The Limes, previously referred to as Mortlake Terrace Built: c.1720 Address: 123 Mortlake High Street, London SW14, England, United Kingdom Mortlake Terrace in Art: Turner, Joseph (1775-1851) Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning 1826 The Frick…
Completed: 1795 Births: • Moore, George Augustus (1852-1933) See also: • Houses | Ireland
Bush-Holley Historic Site Built: 1732 Location: 39 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT 06807 Website: https://greenwichhistory.org/the-bush-holley-house/ Collection: • Hassam, Childe (1859-1935): Clarissa (1912) • Hassam, Childe (1859-1935): The Mantle Piece (1912) See also: • Cos Cob, Greenwich, CT (USA) | Houses | Museums
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La Gare de Lordship Lane, Dulwich (Lordship Lane Station) 1871 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 72.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Pissarro spent over a year in London, fleeing the Franco-Prussian war. He painted sights around his…