Francis Basset (1757–1835) likely commissioned Thomas Gainsborough to paint a pair of portraits depicting himself and his wife, Frances Susanna Coxe (c. 1760–1823), soon after he purchased their new home in 1785.
The paintings adorned the stately Radnor House, built in 1673 on the banks of the
Ginevra de‘ Benci’s portrait is two-sided. This is the back, an emblematic portrait of Ginevra.
the era and consistent with Ginevra’s elite status as the daughter of a wealthy banker
It is impossible to guess what 16-year-old Ginevra de’ Benci was thinking as she sat for this portrait to commemorate her upcoming marriage. The young Florentine woman has a distant gaze.
richly detailed portrait depicts Ginevra de’ Benci, the daughter of a wealthy banker
This transcendent view down the Rhine River from the hillside vineyards near Oberwesel, Germany, is a masterpiece by one of the great icons of British art, J. M.W.
For who teems like thee, / Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine?
at least two clusters of buildings, including several towers, far back along the banks
the sky; the others, irises, calatheas, and arrowheads to mark the line of the banks
The Corcoran Gallery of Art was the first institution in the United States created specifically as an art museum. After its closure in 2014, the National Gallery of Art took responsibility for the collection.
Corcoran’s founder, William Wilson Corcoran (1798 – 1888), was a Washington, D.C., banker
The Last of the Buffalo is Albert Bierstadt’s final, great, western painting. Measuring six by ten feet, it mirrors in size his first massive oil, Lake Lucerne (1858), also in the National Gallery of Art collection.
Hundreds of buffalo dot the landscape along the banks of the winding river and some
The impressionist style developed as a method to render more accurately the appearance of the natural world, and was principally a technique for landscape painting. Corot, whose career began in the late 1820s when the academic tradition of landscape painting was being revived, was one of the most prolific and influential exponents of the genre.
The olive-colored water seems to have cut straight down over time, creating high banks
Did you know he made it before the “Mona Lisa?� And that he finger painted? Uncover more unexpected details about the only painting by the artist in the Americas.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Ginevra de’ Benci was the daughter of a Florentine banker
