Ayer & Son of Philadelphia handled the campaign and Vaughn Flannery, the firm’s art
Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people, the easternmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), in case of war.
from Pocahontas to Sitting Bull, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last.
Face: The Portraits, The Detroit Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia
With one hand resting on a baton and the other on the hilt of his sword, the sitter turns and looks down at the viewer, his haughty expression consistent with the proud swagger of his pose. As he stands before an evening sky and extensive landscape with a distant view of the bay of Genoa, light glints off his armor and deep-red sashes, draped gracefully across his body and tied to his arm, enhance his bravura.
Philadelphia, 1913: unpaginated, repro. 1923 Paintings in the Collection of Joseph
In 1876, Renoir began to paint anecdotal depictions of women and children, subjects in which he excelled. A Girl with a Watering Can , typical of these works, displays a mature impressionist style attuned to the specific requirements of figure painting.
Philadelphia and New York, 1955:40, repro. 41. 1956 Walker, John.
Throughout his career Tiepolo painted small pictures of mythological themes, which proved extremely popular. The subjects of these works came from the best–known episodes from ancient literature, but his conception of the stories was varied and original.
Philadelphia, 1966: 75, under no. 287.
London and Philadelphia, 1910: 33-34, 83-84, 222, no. 77. 1912 Meier-Graefe, Julius
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Green first made Commemorative Toile during a residency at the Philadelphia Fabric
Widener (1834–1915), had assembled at Lynnewood Hall, the Widener estate near Philadelphia
Giovanni della Casa, who is in all likelihood the subject of this portrait, belonged to a wealthy Tuscan family and rose to prominence in the service of the church. As poet, humanist, and political theorist, he circulated at the highest levels of Italian intellectual life.
Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence, Philadelphia
