Tintern Abbey by Thomas Doughty https://www.nga.gov/artworks/195114-tintern-abbey
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Joseph Mallord William Turner excelled at capturing the beauty and mysteries of light. Cool, white moonlight contrasts with warm, yellow and orange firelight.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Reynolds sought to elevate British painting, including portraiture, to the lofty realms of classical expression. After traveling to Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Venice, Reynolds became the first president of the Royal Academy, which had been founded in 1768.
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During the mid-19th century, George Catlin created two large collections of paintings featuring portraits of Native Americans, genre scenes, and western landscapes. The first collection, which he called his „Indian Gallery,“ included more than 500 works completed during the 1830s.
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Elizabeth Linley was a successful singer in London before marrying playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Their union was not happy:
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 16, color repro. 1963 Walker, John.
Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years later, in 1934, he and his wife built a house and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts, where he produced a number of oil paintings and watercolors manifesting his avid interest in nautical subjects.
The Washington Post (21 March 1943): L4.