To brighten Cézanne’s dark palette knife, his friend Camille Pissarro told him, „Never paint except with the three primary colors. .
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Fleeing the violence of the American Revolution, John Singleton Copley and his family settled in London in 1775. While Copley (standing at top left) tried to remain neutral, his father-in-law Richard Clarke (seated in front of the artist) supported the British.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 265-266, 268-270, and 275-277, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 90, repro., as Mrs. J.B.
Joseph Mallord William Turner excelled at capturing the beauty and mysteries of light. Cool, white moonlight contrasts with warm, yellow and orange firelight.
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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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