This painting is based on a true account of a shark attack in Havana Harbor in 1749. John Singleton Copley depicts a critical moment in the attempted rescue of 14-year-old Brook Watson.
In the water, the man floats with his chest facing the sky, his right arm overhead
Recenter Visual Description We look slightly down onto a balding, bearded man
Frans van Mieris (1635–1681) was one of the most celebrated Leiden fijnschilders („fine painters“), whose elegant works are marked by smooth execution, invisible brushwork, and extraordinary attention to detail. Gerrit Dou (1613–1675) , with whom Van Mieris studied, described him as “the prince of all my pupils.â€� His small paintings of convivial genres, portraits, and allegories with their lively, often ambiguous narratives delighted both local and international collectors.
Zoom In Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description A pale-skinned, bearded man
George Luks was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1866 to a lively and cultured family. Luks’s father, a multilingual doctor, emigrated from Poland;
draw attention to his privileged upbringing or to his European travels as a young man
Pinakothek, Munich) [3] and as late as the mid-1650s in the seated Portrait of a Man
Dancers Backstage depicts an informal, behind-the-scenes moment at the ballet—the type of scene that most intrigued Degas. Four figures occupy the painting:
onto a loosely painted scene with three ballerinas in rose-pink costumes and one man
Between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, Jesus is said to have descended into the realm of the dead where he liberated the Old Testament patriarchs and prophets. This event, known as the Decent into Limbo, is represented here on the right wing of a triptych by Andrea di Vanni .
Zoom Controls Zoom In Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description A bearded man
Castle Garden in New York City was the country’s first immigration station and processed a large refugee population in the late 19th century. Here, people from different countries talk, rest, and pass the time waiting for inspection and registration.
A man with a red beard wears glasses, a brown suit, and a flat-topped straw hat sits
Jesus faces and looks at a kneeling, pale-skinned man to our right who holds out
In this intimate full-length portrait, the Deventer burgomaster (chief magistrate) Gerhard van Suchtelen (1640–1722) stands gracefully in a domestic interior gazing out at the viewer with an air of restrained elegance. Deventer, located in the province of Overijssel in the eastern portion of the Netherlands, held tightly to tradition and conservative values, qualities that Gerhard conveys with his somber black attire:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 7 January-15 March 1884, no. 60, as Portrait of a Man
