In the 19th century, families often welcomed clergy into their homes, particularly when churches could not afford to offer housing. Here, Richard Norris Brooke depicts a traditional pastoral visit.
museum curator, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Collection, National Park
Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B.
Woman Holding a Balance is a superb example of Johannes Vermeer’s exquisite sense of stability and rhythm. A woman dressed in a blue jacket with fur trim stands serenely at a table in a corner of a room.
Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[8] inheritance from Estate of
Widener, Elkins Park, PA. Gift to NGA, 1942.
No one parties like the gods—at least not like the mythological ones in this painting, a collaboration by the Renaissance artists Giovanni Bellini and Titian. The picture was the first in a series of bacchanals commissioned by Duke Alfonso d’Este to decorate the camerino d’alabastro (alabaster study) of his castle in Ferrara.
Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, after purchase in 1921 by funds of the estate
This monumental view of the Hudson River Valley was painted from memory in the artist’s London studio. Cropsey adopted a high vantage point, looking southeast toward the distant Hudson River and the flank of Storm King Mountain.
View of America’s Painter of Autumn, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park
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Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural scenery enlivened by the presence of peasants or hunters.
[d. 1841], London and later Erlestoke Park, Devizes, Wiltshire;[3] (his sale, Christie’s
descendant of "Captian Frazier" by an unidentified dealer.[1] (Thurston Thacher, Hyde Park
caramel-brown and with long, floppy ears sits in a garden setting near a green park
