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Vroom (1566–1640). [6] Whether painting shipwrecks or vessels sailing in a brisk wind
Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
The skirt flickers around the stick as if in a strong wind.
Rich and poor mingle on the frozen waters of a river. From the lower left corner, a man quietly observes the many skaters.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, 1997, unnumbered brochure. 2018 Water, Wind
The river continues to wind into the deep distance, where towns nestle along the
With „The Skater,“ Stuart blazed a new path in British portraiture. Its details tell the story of skating in 18th-century Britain.
So Stuart may have caught wind of Joseph Wright’s Two Young Gentleman in the Characters
Reinier Nooms, an Amsterdam painter and graphic artist also known as Reinier Zeeman (which means seaman), specialized in maritime subjects. His career coincided with the heyday of Dutch commercial and maritime power in the 17th century, and Amsterdam’s bustling harbor in the IJ estuary provided Nooms with much of his artistic inspiration.
Exhibition History 2018 Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 81-87, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
He looks off to our left almost in profile, and his wavy gray hair is wind tousled
Gallery Nights Matisse Advanced Artwork Search Studies of Notus for "The Winds
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Aert van der Neer possessed a wonderful ability to convey the activities and atmosphere of a calm winter day. Under a light blue sky scattered with clouds, people of all ages skate, push sleds, ride in horse-drawn sleighs, and socialize on a frozen river.
Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro. 2018 Water, Wind
