The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has one of the most significant and famous collection of artworks in the UK, which includes European Renaissance paintings, masterpieces by Rubens, Rembrandt, Turner and Stubbs, Pre-Raphaelite artworks by Rossetti and Millais, Impressionist works by Monet and Degas and contemporary works by Hockney, Wylie and the winners of the…

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07.10.2024

Ellen Day Hale – my daily art display

Portrait of Ellen Day Hale by Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown (1944) The artist I am looking at today is the American painter, Ellen Day Hale. Ellen Day Hale was born on February 11th, 1855 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was born into an elite Boston Brahmin Hale-Beecher family. The Boston Brahmins, sometimes referred to as the Boston…

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20.10.2024

Maria Slavona – my daily art display

Maria Slavona was born Marie Dorette Caroline Schorer on March 14th 1865 in the north German town of Lübeck. She was the daughter of the pharmacist Theodor Schorer and his wife Ottilie, (née Steger). Her father owned the Löwenapotheke on the corner of Königstraße, and Johannisstraße in the town, which is now known as Dr.-Julius-Leber-Straße. …

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27.10.2024

Thérèse Schwartze – my daily art display

Thérèse Schwartze - self portrait (1917) Therese Schwartze was a Dutch 20th century painter. Such was a hugely talented portrait artist that was one of only a few females who had been honoured by receiving an invitation to contribute her self-portrait to the hall of painters at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. This genius of…

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