Title Page for the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces of Japan by Hiroshige Hiroshige was born in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1797 and grew up in a minor samurai family. His father was part of the firefighting force assigned to Edo Castle. It was here that Hiroshige was given his first exposure to…

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06.07.2025

Mark (Max) Gertler. Part 1. – my daily art display

Max Gertler by Lady Ottoline Morrell vintage snapshot print, 1917. © National Portrait Gallery, London My featured artist today is Markz Gertler. He was one of the most prominent artists of his generation and an early member of the New English Art Club, elected in 1912. He was a painter of figures, portraits and still-life. Markz was…

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29.07.2025

Mark (Max) Gertler. Part 2. – my daily art display

Mark Gertler Gertler had now settled into life at the Slade art academy. One of his fellow students, C.R.W Nevinson summed up life at the Slade when he and Gertler were students there saying it was full with a crowd of men such as I have never seen before or since.. As far as his…

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25.08.2025

Suffolk Artists. Part 1. – my daily art display

Britain had a number of locations favoured by artists. There was Newlyn in the south-west and Snowdonia in North Wales to mention just two. In the next two blogs I want to look at artists who were born or worked in the south-east county of Suffolk during the late eighteent6h century to the early twentieth…

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Mark (Max) Gertler. Part 2. – my daily art display

Suffolk Artists. Part 1. – my daily art display

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