Painting details

Although I am used to looking at contemporary art -- which often broadcasts its messages with great immediacy -- I found myself slowing down and scanning the 15-century works on view in their entirety, hoping for more subtle moments.

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Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi — one of fewer than 20 extant paintings accepted as from the artist’s own hand

HI RES Sir John Lavery [Irish painter best known for his portraits, 1856-1941] Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lavery Oil on canvas

19th Century, British oil on canvas Charles Edward Perugini [Italian-born English painter of the Victorian era, 1839 – 1918] Son-in-law to Charles Dickens. Biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Perugini

The Paris Apartment has always been known for our French boudoir furniture and accessories, both real antiques flea market finds.

Last month saw a new exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The show highlights the work of John Singer Sargent.

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Madeleine with a Poppy (detail) - By Emile Vernon (1913)

“i burn for u”

Pierre van Hanselaere, 1820

artgif: “Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), Portrait of Beatrice, Countess of Oxford (detail), 1638 ”

Rubens

oil painting