Thursday, April 16, 2020

Paintings of Artists at Work / Studio Spaces - Before 1900

follower of Johann Heiss
Interior of Sculptor's Studio
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

attributed to Jacob de Wit
Painting
ca. 1750-54
oil on canvas
The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

attributed to Jacob de Wit
Sculpture
ca. 1750-54
oil on canvas
The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Étienne Jeaurat
Interior of an Artist's Studio
1755
oil on canvas
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull

Alfred George Stevens
An Artist in his Studio
ca. 1840-42
oil on canvas
Tate Britain

Anonymous French Artist
Interior with Lady Painting
ca. 1840-60
oil on canvas
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham

from Wanderlust

If I hadn't jostled the mosaic
maybe I could stop the picture.
Buildings of stirred beach glass.

Cresting sunsets comb
the face, refine the land.
The world goes sad. Like now?

Like now. Even the ancients
felt slips, skips in experience
plotted as mathematical fact.

– Valerie Duff (2017)

Bernard Pieter Weiser
Ribera and his Family
ca. 1860
oil on panel
York City Art Gallery

James Digman Wingfield
John Birnie Philip's Studio, Manresa Road
ca. 1860
oil on panel
Chelsea Library, London

John Ballantyne
Thomas Faed at his Easel in his Studio
ca. 1863
oil on canvas
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

John Gilbert
Rembrandt's Studio
1869
oil on canvas
York City Art Gallery

Ralph Hedley
The Sculptor John Graham Lough in his Studio
1881
oil on canvas
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

John Quinton Pringle
Artist at an Easel
ca. 1885
oil on canvas
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Dermod O'Brien
The Fine Art Academy, Antwerp
1890
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Georges Croegaert
The Artist's Studio
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Wigan Arts and Heritage, Manchester

Mary Winifred Freeman
The Studio of Charles Napier Hemy at Churchfield, Falmouth
ca. 1895
watercolour
Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, Cornwall