Paintings in Private collection

Portrait of an Arab by Horace Vernet

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January 10, 2014African Islamic Portrait PaintingNo comments

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In his time, painter of the “Portrait of an Arab”, Horace Vernet didn’t need an introduction, as he worked for the contemporary King Louis-Philippe and Napoléon III of France. Though, he is still remembered with an honor in art-communities. In early 19th century, he was renowned for his great artworks like Dog of the Regiment, Death of Poniatowski and Battle of Montmirail. His fields of interests varied only between portraits, Arabians and battles. And he didn’t want to paint in the traditional ways. He had grown a particular disinclination with traditional idealized ways of paintings. He wanted to draw things with more general touch and feel, instead of giving his subjects an idealized pose; he created his paintings with more vernacular manner. Thus, the viewer […]

An Egyptian Beauty by William Clarke Wontner

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January 9, 2014Islamic Portrait PaintingNo comments

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With sharp details and acute description, in “An Egyptian Beauty”, English painter William Wontner has portrayal a vivid depiction of an ancient Egyptian woman with contemporary attire. The rich attire, ornaments and the surrounding of a room (from a palace probably) shows her as a woman from an aristocrat or royal family. Painter has depicted her in such a grace and feminine posture that any person would immediately fall in love with her. The perfect clothing and the details of the clothes are astonishing. Look closely at the dual colored waist-cloth. That’s something really hard to achieve with oil on canvas. It seems deliberate choosing bright and attractive colors to gain instant attention at the lady. The title says the woman is from the Egyptian […]

Christmas Decorating by Stevan Dohanos

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December 25, 201320th Century Genre Painting WesternNo comments

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‘Christmas Decorating’ consist, a ‘Professional building’ where works grumpy looking bosses and quiet employees; we can’t imagine such place celebrating something which is always indulged in reaching the goals and finishing the everyday work. Nowadays, the christams fever has reached everywhere. From offices to government to little shops to MNCs and website will look like the Christmas themes is their original theme from the start. But, in old days of 1960s when the American realist artist Steven Dohanos depicted this painting ‘Christmas Decorating’, maybe the professional world was reluctant about expressing their Christmas celebrations openly or maybe they had just started it. “Professional Building” board in the front with clearly given importance in the painting and a doctor and a nurse decorating their ‘professional’ clinic […]

Christmas, Doctor, Hospital

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

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December 25, 201319th Century History Painting WesternNo comments

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Washington crossing the Delaware is one of the historical moments in the America history which the German History painter Emanuel Gottlieb has depicted on the canvas by representing Washington and his comrades in a heroic manner. The crossing took place on December 25-26, 1776, to take down the Hessain forces in Trenton , New Jersey. It was the beginning of the ‘Ten Crucial Days’ about Washington’s endeavors for victory in New Jersey. It was supposed to be a surprise attack and that’s why it took place in total darkness. Though, artist has taken some liberty show the troops in the early morning for the clear visuals of the scene and people. Well, the painting gave the painter a huge success and name in the country […]

Paradise Lost by John Martin

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December 20, 2013History Painting WesternNo comments

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The current picture is not a painting. It is a mezzotint engraving, a popular form of art in 17th and 18th century. The technique is still in use but its original form has become limited in use, after the new technologies and publication mediums. The current engraving is titled as Paradise Lost by John Martin. It was commissioned by Samual Prowett to John Martin fort the John Martin’s epic poem called Paradise Lost. His romantic depictions were of grand level and scale. It would often include big sceneries covering cities, mountains and lakes with dark themes. The current depiction represents the city of Pandemonium, the capital of hell, as described in the Paradise Lost. The term Pandemonium was also coined by John Milton which literally […]

Angel, Mezzotint

Tower Of Babel by Marten Van Valckenborch I

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December 19, 2013Genre Painting WesternNo comments

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The whole story of Tower of Babel concludes as the reason of the different languages on earth. The tower of babe is the reason, the face of earth adheres so many different languages, totally dissimilar to each other. Story of babel goes like this in Book of Genesis: People with one language and similar mentality coming from east sets out a quest to build a tower so high, which could reach the skies, or ‘the heavens’ as some descriptions says. Gods didn’t like this and thought it as a dishonor. To stop them, some of the gods came down on earth and scattered the people building the tower on the different part of the world and giving them different languages. Thus, they stopped making […]