tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00MAKING A MARKUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14449125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-55060039006503524182022-06-14T12:48:11.475+00:002022-06-14T12:48:11.475+00:00Sorry forgot to include details of the search. As ...Sorry forgot to include details of the search. As with last week's painting I thought this might be the RA summer exhibition and this time I was right. I Googled drawing of the RA summer exhibition and the first hit was this picture.John Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03540610703510610534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-63051539422523312232022-06-14T12:44:06.364+00:002022-06-14T12:44:06.364+00:00Title The Exhibition of the Royal Academy 1787
Art...Title The Exhibition of the Royal Academy 1787<br />Artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg<br />Date 1787<br />Medium Line Etching<br />Where it Lives The RA have a copy in a portfolio of170 prints titled The British School II containing works from 1730 to 1810. The British Museum also have a copy.<br /><br />Ramberg also did a print of the1788 exhibition.<br /><br />This one shows Joshua Reynolds with his arm raised in the centre of the picture with The Prince of Wales standing next to him.<br /><br />Ramberg lived from 1763 to 1840. He was born in Hannover and spent most of his life in Germany. He studied at RA in 1781 and returned to Germany via the Netherlands in 1788 and became one of the best known illustrators in Germany.John Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03540610703510610534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-7905602501741885022022-06-12T17:55:45.256+00:002022-06-12T17:55:45.256+00:00I first found a coloured version on https://finear...I first found a coloured version on https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-exhibition-of-the-royal-academy-1787-pietro-antonio-martini.html and using that title and artist information found it here https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/the-exhibition-of-the-royal-academy-1787<br />I used similar search terms to last week as I was fairly certain I'd spotted this in the image search, "painting with many paintings", chose one that wasn't it, but the "images like this" brought up the target picture.<br /><br />The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787, 1 July 1787<br />After Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763 - 1840)<br /><br />RA Collection: Art<br /><br />Title The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787<br />Artist/designer After Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763 - 1840)<br />Engraved by Pietro Antonio Martini (1739 - 1797)<br />Published by Anthony Poggi (fl. 1769 - post-1805)<br />Date 1 July 1787<br />Object type Print<br />Medium Line engraving<br />Dimensions 320 mm x 491 mm<br />Collection Royal Academy of Arts<br />Acquisition Given by Anthony Poggi 1787adequarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16083578516951842083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-19244570161597560432022-06-12T17:30:14.049+00:002022-06-12T17:30:14.049+00:00When I was searching for #68 remembered seeing a s...When I was searching for #68 remembered seeing a similar photo among the results of images of Academy exhibitions. Your copy may be a poster or photograph from a newspaper seeing the sections. This is an engraving by the artist Pietro Antonio Martini, 1738–1797. It also mentioned another artist on the site, Ramberg, Johann Heinrich. He may have painted the engraved print. Engraving of a crowded scene at the Royal Academy 1787 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House. The Prince of Wales is being shown around.<br />This annual exhibition presented work by contemporary artists. It began in 1769 and became a major fixture in London's artistic and social life - an opportunity to buy art, exercise taste and be seen.<br />Engraving on paper<br />Height: 36.1cm<br />Width: 49.9cm<br />Housed at Victoria and Albert Museum, London On display V&A South Kensingtoncarol edanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15613981984625593843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-40562235870963476282022-06-12T16:32:14.534+00:002022-06-12T16:32:14.534+00:00The exhibition of the royal academy, 1787, engravi...The exhibition of the royal academy, 1787, engraving by Martini from an original attributed to Johan Ramberg. Printed in brown ink, part of a portfolio of engravings concerning the history of the RA, and now in its collection. It's a view of the 'Great Room ' in Somerset House, which is apparently the oldest purpose designed exhibition space in London, and the largest space in Somerset House, and is now a centrepiece room of the cortauld gallery, showing impressionist art, but was then the home of the RA. Topical because this year's summer exhibition opens in a couple of weeks. I got it from the room really - it's very distinctive. I was there in December. It looks as though your copy of the engraving has seen better days!<br />Paul Lackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09259703670113798743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-54974929887836291522022-06-06T17:25:49.622+00:002022-06-06T17:25:49.622+00:00glad to hear you are doing so well, glad to hear you are doing so well, 5minutesfromcoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13115118290251825644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-19604565322839269382022-06-06T16:20:01.607+00:002022-06-06T16:20:01.607+00:00Artist Johann Zoffany
Title The Tribuna of the Uff...Artist Johann Zoffany<br />Title The Tribuna of the Uffizi<br />Date 1772 - 1778<br />Medium Oil Painting<br />Dimensions 123.5 X 155 cm<br />Location Royal Collection Windsor Castle<br />Johann Zoffany was a founder member of the Royal Academy and painter several pictures in this style in later life including one showing the members of the Royal Academy.<br />He was commissioned to paint the Uffizi by the Hanoverian Queen Charlotte. He arranged for a number of other artworks to be moved into this gallery before painting. The Wikipedia entry for the painting lists the artworks shown and shows the original works for comparison.<br /><br />He is also the only Royal Academician to be a cannibal following a shipwreck in the Andaman Islands.<br />Search I didn't know the artist but thought the subject might be the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. I tried googling paintings of the summer exhibition but this was a fruitless search. Google suggested searching for RA artists and this eventually led me to Johann Zoffany. Annoyingly the RA page for RA artists has Zoffany's picture of the Royal Academicians as a background but gives no information about it. Looking at that image led me to think it was by the same artist and so I was eventually able to track him down and so discovered that he also painted this one.John Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03540610703510610534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-89926208338985507652022-06-05T19:32:15.169+00:002022-06-05T19:32:15.169+00:00How vexing, I knew I recognised this, but other th...How vexing, I knew I recognised this, but other than thinking it was 18th Century had no idea of who painted it. I was convinced it was something to do with the Paris Salon or Salon de Refuses or the Royal Academy. Various searches of "painting of many paintings" or similar brought up similar concepts, but not the right one. Finally I tried "painting of Royal Academy" and it was the fourth image in the list, even though that isn't the title nor the subject!<br /><br />I can now claim to know that the painting is The Tribuna of the Uffizi, by Johan Zoffany, 1772-7<br />It forms part of The Royal Collection, housed in Windsor Castle and is painted in oil.<br /><br />The room depicted is an octagonal gallery in The Florence Gallery/Galleria degli Uffizi and the things shown within it were gathered from several locations so that Zoffany could illustrate the works in the Medici collection that he thought were most important.<br /><br />The figures inspecting the pieces are apparently recognisable connoisseurs, diplomats and visitors to Florence, including Zoffany himself.adequarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16083578516951842083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-79333890030953502652022-06-05T17:25:08.230+00:002022-06-05T17:25:08.230+00:00Artist Johan Zoffany
Tribuna of the Uffizi
Date 17...Artist Johan Zoffany<br />Tribuna of the Uffizi<br />Date 1772 1778<br />Oil Painting on canvas/panel<br />46.6"x61"<br />Royal Collection, Windsor Castle <br />How I found this painting using escosia search engine<br />First search keywords painting exhibition academy<br />Second painting of an exposition royal academy 1800 and1700<br />Third artists that painted royal academy exhibitions 1800 is where I found the image <br /><br />Zoffany was commissioned in 1772 by the Queen to paint highlights of the Grand Duke of Tuscany's collection shown in the Tribuna of the Uffizi Palace link to full description.<br />https://www.rct.uk/collection/406983/the-tribuna-of-the-uffizicarol edanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15613981984625593843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-22166919756021902832022-06-02T19:12:56.385+00:002022-06-02T19:12:56.385+00:00the title of the artwork - La Table (The Table)
th...the title of the artwork - La Table (The Table)<br />the name of the artist who created this artwork - Pierre Bonnard<br />the date it was created - 1925<br />the media used - oil on canvas, and it is 40.5 x 29.5 inches<br />where it lives now - Tate Museum<br />how you know all this eg how did you do your search - I Google-searched Pierre Bonnard paintings and after quite a long two day search, this popped up!<br />anything else you can find out about the artwork and/or artist - tell its story! - this is a cut and paste from the Tate website: This painting was bought as a result of the Courtauld Fund. In January 1924 the wealthy textile manufacturer Samuel Courtauld gave the large sum of £50,000 to create a trust for buying Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works for the Tate Gallery. Between 1924 and 1927 the Trust bought nineteen paintings by artists such as Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne. This donation transformed the Tate’s Collection of modern art by non-British artists. This significant painting was acquired only a year after it was made, and was the first work by Bonnard to enter the Tate Collection.<br /><br />Thank you Katherine, I love "who painted this" and I usually don't know, but I knew right away this was a Bonnard!<br />Terihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09368036660110288720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-2864847338849432012022-06-01T17:12:28.999+00:002022-06-01T17:12:28.999+00:00The breakthrough for me was realising this was an ...The breakthrough for me was realising this was an impressionist painting...<br />After a variety of searches around "painting child table" with or without "lemons" "bowl" "feast" and in desperation "birthday", and futile attempts to narrow down medium or location I tried "impressionist painting child table birthdya food" [typo included] and struck it lucky.<br />The second image shown (after pinterest wanting to show me "art party foods") was from the Tate's website showing The Table/La Table, by Pierre Bonnard, 1925.<br />Oil on canvas (so my earlier searches using "oil painting" were on track).<br />The painting was bought as a result of the Courtauld Fund, established in 1924 to support the Tate Gallery in acquiring impressionist and post-impressionist works.The Table was acquired only a year after it was made, and was the first work by Bonnard to enter the Tate Collection.<br />On further digging it appears I misidentified the "child" who is believed to be Marthe Bonnard, the artist's wife. And in further news to me, she is looking towards a dog whose muzzle is faintly visible on the left, and seems to be preparing its food in a bowl. I mean, I see it now, but that isn't what I thought was going on.<br />adequarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16083578516951842083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-33188687063562224432022-05-31T12:48:45.130+00:002022-05-31T12:48:45.130+00:00Name of painting - The Table (La Table)
Artist - P...Name of painting - The Table (La Table)<br />Artist - Pierre Bonnard<br />Date - 1925<br />Media - Oil on Canvas<br />Dimensions - 1029 x 743 mm<br />Where it lives - Tate though not currently on show<br />Bought by the Tate in 1926 as part of 19 paintings made possible by a gift of £50000 from the Courtald Fund ( you'd need more than£50 million to buy them now). The figure at the top of the painting is his wife Marthe who features in many of his paintings.<br />The painting was included in Tate Modern's Bonnard exhibition in 2019 - the Guardian reviewed this and this has a nice paragraph on this painting - see https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/01/pierre-bonnard-the-painter-with-the-golden-touch-archive-1966<br />Search - I thought it was by Bonnard and guessed it was a breakfast table so Googled Bonnard Breakfast Table. He did in fact paint a breakfast table but fortunately this search also returned other paintings with the word table in the title including this one.<br />I don't know where you saw it in 2018. The only Bonnard exhibition I could find in that year was in Tokyo although I think it unlikely this painting was included as the exhibition was mainly taken from the Musee d'Orsay.John Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03540610703510610534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-13878358753772512922022-05-29T18:35:33.801+00:002022-05-29T18:35:33.801+00:00I recognized this as an impressionist work so star...I recognized this as an impressionist work so started my search using impressionism table seated woman. When I didn't find any results started using the artist's name in the search. Started with Cezanne,Matisse,Mary Cassatt, and Pierre Bonnard. I am currently using Esconia as my primary search engine. Find it very fast and accurate.<br />Title The Table<br />Painted 1925<br />Purchased by the Courtland Fund in 1926 for Tate Museum. His first painting to enter Tate's collection.<br />Oil on canvas 102.9 x 74.3 cm<br />This painting was part of an exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum in NY 2009 #15<br />Bonnard is well known for his domestic scenes of everyday life.<br />The woman is probably his wife Martha, preparing a simple meal.<br />Acquired from the artist by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris<br />Independent Gallery, London<br />presented by the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund to the Tate Gallery, 1926carol edanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15613981984625593843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-42439619521311769702022-05-29T18:07:14.684+00:002022-05-29T18:07:14.684+00:00Bonnard 'the table' in the Tate collection...Bonnard 'the table' in the Tate collection but not currently on show. I was chuffed to bits to go straight to it. I didn't know the painting, but I thought 'that looks like Bonnard' and there it was. I went to the exhibition of his work at Tate Modern, though I don't actually remember this one being in that, and that was early 2019 so can't have been where you saw it. I came home massively enthused by his colour, but extremely worried by what looked very like a toxic co-dependent relationship with his wife, especially as he went on painting her as a young woman right into old age. There is an almost mesmeric quality to a lot of his interiors which as a photographer striving to capture atmosphere I would love to emulate.Paul Lackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09259703670113798743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-21737561600185679492022-05-29T17:43:52.212+00:002022-05-29T17:43:52.212+00:00This is La table painted in oils by Pierre Bonnard...This is La table painted in oils by Pierre Bonnard in 1925. It belongs to the Tate Gallery. I saw it in Paris in 1984 in a Bonnard exhibition at the Centre Pompidou and I got this information from my catalogue of the exhibition which was also shown at the Phillips Collection in Washington and also in Dallas, the same year.French Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11366566974229902306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-21740047959702305762022-05-29T08:51:12.584+00:002022-05-29T08:51:12.584+00:00YOU NEED TO LEAVE COMMENTS ON THE BLOG POST - NOT ...YOU NEED TO LEAVE COMMENTS ON THE BLOG POST - NOT ON THIS PAGEMaking A Markhttps://makingamark.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-47578570992987015452022-05-24T18:34:34.928+00:002022-05-24T18:34:34.928+00:00Please note I meant Sunday to Tuesday for my searc...Please note I meant Sunday to Tuesday for my search described in my previous comments, getting my days wrong!! Anyway, it was a very entertaining search! Ray Heatonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-31101346988981561512022-05-24T18:10:52.899+00:002022-05-24T18:10:52.899+00:00This challenge was just that, a real challenge, at...This challenge was just that, a real challenge, at least for me. <br /><br />The search:<br /><br />I tried to do as you suggest, but searches for "Surf and Turf", "Fish and Game" and such like didn't get me anywhere. I obviously wasn't looking closely enough! Maybe the cat is a clue..."Cat and Game" took me to Frans Snyders, not an artist I know but looked promising. Searching through his paintings didn't result in a match, but certainly similarities in style and subject matter. Hmmmm, Flemish then, probably (!), perhaps a pupil of Snyders, perhaps influenced by him and if so the painting could be mid to late 1600s. Nicasius Bernaerts, Peter van Boucle, Jan Fyt...not names I recognised and none painted this painting.<br /><br />A bit of a rethink, try "Baroque still life", seems hopeful but still not finding the right painting. " Baroque still life with cat and game", lots of hits taking me back to Snyders, it must be by him I thought, but that search led me to a painting called Still Life with Cat and Fish by Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin, not quite the right style so not him, but the title looked promising (and perhaps in hindsight rather obvious), so a painting with that title maybe...and there it was, or rather "Still Life with Fish and Cat" shown on Art UK.<br /><br />I started this search on Monday, it was Wednesday when I found it, finding lots of "new to me" Flemish artists on the way!<br /><br />The Painting and The Artist:<br /><br />Still Life with Fish and Cat, by Alexander Adriaenssen, painted in about 1631and held at York Art Gallery ...and was temporarily on display at the National Gallery during a major refurbishment at York Gallery started in 2013 with a grand reopening in August 2015: I'm guessing you saw the painting at the National? <br /><br />York Museums Trust web site describes the painting as Oil on Oak, sized excluding frame as 46.9cm by 64.4cm.<br /><br />Alexander Adriaenssen, 1587-1661, a Flemish Baroque painter, known for his still-lifes of fish and game, banquet pieces and "pronkstillevens", (Dutch for 'ostentatious'), and influenced by Frans Stevens. Wikipedia states that Alexander produced more than 60 works showing raw fish: not my idea of a great subject!<br /><br />The National Gallery refers to the artist as "the Elder" and states the painting was included in a bequest to the York Art Gallery by John Burton in 1882. York Art Gallery describes the bequest of 126 paintings as the foundation for a permanent collection of art for York.<br /><br /><br />Ray Heatonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-83975594248267194482022-05-24T13:58:30.232+00:002022-05-24T13:58:30.232+00:00#66 This painting I have never seen before but at ...#66 This painting I have never seen before but at first, Ithought it to be by Chardin. However, because of the 'silver fish' I started to wonder if was by Baroque artist Van Beyeren. However, now I am doubting that, as I do not think he painted small dead birds in his fish still lives so now I am back to thinking it is Chardin. Jean-Baptiste Smeon Chardin - a superb, beautiful painter of still life objects. Often he depicted exotic food on wonderful silver platters. His paintings would have advertised his technical brilliance to any potential wealthy patrons. His oil painting techniques describe the texture, weight and form of objects from knives and silver platters to the flesh of fish, fruit and feathers on birds etc. He captures candle light and day light on the glint of galss etc, His unvarnised table tops add to the impression that the objects could appear in everyday households. Chardin is famous for his painting of the Skate and sometimes features kittens alongside dead fish. 17th Century work where still life objects are symbolic of religious and moral values known by all at the time. Sorry, don't know where this painting resides and not sure that it is a Chardin work. Last comment - I love the painting of a jar of apricots where almost photographically, Chardin captures the steam rising from a hot cup of tea. A very modern device implying that the person drinking the tea has stepped away for a moment. Can't wait to discover the identity of the artist and the title in your next blogg.Lozahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094556948206290121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-66960118291497426892022-05-24T10:16:16.271+00:002022-05-24T10:16:16.271+00:00Apologies, I just posted my comment as anonymous b...Apologies, I just posted my comment as anonymous by mistake! I’m Hazel BrentHazelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-65537075354921048582022-05-24T10:14:50.450+00:002022-05-24T10:14:50.450+00:00This painting is Still Life with Fish and a Cat by...This painting is Still Life with Fish and a Cat by Alexander Adriaenssen. <br />It was painted in 1631 in oil on oak and is part of York Art Gallery’s collection. It was bequeathed to the gallery by John Burton in 1882.<br />Alexander Adriaenssen was a Flemish painter who lived and worked in Antwerp. He was particularly known for his paintings of raw fish (c. 60 of these) but also created still life’s featuring fruit, game and flowers. His influences include Frans Synders who painted large scale still life’s that contrasted game and other produce with life animals such as cats. The Haarlem school also had an impact on his painting style. His compositions are characterised by an asymmetrical diagonal layout—a triangle standing on end flanked by ellipses—with objects overlapping over multiple planes for greater depth. He used a sober palette, which tended to the monochrome. An important feature of his work was also its purity of colour.<br />The painting was easier for me to find than your previous posts as I recognised that it was by a Flemish artist. So, I could search for Flemish paintings with cats and fish. It was interesting to find out more about the artist as I grew to love Flemish art of this period whilst working in Belgium and the Netherlands. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-54167090811390879222022-05-24T06:21:34.751+00:002022-05-24T06:21:34.751+00:00This image eluded me on regular google search of S...This image eluded me on regular google search of Still Life Fish as keywords. I used other online search engines and found the image on Bing. <br />Still Life with Fish and Cat by Alexander Adriaenssen. Painted 1631. Oils on panel.<br />Alexender Adriaenssen was a Flemish Baroque painter and well known for his still-lifes of fish and game. The painting is in the collection of The York Museums Trust.carol edanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15613981984625593843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-7469265404503305342022-05-24T01:38:40.509+00:002022-05-24T01:38:40.509+00:00Possibly artist Dutch artist Isaac van Duynen titl...Possibly artist Dutch artist Isaac van Duynen titled 'Fish on a table' dated circa 1660. Saw a few of his similar still life works with this same title in an exhibition in the National Gallery on Dutch still life painters that held me in awe - van Duynen and especially Willem Heda. Breathtaking detail and always included a lemon being peeled and also included oysters.Margaret Bestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-81037422405967371362022-05-19T16:45:01.036+00:002022-05-19T16:45:01.036+00:00Do artists get compensated for the painting that i...Do artists get compensated for the painting that is chosen as a gift?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-26599046191282259072022-05-19T16:44:18.781+00:002022-05-19T16:44:18.781+00:00I would like to know the name of the artist who wa...I would like to know the name of the artist who was one of 3 finalists on Episode 4 of 2015. First name Debbie, last name Grass? Gratz? Gross? I loved her painting and would like to se more of her work. Thanks youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com