19th Century Art
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Thomas Eakins' The Agnew Clinic
Well-known for his 1875 The Gross Clinic, Thomas Eakins later painted The Agnew Clinic, another medical portrait which forthrightly depicted the trauma of breast cancer. more...
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paris
Views of the French capital by Impressionists Caillebotte and Monet and Post-Impressionists Van Gogh and Seurat. more...
Harvest Scenes in 19th Century Art
Views of harvest-time by artists Camille Pissarro, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. more...
Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, as depicted in works by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Alexandre Cabanel, Gustave Moreau and Jean André Rixens. more...
Late 19th Century Scenes of Summer
Three paintings by American-born artists Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins captured new views of the Good Old Summertime. more...
Best known for her loving scenes of mothers and children, Mary Cassatt also painted an 1873 series of Spanish works that showed an adventurously emerging talent. more...
Before an untimely death from tuberculosis, Marie Bashkirtseff began a promising art career and kept vast journals detailing her unique perspective and life. more...
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The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of English painters poets and critics, that was founded in 1848. They championed for a more traditional "natural" way of painting. more...
Gericault & The Raft of the "Medusa"
Gericault a French Neo-Baroque painter is most known for this dramatic painting based on actual events. more...
Active from the late 1870s until his death in 1909, Dillon depicted studio, street, café and theater scenes in the medium of which he was a master: lithography. more...
Elizabeth Siddal – Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse
By: Jenny Ashford
Though she was a poet and artist in her own right, Lizzie Siddal is best known as the idealized model of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. more...
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an Overview
The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood created a stir with their paintings and influence a lot of artists with their theme and ideas, the imagery they produced became famous. more...
Avant-Garde – Towards Abstraction
Synthetism marks a move within avant-garde at the end of the19th century, towards art's autonomy based on purification of forms and independence of external influences. more...
Realism was the first revolutionary art movement which openly and explicitly posed a challenge to the authorities and is regarded as the first avant-garde movement. more...
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