Visual & Performing Arts

19th Century Art

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Whistler's Nocturne Falling Rocket: Subject of Libel Suit Against Critic John Ruskin in 1878

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Artist Frederic Bazille: French Impressionist Painter

By: Meg Nola

John Constable's Tribute: A Painting to Memorialize a Monument for Sir Joshua Reynolds

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Gustave Caillebotte: French Impressionist Painter

By: Meg Nola

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll: Artist and Royal Free Spirit

By: Meg Nola

John Singer Sargent: Artist and Portrait Painter

By: Meg Nola

Naturalistic Self-Portraits: With a Fellow Artist, With a Black Dog, and With the Colosseum

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

The Pre-Raphaelites: origins of a brotherhood of English 19th century artists

By: George Frederick Winter

Which 19th-Century Painter: What are Millais, Beardsley, Cezanne, and Monet known for?

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Guess the European Artist: Can You Name These 19th-Century English and French Painters?

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

"The Poor Poet”: This painting by Carl Spitzweg is filled with symbols – from the familiar scene of the starving artist living in a remote loft to the top hat, walking stick and cravat that epitomizes a typical 19th-century German – and is itself a symbol of the Biedermeier era.

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

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