Word: gainsboroughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elegant portraitists, Reynolds and Gainsborough, ruled the calm and decorous art world of 18th Century London. But there was also an opposition, most notably represented by young, deeply religious William Blake with his alternately angelic and demonic visions. Others in the opposition ducked the angels; they preferred...
Naked Royalty. In art, it was a period dominated by elegance and smugness. His contemporaries, Guardi in Italy, Fragonard in France and Gainsborough in England, all devoted 'themselves to the depiction of pomp and pleasure. Goya did, too, but he painted pompous fools and smirking harlots. He was as harsh and realistic a portraitist as ever lived (and sometimes a surprisingly offhand one), but that did not prevent him from becoming Madrid's court painter. Goya's paintings of the royal family were much admired, for no one dared admit that he showed them naked...
...Gulbenkian did not always show classic taste. He fell in love with, and bought, the original of the popular old chromo, September Morn, a fact which embarrasses him nowadays. But few experts could criticize the taste, or the diversity, of a collection which included prime examples of Hals, Gainsborough, Degas and Manet. His crystalline views of Venice by Francesco Guardi were matched against a soft, misty one by Corot. He contrasted Stefan Lochner's strict, gothic Presentation in the Temple with a tasty chunk of cheesecake by Francois Boucher, entitled Cupid and the Graces. Clearly, Collector Gulbenkian...
Together with Ascot, his family home in Leighton Buzzard, Banker Anthony de Rothschild, third son of Leopold, turned over his "priceless" art collection (paintings by Hogarth, Rubens and Gainsborough, Ming and Sung dynasty Chinese porcelain, etc.) to the British National Trust...
...owner, wondering whether he had a genuine Gainsborough, wrote for information to the skater's son in Virginia. The portrait, came the reply, "was painted by an American artist little known in England but highly appreciated in America. His name, Stuart...