Great Painters Art Galleries: Jul 26, 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

John White Alexander Art Gallery: A Toiler

John White Alexander Art Gallery

Painting: A Toiler-1898

John White Alexander Online Art Gallery: A Ray of Sunlight

John White Alexander Art Gallery

Painting: A Ray of Sunlight-1898

John White Alexander Art Gallery: Anna Palmer Draper

John White Alexander Art Gallery

Painting: Anna Palmer Draper-1888

John White Alexander Art Gallery: An Idle Moment

John White Alexander Art Gallery

Painting: An Idle Moment-1885

The Art of John White Alexander: A Meadow Flower

John White Alexander Art Gallery

Painting: A Meadow Flower-1912

The Art of John White Alexander: Althea

The Art of John White Alexander

Painting: Althea-1895

The Art of John White Alexander: A King's Daughter

Art of John White Alexander

Painting: A King's Daughter-1889

John White Alexander

John White Alexander

John White Alexander (7 October 1856 – 31 May 1915) was an American portrait, figure, and decorative painter and illustrator.

John White Alexander Art Gallery

John White Alexander Biography

Alexander was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Orphaned in infancy, he was reared by his grandparents and at the age of 12 became a telegraph boy in Pittsburgh. His talent at drawing attracted the attention of one of his employers, who assisted him to develop them. He moved to New York at the age of eighteen and worked in an office at Harper's Weekly, where he was an illustrator and political cartoonist at the same time that Abbey, Pennell, Pyle, and other celebrated illustrators labored there. After an apprenticeship of three years, he travelled to Munich for his first formal training. Owing to the lack of funds, he removed to the village of Polling, Bavaria, and worked with Frank Duveneck. They travelled to Venice, where he profited by the advice of Whistler, and then he continued his studies in Florence, the Netherlands, and Paris.

In 1881 he returned to New York and speedily achieved great success in portraiture, numbering among his sitters Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Burroughs, Henry G. Marquand, R. A. L. Stevenson, and president McCosh of Princeton University. His first exhibition in the Paris Salon of 1893 was a brilliant success and was followed by his immediate election to the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. Many additional honors were bestowed on him. In 1889 he painted for Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank a well-received portrait of Walt Whitman and one of her husband, Jeremiah Milbank. In 1901 he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and in 1902 he became a member of the National Academy of Design. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and President of the National Society of Mural Painters. Among the gold medals received by him were those of the Paris Exposition (1900) and the World's Fair at St. Louis (1904).

Alexander was married to Elizabeth Alexander Alexander, to whom he was introduced in part because of their shared last name. Elizabeth was the daughter of James Waddell Alexander, President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at the time of the Hyde Ball scandal. The Alexanders had one child, the mathematician James Waddell Alexander II.

John White Alexander died in New York on 31 May 1915.

Many of his paintings are in museums and public places in the United States and in Europe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Butler Institute, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. In addition, in the entrance hall to the Art Museum of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, a series of Alexander's murals entitled "Apotheosis of Pittsburgh" (1905–1907) covers the walls of the three-storey atrium area.

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The Art of Fedor Alekseev.

The Art of the Russian painter, Fedor Alekseev, is now on the blog.

Fedor Alekseyev Art: View of the Stock Exchange and the Admiralty from the Fortress of St-Peter and Paul

Fedor Alekseyev Online Art Gallery

Painting: View of the Stock Exchange and the Admiralty from the Fortress of St-Peter and Paul-1810

The Art of Fedor Alekseyev: View of the Palace Sea front From the Fortress of St-Peter and Paul

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery

View of the Palace Sea front From the Fortress of St-Peter and Paul-1791

The Art of Fedor Alekseyev: View of the Mikhailovsky Castle in St Petersburg

The Art of Fedor Alekseyev

Painting: View of the Mikhailovsky Castle in St Petersburg-1800

The Art of Fedor Alekseyev: View of the Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg

The Art of Fedor Alekseyev

Painting: View of the Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg-1811

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery: View of the English Embankmant from Visilievsky Island in St Petersburg

The Art of Fedor Alekseyev

View of the English Embankmant from Visilievsky Island in St Petersburg

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery: Town Square in Kherson

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery

Painting: Town Square in Kherson (1796-1797)

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery: The Monastery of Trinity

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery

The Monastery of Trinity (1800-1802)

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery: The Foundling Hospital in Moscow

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery

Painting: The Foundling Hospital in Moscow

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery: Red Square in Moscow

Fedor Alekseyev Art Gallery

Painting: Red Square in Moscow-1801

The Art of Fedor Alekseyev

Fedor Alekseyev Work of Art

Painting: Fedor Alekseev and his pupils

Fedor Alekseev

Fedor Alekseev

Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev (c. 1753 – November 23, 1824) was an early Russian painter of landscape art.

Fedor Alekseev Online Art Gallery

Fedor Alekseev

After training in the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, he spent three years in Venice studying the works of famous French and Italian landscape painters.

Returning to Saint Petersburg to work, his popularity grew over time. In 1800, Emperor Paul of Russia commissioned a series of paintings of Moscow from him.

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Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Online Art Gallery

Here is the Work of art of the Polish painter, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz: The Road to Bizerte, Tunisia

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Painting: The Road to Bizerte, Tunisia-1909

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz: Insurgents in the Forest

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Insurgents in the Forest-1875

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery: Stud of the Forest

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Painting: Stud of the Forest

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery: Rider

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Work of Art

Painting: Rider-1908

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery: Puszta

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery

Painting: Puszta-1908

The Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz: Portrait of Helena Modrzejewska

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Painting: Portrait of Helena Modrzejewska-1880

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Online Art Gallery: Portrait of a Caucasian

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Portrait of a Caucasian-1888

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Online Art Gallery: Nubijka

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Online Art Gallery

Painting: Nubijka-1885

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Online Art Gallery: Meeting in the Wilderness

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Online Art Gallery

Painting: Meeting in the Wilderness-1885

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery: Kaiser Franz Joseph I Observing Manuevers

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Online Art Gallery

Kaiser Franz Joseph I Observing Manuevers-1885

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery: Horses on Pasture

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery

Horses on Pasture-1874

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery: Horse Market on the Prairie

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery

Painting: Horse Market on the Prairie

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery: Horseman on the Steppe

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery

Painting: Horseman on the Steppe (1900)

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery: Horseman in a Red Coat

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery

Painting: Horseman in a Red Coat-1881

The Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz: Equestrian Portrait of Archduke Albrecht

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Art Gallery

Painting: Equestrian Portrait of Archduke Albrecht-1891

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz: Caravan of Camels in the Desert

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Painting: Caravan of Camels in the Desert

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz: Balkan Rider

Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Painting: Balkan Rider

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852 – January 9, 1916) was a Polish painter.

The Art of Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz Biography

He was born in Wieliczka. From 1868 to 1873, he studied under Władysław Luszczkiewicz in the Fine art school of Krakow. Later, he travelled to Vienna and Munich, and studied in Józef Brandt's atelier. In 1877, Ajdukiewicz travelled to Paris and the Near East. In 1882, he lived in Vienna, where he worked for the aristocracy. He painted a portrait of the Prince of Wales in 1883 while staying in London. He travelled to Constantinople in 1884, and was sultan Abdhulhamid II's guest. Subsequently, he worked in Sofia, Saint Petersburg and Bucharest. He joined the Polish Legions in 1914, during World War I, and he died in battle in Kraków on January 9, 1916.

Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz is mainly known for his portraits, such as The portrait of Helena Modrzejewska, and for his paintings of battle scenes. He was also noted for his genre paintings.

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