Paintings

Jean-Frederic Schall

Posted Jul 1, 2009 at 22:50 CEST in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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Portrait of a lady, said to be Marie-Madeleine Guimard, called Mademoiselle Guimard, ballerina of the Paris Opéra.

I can’t find any information about the artist Jean-Frederic Schall on the internet, but he did a lot of paintings of dancers, as well as romantic and erotic paintings. Most of the paintings I’ve seen seem to be made in the 1780s. He did some lovely paintings and if you have any tips on where to find more paintings and information do let me know.

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History of American Women – 18th Century

Posted Apr 29, 2009 at 18:48 CEST in Blogs, Links, and Paintings.

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Mrs. Alexander Hamilton by Ralph Earl, 1787.

Here’s a great blog I just came across, History of American Women – 18th Century. Lots of portraits of and information about women in 18th century America.

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Historical Portraits

Posted Mar 9, 2009 at 19:27 CET in Databases, Fashion, Links, and Paintings.

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Portrait of Mrs James Denham by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1789.

Here’s a great resource for 18th century portraits. Historical Portraits is a database of British historical portraiture and there are some wonderful 18th century examples among them. There’s not a huge amount but the photos are generally great and there was a surprisingly large amount of portraits I hadn’t even seen before!

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Antoine Pesne

Posted Feb 10, 2009 at 14:47 CET in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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Antoine Pesne with his daughters, 1754.

Antoine Pesne was a French rococo portrait artist who lived between 1683 and 1757.

Antoine Pesne on Wikipedia, and on Swedish Wikipedia.

Antoine Pesne on Encyclopedia Britannica.

Antoine Pesne on Art Directory.

See more of Pesne’s paintings after the cut.

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Web Gallery of Art

Posted Feb 6, 2009 at 22:14 CET in Databases, Links, and Paintings.

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Jean-Laurent Mosnier, Portrait of a lady, 1791.

Here’s another online art database you can search by time period, the Web Gallery of Art. The easiest way to find the 18th century art is to go to the list of artists and choose period or time-line.

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The Finnish national gallery

Posted Jan 25, 2009 at 12:15 CET in Databases, Links, Museums, and Paintings.

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On the website of the Finnish national gallery you can search artworks by time period (just click “artworks”), and there are lots of 18th century ones.

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Pehr Hilleström

Posted Dec 1, 2008 at 22:39 CET in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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Self portrait.

Pehr Hilleström was a Swedish 18th century painter who often painted everyday scenes with great attention to detail.

Pehr Hilleström on Historiesajten. In Swedish.

Pehr Hilleström at Konstnärslexikonet Amanda. Also in Swedish.

Some Hilleström paintings after the cut.

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Jean-Louis Voille

Posted Nov 27, 2008 at 00:29 CET in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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Sofia Vladimirovna Panina, 1791.

I don’t know anything about Jean-Louis Voille except that he appears to be French and seems to have painted mainly Russians. His paintings are lovely though, and you can see more after the cut.

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Joconde

Posted Oct 29, 2008 at 20:33 CET in Databases, Fashion, Links, Museums, and Paintings.

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Here’s another great database to check out. Joconde is a catalogue of French museum collections. Go to the advanced search and write 18e siècle in the “Période/Datation” box and you’ll get all the 18th century stuff. I found lots of great paintings, objects and clothes.

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Une Collection Francaise

Posted Oct 28, 2008 at 18:41 CET in Fashion, Links, and Paintings.

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Une Collection Francaise is a blog containing “a collection of French miniature portraits owned by a French collector who wishes to share them with art lovers”, and most of them are 18th century. Click the picture of Lamballe to go there.

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Johann Zoffany

Posted Sep 17, 2008 at 21:48 CEST in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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John Wilkes and his daughter, 1779.

German painter Johann Zoffany on Wikipedia.

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Edit: Updated this post with one more painting.

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Winter wear

Posted Nov 22, 2007 at 18:29 CET in Drawings and prints, Fashion, Fashion plates, Movies and television, Paintings, and Photos.

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Lavinia Spencer by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Probably 1780s.

In keeping with the season here are some pictures of 18th century ladies dressed for winter.

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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Posted Oct 19, 2007 at 18:04 CEST in Artists, Fashion, Links, Paintings, and People.

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Self portrait with two pupils, 1785.

French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard on Wikipedia.

The art of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

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Edit: Updated this post with more paintings and better quality pictures.

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Roslin exhibition at Nationalmuseum

Posted Sep 19, 2007 at 18:24 CEST in Artists, Exhibitions, Museums, Paintings, and People.

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The Swedish national museum will exhibit over 100 paintings by Alexander Roslin from September 27 2007 to January 13 2008. There will also be two lectures. Click the portrait to go to the exhibition website.

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Louis-Léopold Boilly

Posted Sep 10, 2007 at 20:42 CEST in Artists, Fashion, Paintings, and People.

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Self portrait, 1795.

French painter Louis-Léopold Boilly on Wikipedia. The wikipedia article is pretty much empty though, so here’s another link with a short biography.

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Edit: Updated this post with more paintings and better quality pictures.

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