born in the United States and moved to England in 1878 where he trained at South Kensington 1862-1923   Related Paintings of James Shannonc :. | The Only-Begotten Son | The Beheading of St John | Self-Portrait Holding a Medallion with the Letters of her Father s Name, | Bilnd Mother (mk12) | Color |
Related Artists:
Madame Elie
Active in France during the 19the Century
HUBER, Wolf
German Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1490-1553
Johannes Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675 was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,