Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675  Related Paintings of VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan :. | Lady Standing at a Virginal (detail) wer | Girl with a Pearl Earring er | The Art of Painting er | The Little Street (detail) wt | Woman in Blue Reading a Letter ng |
Related Artists:
Gustaf Rydberg
painted Skansk slatt med pilvall - motiv fran Viby in 1923 Swedish, 1835-1933
Franz Skarbina
German, 1849-1910
Pierre-edouard Frere
(1819 - 1886), French painter, studied under Hippolyte Delaroche, entered the e - ole des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the Salon in 1843. The marked sentimental tendency of his art makes us wonder at John Ruskin's enthusiastic eulogy which finds in Frere's work the depth of William Wordsworth, the grace of Joshua Reynolds, and the holiness of Fra Angelico. What we can admire in his work is his accomplished craftsmanship and the intimacy and tender homeliness of his conception. Among his chief works are the two paintings, Going to School and Coming from School, The Little Glutton (his first exhibited picture) and L'Exercice (in the 19th century this work was in John Jacob Astor's collection). A journey to Egypt in 1860 resulted in a small series of Orientalist subjects, but the majority of Frere's paintings deal with the life of the kitchen, the workshop, the dwellings of the humble, and mainly with the pleasures and little troubles of the young, which the artist brings before us with humor and sympathy. He was one of the most popular painters of domestic genre in the middle of the 19th century.