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The Arnolfini Portrait (1434), by Jan van Eyck
This work is a portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, but is not intended as a record of their wedding. His wife is not pregnant, as is often thought, but holding up her full-skirted dress in the contemporary fashion. Arnolfini was a member of a merchant family from Lucca living in Bruges. The couple are shown in a well-appointed interior. The ornate Latin signature translates as ‘Jan van Eyck was here 1434’. The similarity to modern graffiti is not accidental. Van Eyck often inscribed his pictures in a witty way. The mirror reflects two figures in the doorway. One may be the painter himself. Arnolfini raises his right hand as he faces them, perhaps as a greeting.Van Eyck was intensely interested in the effects of light: oil paint allowed him to depict it with great subtlety in this picture, notably on the gleaming brass chandelier.
Source: Nationalgallery.org.uk

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)Saint Gregory With Saints Domitilla, Maurus, And PapianusOil on canvas1607288 x 477 cm

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Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)ChivalryOil on canvas1885136.6 x 182.7 cm(4’ 5.78” x 5’ 11.93”)Private collection

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Emile Friant (1863-1932)La LutteOil on canvas1889113.9825 x 180.34 cmMusee Fabre (Montpellier, Languedoc, France)

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Bellows, George Paddy Flannigan 1908 Oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.) Private collection

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Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)The MirrorOil on canvas1896118.1 x 95.3 cm

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Peter Vilhelm Ilsted (1861-1933)The Open DoorOil on panel48.9 x 61 cm

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Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877-1958)Venetian Ladies Listening to a SerenadeOil on canvas

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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)Mine America’s CoalOil on canvas194335.5 x 53.5 cm

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Marie Bashkirtseff
The Meeting,
1884

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John George Brown
The Card Trick
1880–89
Oil on canvas mounted on panel
66 x 78.7 cm
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Brown’s narratives maintain the explicitness of mid-nineteenth-century works, though he painted many of them much later. In this canvas, three white bootblacks watch a black youth perform a card trick. Brown ascribes street smarts and gamesman’s skills to this clever character. One of the few American painters before 1900 to grapple with the subject of the urban poor, Brown specialized in sentimental depictions of industrious immigrants, especially street urchins who project optimism and good cheer despite the hardships of city life. These ragamuffins—counterparts of Horatio Alger’s homeless fourteen-year-old bootblack Ragged Dick and other resourceful characters—flourished and inspired Brown until compulsory public education laws ended their enterprise.
Metmuseum.org

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Mihaly Munkacsy (1844-1900)FlitterwochenOil on panel142.5 x 94 cm

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Walk on the Beach, by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

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James Hart Dyke, Waiting in the hotel room, 2010, oil on canvas 75x75cm
James Hart Dyke was offered a mission by Her Majesty’s Government: to go undercover with MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, and report on the life of undercover agents in paintings and drawings.

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Alexej Ravski

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