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Richard Lauchert (German, 1823-1868) Queen Alexandra of Denmark • 1862 • Royal Collection

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Benjamin Wilson – Scientist of the Day

Benjamin Wilson, an English portrait painter and experimental philosopher, died June 6, 1788, at the age of about 67.

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The Magdalen Reading, 1535. - Ambrosius Benson (1495/1500- 1550).

A woman, her hair covered by an elaborate structure of caps and semi-transparent veils, holds a luxurious illuminated book in a green velvet binding. The pot identifies her as Mary Magdalene: it holds the ointment with which the saint anointed Christ’s feet.

The hands and book are copied from Saint Barbara in Gerard David’s The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor. They are so close that it seems Ambrosius Benson copied from the original or that he had access to the preliminary drawings. He was a pupil of David, and the two were involved in a lawsuit about patterns which David alleged he had found in Benson’s chest. The folds of the veil are extremely close to Mary Magdalene’s headdress in The Magdalen in a Landscape by Albert Cornelis, from whom Benson borrowed patterns.

Benson specialised in half-lengths of young women depicted as Mary Magdalene or as sibyls (female oracles in classical mythology). This lady’s strangely elongated ear and large hands are typical of the artist. The style of her dress suggests a date of about 1520, making it one of the artist’s earliest such pictures. - The National Gallery.

His original name was likely Benzone or Bensoni, or a variation.

Ambrosius Benson (c. 1495/1500, in Ferrara or Milan – 1550, in Flanders) was an Italian painter who became a part of the Northern Renaissance.

While many surviving paintings have been attributed, there is very little known of him from records, and he tended not to sign his work. He is believed to be responsible for mainly religious art, but also painted portraits on commission. He sometime painted from classical sources, often setting the figures in modern-dress, or a contemporary domestic setting. In his lifetime he was successful; he had a large workshop, his work was sold internationally and he was especially popular in Spain.

Benson became popular as a source for pastiche with 19th-century painters, who are sometimes known as the "followers of Benson". In particular his many variations of the Magdalen and Sibilla Persica were further copied and became popular with contemporary buyers. - Wikipedia.

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Hans Holbein the Younger (German/Swiss 1497-1543)

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Beauty of a Painted Portrait as a Birthday Gift for Your Beloved

Birthdays are special occasions that give us the opportunity to express our love and appreciation for our sweethearts. If you are looking for a truly unique and heartfelt gift, consider getting a painted portrait. A painted portrait is a timeless and sentimental gift that holds a deep meaning and captures the essence of your loved one. Here are compelling reasons why painted portraits make the perfect birthday gift for your sweetheart.

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George Romney, Head of a Woman

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Retrospection, c. 1913

By Ernest Haskell

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Joni Mitchell - Self Portrait as Van Gogh (1994)

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Alfred Stieglitz

Georgia O'Keeffe, Hands

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Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (English, 1852 - 1909): At the Doorway (via Sotheby's)

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William Rothenstein (British/English, 1872–1945) • Portrait of Gladys Calthrop • 1922

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ceaseless watcher

24×30cm, oil on canvas.

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Marchesa Luisa Casati (1881 - 1957) wearing an extravagant Paul Poiret gown with a greyhound by Giovanni Boldini, 1908.

Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino (born Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman; 23 January 1881 – 1 June 1957), was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe.

Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 – 11 January 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.

Early Life:

Boldini was born in Ferrara, Italy on 31 December 1842. He was the son of a painter of religious subjects, and the younger brother of architect Luigi (Louis) Boldini. In 1862, he went to Florence for six years to study and pursue painting. He only infrequently attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, but in Florence, met other realist painters known as the Macchiaioli, who were Italian precursors to Impressionism. Their influence is seen in Boldini's landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known.

Career:

Moving to London, Boldini attained success as a portraitist. He completed portraits of premier members of society including Lady Holland and the Duchess of Westminster. From 1872 he lived in Paris, where he became a friend of Edgar Degas. He became the most fashionable portrait painter in Paris in the late 19th century, with a dashing style of painting which shows some Macchiaioli influence and a brio reminiscent of the work of younger artists, such as John Singer Sargent and Paul Helleu.

He was nominated commissioner of the Italian section of the Paris Exposition in 1889, and received the Légion d'honneur for this appointment. In 1897 he had a solo exhibition in New York. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1895, 1903, 1905, and 1912.

Boldini died in Paris on 11 January 1931.

In a write up in The New York Times in January 1931, his career was summed up as follows:

Boldini was a fashionable portrait painter. He 'did' all the grandes dames of Paris, and at a certain period to have a portrait painted by Boldini was a crowning event of social season. His style was racy and advanced for his time, and he believed that his décolleté paintings touched the extreme limit of convention. His work was the talk of numerous salons. And then he was superseded by Vandongens and Etcheverrys and Domergues and others whose daring shocked and discouraged Boldini. He had not painted for many years before his death. His body was taken to Ferrara, his native city, for burial.

After his death, his work continued to be exhibited around the world. An exhibition of his work was held in 1938, seven years after his death, at the Newhouse Galleries in New York City.

In popular culture:

Boldini is a character in the ballet Franca Florio, regina di Palermo, written in 2007 by the Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero, which depicts the story of Donna Franca, a famous Sicilian aristocrat whose exceptional beauty inspired him and many other artists, musicians, poets and emperors during the Belle Époque.

A Boldini portrait of his former muse Marthe de Florian, a French actress, was discovered in a Paris flat in late 2010, hidden away from view on the premises that were unvisited for over 50 years. The portrait has never been listed, exhibited or published and the flat belonged to de Florian's granddaughter, who inherited the flat after her father's death in 1966 and lived in the South of France after the outbreak of the Second World War and never returned to Paris. A love-note and a biographical reference to the work painted in 1888, when the actress was 24, cemented its authenticity. A full-length portrait of the lady in the same clothing and accessories, but less provocative, hangs in the New Orleans Museum of Art.

The discovery of his painting in the 70-years-empty apartment forms the background to Michelle Gable's 2014 novel A Paris Apartment.

Thanks to @lamarchesacasati for extra details!

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Alfred Egerton Cooper (English, 1883-1974)

The Lady in Red Velvet

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Circle of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Girl with Birds

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