Henry Dawkins (1728
- 1814) was MP for Southampton. Judging from the apparent age of the sitter, this pastel portrait dates from
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In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who challenged others to wrestling matches in order to kill them & collect their skulls. Antaeus was eventually overcome during a fight with the hero Heracles; Heracles discovered that Antaeuss strength lay in his ...

Create your own bespoke print of Paul Cézanne’s Hillside in Provence from our collection. About this painting Hillside in Provence, about 1890-2 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1926 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Jan van Huysum’s Hollyhocks & Other Flowers in a Vase from our collection. About this painting Hollyhocks & Other Flowers in a Vase, 1702-20 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1876 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke National Gallery art print of Richard Wilson’s Portrait of Gerolamo (?) Barbarigo from our collection. About this painting Holt Bridge on the River Dee, before 1762 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1953. With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

This is an unfinished portrait of the celebrated artist Honoré Daumier (1808
- 1876). Daubigny & Daumier had been friends since
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The site of this work may be in the neighbourhood of Fecamp, which Chintreuil visited in 1861. The modest subject & the sensitive treatment of light are typical of the artist. ...

This work is a portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini & 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. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Paolo Veronese’s Happy Union from our collection. About this painting The Madonna & Child with Saint John the Baptist & Saint Elizabeth, about 1575 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1891 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

The sitter in this portrait was the daughter of Degas's lifelong friend, the industrialist & collector Henri Rouart. She is shown in the family house surrounded by paintings & objects from her father's collection, including Egyptian wooden statues, a Chinese wall-hanging, a painting by Corot & a drawing by Millet. ...