Brand New!! Who Painted This? #18

OK later a spate of to a greater extent than hard ones, I'm going to survive kind!  So hither are to a greater extent than or less white roses together with I desire to know who painted them - together with a few other things. (see below)

Who painted this? #18

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Who Painted This #17 - The Answer

Who painted this? #17
View of Greenock yesteryear Robert Salmon
Thyssen-Bornemisza collection

• Title of the artwork: View of Greenock, Scotland
• Name of the creative individual who created this artwork:  Robert Salmon
• Date it was created: 1816
• Media used: oil on canvas, 66.6 x 112.3 cm
• Where it lives now: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Paseo del Prado 8, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Here's a brusque extract of what is written well-nigh this painting in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection on the Museum's website (it's a translation)

Before moving to America, Salmon had lived inwards the Scottish port of Greenock, where he painted this landscape inwards 1816. This seaport, located E of Glasgow on the River Clyde, was a really beautiful expanse amongst many attractions for tourists together with artists. In the foreground, earlier the panoramic landscape, genre is a bucolic scene showing a grouping of Washerwomen performing daily chores Their among a clearing inwards the path. The backdrop is the town of Greenock, miniaturist rendered inwards detail, amongst its smoking chimneys together with several boats moored at the harbor or sailing across the estuary amongst sails unfurled

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The 1 together with entirely individual to render the right reply was Alyson Chump (The Chronicle of Wasted Time).

Lots of wails together with gnashing of teeth though! :)

What produce nosotros know well-nigh the creative individual Robert Salmon?

• He was a maritime creative individual - together with yous tin forcefulness out see to a greater extent than or less of his paintings on Wikimedia Commons
• he painted nearly 1,000 paintings together with is considered yesteryear to a greater extent than or less to survive 1 of the most of import maritime painters inwards fine art history
• Born 1778 inwards Whitehaven inwards Cumbria
• In the UK he painted mainly inwards Greenock, Liverpool together with other ports.
• He emigrated to the USA inwards 1828 together with became a prosperous Boston seascape painter.  he stayed until 1842 when he left together with travelled to Italy.  It's unclear when he died.
• Some websites highlight him every bit being influential in the evolution of marine fine art inwards the USA.  He is characterised yesteryear to a greater extent than or less every bit the manly individual bring upwards of American Luminism - ie depicting calm, reflective H2O together with a soft, hazy sky.  While other websites well-nigh Luminism tell cypher well-nigh him.

He is widely considered the manly individual bring upwards of American Luminism amongst a mode of icon that was to influence the likes of Fitz H. Lane, William Bradford together with many other immature New England artists of the nineteenth century.Artnet

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