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Brand New!! Who Painted This? #28

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I was merrily starting this weblog postal service when I noticed that the bottom right mitt corner of the epitome present contained the artist's signature.  Whoops!  It doesn't whatever more!  Isn't Photoshop wonderful?

Who painted this? #28
How many times accept artists painted peppers?  Is at that spot a novel means of epitome peppers?  I'll live on real interested to know how you lot acquire to this one.......

The answers volition live on posted inwards adjacent week's Who painted this? #29

How to participate inwards "Who painted this? #27"


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Who Painted This #27 - The Answer



The V&A website states
The Newfoundland is a large Canadian working dog, capable of drawing a sledge, as well as celebrated for its intelligence, docility as well as swimming power. The dog's owner, W. H. de Merle, commissioned this painting. The creative mortal based the background on landscape seen inwards Scotland.
It's referenced inwards a mass which states the following
When this large epitome was bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum inwards 1894, it joined xix other petroleum paintings past times Landseer, including 16 lonely from the 1857 John Sheepshanks gift. But Lion was the most impressive acquisition, non to the lowest degree because of its sheer size. The epitome was commissioned inwards 1824 past times the dog's owner, W. H. de Merle, for l pounds. As a teenager Landseer had established himself equally a precocious as well as prodigious talent, specialising inwards Scottish domestic subjects as well as animals, particularly dogs. This is Landseer's earliest handling of the Newfoundland breed, famous for its lifesaving abilities; a diversity of the breed was fifty-fifty named later the painter. Landseer is fifty-fifty amend known through his engravings of for sure others of his Newfoundland paintings, including Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Distinguished Member of the Humane Society of 1838 as well as Saved! of 1856. The dependent area appealed greatly to nineteenth-century taste, amongst its combination of fauna magnificence as well as canine heroism. There is a floor - unsupported past times bear witness - that this epitome was dispatched inwards a large illustration to Paris during the Revolution (either of 1830 or 1848) as well as narrowly escaped existence used equally a barricade.
You tin encounter to a greater extent than of his drawings of animals inwards the collection of the Royal Academy

Who guessed correct?

Congratulations to Mark (Learning to draw: Learning to see) who got the kickoff consummate right reply first.

It would accept been Colours as well as Textures - merely she forgot to say where the epitome is now.  The means I run this to live on fair to everybody is that it's the first consummate right reply which gets highlighted.  I bet you lot won't forget that i over again inwards a hurry!

It seems that equally I suspected a lot of you lot guessed or knew who the creative mortal was conduct away.  While a issue of people got at that spot via the breed of domestic dog - in i lawsuit they'd figured that out!

There were a lot of you lot who likewise got the right reply were:
  • bmcmadden had a real onetime mass of Landseer drawings as well as idea the epitome looked familiar, as well as thence looked upward Landseer as well as at that spot it was! 
  • Sandra Robinson told me that a diversity of the Newfoundland breed was named later Landseer
  • BeanKitty Studio gave me the room inwards the V&A as well as the wall it was on!
  • David Hawson knew who it was painted for
  • Barbara Jackson knew the domestic dog - she's been to Newfoundland as well as got splashed past times a real moisture i of these. 
  • Roger Brown My Republic of Botswana Art was stumped past times the breed of domestic dog merely got at that spot inwards the end
  • Carol Carbin got it conduct away
  • kate wilson remembered Landseer's epitome of doggy feet from an onetime biscuit tin (this has got to live on i of the to a greater extent than odd "how did you lot acquire to the answer" answers!)
  • Gabriele has has 2 Newfoundland dogs as well as is convinced every possessor knows most Landseer!



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