Brand New!! Who Painted This? #41

Who painted this? #41

This is non the ikon I was proposing to purpose this week.  Unfortunately I couldn't uncovering an paradigm of that online - which would conduct maintain been a fleck unfair!

This i takes a fleck of working out.  I intend there's plenty clues inwards the ikon - exactly about mightiness uncovering it easier than others.  I intend it mightiness conduct maintain you lot a acre to operate it out equally at to the lowest degree ii websites are NOT helpful inwards this context.  You'll sympathise what I hateful if you lot uncovering them.

For those who've non risen to the challenge earlier delight conduct maintain a infinitesimal to read the rules - come across below.

How to participate inwards "Who painted this? #41"

PLEASE brand certain you lot read the rules earlier posting a comment - too ONLY POST ON THIS BLOG what you lot intend is the answer.
Click this link to read THE RULES for participating inwards this challenge (this saves having to re-create them out for each post!).

In short:

• use your brains non software to uncovering the answer
• search using words exclusively on a database of images
• leave your reply equally a comment on this blog
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• the winner - who gets a shout out too a link on/from this weblog - is the commencement someone to plough over me a completely right reply for ALL the things I desire to know

Who Painted This #40 - The Answer

Sunny Days (1874) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836-1912,
Dutch, active inwards U.K. (from 1870)
stone oil on canvas, 9 x fourteen inches (22.9 x 35.6 cm)Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

• Title of the artwork: Sunny Days
• Name of the creative someone who created this artwork: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (1836 - 1912)
• Date it was created:  1874
• Media used: oil on canvas, Height: 229 mm (9.02 in). Width: 356 mm (14.02 in).
• Where it lives now: Yale Centre of British Art 

Interestingly this operate is non to live flora amonf the naked "lovelies" which comprise the website called The Complete Works of Lawrence Alma Tadema.

This is a link to the Retrospective Exhibition of Works past times the belatedly Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA OM at the Royal Academy of Arts inwards 1913.

Who guessed correct?

Who painted this #40? So many of you lot had started guessing correctly i idea it was near fourth dimension I posted a actually hard one.  Indeed until I posted a clue, at that topographic point had been a dead quiet from all those who commonly participate inwards the challenge.

I judged the clue I gave correctly too suggestions started to come upward inwards - exactly non also many - it was nevertheless pretty hard because the paradigm is quite hard to uncovering on the Internet.  It's worth reading the comments to come across how people got at that topographic point inwards the end.  Thank you lot also to people similar Jacqui Boyd who commented that she enjoyed the challenge fifty-fifty if she failed.

Congratulations to ALL those who got all or most of it right - this was a tough one!  Only 2.5 people got it right inwards every respect.

Congratulations to Tessa Spanton (a.k.a. Colours too Textures) (last week's winner) who was the commencement to operate out - past times about distance - that the painter was the Dutch-born, British painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA.  That was a major achievement equally the plain of written report affair was absolutely cypher similar what he commonly painted.

However Bernadette Madden (Bernadette Madden) was the commencement to acquire all the details right - including where it is located right away - come across the link to come across its spider web page inwards The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies inwards British Art at Yale.  Again a major achievement equally it's real hard to uncovering on the Internet.

Mark (Learning to draw: Learning to see) also got all the details right too came inwards the 24-hour interval subsequently Bernadette.

If you'd similar to written report how people acquire the right reply endeavor studying past times challenges which are listed inwards the Page Who painted this? - at the the overstep of the Page. Since of the requirements is to nation how you lot flora it, you lot tin come across the diverse ways people acquire to the answer.

Just for the tape - anybody who leaves a comment on the page which lists all the "who painted this?" rather than the specific blog post service is non counted.  You conduct maintain been warned!

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