Who Painted This? #41

Who painted this? #41

This is non the icon I was proposing to role this week.  Unfortunately I couldn't detect an epitome of that online - which would own got been a chip unfair!

This 1 takes a chip of working out.  I intend there's plenty clues inwards the icon - merely around powerfulness detect it easier than others.  I intend it powerfulness own got you lot a piece to run it out every bit at to the lowest degree ii websites are NOT helpful inwards this context.  You'll sympathise what I hateful if you lot detect them.

For those who've non risen to the challenge earlier delight own got 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 - as well as 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 detect the answer
• search using words entirely on a database of images
• leave your reply every bit a comment on this blog
• if right it volition non live published until the side past times side postal service - which provides the answer
• if incorrect it volition live published
• do non exit the reply on Facebook!
• the winner - who gets a shout out as well as a link on/from this spider web log - is the start somebody to rank 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 United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland (from 1870)
crude 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 somebody 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 run 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 close 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 usually participate inwards the challenge.

I judged the clue I gave correctly as well as suggestions started to come upward inwards - merely non also many - it was nonetheless pretty hard because the epitome is quite hard to detect 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 as well as Textures) (last week's winner) who was the start to run out - past times around distance - that the painter was the Dutch-born, British painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA.  That was a major achievement every bit the dependent area thing was absolutely nil similar what he usually painted.

However Bernadette Madden (Bernadette Madden) was the start to acquire all the details right - including where it is located at 1 time - 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 every bit it's really hard to detect on the Internet.

Mark (Learning to draw: Learning to see) also got all the details right as well as came inwards the twenty-four hours later Bernadette.

If you'd similar to report how people acquire the right reply elbow grease studying past times challenges which are listed inwards the Page Who painted this? - at the the transcend of the Page. Since of the requirements is to nation how you lot flora it, you lot tin sack 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 postal service is non counted.  You own got been warned!

Tweet

Subscribe to receive free email updates: