Who Painted This? #18

OK later on a spate of to a greater extent than hard ones, I'm going to last kind!  So hither are to a greater extent than or less white roses in addition to I desire to know who painted them - in addition to 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 past times Robert Salmon
Thyssen-Bornemisza collection

• Title of the artwork: View of Greenock, Scotland
• Name of the creative somebody 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 brusk extract of what is written nearly 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 due east of Glasgow on the River Clyde, was a real beautiful surface area amongst many attractions for tourists in addition to artists. In the foreground, earlier the panoramic landscape, genre is a bucolic scene showing a grouping of Washerwomen performing daily chores Their amidst a clearing inwards the path. The backdrop is the town of Greenock, miniaturist rendered inwards detail, amongst its smoking chimneys in addition to several boats moored at the harbor or sailing across the estuary amongst sails unfurled

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The 1 in addition to exclusively somebody to render the right reply was Alyson Chump (The Chronicle of Wasted Time).

Lots of wails in addition to gnashing of teeth though! :)

What create nosotros know nearly the creative somebody Robert Salmon?

• He was a maritime creative somebody - in addition to yous tin see to a greater extent than or less of his paintings on Wikimedia Commons
• he painted nearly 1,000 paintings in addition to is considered past times to a greater extent than or less to last 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 in addition to other ports.
• He emigrated to the USA inwards 1828 in addition to became a prosperous Boston seascape painter.  he stayed until 1842 when he left in addition to travelled to Italy.  It's unclear when he died.
• Some websites highlight him equally being influential in the evolution of marine fine art inwards the USA.  He is characterised past times to a greater extent than or less equally the manful somebody bring upwards of American Luminism - ie depicting calm, reflective H2O in addition to a soft, hazy sky.  While other websites nearly Luminism nation zero nearly him.

He is widely considered the manful somebody bring upwards of American Luminism amongst a means of epitome that was to influence the likes of Fitz H. Lane, William Bradford in addition to many other immature New England artists of the nineteenth century.Artnet

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