Who Painted This? #5

This is the 5th inwards my serial of challenges most Who Painted This?

I've been writing most a novel portraiture prize this calendar week in addition to this week's shipping is a portrait - but NOT a self-portrait. It is yet one-half of a brace of drawings past times 2 artists in addition to I'll demo you lot the other i when I laissez passer on you lot the reply side past times side week.

I lead keep all my clues worked out for if nobody gets this.......

Who painted this? #5

Who Painted This? #5 - How to participate

I lead keep an extremely dim persuasion of people who do non read the rules in addition to inwards doing therefore spoil the challenge for others.  As ever the sub-theme of this challenge is most finding out to a greater extent than most artists in addition to artworks ie it's most the procedure but every bit much every bit it's most the answer.

The rules for participating inwards this challenge are every bit follows:

1. This is most using brains non technology scientific discipline - therefore delight do non "cheat".  This is what you lot tin in addition to cannot do to search for the reply online
• PLEASE do NOT utilisation whatever of the "image matching" technology scientific discipline which exists (eg Chrome or Tineye) - that's but apparently lazy in addition to non the betoken of the challenge! My suspicions volition hold out raised past times those who appear to know the reply a chip besides speedily and/or neglect to position themselves!
• You tin utilisation search enquiries - using WORDS ONLY to search on Google or whatever other search engine or to interrogate databases of images
• You tin await at every bit many books every bit you lot like!
2. Do NOT acquire out the reply every bit a comment on Facebook.  If you lot do I volition delete the comment in addition to you lot volition NOT hold out declared the winner.
3. Leave your reply every bit a comment on this blog. (IF CORRECT information technology WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED until but earlier the side past times side challenge) 
• You tin acquire out a justice - in addition to if I don't seat out the squall you lot know you're on the right lines fifty-fifty if you lot don't yet lead keep all the details
• Howls of frustration tin also hold out left spell you lot effort in addition to go it out....... 
4. In your comment, for #5, you lot must say me ALL of the following:
• the championship of the artwork / the squall of the creative individual who is the dependent area of the portrait
• the squall of the creative individual who drew the portrait
• the engagement it was created
• the media used
• where it lives now
• how you lot know all this eg how did you lot do your search 
5. The Winner! The commencement identifiable individual (ie no anonymous guesses) who, inwards my judgement, is the commencement individual to acquire to the reply past times fair way volition acquire a mention and a link to their website or spider web log (or both) in:
• my really pop weekly spider web log shipping "Who's made a grade this week?"
• the shipping amongst side past times side week's challenge.

Clues 

I volition acquire out a clue - every bit a comment on the shipping - if you're non not getting anywhere inwards the commencement 24 hours.

Publication - in addition to non-publication - of answers / comments 

Here's how the comments work:

• All comments are moderated in addition to I read ALL the comments prior to publication 
• I do NOT seat out the right answers (in total or part) until a calendar week later - assuming somebody genuinely gets the answer!  Which means if your comment is non published you lot know you lot could hold out on the right lines.  Plus it also way others tin lead keep the enjoyment of the challenge fifty-fifty if they are belike besides slowly to win.
• The comments are also published inwards the club they were left non the club that I opened upwardly them - which way you lot tin all encounter who got the right reply commencement in addition to provided all the details.
• Hence AFTER publication of this shipping in addition to BEFORE the twenty-four lx minutes catamenia of the publication of the side past times side shipping (i.e. next Friday) I ONLY seat out all the wrong answers in addition to all the howls of frustration! 

Who painted this? #4 - The Answer

The answer is:

1. Title of the artwork: 'The majestic noon's transparent might' (click the link to encounter a larger version).  The championship is a business from a verse form - Stanzas Written inwards Dejection, nigh Naples - by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, i of the major English linguistic communication romantic poets.
2. Name of the artist: Arthur Streeton - for to a greater extent than most this really impressive creative individual encounter my novel website About Arthur Streeton - Australian Landscape Painter
3. Date it was painted: 1896
4. Media used: painting, fossil oil on canvas, 123.0 x 123.0cm (48.4 inches x 48.4 inches)
5. Where it lives now: National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

The winner

So many of you lot got this i right - I was absolutely amazed!  Would you lot believe thirteen people got ALL of the required details correct.  You gave me a genuinely difficult fourth dimension this calendar week remembering NOT to seat out your answers!  (All right responses are forthwith published on the blog).

It somehow seems really right that the winner of final week's challenge is The Painting Plein Air Plus Prize 2010.

Congratulations also to all those who got the right answer: Ivan Kelley, Fred Marsh - who provided some to a greater extent than details most the epitome inwards his comment); Jason Daniel Jackson, Mark, Roger Brown, Robyn Sinclair, final week's winner Sue Smith. Plus I had half-dozen right but anonymous or semi-anonymous entries from "Gary", "Sophiehound", "bosveldr" "Garry Harwood"  "Debbie" in addition to "Unknown". The latter would lead keep won if I'd had to a greater extent than ID via a website or blog!  Please greenback I'm exclusively awarding "winner" condition to identifiable people.

I promise you lot all taste finding out to a greater extent than most this painter in addition to looking at to a greater extent than of his paintings via my novel website About Arthur Streeton.

Some to a greater extent than facts most this painting

• This is a epitome of the Hawkesbury River inwards Commonwealth of Australia - it forms utilisation of a serial of paintings of the Hawkesbury River painted past times Streeton.  The serial is world renowned because of his capacity to bring the light, the color in addition to the estrus of this house - which is N due west of Sydney.
• From the accounts I've read, Streeton stayed inwards North Richmond (which he began visiting inwards the mid 1890s) in addition to and therefore institute a location which gave him a genuinely practiced persuasion of the river from above.  Here's where North Richmond is inwards Australia in addition to the persuasion seems to lead keep inwards the sandbanks marked on Google Maps i.e. looking southward due west (make certain terrain is switched on to encounter where I mean)
• Streeton painted this epitome straight inwards front end of his subject.  My heed boggles at diverse facts connected amongst this epitome - such as 
• he's carrying a 4 human foot canvass into the bush!
• he painted it inwards a temperature of 108 degrees Fahrenheit 
• he didn't utilisation an easel - instead he rested the canvass rested on a dead sapling.....
• .....at the go past times of a cliff over the Hawkesbury River. This is Streeton recalling the making of the painting

'The glory of the river in addition to apparently spread earlier me… Far below were the tops of river-oaks, in addition to H2O similar the bluish of a dark opal. The brightness of noon, the ability of deep blue, the flies, in addition to the temperature forthwith 108 degrees, wrought me to a pitch of excitement… the atmosphere 10 degrees higher than my ain temperature crept circular my confront similar a flame; in addition to it seemed similar working inwards a fiery trance. I paused in addition to institute that inwards 2 hours 2 thirds of my canvass was covered amongst paint, I had stamped my large impression upon it, I had made my picture.'
Australian Government: The Heidelberg School: Sydney, its beaches, the harbour in addition to the Hawkesbury

The creative individual was knighted inwards 1937.  I think he deserved it - how most you?

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