Elizabeth Petrovna, also known as Yelisaveta or Elizaveta, was the Empress of Russia from 1741 until her death. She led the country during the two major European conflicts of her time: the War of Austrian Succession (1740–48) and the Seven Years' War (1756–63).
François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky July 24 O.S. 1757 – April 6 O.S. 1825) was a Russian Imperial painter who dominated portraiture in Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th century.
Ivan Petrovich Argunov (1729–1802) was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting.
JohannesLingelbach (1622–1674) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, associated with the second generation of Bambocciate, a group of genre painters working in Rome from 1625–1700.
Jean-Laurent Mosnier was a French painter and miniaturist.
Jean Louis Tocqué was a French painter. He specialized in portrait painting.
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Ellen Emmet Rand was a painter and illustrator. She specialized in portraits, painting over 500 works during her career including portraits of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and her cousins Henry James and William James. Rand studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston and the Art Students League in New York City and produced illustrations for Vogue Magazine and Harper's Weekly before traveling to England and then France to study with sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies. The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut owns the largest collection of her painted works and the Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut and the Archives of American Art within the Smithsonian Institution both have collections of her papers, photographs, and drawings.
Dr Matthew Guthrie FRS, FRSE, FSA, FRSA (1743–1807) was a Scottish physician, mineralogist and traveller who rose to be councillor to the Russian royal family. He made extensive studies of Russian history and folklore, and did much to foster international relationships between Russia and Scotland and promote Russian culture. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Arab Woman is a watercolor painting by John Singer Sargent. Completed in either the late 19th or early 20th century, the painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Fishing Boat is a mid-19th century painting by French painter Gustave Courbet. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a beached fishing boat on the french coastline near Trouville. The work was one of a series of 35 oil paintings that Courbet produced in quick succession during the fall of 1865. The Fishing Boat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; notably, the painting was the first work by Courbet to enter the Met's collection when it was acquired in 1899.
The Afternoon Meal is a mid 18th century still life painting by Spanish painter Luis Egidio Meléndez. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts an assortment of fruits and bread set before a stark background. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Houses on the Achterzaan is an 1871 painting by French artist Claude Monet. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts riverside garden houses on the west shore of the Achterzaan river in Zaandam, the Netherlands. He painted it from the dam in the Zaan, facing northwest. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Death of Harmonia is an 18th-century painting by French painter Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts the death of Harmonia of Syracuse. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Cows Crossing a Ford is an early 19th century painting by French artist Jules Dupré. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts farmers driving their cattle across a river in Limousin, a region of central France. The way in which the low horizon and sky are rendered in the painting are a testament to Dupré's interest in the works of John Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington, two landscape painters. Cows Crossing a Ford is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Experts is an early 19th-century painting by French artist Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a group of monkeys examining a painting. Decamps intended The Experts to be a work of satire; The apes are dressed in the attire (Singerie) of French gentlemen, and are representative of art critics. The painting the group is examining is a landscape by Nicolas Poussin, a 17th-century French painter. Decamps work, which was originally shown at the Paris Salon of 1839, is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lobster Fishermen is an early 20th century painting by American artist Marsden Hartley. Done in oil on masonite, the work depicts a group of lobster fishermen in Hartley's native state of Maine. Considered part of Hartley's 'Maine Series', Lobster Fishermen is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
