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"To a greater degree than any earlier painter, Stubbs produced genuinely individual portraits of specific horses, paying intimate attention to details of their form. Minute blemishes, veins, and the muscles flexing just below the surface of the skin are all visible and reproduced with great care and realism. Whistlejacket had...

There are many interpretations of this work, and unfortunately the author was alive long enough to write much about it and react to some of those interpretations....

“I am not often a painter of literal places", he says. "I regularly invent entire works, or paint them from memory. I like to invite observers into a world which is merely similar to the one they know, an adjacent world. Perhaps, the adjacent West.” This idea continues to inform his vision, pushing his work towards a more...

Liotard has depicted François Tronchin, a patron of the arts. He examines Rembrandt’s “Lady in Bed”. Items on the desk show his other pursuits - architecture and music. The pastel work in this piece is very precise, especially the wig!

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Auguste Toulmouche (1829–1890)...

The blue murals cover T-Centralen the hub of the Stockholm metro.

Jan Toorop, born in Java in 1858 when it was still a Dutch colony, soon came to Europe and studied at the Amsterdam Academy from 1881 before continuing his studies in Brussels, Paris and London. Receptive to the many aesthetic currents then running through Europe, he soon gave up Naturalism for Neo-Impressionism, before devoting...

Janis Rozentāls...

One of the 200 Japanese wood carvings Manet collected in his lifetime. The introduction of Japanese art to the west had a huge impact, it is said to be the influence of the impressionist movement in france.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema...

The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African-Americans in a humble domestic setting: an old black man is teaching a young boy – possibly his grandson – to play the banjo....