Portraits

Portrait of Adrian Stevens, 1629. Art by Anthony van Dyck ( 1599- 1641) Flanders, Belgium

Portrait of a Lady Wearing Pearls. Art by Justus Sustermans (1957-1681) Flanders

Lady Hamilton as "Nature"

George Romey, British artist

The Feick Collection, New Yoek 

 

Helene

 Helene Schjerfbeck ( 1862-1946) 

Helena Sofia (Helene) Schjerfbeck was a Finnish painter. A modernist painter, she is known for her realist works and self-portraits, and also for her landscapes and still lifes. Throughout her long life, her work changed dramatically beginning with French-influenced realism and plein air painting. It gradually evolved towards portraits and still life paintings.  

Schjerbeck's birthday, 10 July, is Finland's national day for the painted arts.

Portrait of a woman. 1884 

Portrait of a girl, 1930s

The red-haired girl II, 1915

Katri 1917

The Last Self-Portrait 1945

Portraits of Men

Petr Brandl (1668-1735) 

Portrait of a Mining Official , about 1728 

The National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

My postcard collection - Baroque painting in Bohemia

Petr Brandl was one of the main representatives of the Baroque in Bohemia.

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 Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Portrait of an old man, 1654

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 1,183 km

sent by Irina from Moscow

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was  one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish: 1577 - 1640)

Head of a Franciscan Friar Circa 1615

 Rubens, Paintings from the Hermitage Collection

 Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition.

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Orest Kiprensky. (1782-1836)

Portrait of Alexander Pushkin.  1827

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 2,369 km

sent by Anastasia from Chelyabinsk

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1827), which prompted the poet to remark that "the mirror flatters me".

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The Huanghe River (part#1)
Li Zijian (1954-) China
travel time 17 days
distance travelled 8,018 km
sent by Emily from Taipei

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer was regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His work includes altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, engravings, and woodcuts.

Albrecht Dürer was born May 21, 1471, in Nurnberg. In 1494 he traveled to Italy, where he remained until 1495. The trip had a strong effect on Durer; echoes of Italian art are apparent in most of his drawings, paintings, and graphics of the following decade. Italian influences were slower to take hold in his graphics than in his drawings and paintings. He died in 1528.

Düreriä pidetään aikakautensa suurimpana saksalaisena taiteilijana ja ensimmäisenä saksalaisena protestanttisena renessanssitaiteilijana. Hän oli hyvin monipuolinen ja arvostettu jo elinaikanaan, omasta mielestään arvostetumpi ulkomailla kuin kotimaassaan. Hänen kaiverruksilleen ja piirroksilleen oli ominaista runsaat yksityiskohdat sekä suurikokoisuus ja niistä otettiin jo hänen elinaikanaan paljon vedoksia. Wikipedia

 Self Portrait (1498)

Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman (1505)

Received from Celia, Germany

Distance: 1,217 km

Travel time: 8 days

Amedeo Modigliani

 Little girl in blue, 1918

Portrait of a Woman (detail) c.1917-1918

From Jessica, U.S.A. 

Distance: 7,056 km

Travel time: 11 days

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani  ( 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures, that were not received well during his lifetime, but later found acceptance. Modigliani spent his youth in Italy, where he studied the art of antiquity and the Renaissance, until he moved to Paris in 1906. There he came into contact with prominent artists such as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brâncuși. During his life, Amedeo Modigliani had little success, but after his death he achieved greater popularity and his works of art achieved high prices. He died at age 35 in Paris of tubercular meningitis. Wikipedia

Amedeo Modigliani (12. heinäkuuta 1884 Livorno – 24. tammikuuta 1920 Pariisi) oli italialainen taidemaalari ja kuvanveistäjä. Hänet tunnetaan muotokuvista ja naismalleja kuvaavista maalauksista, joissa on pidennettyjä ja soikeita muotoja. Surumielisten hahmojen silmät ovat usein mantelinmuotoiset. Maalauksille on ominaista herkkä viivankäyttö ja täyteläiset kuparinpunaiset, ruskeat, siniharmaat ja syvän vihreät värisävyt.  Monet teokset tunnistaa pitkulaisista, naamionkaltaisista kasvoista.  Wikipedia

Ateneumin taidemuseossa nähdään syksyllä 2016 Amedeo Modiglianin retrospektiivi, jossa on esillä lähes 200 Modiglianin teosta.

Portraits from Russia

Olga of Württemberg

Timofei Andreyevich Neff (1804-1876)
 Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, later Queen Olga of Württemberg

Olga was the second daughter of Nicholas I of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna, Charlotte of Prussia. She was thus a sister of Alexander II of Russia. She married Charles I of Württemberg, with whom she had no children.
Olga grew up as part of a close family of eight sisters and brothers. She had two elder siblings: Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Grand Duchess Maria of Russia; and five younger siblings: Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia (died in infancy), Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia and Grand Duke Michael of Russia.

Private swap  from Nikolai, St. Petersburg

Portrait Portrait of Maria Lopukhina, 1797

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757-1825) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin who dominated Russian portraiture at the turn of the 19th century.

Maria Ivanovna Lopukhina (1779–1803), née Countess Tolstaya was the eldest daughter of Count Ivan Andreevich Tolstoy - a major-general in the army - and Anna Fedorovna Maikova. She had three brothers (Fyodor, Peter, Yanuary) and three sisters (Vera, Anna and Ekaterina). The great novelist Leo Tolstoy was Maria's first cousin once removed. Her father's younger brother, Ilya Andreevich Tolstoy, was Leo Tolstoy's grandfather. 

Just six years after the portrait was painted, in 1803, Maria died from tuberculosis

Private swap from Masha, Kiev, Ukraine