Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Return , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset. Cole drew on several sources, including Scottish historian and poet Sir Walter Scott’s popular verses about warfare between the English and the Scots.
On a dirt path across the front of the picture, an armored man is carried on a red
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oil on panel · Accession ID 1937.1.41 Artwork Hans Memling, Portrait of a Man
John Beale Bordley, a close friend of Charles Willson Peale, raised the funds in 1766 to send the young artist to London, where Peale trained under Benjamin West’s tutelage. In the stormy years before the American Revolution, Bordley was a Maryland planter, judge, and member of the Governor’s Council.
The man looks out with dark blue eyes under curved black brows.
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canvas · Accession ID 1989.3.1 Artwork Federico Barocci, Head of a Bearded Man
Visual Description A brown-skinned man stands on a beach among poles driven into
Seventeen years after Benjamin West settled in England, a London newspaper’s review of the 1780 Royal Academy exhibition stated that The Battle of La Hogue „exceeds all that ever came from Mr. West’s pencil.“ In 1692, Louis XIV of France had mounted an ill-fated attempt to return James II, a fellow Catholic, to the throne of England.
has pulled an unconscious or lifeless man into his arms.
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drypoint on laid paper · Accession ID 1990.11.1 Artwork Ferdinand Bol, An Old Man
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Explore Selected Works Artwork German 16th century (Augsburg), Portrait of a Man
Hallway, Italian Restaurant was one of the most popular works that Guy Pène du Bois painted prior to his departure for France in 1924. It was often reproduced during his lifetime, and he included illustrations of it in a contemporary article and later in his autobiography.
Visual Description A man and woman stand against a wall with dark brown wainscoting
panel · Accession ID 1952.5.8.combined Artwork Hans Memling, Portrait of a Man
