Month: February 2026
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A pair of watercolor portraits by Ernesto Levorati
Two Framed Watercolor Portraits of Children, Ernesto Levorati. Currently in a private collection, images are from Bonham’s past auction from 2024. Bohanam’s gives the sheet size as 12 x 8″ (30 x 20 cm). I just came across these two delightful watercolor portraits by 19th century Italian artist Ernesto Levorati by chance. There is a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent watercolor from Villa di Marlia
Villa di Marlia, Lucca – A Fountain, John SInger Sargen, watercolor and gouache, 16 x 21 in. (40 x 53 cm). Link is to a larger image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I had the pleasure of seeing this beautiful Sargent watercolor, along with several…
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Yu Qiuyang
Yu Qiuyang is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator, working digitally in Photoshop and Maya. Throughout the work I’ve seen there is an interesting interplay between light and dark themes, the latter often punctuated with a pool of lighter color. The subjects are primarily fantasy oriented, with a particular emphasis on what appears to be…
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Anton Hartinger
19th century Austrian artist Anton Hartinger was noted for his still life paintings of fruit and flowers, and also was a botanical illustrator. He was responsible for a noted work titled Endlicher’s Paradisus Vindobonensis (Endlicher’s Viennese Paradise – link is to the book reproduction on plantillustrations.org), consisting of handpainted prints (“chromolithographs”) of his botanical illustrations…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alice Fanner landscape
The Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, Alice Maude Fanner; oil on canvas, 25 x 32 in. ( 64 x 81 cm). Image is from a Christie’s autcion in 2013; I assume the painting is currently in a private collection. British painter Alice Fanner, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was noted for…
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William Henry Margetson
William Henry Margetson was an Engish painter and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is noted in particular for his full length portrayals of women, often in fashionable clothing of the time. He worked in a variation of Victorian style, but didn’t often dwell on the historic or literary themes…