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A-Z of Painters and Paintings

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A - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912). Dutch painter who settled in England in 1870 and spent rest of his life there. I have gone for him because a copy of one of his paintings, A Coign of Vantage, showing three classical Greek maidens on a high wall looking down at a blue sea, is hanging in my hallway.
 
B Sandro BOTTICELLI - (1445-1510). Florentine painter and draughtsman was one of the most esteemed artists in Italy one of his most famous paintings was 'Venus and Mars' which is an ' in an allegory of beauty and valour' and, I believe, is in the National Gallery.
 
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B Sandro BOTTICELLI - (1445-1510). Florentine painter and draughtsman was one of the most esteemed artists in Italy one of his most famous paintings was 'Venus and Mars' which is an ' in an allegory of beauty and valour' and, I believe, is in the National Gallery.
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Botticelli's Madonna of the Book is also hanging in my hallway - although I don't think it's the original!
 
C - Caravaggio (1571-1610). Italian painter and subject of a 1986 film by Derek Jarman which had Sean Bean in it and was rather risque. I had a copy of his Boy Bitten By a Lizard on the wall but my wife hated it and one day I decided she was right all along and took it to the tip.
 
E Jan van EYCK - Belgium painter who produced the Amolfini Portrait which is thought to be of Giovanni di Nicolao di Arnolfini, an Italian merchant working in Bruges, and his pregnant wife. It has a mirror behind the pair with their backs and two people coming into the room, one thought to be the artist himself.

I've seen this or a copy of it somewhere.

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F - Lucien FREUD - grandson of Sigmund Freud. He had 14 children, 12 of them to a variety of mistresses!
He was quite prolific, his paintings are quite varied - I like some of them.
 
I - Irises. One of several paintings of these flowers by Van Gogh which he did in the asylum in the last year before his death in 1890.
 
J JOHANNES Vermeer - Dutch painter who painted The Little Street and the Milkmaid which I saw in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam but probably more famous for his Girl With A Pearl Earing
 
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J JOHANNES Vermeer - Dutch painter who painted The Little Street and the Milkmaid which I saw in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam but probably more famous for his Girl With A Pearl Earing
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I like his work and am a bit surprised I haven't got any on the walls. Thought I had Pearl Earring but think I'm confusing myself with the book cover.
 
L - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Italian painter and polymath. Perhaps most famous for the Mona Lisa (which I have twice tried to see but was both times defeated by huge crowds of students!). I have a copy of his Lady With Ermine on the stairs.
 
M Claude MONET - French painter. I love his waterlilies. Twice been to see the garden and twice been foiled by weather! One day . . .
 
N - The Night Watch. 1642 painting by Rembrandt. Tried to see it in Amsterdam but queue for museum was about a mile long so went to a bar instead.
 
Lindum said:
N - The Night Watch. 1642 painting by Rembrandt. Tried to see it in Amsterdam but queue for museum was about a mile long so went to a bar instead.
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They have it on a little easel and I thought I'm never going to get to see that then the other half tapped me on the shoulder and pointed to it on the wall - It is a lot bigger than I expected!
 
O ON The Outskirts Of Paris - Another Van Gogh but, I think in my untrained eye, that it's different to his others. Only seen pictures of it.
 
P - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Influential Spanish painter and co-founder of Cubist movement. Highly regarded but not my cup of tea.
 
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