David Partington

'Young Peasant Woman with Three Children at the Window,' by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller ,1840

'The Boating Party,' by Mary Cassatt, 1893

If it's not the expression of another soul, then it's not art so far as I'm concerned.

Here's my great aunt Doris with a co-star in a 1910 London performance of 'Inconstant George.'

Catherine Deneuve
© Franco Pinna

Illustration by Lucy Fitch Perkins for 'The Moon Princess' by Edith Ogden Harrison, published in 1905

Jean-Antoine Watteau was born on this day 341 years ago. He painted 'Les Deux Cousines' (below) in 1716.

'Carnival Eve,' by Ulpiano Checa y Sanz, 1916

'The Reluctant Dragon,' illustration by Maxfield Parrish, 1898

Monet’s Poplars series almost didn’t happen because the trees were about to be cut down.
So he purchased them until he finished painting, then sold them back.

Symphony (1920)
by Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky

the painting Suspense, by Charles Burton Barber, 1894, featuring a little girl sitting up in bed, hands held in prayer over her breakfast. on the right side of her is a dog, a jack russell, and the other side, a tiny tabby kitten, both sharing an interest in the delicious food.

Suspense, by Charles Burton Barber, 1894

'The Merman's Glass House,' illustration by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1923

I'd rather just give the workers a fair contract lasting four or five years.

'A Day of Celebration,' by Fanny Brate, 1902

Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764) (1759) - François Boucher (1703–1770) #rococo #portrait

'The Danaïdes,' by John William Waterhouse, 1904

I wonder if that's the sort of thing Bob Hartley would have read, or it's more the sort of thing a crew member had lying around their house.

The Lazy Morning (1900) - Ramon Casas #moderism

I love the fact that nothing important happens--she's just walking to the next scene--yet the music and dancers turn it into something ecstatic.

'La Belle Dame sans Merci,' by Frank Dicksee, 1902

'Plein Air,' by Ramon Casas i Carbó, 1890ish

Gloria Swanson behind a veil/
Edward Steichen Photograph

Artist: Frank Weston Benson

'The Lady of Shalott,' by John William Waterhouse, 1888

Lumière (Light), 1905 by
Frans Van Holder, Belgian, 1881-1919

Oil on canvas
Collection of the Province of Walloon Brabant, on deposit at Musée L, Louvain-la-Neuve
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865-1915)
Monastery, San Lazzaro, 1907.

'Avenue de l'Opéra,' by Camille Pissarro, 1898

A young woman with long, fair hair gets dressed in her poor, shabby bedroom. She is fastening a beautiful silver gown covered all over with stars.

To avoid marrying her father, this heroine takes her dead mother’s advice & asks him for an impossible, celestial gown. But with the Devil’s aid, he pulls it from a nutshell. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #notdisneyprincess
🎨Arthur Rackham

Gustav klimt