Tag Archives: Sargent

Empty chambers, crowded with life

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Mark Mitchell

Belgian or French School, Sunlight on the table, 1909 Paintings of interior scenes go back in date as far as figure and still life subjects, as they were a necessary part of the background of each; but a whole furnished … Continue reading →

Posted in Paintings of interiors, still life | Tagged apartment, door, empty rooms, Hammershøi, history, Hopper, Interiors, Messina, paintings of interiors, paintings of rooms, palace, rooms, Sargent, Still life, still life paintings, symbolism, Van Hoogstraten, window | Leave a comment

Daffodils that come before the swallow dares…

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Mark Mitchell

The appearance of a flowerpiece by Ludger Tom Ring in Christie’s Old Master & British Paintings Sale on 2 July – ‘one of the earliest independent still life [paintings] in the history of Western art’ – prompts the question, why … Continue reading →

Posted in still life | Tagged Alexander Marshall, Camilla Gobl, daffodils, florilegium, flowerpiece, Flowers, Jan van Os, Ludger Tom Ring II, Madonna of the Rocks, narcissi, narcissus, Sargent, Still life | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Sargent

Empty chambers, crowded with life

Daffodils that come before the swallow dares…

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