Sails, Cells (High Seas)

During his first two decades as a painter, Liebermann focused almost exclusively on themes concerned with the life and labor of farmers and fishermen. After Flax Barn of 1887 (Alte...

In December 1890Winslow Homer wrote to his brother Charles, “I have got a fine picture called The Distress Signal a scene in mid ocean.” The painter was referring to the work in th...

Jan Evangelista Purkyně also written Johann Evangelist Purkinje) (1787 –1869) was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. In 1839, ...

Monochrome sketches: pencil drawing of castle(?) at upper right with two panoramic seascapes in watercolour below - various ships, without sails, moored in calm water; row boats an...

Bowness on Windermere is the port serving Windermere Lake. This picture shows the 14th century church of St Martin in the right foreground. Towards the background, near the middle ...

Around 1900, Liebermann turned to new motifs. By this time, the fishermen’s villages along the coast of the Netherlands, which he had visited almost every summer during the 1880s, ...