Astronomy: various views of Donati's comet in the night sky. Process print.

In the 1650s Ruysdael produced a series of small-format, vertical, marine views in which he experimented with light and atmospheric effects on large areas of water and sky. Art his...

Claude-Joseph Vernet was famous for his marine views and was the French artist most admired in this sub-genre around the mid-18th century. Vernet first trained with his father, a l...

Claude-Joseph Vernet was famous for his marine views and was the French artist most admired in this sub-genre around the mid-18th century. Vernet first trained with his father, a l...

A masterpiece of British art, Wright’s celebrated ‘Orrery’ was first exhibited in London in 1766. It was the second of three subject paintings by which he established his reputatio...

In 1887, Gauguin and Charles Laval went to Panama, and then to Martinique, searching for a warm, healthy climate and a cheap place to live a natural, "savage" life. Residing during...

Jan Josephsz. van Goyen is considered to be one of the leading 17th-century Dutch landscape painters. Among his teachers was Esaias van der Velde in whose Haarlem workshop he spent...

The Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind spent most of his life in France, first as a protégé of the Prince of Orange and later as an independent artist. In 1855, disillusion...