Oil painting from the 1880s by V L Rydberg with Sommaro mansion and pavilion. The main building burned down in 1892.

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

In the field of French art, both academic and avant-garde, the 1880s were an unusually turbulent decade. The last official state-sponsored Salon, an institution that had been in ex...

The nineteenth century witnessed the evolution of the nuclear family unit—father, mother, and children—into a nexus of bourgeois social life throughout Europe and North America. In...

As a young artist in Paris Monet he was particularly impressed with the work of Courbet and Manet. During the 1860s he painted large-scale, ambitious works in an effort to attain f...

Among the new genres in Dutch painting developed during the Golden Age was that of paintings of architectural motifs. This sub-genre took on its own independent existence, in a man...

Oil painting of Padmini's Palace in Chittaurgarh, Rajasthan by Marianne North, dated December 1878.Initially Marianne North (1830-1890) only painted botanical specimens and travell...