Franz Courtens in his studio

Portrait of Robert Franz. On this page, the German composer and conductor Robert Franz is portrayed as an all-figure portrait. He stands upright facing to the left and looking. His...

Portrait of a man in a black top hat. He also wears a brown jacket and a black waistcoat. He is holding papers in both hands. Stamp at bottom left of page reads 'Bristol Paper' aro...

Georges Demarées’ father was French while his mother was from a family of artists from the Low Countries. As an adult he lived and work in Germany but began in his training in Stoc...

Georges Demarées’ father was French while his mother was from a family of artists from the Low Countries. As an adult he lived and work in Germany but began in his training in Stoc...

“I also hold that painting is a quite concrete art, and can consist of nothing but the representation of real, tangible things, ” wrote Gustave Courbet in an open letter to his stu...

Edgar Degas received a thorough academic art education. He studied with a pupil of Ingres and completed the course at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Initially, he attempted a traditiona...

New acquisitions, November 2016 Five paintings by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Nationalmuseum has added no fewer than five works by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg to its Danish a...

New acquisitions, November 2016 Five paintings by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Nationalmuseum has added no fewer than five works by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg to its Danish a...