"Elder were on a larger scale than calendar paintings; they measured approximately three feet by five feet (0.9 by 1.5 meters). Bruegel continued to depict snow in his paintings. He created the first nativity scene to include snow, ""Adoration of the Magi in a Winter Landscape"", which is also the earliest known painting to actually depict falling snow. He also started a vogue for Netherlandish winter painting. The popularity of landscapes in the Netherlands was in part a reflection of the virtual disappearance of religious painting in a now Protestant (Calvinist) society, which preferred non-religious themes such as still life,"
"Williams family of painters The Williams family of painters, also known as the Barnes School, is a family of prominent 19th-century Victorian landscape artists known for their paintings of the British countryside, coasts and mountains. They are represented by the artist Edward Williams (1781–1855), his six sons, and several grandchildren. Edward Williams (1781–1855), the patriarch of the ""Williams family of painters"" and founder of the ""Barnes School"" of artists, was a successful landscape artist, who became very popular during the Victorian era for painting moonlit scenes of the English countryside. He was followed as a landscape artist by his six"
"the enduring popularity of their works today, reflected by the high prices some Williams family paintings bring in auction, demonstrates the importance of the Barnes School in the history of Victorian art. Examples of paintings by some of the better-known members of the family. Williams family of painters The Williams family of painters, also known as the Barnes School, is a family of prominent 19th-century Victorian landscape artists known for their paintings of the British countryside, coasts and mountains. They are represented by the artist Edward Williams (1781–1855), his six sons, and several grandchildren. Edward Williams (1781–1855), the patriarch of"
"landscapes, and illustrated books, particularly those of his close friend G.K. Chesterton. Sidney Richard Percy was born into an artist family that is sometimes referred to as the Barnes School. His father and five surviving brothers (listed below) were all noted landscape painters during the Victorian era. Percy was one of three of the sons of Edward Williams who changed their last names to protect the identity of their art. Sidney Richard Percy had his greatest success painting landscapes of grazing cattle, typically set against backgrounds of distant mountains and cloudy skies. The prevailing hues of his landscapes are earth"
"artisans, such as the members of the Norie family, James (1684–1757) and his sons, who painted the houses of the peerage with Scottish landscapes that were pastiches of Italian and Dutch landscapes. The painters Allan Ramsay (1713–84), Gavin Hamilton (1723–98), the brothers John (1744–68/9) and Alexander Runciman (1736–85), Jacob More (1740–93) and David Allan (1744–96), mostly began in the tradition of the Nories, but were artists of European significance, spending considerable portions of their careers outside Scotland, and were to varying degree influenced by forms of Neoclassicism. The influence of Italy was particularly significant, with over fifty Scottish artists and"
"with complex lighting in which the figures, often people and boats, were subordinate to the scenery, in an age when landscape painters were considered subordinate to figure painters. His sons developed this style further, each adding their own variations. Their paintings were extremely popular in Victorian England and remain so today. Examples of the work of Edward Williams and all six of his sons, as well as several of his grandchildren hang today in prominent museums, and some Williams family paintings, especially those of Henry John Boddington and Sidney Richard Percy, command impressive prices at auction. The best-known members of"
"them, according to a popular lecture in 1770 about ""Facial Angles"" by Petrus Camper. In that lecture he claimed that another Haarlemmer was the most successful of all at this skill, naming not Hals but Cornelis Visscher. Family Group in a Landscape Family Group in a Landscape is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in circa 1648 and now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. The painting is one of a handful of paintings that Hals made of families in the ""picnic style"" of open air settings, but this is the only one featuring a slave,"
"part of the eighteenth century remained largely artisans, like the members of the Norie family, James (1684–1757) and his sons, who painted the houses of the peerage with Scottish landscapes that were pastiches of Italian and Dutch landscapes. The painters Allan Ramsay (1713–84), Gavin Hamilton (1723–98), the brothers John (1744–1768/9) and Alexander Runciman (1736–85), Jacob More (1740–93) and David Allan (1744–96), mostly began in the tradition of the Nories, but were artists of European significance, spending considerable portions of their careers outside Scotland, and were to varying degree influenced by forms of Neoclassicism. The shift in attitudes to a romantic"
"Fraser family of artists The Frasers of Huntingdonshire, of Scottish origin and emerging initially from the town of Bedford in the latter part of the nineteenth century, were a family of artists, known largely for their watercolour paintings, the predominant subject matter of which was the rural landscape of The Fens. Two of the family made illustrations for books and magazines. Six of the group were the sons of an army surgeon, Major Robert Winchester Fraser (1819–1892) and his wife Mary Ann Anderson (1820–1898), who married in 1842 and produced a total of nine children. There was one son, Michie,"
"Holy Family. A lamp casts long shadows of many colors on the floor of the humble cottage. The painting includes soft shades of green and purple. The work was based on a print by Millet from his series, the four times of day. Van Gogh Museum says of Millet's influence on Van Gogh: ""Millet's paintings, with their unprecedented depictions of peasants and their labors, mark a turning point in 19th-century art. Before Millet, peasant figures were just one of many elements in picturesque or nostalgic scenes. In Millet's work, individual men and women became heroic and real. Millet was the"
"growing flora is closely comparable to Collinson's early Pre-Raphaelite work, and differs from his other paintings from this period. The Holy Family (Collinson painting) The Holy Family is an oil painting on canvas of the Holy Family by the Pre-Raphaelite artist James Collinson. The painting dates from 1878 when the artist was living in Brittany. The town in the background may be Saint-Malo. The scene is of Jesus as an infant, with his earthly father Joseph and mother Mary. The specific scene does not appear in the Biblical Gospels, but it has many precedents in Renaissance art. The dove typically"
"The Bellelli Family The Bellelli Family, also known as Family Portrait, is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painted ca. 1858–1867, and housed in the Musée d'Orsay. A masterwork of Degas' youth, the painting is a portrait of his aunt, her husband, and their two young daughters. While finishing his artistic training in Italy, Degas drew and painted his aunt Laura, her husband the baron Gennaro Bellelli (1812–1864), and their daughters Giulia and Giovanna. Although it is not known for certain when or where Degas executed the painting, it is believed that he utilized studies done in"
"2009. Rüdisühli The Rüdisühli family was a Swiss family of artists, including painters, engravers and copyists, who were active from the mid-19th to the mid-20th Century. The family was from the Basel area. Jacob Rüdisühli was primarily a painter of landscapes and of sentimental works influenced by Arnold Böcklin. Four of his fourteen children, Hermann, Louise, Michael and Eduard, received their first training from him. The three sons all subsequently attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel (now the Schule für Gestaltung), his daughter Louise became a largely self-taught painter of portraits and landscapes; unlike her brothers', her work does not echo the"
"the estate of the family of his guardian Hendrick van Balen. A landscape signed and dated Ambrosius Breughel fecit 1653 was in 1876 in the collection of J. Lenglart in Lille, while another Landscape, allegedly with figures by his brother-in-law David Teniers the Younger, signed Ambrosius Broeghel, was in the Fahnenburg near Düsseldorf in 1894. The location of these paintings is now unknown. Ambrosius Brueghel Ambrosius Brueghel (; baptized 10 August 1617, Antwerp – 9 February 1675) was a Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists. Less prolific and less well-known than a number of his family members,"
"if the Barnes School implies a style employed by the family as a whole wherein the natural setting of the landscape, not the figures in it, sets the mood for the painting, then Percy's father Edward Williams must be considered the founder of the Barnes School. Paintings of the Williams family are characterized by farm and village settings, cloudy mountain vistas, boats plying marshes along the Thames, and cattle grazing in meadow wetlands, usually painted in soft earth tones and subtle greens, and often displaying a complex interplay of light and shadow. Edward Williams was a master at creating scenes"
"Family Group in a Landscape Family Group in a Landscape is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in circa 1648 and now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. The painting is one of a handful of paintings that Hals made of families in the ""picnic style"" of open air settings, but this is the only one featuring a slave, something of a rarity in Haarlem during Hals' lifetime. In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot wrote: ""441. A FAMILY GROUP OF FIVE PERSONS IN THE OPEN AIR, M. 89. — To the"
"Gaspar de Witte Gaspar de Witte (variations on his first name: Caspar, Jasper, and Jaspar) (bapt. 5 October 1624, Antwerp - 20 March 1681, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter who is known for his landscapes and gallery paintings. Gaspar de Witte was born in Antwerp as the son of Peter de Witte II en Barbara Remeeus. He was member of a prominent painting family. His father and his brothers Peter de Witte III and Jan Baptist de Witte were all painters. Gaspar was also the godchild of Gerard Seghers, an eminent history painter of Antwerp. Gaspar de Witte trained with"
"Rüdisühli The Rüdisühli family was a Swiss family of artists, including painters, engravers and copyists, who were active from the mid-19th to the mid-20th Century. The family was from the Basel area. Jacob Rüdisühli was primarily a painter of landscapes and of sentimental works influenced by Arnold Böcklin. Four of his fourteen children, Hermann, Louise, Michael and Eduard, received their first training from him. The three sons all subsequently attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel (now the Schule für Gestaltung), his daughter Louise became a largely self-taught painter of portraits and landscapes; unlike her brothers', her work does not echo the motifs"
"Walter Williams (painter) Walter Williams (1834-1906) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. He was born George Walter Williams on 29 November 1834 in London, being the son of the well-known Victorian landscape painter George Augustus Williams and his wife Caroline Smith. Some sources attribute to him a twin brother named George. However, as his baptismal record proves, George and Walter are the same person. He became a painter like his father, and married another painter Jane Pearcy (1832-1872), with whom he had two children - Florence Ada Williams"
"fountain or rock. The setting was often a garden or terrace against a sunset sky. He also created many group portraits of children or families shown at full length in landscape settings. During the 1670s and early 1680s he painted several portraits of children in the guise of mythological figures such as Ganymede, Apollo and Diana, either as single figure or in a family group. He further painted one group portrait of a guild, the (1680–81, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam). Nicolaes Maes Nicolaes Maes (January 1634 – November 24, 1693 (buried)) was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious"
"of the sons of Edward Williams changed their last names to protect the identity of their art. George Augustus Williams George Augustus Williams (4 May 1814 – 26 May 1901 ) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. George Augustus Williams was born on 4 May 1814 in London. He was the third son of the painter Edward Williams (1781-1855) and Ann Hildebrandt (c.1780-1851), and a member of the Williams family of painters, who were related to such famous artists as James Ward, R.A. and George Morland. His father"
"of European scenes), and occasional domesticated mythological scenes like his ""The Three Graces"" of 1875. He also produced miniatures and sensitive watercolours. Influenced by the early aesthetic movement, his style relates to both Victorian academic painting and the Pre-Raphaelites. Augustus Jules Bouvier Augustus Jules Bouvier (1827–1881) was a French-born English painter active in London. He exhibited at the British Institution and the Royal Academy. He is best known for oil paintings of women of the English aristocracy, but also was an accomplished water colourist. Augustus Bouvier was the son of Paris-born artist Jules Bouvier (1800-1867), who moved to London with"
"Paul-Emmanuel Péraire, Gabriel-Hippolyte Lebas, Albert Charpin, Félix Ziem, François-Louis Français, Émile van Marcke, and Alexandre Defaux. Millet extended the idea from landscape to figures — peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields. In ""The Gleaners"" (1857), for example, Millet portrays three peasant women working at the harvest. Gleaners are poor people who are permitted to gather the remains after the owners of the field complete the main harvest. The owners (portrayed as wealthy) and their laborers are seen in the back of the painting. Millet shifted the focus and the subject matter from the rich and"
"scenes of peasant life. Such scenes acted as a prelude for the popularity of scenes of work in genre painting in the 17th century, which appeared all over Europe, with Dutch Golden Age painting sprouting several different subgenres of such scenes, the Bamboccianti (though mostly from the Low Countries) in Italy, and in Spain the genre of bodegones, and the introduction of unidealized peasants into history paintings by Jusepe de Ribera and Velázquez. The Le Nain brothers in France and many Flemish artists including Adriaen Brouwer and David Teniers the Elder and Younger painted peasants, but rarely townsfolk. In the"
"David Ryckaert III David Rijckaert III, David Rijckaert the Younger or David Ryckaert III (2 December 1612 (baptized), Antwerp - 11 November 1661, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter known for his contribution to genre painting, in particular through his scenes of merry companies and peasants. He enjoyed the patronage of prominent patrons and was a painter to the court of the governor of the Southern Netherlands. A member of the Ryckaert (or Rijckaert) family of artists, he was the son of David Ryckaert II, the grandson of David Ryckaert I, and the nephew of Marten Ryckaert. It is believed he"
"Charles Leslie (painter) Charles Leslie (1839–1886) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. Charles Leslie was born Charles Edward John Leslie on 27 November 1839 in the Pentonville Road area of the Islington borough of London. He was the son of Emily Ann Williams and Charles Leslie, senior. His grandfather Edward Williams (1781–1855) was a well-known landscape painter, and the father of six sons, all artists, who collectively are referred to as the Williams family of painters. The younger Charles learned to paint from his uncles, especially George Augustus"
"in the Netherlands. Charles Leslie (painter) Charles Leslie (1839–1886) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. Charles Leslie was born Charles Edward John Leslie on 27 November 1839 in the Pentonville Road area of the Islington borough of London. He was the son of Emily Ann Williams and Charles Leslie, senior. His grandfather Edward Williams (1781–1855) was a well-known landscape painter, and the father of six sons, all artists, who collectively are referred to as the Williams family of painters. The younger Charles learned to paint from his uncles,"
"superstitious Catholics. However art depicting supernatural subjects was very popular. John Runciman, as one of the first artists to use Shakespearean characters in his work, created an ink-on-paper drawing entitled ""The Three Witches"" in 1767–68. In it, three ancient figures are shown in close consultation, their heads together and their bodies unshown. Runciman's brother created another drawing of the witches called ""The Witches show Macbeth The Apparitions"" painted circa 1771–1772, portraying Macbeth's reaction to the power of the witches' conjured vision. Both brothers' work influenced many later artists by removing the characters from the familiar theatrical setting and placing them"
"family of artists. Fourteen known painters are recorded in the family history. Of these, his father Marten van Valckenborch (1535-1612), his brother Frederik van Valckenborch and his uncle Lucas van Valckenborch the elder achieved notable fame as painters. The van Valckenborch family was particularly known in the Spanish Netherlands for landscape painting. Originally from Leuven, Marten van Valckenborch moved to Antwerp in the 1560s. Like many other families in the region who had become Calvinists, Marten moved with his family from the Spanish-occupied Spanish Netherlands to the more liberal environment of Frankfurt am Main, which was a German imperial outpost."
"a desolate desert landscape, Rilke described them as standing on a ""threadbare carpet"" to suggest ""the ultimate loneliness and isolation of Man in this incomprehensible world, practicing their profession from childhood to death as playthings of an unknown will...before their 'pure too-little; had passed into 'empty too-much'."" A related work in gouache and pastel is ""Family of Acrobats"" (1905). Family of Saltimbanques Family of Saltimbanques ("""") is a 1905 painting by Pablo Picasso. The work depicts six saltimbanques, a kind of itinerant circus performer, in a desolate landscape. It is considered the masterpiece of Picasso's Rose Period, sometimes called his"
"of Degas have acknowledged it as the masterpiece of his youth. The Bellelli Family The Bellelli Family, also known as Family Portrait, is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painted ca. 1858–1867, and housed in the Musée d'Orsay. A masterwork of Degas' youth, the painting is a portrait of his aunt, her husband, and their two young daughters. While finishing his artistic training in Italy, Degas drew and painted his aunt Laura, her husband the baron Gennaro Bellelli (1812–1864), and their daughters Giulia and Giovanna. Although it is not known for certain when or where Degas executed"
"protect the identity of their art. Arthur Gilbert became known for painting moonlight and night scenes, as well as stark mountains landscapes, many of which were exhibited in London. He painted also two large pictures of Saint John the Baptist for the ""atelier Jacques-Paul Migne"" that are part of the triptych of the choir in the gothic church of Audresselles, sea-side village in France (Pas-de-Calais). Arthur Gilbert Arthur Gilbert (19 December 1819 – 21 April 1895) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. Arthur Gilbert was born Arthur Gilbert"
"Genre paintings, or scenes of everyday life, are common in the 17th century. Many artists follow the tradition of Pieter Bruegel the Elder in depicting ""low-life"" peasant themes, although elegant ""high-life"" subjects featuring fashionably-dressed couples at balls or in gardens of love are also common. Adriaen Brouwer, whose small paintings often show peasants fighting and drinking, was particularly influential on subsequent artists. Images of woman performing household tasks, popularized in the northern Netherlands by Pieter de Hooch and Jan Vermeer, is not a significant subject in the south, although artists such as Jan Siberechts explored these themes to some degree."