Which 17th century painting in the National Gallery was slashed in 1914 by suffragette Mary Richardson?
"painted by many later artists. Manet, in his stark female portrayal ""Olympia"", paraphrased the ""Rokeby Venus"" in pose and by suggesting the persona of a real woman rather than an ethereal goddess. ""Olympia"" shocked the Parisian art world when it was first exhibited in 1863. Olympia gazes directly out at the viewer, as does Velázquez's Venus, only through the reflection of the mirror. The 1961 film ""The Happy Thieves"" features a plan to steal the picture from a Spanish mansion. On 10 March 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson walked into the National Gallery and attacked Velázquez's canvas with a meat"
"date 85–90% of the 250 paintings from the 14th to 17th century analysed between 1971 and 1982; by now a much greater number have been analysed. A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots in the National Portrait Gallery, London was believed to be an 18th-century copy. However, dendrochronology revealed that the wood dated from the second half of the 16th century. It is now regarded as an original 16th-century painting by an unknown artist. On the other hand, dendrochronology was applied to four paintings depicting the same subject, that of Christ expelling the money-lenders from the Temple. The results showed"
"cleaver. Her action was ostensibly provoked by the arrest of fellow suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst the previous day, although there had been earlier warnings of a planned suffragette attack on the collection. Richardson left seven slashes on the painting, particularly causing damage to the area between the figure's shoulders. However, all were successfully repaired by the National Gallery's chief restorer Helmut Ruhemann. Richardson was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, the maximum allowed for destruction of an artwork. In a statement to the Women's Social and Political Union shortly afterwards, Richardson explained, ""I have tried to destroy the picture of the most"
"National Gallery London. Rembrandt employed his usual limited number of pigments, such as ochres, vermilion, red lakes, lead white, lead-tin-yellow and bone black. The Woman Taken in Adultery (Rembrandt) The Woman Taken in Adultery is a painting of 1644 by Rembrandt, bought by the National Gallery, London in 1824, as one of their foundation batch of paintings. It is in oil on oak, and 83.8 x 65.4 cm. Rembrandt shows the episode of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery from the Gospel of Saint John. In this scene, a few Jews, mainly Scribes and Pharisees, tried to catch Jesus"
"La Circassienne au Bain La Circassienne au Bain, also known as Une Baigneuse, was a large Neoclassical oil painting from 1814 by Merry-Joseph Blondel depicting a life-sized young Circassian woman bathing in an idealized setting from classical antiquity. The painting was destroyed with the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" in 1912. When financial compensation claims were filed with US commissioner Gilchrist in January 1913, the painting gained notoriety as the subject of the largest claim made against the White Star Line for the loss of a single item of baggage or cargo. The painting was first exhibited at the Paris"
"The Woman Taken in Adultery (Rembrandt) The Woman Taken in Adultery is a painting of 1644 by Rembrandt, bought by the National Gallery, London in 1824, as one of their foundation batch of paintings. It is in oil on oak, and 83.8 x 65.4 cm. Rembrandt shows the episode of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery from the Gospel of Saint John. In this scene, a few Jews, mainly Scribes and Pharisees, tried to catch Jesus condoning disobedience to the Jewish Law, knowing that Jesus pitied wrong-doers. To do this, they produced a woman who had been caught taking"
"Maude Edwards Maude Edwards was a Scottish feminist and suffragette. She was imprisoned in Perth Prison in 1914 for slashing John Lavery’s portrait of King George V hanging in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. She was force-fed in prison despite having a heart condition. Maude Edwards was tried before a jury in Edinburgh Sheriff Court charged with slashing a portrait by John Lavery on 23 May 1914. The picture, A ""Portrait Study of the King for The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, 1913,"" was one which the king himself had approved. The portrait had been hanging in ""the Great"
"on 14 July 1914. The story of four suffragette prisoners at Perth prison - Maude Edwards, Arabella Scott, Frances Gordon and Frances Parker and the doctor who force-fed them, Dr. Hugh Ferguson-Watson - was made into a play by Ajay Close. The play is called ""Cat and Mouse"". Maude Edwards Maude Edwards was a Scottish feminist and suffragette. She was imprisoned in Perth Prison in 1914 for slashing John Lavery’s portrait of King George V hanging in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. She was force-fed in prison despite having a heart condition. Maude Edwards was tried before a jury"
"and again in 1673, but the portrait had already enjoyed notoriety in Teniers' portrayals of the Archduke's art collection: St Margaret and the Dragon (Raphael) Saint Margaret and the Dragon is a circa 1518 painting of Saint Margaret by the Renaissance painter Raphael, now held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The painting shows the saint at the moment before she is swallowed alive by the dragon. She is shown unafraid, holding the crucifix that will save her once she is swallowed. Another version showing her holding a palm branch is in the collection of the Louvre. This painting was"
"supported the arsonist suffragettes. There were similar incidents around the country. One WSPU member, for example, put a small hatchet into the Prime Minister's carriage inscribed with the words: ""Votes for Women,"" and other suffragettes used acid to burn the same slogan into golf courses used by MPs. In 1914 Mary Richardson slashed the Velasquez painting ""Rokeby Venus"" to protest against Pankhurst's imprisonment. The WSPU's approval of property destruction led to the departure of several important members. The first were Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and her husband Frederick. They had long been integral members of the group's leadership but found themselves in"
"in Holloway. After Emmeline Pankhurst's rearrest in 1914, Margaret Gibb entered the National Portrait Gallery and slashed the portrait of one of gallery's founders, Thomas Carlyle by John Everett Milais. She was sentenced to six months imprisonment . During the reporting of this arrest, she is referred to as Ann Hunt, which she used as an alias. She was one of a number of suffragettes photographed when Scotland Yard commissioned the undercover photography of militant suffragettes from 1913. The images were used to identify suffragettes attempting to enter public buildings such as museums and art galleries, where they might attempt"
"to that of the late 1620s, heavily influenced by Titian. The painting became very popular within the Spanish royal collection and when Maria Anna of Neuburg suggested sending it to Germany as a gift to her father Philip William, Elector Palatine, she was vetoed by her husband Charles II of Spain. It had to be cut from its frame with a knife, rolled up and thrown out of a window during a fire at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid in 1734 - the cuts and small blisters in the paint (caused by exposure to the heat of the fire) are"
"was reopened in 2014 according to the new facts. Various copies of painting are known to the Italian police. Portrait of a Lady (Klimt) Portrait of a Lady is a 1916-17 oil on canvas painting by Gustav Klimt. The painting measures . It depicts a portrait of a female figure, composed in an unusually lively expressionistic style. It was acquired by the Galleria Ricci-Oddi in Piacenza in 1925. In 1996, X-ray analysis revealed that the portrait was an overpainted version of Klimt's lost work ""Portrait of a Young Lady"" (in hat and with scarf), which disappeared in 1917. The original"
"Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a 1615–1617 painting by the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, showing the artist in the guise of Catherine of Alexandria. It is now in the collection of the National Gallery, London, which purchased it in 2018 for £3.6 million, including about £2.7 million from its American Friends group. It was painted during her time in Florence. and is similar to her ""Saint Catherine of Alexandria"" (c.1619), now in the Uffizi. It is one of several paintings of female martyrs by Gentileschi that she made after her famous"
"pictures. Genuine works realized high prices, as, for example, at Sir William Hamilton's sale (1801), when Beckford paid 1,300 gns. for the little picture of ""A Laughing Boy"" by Leonardo da Vinci; and when at the Lafontaine sales (1807 and 1811) two Rembrandts each realized 5,000 gns., ""The Woman taken in Adultery"", now in the National Gallery, and ""The Master Shipbuilder"", now at Buckingham Palace. The Beckford sale of 1823 (41 days, ) was the forerunner of the great art dispersal of the 19th century; Horace Walpole's accumulation at Strawberry Hill, 1842 (24 days, ), and the Stowe collection, 1848"
"precise and realistic. There are examples of her work in the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, the Hugh Lane Gallery, the Office of Public Works, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Ulster Museum and National Museums Northern Ireland.Sarah Cecilia Harrison is known as an artist, nationalist, social reformer and feminist.Cecilia Harrison became a well known portrait artist. On November 24th 2014, Harrison's 'Portrait of a Young Lady Reading' sold at auction for €6,600. For some 30 years Sarah was part of social reform and women's rights in Ireland. In 1912 she was the first woman to be elected"
"The Breakdown The Breakdown was a 1926 painting by Scottish artist John Bulloch Souter (1890–1972) which stirred controversy in the United Kingdom during the Jazz Age. The work depicted a musician playing the saxophone while a naked woman dances in a trance. Following widespread outrage, the painting was withdrawn from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1926 after one week at the request of the British Colonial Office as the subject matter ""was considered to be obnoxious to British subjects living abroad in daily contact with a coloured population"". The painting was then destroyed by its author and his wife,"
"(to the right); Venus does not sit on a white cloth; the mouth of the vessel faces away from the viewer. Conversely, examples of details not in the Prado version, but in the London and other versions are the string of pearls in Venus' hair, and a larger gap between Adonis' face and the strap over his chest. It cannot be traced back further than the Salviati collection in the 17th century. It was one of thirty-eight paintings from John Julius Angerstein's collection acquired by the British government in 1824 for £57,000 which formed the original nucleus of the National"
"Margaret Foster Richardson Margaret Foster Richardson (December 19, 1881—1945) was an American painter known for her self-portraiture. Richardson is best known for her 1912 painting, ""Self-Portrait, A Motion Picture."" Richardson was born in Winnetka, Illinois. She moved to Boston as a youth, where she studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She graduated from the Normal Art School in 1905, where she studied under Joseph DeCamp and Edmund C. Tarbell. Richardson exhibited art at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the National Academy of Design in"
"a medical orderly during the war, such as ""Femme au miroir"", private collection; ""Landscape with Open Window"" (1915) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes; ""Femme à la dentelle"" (1916) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; ""Summer"" (1916) Statens Museum for Kunst; ""Le goûter"" (1917) Galerie Daniel Malingue; ""Tête de femme"" (1916–17) private collection; ""Femme devant le miroir"" (c. 1914) private collection; ""Femme au miroir"" (1916–17) Donn Shapiro collection; ""Maison cubistes au bord de l'eau"" (1916); and ""Femme et paysage à l'aqueduc"" (1916). If the beauty of a painting depends solely on its pictorial qualities: retain only certain elements, those"
"the Shadow of Death. It was a waste of a good shilling. I thought the picture theatrical and detestable and wished I had never seen it."" In 1913 Lillian Williamson led an attack on the Manchester Art Gallery. She, Evelyn Manesta and Annie Briggs waited until the gallery was closing and then proceeded to break the glass on many of the most valuable paintings in including the ""Shadow of Death"", two by John Everett Millais and two by George Frederick Watts. Staff were alerted by the sound of broken glass and the three were apprehended. Williamson was sentenced to three"
"copies of old master paintings in crewel wool (named from the crewel or worsted wool used), in which the irregular and sloping stitches resembled brushwork, achieved great fame from the time of her first London exhibition in 1787. She met most of the crowned heads of Europe. She exhibited in Russia and Catherine the Great offered £40,000 for the whole collection while the Tsar offered her £3,000 for one example. However, Mary refused as she wished her work to remain in England. On one occasion her copy of a painting by the Italian artist Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) sold for more"
"Avarice (Dürer, Vienna) Avarice (German: Allegorie des Geizes) is a small (35 × 29 cm) oil-on-limewood painting of 1507 by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). It shows a grotesque and wrinkled old woman with one sagging breast hanging out of her crimson robe holding a bag of gold coins with both hands. The work is found on the reverse of his """"; it has been speculated, though it is impossible to know, that they were intended to form part of a diptych. ""Avarice"" is allegorical and serves as a warning at both the transience of life and the ultimate worthlessness of earthly"
"altered. For example, at first Velázquez's own head inclined to his right rather than his left. The painting has been cut down on both the left and right sides. It was damaged in the fire that destroyed the Alcázar in 1734, and was restored by court painter Juan García de Miranda (1677–1749). The left cheek of the Infanta was almost completely repainted to compensate for a substantial loss of pigment. After its rescue from the fire, the painting was inventoried as part of the royal collection in 1747–48, and the Infanta was misidentified as Maria Theresa, Margaret Theresa's older half-sister,"
"""Portrait""; 1912, ""Portrait of Lady in Black""; 1913, ""Woman in Old Fashioned Gown""; 1914, ""Elizabeth""; 1915 ""Young Girl in White""; 1916 ""Lady in Black""; 1917, ""The Rose Girl""; and two paintings during the 113th Annual exhibit in 1918, ""Portrait: Mrs. Eliot"", and ""Portrait: Miss Mollie Little"". In 1915, her painting, ""Young Girl in White"" was also selected for the Tenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists at the City Art Museum of St. Louis, which opened September 12, 1915. From 1912 through 1917 she taught drawing and painting at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, while residing"
"as ""Crucifixion” (c. 1340–1350) by Paolo Veneziano, “Adoration of the Child” (c. 1508) by Lorenzo Lotto, “The Sermon of St. John the Baptist” (c. ) by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, a French 14th-century sculpture “Madonna with the Child” and “The Bishop’s Bust” (c. 1500) from the Netherlands. This European Art collection of the National Museum was displayed at the Czartoryski Museum until its restoration in 2010. Its administering body of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation decided that after reopening only the Czartoryski collection was to be on display in its museum forcing the management of the National Museum to find a"
"The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (Caravaggio) The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610), is a painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio (1571–1610) and thought to be his last picture. It is in the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, the Gallery of Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples. According to one version of the legend of Saint Ursula, she and her eleven thousand virgin companions, were captured by the Huns. The eleven thousand virgins were slaughtered, but the king of the Huns was overcome by Ursula's modesty and beauty and begged her forgiveness if only she would marry him. Ursula replied that she would not, upon"
"Martha and Mary Magdalene (Caravaggio) Martha and Mary Magdalene (c. 1598) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Alternate titles include Martha Reproving Mary, The Conversion of the Magdalene, and the Alzaga Caravaggio. Caravaggio's ""Martha and Mary"" is dated to 1598–99, when he was in the entourage of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte. Little is known of its history between those years and 25 June 1971, when its owners attempted to sell it at Christie's in London (lot 21). It remained unsold at 130,000 guineas, despite the"
"The Crucifixion (Cranach) Crucifixion is an oil painting by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. One of many versions of the subject painted by Cranach, this one, created in 1532, is now in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The bottom half of the painting is crowded with figures, all symbolically arranged to the left and the right of Christ. On the right is the Virgin Mary, who is held by John the Evangelist, and Mary Magdalene is holding onto the Cross. The Good Thief and Longinus gaze directly at him, alluding to their salvation. There is a sharp contrast to"
"support of the Kronenberg Foundation of Citi Handlowy Bank. Since 2012 the picture is once more displayed at the Warsaw National Museum. A Negress A Negress () is an 1884 realistic portrait study oil painting on canvas by the Polish artist Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz. During World War II, the painting was stolen; it was recovered in 2012. The picture was painted in oil technique in 1884 in Paris. It is a portrait of a black woman located on a light background. She is shown from waist up, dressed in a white robe, but is part naked, exposing a breast. She wears"
"the museum had exhibitions featuring artists such as Chuck Close, Andy Warhol and Arne Quinze. On October 16, 2012, seven paintings were stolen from the museum. The paintings were Monet's ""Waterloo Bridge, London"" and ""Charing Cross Bridge, London"", Picasso's ""Tete d'Arlequin"", Gauguin's ""Femme devant une fenêtre ouverte"", Matisse's ""La Liseuse en Blanc et Jaune"", De Haan's ""Autoportrait"", and Lucian Freud's ""Woman with Eyes Closed"". At the time the museum was showing avant-garde art work by more than 150 artists from the Triton Foundation as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations. The robbery took place that morning at around 3:00 AM."
"20th and 21st centuries collections are growing fast, not only in size, but in scope. The later collections span the medias of painting, prints, drawings, photography, and sculpture. Highlights of the collections include: ""Venus Wounded by a Thorn"" (ca. 1608-1610) by Peter Paul Rubens, ""St. John the Evangelist"" (1618-1620) by Anthony van Dyck (attributed to), ""Isabella Hunter formerly Mrs. Anne Downman"" (ca. 1776-1790) by Angelica Kauffmann, ""Emma, Lady Hamilton"" by George Romney, ""Mrs. Burroughs"" (1769) by Thomas Gainsborough, ""Femme Etandant Son Linge"" by Jean-François Millet, ""Richard Nixon"" (1972) by Andy Warhol, and ""Blacklist"" (1999) by Jenny Holzer. USC Fisher Museum"
"St Margaret and the Dragon (Raphael) Saint Margaret and the Dragon is a circa 1518 painting of Saint Margaret by the Renaissance painter Raphael, now held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The painting shows the saint at the moment before she is swallowed alive by the dragon. She is shown unafraid, holding the crucifix that will save her once she is swallowed. Another version showing her holding a palm branch is in the collection of the Louvre. This painting was documented in David Teniers the Younger's catalog ""Theatrum Pictorium"" of the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in 1659"