Painting #126 - Romanticism

Romanticism

Romanticism in England

The 18th-century British landscape school

The Royal Academy of Arts (London) 

The Royal Academy of Arts was founded through a personal act of King George III (1738–1760–1820) in 1768 with a mission to promote the arts of design in Britain through education and exhibition.

Thomas Gainsborough

(1727-1788, English)

Mr & Mrs Robert Andrews
- Thomas Gainsborough
- oil on canvas (69 x 119 cm) c.1749
- National Gallery (London) 

The Painter's Daughters chasing a Butterfly
- Thomas Gainsborough
- oil on canvas (113 × 105 cm) 1756
- National Gallery (London) 

..... Gainsborough’s daughters chasing a butterfly.

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Thomas Gainsborough
- oil (220 x 154 cm) 1787
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Elizabeth Ann Linley (1754-1792) was a talented singer who enjoyed professional success in Bath and London, before abandoning her career to elope with playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan to France in 1772, and marrying him in 1773. She died young of tuberculosis.

Portrait of Lady Alston
- Thomas Gainsborough
- oil on canvas (228 x 166 cm) 1760s
- Louvre (Paris)

George Stubbs (1724–1806, English) 

Mares and Foals in a Landscape
- George Stubbs
- oil on canvas (100 x 190 cm) 1762
- Tate Britain (London) 

Horse Frightened by a Lion
- George Stubbs
- oil on canvas (100 x 126 cm) 1770
- Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool) 

Wedgwood - fine earthenware and stonewares

Founded in 1759 by Josiah Wedgwood

Typical "Wedgwood blue" jasperware (stoneware) plate
with white sprigged reliefs. 

Romanticism in Scotland 

The Artist's Wife: Margaret Lindsay of Evelick
- Allan Ramsay (1713–1784, Scottish)
- oil on canvas (74 x 62 cm) 1758
- Scottish National Gallery (Edinburgh) 

The Skating Minister
- Henry Raeburn (1756–1823, Scottish)
- oil on canvas (76 x 64 cm) 1790s
- Scottish National Gallery (Edinburgh) 

Reverend Robert Walker (1755-1808) skating on Duddingston Loch.

The Age of Innocence
- Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792, English)
- oil on canvas (64 x 77 cm) 1785/1788
- Tate Britain (London) 

Romanticism in America 

Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828, American)

Catherine Brass Yates
- Gilbert Stuart
- oil on canvas (76 × 64 cm) 1793-94
- National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) 

Athenaeum Portrait
- Gilbert Stuart
- oil on canvas (122 × 94 cm) 1796
- Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) 

The Athenaeum Portrait, aka The Athenaeum, is an unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart of former United States President George Washington.

Lansdowne portrait of George Washington
- Gilbert Stuart
- oil on canvas (248 × 159 cm) 1796
- National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C.) 

John Singleton Copley (1738–1815, Anglo-American)

Watson and the Shark
- John Singleton Copley
- oil on canvas (182 x 230 cm) 1778
- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
- (replica) Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) 

...depicts the rescue of Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana, Cuba.

The Copley Family (with his father-in-law)
- John Singleton Copley
- oil on canvas (184 x 229 cm) 1776/77
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Romanticism in Spain

Francisco Goya (1746–1828, Spanish)

Charles IV of Spain and His Family 
- with Goya and by Goya
- oil on canvas (280 × 336 cm) 1800
- Museo del Prado (Madrid) 

Painter Francisco Goya witnessed first-hand the French occupation of Spain in 1808, when Napoleon used the pretext of reinforcing his army in Portugal to seize the Spanish throne for his brother Joseph.
        Attempts to remove members of the Spanish royal family from Madrid provoked a widespread rebellion. This popular uprising occurred on the second and third of May 1808, when suppressed by French forces.

The Second of May 1808
/ The Charge of the Mamelukes
- Goya
- oil on canvas (266 × 345 cm) 1814
- Museo del Prado (Madrid) 

The Second of May 1808 depicts the beginning of the uprising when the Mamelukes of the elite French Imperial Guard are ordered to charge and subdue the rioting citizens.

 

Goya in Bordeaux (1999) film 

The crowd sees the Mamelukes as Moors, provoking an angry response. Instead of dispersing, the crowd turned on the charging Mamelukes, resulting in a ferocious melee.

The Third of May 1808
/ The execution of the defenders of Madrid
- Goya
- oil on canvas (266 × 345 cm) 1814
- Museo del Prado (Madrid) 

The Colossus
- Francisco de Goya
- oil on canvas (116 × 105 cm) 1808-1812
- Museo del Prado (Madrid) 

This is one of Francisco Goya's 63 large tapestry cartoons painted on commission for Charles III of Spain and later Charles IV of Spain between 1775 and 1791 to hang in the San Lorenzo de El Escorial and El Pardo palaces.

(No.43) The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
- a print from the first edition of Goya's Los caprichos

Los caprichos
- a set of 80 prints
- etching with aquatint and other intaglio media on laid paper
- created by Goya in 1797 and 1798
- published as an album in 1799
- Prado Museum (Madrid)

Source: Wikipedia