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Harriet Backer. Part 1 – The early years
Harriet Backer My blog today continues to look at the life and works of nineteenth-century female Scandinavian artists. In my last blog about the Swedish painter, Julia Beck, I talked about her time...
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Harriet Backer. Part 2 – The later years.
Chez Moi by Harriet Backer (1887) Harriet Backer’s younger sister, Agathe Ursula, became a much-heralded concert pianist and composer, who at the age of twenty-eight, married the conductor and singing...
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Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin. Part 1 – The start of the artistic journey.
In my last few blogs I have concentrated on lesser-known artists but for the next few blogs I will be delving into the life and works of one of the greatest French artists of the eighteenth century....
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Part 2 – Marriage and early still-life paintings.
Portrait of Marguerite Saintard by Chardin Chardin’s road towards married life was a protracted one. The love of his life was Marguerite Saintard, the daughter of Simon-Louis Saintard, a Parisian...
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