Don't know much about art

This is an Art blog. I'm a female Art student and I'll be posting here mainly paintings that suit my taste. If you can identify with me just take on this amazing journey too. I can assure you it'll be lots of fun and eye pleasing.

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) The Dressmaker 1898 Private Collection

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Deux Soeurs 1901

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905)  La Vierge, L'Enfant Jésus et Saint Jean-Baptiste (aka The Virgin, Jesus & Saint John Baptist), 1875

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John Everett Millais (1829–1896) The Knight Errant,1870 - oil on canvas - Tate Britain

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Vicente López Portaña (1772–1850) El anciano general Castaños, circa  1848 - oil on canvas - Colección duque de Bailén

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Anton von Werner (1843–1915) Im Etappenquartier vor Paris(im requirierten Schloss "des Ombrages" Brunoy) Quartier général de troupes allemandes au château de Brunoy,  1894 oil on canvas  Alte Nationalgalerie

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Carl Steffeck (1818–1890) 1884

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Anton von Werner (1843–1915) Detail of Crowning of Wilhelm I to Emperor of Germany, in Versailles, (second version for the Ruhmeshalle Berlin. Destroyed in WW 2 (as the first version too), 1882

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Anton von Werner (1843–1915)  The proclamation of the German Empire, 1885 oil on canvas Bismarck Museum

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Ferdinand Keller (1842–1922)  Grand Duke Friedrich I. of Baden (1826-1907), 1900 oil on canvas  Inventory of Mannheim Palace

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Many bids for fame are made by men who, having nothing to say, invent a new language to say it in, and hope that their jargon may be mistaken by originality, as it not frequently is by the immature critic and the modish amateur.

Solomon J. Solomon, The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing (via politicallyincorrectartquotes)

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Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857–1940) Right Honourable Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell

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Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857–1940) Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919)

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John Lavery RA (1856 – 1941)  The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, 1913 oil on canvas 

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Charles Sims (1873–1928)  George V (1865–1936)

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Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) Napoleon III, circa 1865 oil on canvas

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Luke Fildes (1843–1927) circa 1920