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Still Life of Peaches by Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821-1909).
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Still Life of Peaches by Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821-1909).
Flowers in a Blue Vase
Artist: Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824–1886)
Date: 1879–1883
Medium: Oil on wood
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States
Self-Portrait
Artist: George Peter Alexander Healy (American, 1813–1894)
Date: 1873
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Still Life
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Date: c. 1869
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Pandora
Artist: Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889)
Date: 1873
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Description
Cabanel, a professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, specialized in portraits of “High Society.” Here, he depicts the Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson as Pandora, the woman in Greek mythology who opened a forbidden box, releasing all the troubles that afflict humanity
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Portrait of King William the Fourth (1765-1837)
Artist: Sir David Wilkie (Scottish, 1785–1841)
Date: 1838
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham, England
William IV
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother George IV, becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hanover.
William served in the Royal Navy in his youth, spending time in British North America and the Caribbean, and was later nicknamed the "Sailor King". In 1789, he was created Duke of Clarence and St Andrews. Between 1791 and 1811, he cohabited with the actress Dorothea Jordan, with whom he had ten children. In 1818, he married Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen; William was not known to have had mistresses during their marriage. In 1827, he was appointed Britain's first Lord High Admiral since 1709.
As his two elder brothers died without leaving legitimate issue, William inherited the throne when he was 64 years old. His reign saw several reforms: the Poor Law was updated, child labour restricted, slavery abolished in nearly all of the British Empire, and the electoral system refashioned by the Reform Acts of 1832. Although William did not engage in politics as much as his brother or his father, he was the last British monarch to appoint a prime minister contrary to the will of Parliament. He granted his German kingdom a short-lived liberal constitution. William had no surviving legitimate children at the time of his death, so he was succeeded by his niece Victoria in the United Kingdom and his brother Ernest Augustus in Hanover.
