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Miriam’s song of praise

On February - 3 - 2013

Painter: Wilhelm Hensel Colors: 90 Price: 15000 Euro Dimensions: 69 * 69 cm Wilhelm Hensel (6 July 1794 – 26 November 1861) was a German painter, brother of Luise Hensel, husband to Fanny Mendelssohn, and brother-in-law to Felix Mendelssohn. Miriam’s Song of Praise (c.1836) was presented to Queen Victoria by the artist in 1843. In [...]

A Still life study of roses, forget-me-nots and other flowers in an urn, resting on a stone ledge

On September - 26 - 2012

Painter: Harold Clayton Colors: 90 Price: 7500 Euro Dimensions: 35 * 43 cm Harold Clayton (1896 – 1979) was born in London in 1896. He came from an artistic family and was sent to art school in Hackney at an early age. After graduating with distinction, he moved to Harrow Art School and completed the [...]

A Woman

On September - 26 - 2012

Painter: Robert Campin Colors: 90 Price: 3500 Euro Dimensions: 23 * 33.5 cm This portrait and the portrait of ‘A Man’, presumably of a husband and wife, are a pair and were perhaps originally joined together as a diptych. The backs are marbled, which suggests that they were not intended to be hung against a [...]

A Man

On September - 26 - 2012

Painter: Robert Campin Colors: 90 Price: 3500 Euro Dimensions: 23 * 33.5 cm Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 26 April 1444), now usually identified as the artist known as the Master of Flémalle, is usually considered the first great master of Early Netherlandish painting. This had been a matter of controversy for decades; Campin’s life [...]

Girl with a Pearl Earring

On December - 24 - 2011

Painter: Johannes Vermeer Colors: 90 Price: 4000 Euro Dimensions: 25 * 30 cm The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Het Meisje met de Parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. Today the painting is kept in the Mauritshuis [...]

Chinese Flowers

On December - 6 - 2011

Painter: unknown Colors: 90 Price: 700 Euro Dimensions: 30 * 10.5 cm

Young Woman with a Bouquet of Roses

On December - 6 - 2011

Painter: Francois Boucher Colors: 90 Price: 750 Euro Dimensions: 16 * 20 cm Possibly the most popular 18th century artist, Francois Boucher was a French painter in the Rococo style. When he was 17 years old, Boucher was apprenticed for a short time to the French painter Francois Lemoyne, and then to the engraver Jean-Francois [...]

Young Woman with a Bouquet of Roses

On September - 22 - 2011

Painter: Francois Boucher Colors: 90 Price: 750 Euro Dimensions: 15 * 17 cm The son of a painter, Boucher was born in Paris and trained first with his father, then briefly with François Lemoine. In 1723 he won the Academy’s first prize for painting but was denied the sojourn in Rome that normally resulted from [...]

Girl with Roses

On September - 22 - 2011

Painter: Francois Boucher Colors: 90 Price: 750 Euro Dimensions: 15 * 20 cm The son of a painter, Boucher was born in Paris and trained first with his father, then briefly with François Lemoine. In 1723 he won the Academy’s first prize for painting but was denied the sojourn in Rome that normally resulted from [...]

Spring at Stonegate

On September - 22 - 2011

Painter: Thomas Kinkade Colors: 90 Price: 3600 Euro Dimensions: 33 * 25 cm Thomas Kinkade (born January 19, 1958 in Sacramento, California) is an American painter of popular and commercial realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via The Thomas [...]

Painter: Konstantin Makovsky
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 25 * 33 cm

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Rating: 9.5/10 (2 votes cast)

Geisha (Sewing period)

On February - 3 - 2013

Painter: Kaamar Thiya
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 15 * 20 cm

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Rating: 8.0/10 (4 votes cast)

Miriam’s song of praise

On February - 3 - 2013

Painter: Wilhelm Hensel
Colors: 90
Price: 15000 Euro
Dimensions: 69 * 69 cm

Wilhelm Hensel (6 July 1794 – 26 November 1861) was a German painter, brother of Luise Hensel, husband to Fanny Mendelssohn, and brother-in-law to Felix Mendelssohn.

Miriam’s Song of Praise (c.1836) was presented to Queen Victoria by the artist in 1843.

In a scene taken from the book of Exodus 15, the prophetess Miriam is depicted leading a dance to celebrate the victory of the Israelites over the Pharoah’s army: ‘And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously’ (Exodus 15, Chapters 20-21). Moses and Aaron watch over the procession from a mountaintop, while the pyramids can be seen in the distance.

The painting was completed in 1836 and exhibited in Berlin, where it received great praise from critics who particularly admired the circular composition, the choice of colours and the distribution of light (Vossischen Zeitung, 27 October, 1836). A number of preparatory sketches and studies exist from the previous year, including one fully worked-up oil study (Private Collection), which has a similar Egyptian-style frame, designed by the artist.

Like King David, Miriam the prophetess was often used by artists and composers to represent the art of Music. In this instance the model for the figure of Miriam was a composer herself, Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-47), Hensel’s wife, and the sister of the more celebrated Felix. Hensel’s two sisters-in-law, Rebecka (Fanny’s sister) and Albertine (the wife of Fanny’s brother Paul and cousin of the poet Heinrich Heine) posed for the other two main figures. In the 1820s and 1830s Hensel made numerous exquisite pencil portraits of the Mendelssohn circle which have often been reproduced by his biographers.

The artist made full use of these family connections during his first visit to London in 1838, in an effort to establish a market for his pictures in the city. Felix Mendelssohn was particularly well regarded in London during the 1830s and 1840s and had a number of eminent English patrons and friends, including Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. Hensel was a superb portraitist in pencil, and achieved some initial success in this genre with Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland, who asked him to draw her children and subsequently showed the drawings to Queen Victoria. The Duke of Sutherland was already acquainted with Hensel’s work, having sat to him for a pencil drawing during a diplomatic posting in Berlin in 1821.

Hensel brought ‘Miriam’s Song of Praise’ to England in 1838, with another canvas, ‘Christ in the Wilderness’, and both pictures were shown to Queen Victoria in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace in an audience arranged by Baroness Lehzen. The Queen recorded in her Journal, ‘Went to look at two very fine pictures by a German artist called Hansel (sic) which are really very fine. I saw the painter myself’ (Journal, 18 August, 1838). Hensel wrote to Fanny that the Queen had admired her likeness and ‘made the most flattering remarks about my beautiful sisters-in-law’ (Lowenthal-Hensel 2004, p.224). Hensel’s letters suggest that he thought she wanted to buy the picture on that occasion and left Baroness Lehzen to arrange the purchase. However, for reasons unknown this did not happen and both pictures remained unsold until Hensel returned to London in 1843, much to the dismay of the artist and his wife who were under considerable financial pressure.

On his second visit to England Hensel was provided with a letter of introduction to Prince Albert from the new king of Prussia, Frederick William IV, for whom he had worked as a theatrical painter and designer. The King expressed a wish that Hensel be allowed ‘to draw or perhaps even paint’ his godson, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. As Prince Albert reported back, this first royal commission, a drawing of the young prince sitting on a cushion arranging a wreath of flowers around the neck of a golden eagle, was a success: ‘I waited deliberately in order to be able to inform you when I wrote of the success of the work which our accomplished painter undertook at Your Majesty’s command and with which I dare hope that Your Majesty will be well pleased’ (Lowenthal-Hensel 2004, p. 209. The resulting oil painting dated 1843, is at Schloss Charlottenhof, Potsdam). Hensel presented Prince Albert with his miniature ‘Scene’s from Goethe’s Torquato Tasso’ at the same time. A copy in oils of the portrait of the Prince of Wales was given to Queen Victoria a year later by the artist (RCIN 407160).

It was on this second visit to London that Hensel presented ‘Miriam’s Song of Praise’ to the Queen, and received in exchange a diamond and emerald ring which Hensel subsequently gave to his wife. He wrote in a letter to Fanny that ‘The Queen has given it to me for Mirjam, and since you are Mirjam, I give it to you. And as Mirjam you will live in Buckingham Palace and as Mirjam you will be engraved, so Prince Albert has told me’. The picture was chosen by the Royal couple to be engraved for The Royal Gallery of Art series for the Art Journal in 1856.

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Rating: 10.0/10 (2 votes cast)

Painter: Wilhelm Hensel
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 69 * 69 cm

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Rating: 8.2/10 (6 votes cast)

Painter: Harold Clayton
Colors: 90
Price: 7500 Euro
Dimensions: 35 * 43 cm


Harold Clayton (1896 – 1979) was born in London in 1896. He came from an artistic family and was sent to art school in Hackney at an early age. After graduating with distinction, he moved to Harrow Art School and completed the course, once again, with distinction. From here he was sent to Hornsey College of Art where he studied graphic design and commercial art – graduating, as ever, with distinction (even though he was not particularly enamoured of this art form). Finally, he went to St. Martins School of Art where he studied under the celebrated Art Master Norman Jones.

Meticulous attention to detail and his love of the garden were the two predominant forces which shaped his painting. Although he was a master of many mediums it is primarily for still life flower paintings that he became famous. This is ironic as he completed relatively few flower paintings in his life. He painted approximately one painting per month, which accounts for both the scarcity of his still life paintings and their quality.

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Rating: 9.7/10 (6 votes cast)

Painter: Harold Clayton
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 35 * 43 cm

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Rating: 6.9/10 (7 votes cast)

A Woman

On September - 26 - 2012

Painter: Robert Campin
Colors: 90
Price: 3500 Euro
Dimensions: 23 * 33.5 cm

This portrait and the portrait of ‘A Man’, presumably of a husband and wife, are a pair and were perhaps originally joined together as a diptych. The backs are marbled, which suggests that they were not intended to be hung against a wall.

The sitters may have been prosperous townspeople from Tournai, where Campin worked. They both wear fur-lined gowns; the man has a red head-dress made from a piece of red fabric wound round his head and the woman’s head-dress consists of several thicknesses of white cloth held together with pins.

The heads of Campin’s sitters occupy almost the entire surface of the painting. All the details of face and hat are evenly lit and clearly visible. Subtle variations of colour suggest the man’s reddened skin and wrinkles. The graduated tones of the irises of his eyes give the impression of light glowing within. The woman’s eyes sparkle: Campin has put catchlights in the whites so that they as well as the pupils shine.

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Rating: 10.0/10 (3 votes cast)

A Man

On September - 26 - 2012

Painter: Robert Campin
Colors: 90
Price: 3500 Euro
Dimensions: 23 * 33.5 cm

Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 26 April 1444), now usually identified as the artist known as the Master of Flémalle, is usually considered the first great master of Early Netherlandish painting. This had been a matter of controversy for decades; Campin’s life is relatively well documented for the period, but no works in assessable condition could be securely connected with him, whilst a corpus of work had been attached to the unidentified “Master of Flémalle”, named after the supposed origin of a work

The tightest definition of the works from his own hand includes only the “Flémalle” panels, a Nativity at Dijon, a Crucified Thief (fragment of a Crucifixion) in Frankfurt, two portraits of a man and woman in London (of around 1430), and perhaps the Seilern Triptych. This, which excludes the best known works usually attributed to him, which are given to his workshop or followers, is the position taken by Lorne Campbell.

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A Woman (Sewing period)

On December - 24 - 2011

Painter: Robert Campin
Colors: 90
Dimensions: 23 * 33.5 cm

This portrait and the portrait of ‘A Man’, presumably of a husband and wife, are a pair and were perhaps originally joined together as a diptych. The backs are marbled, which suggests that they were not intended to be hung against a wall.

The sitters may have been prosperous townspeople from Tournai, where Campin worked. They both wear fur-lined gowns; the man has a red head-dress made from a piece of red fabric wound round his head and the woman’s head-dress consists of several thicknesses of white cloth held together with pins.

The heads of Campin’s sitters occupy almost the entire surface of the painting. All the details of face and hat are evenly lit and clearly visible. Subtle variations of colour suggest the man’s reddened skin and wrinkles. The graduated tones of the irises of his eyes give the impression of light glowing within. The woman’s eyes sparkle: Campin has put catchlights in the whites so that they as well as the pupils shine.

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Rating: 8.1/10 (10 votes cast)

Girl with a Pearl Earring

On December - 24 - 2011

Painter: Johannes Vermeer
Colors: 90
Price: 4000 Euro
Dimensions: 25 * 30 cm

The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Het Meisje met de Parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. Today the painting is kept in the Mauritshuis gallery in the Hague. It is sometimes referred to as “the Mona Lisa of the North” or “the Dutch Mona Lisa”.

Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft, b. October 1632, d. December 1675, a Dutch genre painter who lived and worked in Delft, created some of the most exquisite paintings in Western art.

His works are rare. Of the 35 or 36 paintings generally attributed to him, most portray figures in interiors. All his works are admired for the sensitivity with which he rendered effects of light and color and for the poetic quality of his images.

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Rating: 8.4/10 (16 votes cast)

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Taxa de participare este de 60 lei.

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