#artists reference photo

vintagehandsomemen:

Photograph of Tom White on Newporth Beach for a figure in ‘Under the Western Sun’ c. 1917.

Some further photographs of Tom White from this seaside modelling session can be seen here.

Further artists’ reference photographs from 1870s France, from the studio of Louis Jean-Baptiste Igout, in addition to those shared previously. The third here is my favourite of the set, as though one describes the features of some wondrous landscape while the other surveys the scene with eager admiration!

Another of the early outdoor photography by Thomas Eakins, the second I’ve posted from this photoshoot featuring his art students bathing (the first can be found here) - I wonder have you all also seen the 1885 oil painting he used these as reference for? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swimming_hole.jpg