#figurative painting
Jacques-Emile Blanche—Julia Stephen,1889.
The French artist Jacques-Emile Blanche painted this portrait after a photograph of Julia Stephen taken by her aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron (the celebrated photographer and Pre-Raphaelite model), between 1864and1867. The sitter is famous in her own right for being the mother of writer Virginia Woolf, painter Vanessa Bell, and the founder of the Bloomsbury group, Thoby Stephen.
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Almeida Júnior—Saudade,1899.
Saudade is an untranslatable Portuguese word. First attested in the late 13th century, saudade today connotes a melancholic feeling of incompleteness, wishful longing for wholeness, desire for presence as opposed to absence, yearning for the return of what has gone, such as experiences and pleasures once lived.
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Frank Auerbach—Head of E.O.W.,1957.
‘E.O.W.’ - Estella (Stella) West - began posing regularly for Auerbach in the early 1950s, and continued to do so until 1973. By then he had completed about 80 drawings and paintings of her.
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