#historical painting
Napoleon’s Return from Elba, Charles de Steuben, 1818
The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean, Frederic Remington, 1896
Theodor Hildebrandt (1804-1874)
“The Murder of the Children of King Edward” (1835)
Oil on canvas
Located in the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, GermanyThe sons of Edward IV, King of England,
Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, were 12 and 9 years old when they were lodged in the Tower of London by their uncle, the Lord Protector: Richard, Duke of Gloucester. This was supposedly in preparation for Edward V’s forthcoming coronation as king. However, before he could be crowned, he and his brother were declared illegitimate, and their uncle Richard ascended to the throne.It is unclear what happened to the boys after, as the last recorded sighting of them was in the Tower; though it is generally assumed that they were murdered.
Theodor Hildebrandt (2 July 1804, Stettin - 29 September 1874, Düsseldorf) was a German artist of the Düsseldorf school of painting who specialized in literary and historical subjects. He was also a noted entomologist.
He was a disciple of the painter Schadow, and, on Schadow’s appointment to the presidency of a new academy in the Rhenish provinces in 1828, followed that master to Düsseldorf. Hildebrandt began by painting pictures illustrative of Goethe and Shakespeare; but in this form he followed the traditions of the stage rather than the laws of nature. He produced rapidly “Faust and Mephistopheles” (1824), “Faust and Margaret” (1825), and “Lear and Cordelia” (1828). He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Comparatively late in life Hildebrandt tried his powers as an historical painter in pictures representing WolseyandHenry VIII, but he lapsed again into the romantic in “Othello and Desdemona.” After 1847 Hildebrandt gave himself up to portrait-painting, and in that branch succeeded in obtaining a large practice. Hildebrandt was also an entomologist specialising in Coleoptera and a Member of the Entomological Society of Stettin. He died at Düsseldorf in 1874.
—Theodor HIldebrandt, Wikipedia
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Giuseppe Sciuti (1834-1911, Italy)
Giuseppe Sciuti was an Italian painterofportraits,genre scenesandhistorical paintings. He was widely exhibited during his lifetime, but very little-known after his death until a 1989 exhibition at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Palermo.
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Ilya Repin. Alexander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow.
1885-1886. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Joan of Arc, Asleep in Prison, Guarded by an Angel (1895) - George William Joy - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
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The Wanderer
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин, 1844-1930), Russian painter.
Affiliated to Realism, part of the Wanderers art group, this artist will appropriate many styles, focusing on portraits, historical paintings and genre scenes. He will also, many times, pay tribute to the great figures of his country.
(Details. The pictures show, in order: Portrait of Sophia Mikhailovna Dragomirova, general Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov’s daughter, 1889 ; Sadko, 1876 ; The Zaporozhye Cossacks Replying to the Sultan, between 1878 and 1891 ; Raising of Jairus’ Daughter, 1871 ; Grand Duchess Sofia at the Novodevichy Convent, 1879 ; Portrait of Elizabeta Zvantseva, 1889 ; Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16th, 1581, 1885 ; Arrival of the tsars Peter I and Ivan V, 1900 ; Taking a rest, 1882; and, finally, Portrait of Yury Repin, 1882)
