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“‘Gad,’ Said Heseltine to Peril, ‘If The Doctor Can Only Keep Me Going Long Enough’? Oil paintings of key scenes from long lost dramas. By Dean Cornwell, once dubbed America’s “Dean of Illustrators”.

He was an untiring, left handed, worker who was known for making...

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‘All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it’. So sayeth the King of Gothic gloom, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).

Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered...

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In 1870s Les Génies de la Mort (The Geniuses of Death), the artist Edmond Guilliaume harnesses the hatred and frustration of a nation against uncaring leaders.

It’s 1871, the year long French/Prussian war has just ended leaving massive...

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Norway’s Amaldus Clarin Nielsen (1838 – 1932), Norway’s first naturalist painter had a superpower. How the son of an absentee shipmaster with 11 children came to be a Knight, 1st Class.

Amaldus Clarin Nielsen (1838 – 1932), was born in Halse, Norway, the...

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“My paintings look great because they are the truth, they are fair, there is no narrow-mindness, no mannerism and no bluff.” Olga Boznańska, daughter of a railway engineer and recipient of France’s Legion of Honour without, you might say, ever finishing a painting.

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Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936), led the Polish modernist movement, painted brilliantly and relentlessly in all kinds of styles. They named a museum after him in a remote northern city and, after his death, his wife gave over 700 paintings.

Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936) was a leading figure in Poland’s modernist movement who...

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Neo-romantic metaphor, mythology & symbolism remixed and reappropriated by the Polish patriot, adulterer & master of the selfie in oils, Jacek Malczewski.

Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929), is regarded as the father of Polish Symbolism. His...

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Antonimo. Part Number 3 : In which a quantity of small living beings were dissected 100 years ago, their intimate inner workings being displayed today for your information & edification.

One thing’s for sure. Many small animals died in the making of...

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Anonimo. Part Number 2 : In which we see a colour curated (red & blue) cornocopia of microscopic & Miro-esque microcosms by our unsung artistic epistle of Zoology.

The nameless Italian artist who’ll now & forever be known, by so...

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Anonimo. Part Number 1 : In which our unknown Zoology artist manifests his peculiar, precise yet nebulous turn of the century alternative universe.

Anonimo. These proto-Simpsons cartoon-like Zoology teaching aid illustrations were made in the...

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The Austrian natural history artist Paul Pfurtscheller & his mindboggling Zoologischen Wandtafeln.

Pfurtscheller was an Austrian zoologist and natural history artist who produced a...

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The skulls of 2 now extinct New Zealand birds; the South Island Stout-legged Wren & Dieffenbach’s Rail.

Both the South Island Stout-legged Wren or Yaldwyn’s Wren and the Dieffenbach’s...

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Helene Schjerfbeck began as a precociously skilled, slightly melancholic late-19th-century academic realist. She finished as a painter whose sublime abstract images are an exquisite harmony of pure paint and cryptic description.

“I have to draw to the point of madness, just draw. Just work, work and think of nothing else”, said the brilliant Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It did him no good, he was just another “degenerate” artist to the Nazis.

From hat shop girl to Dutch art icon. But who was the Girl in the Kimono? The opaque story of an 1890s working class teenager immortalised by George Hendrik Breitner.

Descendant of samurai and relentless entrepreneur, Ogawa Kazumasa opened Tokyo’s first photo studio, shot Japan’s art treasures, the 100 prettiest geisha in Tokyo and taught photography to the military. His legacy is these exquisite images of flowers.

L’Estampe Moderne; the 1890s Parisian Art Nouveau “best of” album feat. various international artists. 4 lithographs every month. Just 3₣r 50c an issue.

It’s easy to see how, in the mid 1800s, Paul Gustave Doré “hypnotized the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator”. Even Van Gogh was a fan, he copied Doré shortly before shooting himself.

In the 1890s the Dutch painter, George Hendrik Breitner took nude reference photos for his paintings. In the 1990s they were found.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. 1880s free love messiah, naturist, pacifist, vegetarian, sun worshipper and unique symbolist painter.

Found photos : Three lost decades of Iowa Speedway recovered. With Merlin Benning, Lester “Red” Dralle. Claus Stricker, Don & Dick Feckers & Red Droste. 1950>1970.

The Art of Protest: Albert Hahn was righteous anger manifest. A graphic character assassin that even the mighty Germany Kaiser feared.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

The 1920s French Art Deco influencer who drew pure design inspiration from the natural world. Insectes (1929) by Émile-Allain Séguy.

The forgotten Finska Vyer birch bark album, by I.K Inha, 1892. Inside are raw natural landscape photographs of Finland. It won the 1st international photographic competion in Paris.

William Morris. Strawberry Thief . “You can picture my Father going out in the early morning and watching the rascally thrushes at work on the fruit beds…”

The Swiss artist, Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956). A Princess helped him give up the life of a farmer to put his faith and future in the hands of the flower fairies. He lived magically ever after.

Painter & early street photographer. The astonishing early street photography that helped George Hendrik Breitner add social realism to his famous paintings of Amsterdam.

India mid-1800s : Dr John Murray, cholera specialist an photographer. He spent 40 years travelling with gear weighing 400 pounds and a servant. His ever so slightly psychedelic negatives made it all worth it.

Samarkand, early 1900s. The first ever colour photographs of the ancient Persian city by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, an unknown Russian who invented his own colour photography process.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

Around the world with the rare travel drawings by the American painter, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Found in the archives of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

“‘Gad,’ Said Heseltine to Peril, ‘If The Doctor Can Only Keep Me Going Long Enough’? Oil paintings of key scenes from long lost dramas. By Dean Cornwell, once dubbed America’s “Dean of Illustrators”.

‘All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it’. So sayeth the King of Gothic gloom, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).

In 1870s Les Génies de la Mort (The Geniuses of Death), the artist Edmond Guilliaume harnesses the hatred and frustration of a nation against uncaring leaders.

Norway’s Amaldus Clarin Nielsen (1838 – 1932), Norway’s first naturalist painter had a superpower. How the son of an absentee shipmaster with 11 children came to be a Knight, 1st Class.

“My paintings look great because they are the truth, they are fair, there is no narrow-mindness, no mannerism and no bluff.” Olga Boznańska, daughter of a railway engineer and recipient of France’s Legion of Honour without, you might say, ever finishing a painting.

Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936), led the Polish modernist movement, painted brilliantly and relentlessly in all kinds of styles. They named a museum after him in a remote northern city and, after his death, his wife gave over 700 paintings.

Neo-romantic metaphor, mythology & symbolism remixed and reappropriated by the Polish patriot, adulterer & master of the selfie in oils, Jacek Malczewski.

Antonimo. Part Number 3 : In which a quantity of small living beings were dissected 100 years ago, their intimate inner workings being displayed today for your information & edification.

Anonimo. Part Number 2 : In which we see a colour curated (red & blue) cornocopia of microscopic & Miro-esque microcosms by our unsung artistic epistle of Zoology.

Anonimo. Part Number 1 : In which our unknown Zoology artist manifests his peculiar, precise yet nebulous turn of the century alternative universe.

The Austrian natural history artist Paul Pfurtscheller & his mindboggling Zoologischen Wandtafeln.

The skulls of 2 now extinct New Zealand birds; the South Island Stout-legged Wren & Dieffenbach’s Rail.