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July's Art Reproduction Oil Painting
This month, especially since it has been getting so much publicity is our portrait of Edward VIII as the Prince of Wales. Since being shown on the Restoraion Man, it has also been on the Front Cover and is the cover story of The Duke & Duchess of Windsor Historical Society Magazine.
Commission your own period portrait of Edward VIII or other historical figure. Hand-painted onto canvas using premium Winsor & Newton oils. 100cm x 167cm £1060
June's Art Reproduction Oil Painting
Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641) and his painting Charles I, King of England from Three Angles is our art reproduction of the month.
Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641) was a Flemish Baroque Artist who became the leading court painter at the court of Charles I of England. Unsurprisingly therefore he is most renowned for his portraits of King Charles I and his family. (Altogether van Dyck has been estimated to have painted forty portraits of King Charles I). Charles I was a passionate art collector and saw art as a way of promoting his grandiose view of the monarchy. As you can see from the reproduction oil painting of Van Dyck's Charles I from Three Angles, van Dyck painted many portraits of men, notably Charles I and himself, with the short, pointed beards then in fashion; consequently this particular kind of beard was much later (probably first in America in the 19th century) named as a vandyke. To see the van Dyke online gallery, please click here.
Fine art reproduction, 85cm x 100cm. Oil on Canvas.The above fine art replica of van Dyck's Charles I was framed with a hand-gilded 24 carat gold leaf regency frame. Oil painting with this frame is £1,750. Oil painting, unframed £895.
May's Art Reproduction
Francisco Goya and his painting The Second of May 1808 (also known as The Charge of the Mamelukes) is our art reproduction of the month. The Charge of the Mamelukes portrays when Napoleon used the pretext of reinforcing his army in Portugal to seize the Spanish throne. This attempt by the French to remove members of the Spanish royal family from Madrid provoked a widespread rebellion. In Goya's painting the French Imperial guard are ordered to charge and subdue the rioting citizens. The crowd sees the Mamelukes as Moors,
provoking an angry response. Instead of dispersing, the crowd turned on
the charging Mamelukes, resulting in a ferocious melee. Goya chose not to paint any single action or to have any single focal
point. His dramatically chaotic scene evokes realism or actuality.
Fine art reproduction - 76cm x 60cm - Oil painting on canvas £550. The original dimensions of Goya's The Second of May 1808 is 266 cm × 345 cm. if you would like to purchase it in this size please contact tim@fabulousmasterpieces.co.uk
April's Art Reproduction
Thomas Eakins (1844 - 1916), one of the greatest American artists of the nineteenth century with his painting Max Schmitt in a Single Scull is our artist and art reproduction of the month. As you can see from this painting, Eakins instilled a powerful and shocking sense of realism into his paintings. He was drawn above all, to the idea of rowing scenes and produced several pieces of art on this theme, this one, Max Schmitt in a Single Scull is probably the most famous out of all of them. It shows a friend of his, Max Schmitt (1843 - 1900) turning around to face the viewer. Schmitt had recently won a single-scull race and Eakins has included a number of references to his victory in the painting. As Eakins was also a rowing enthusiast he decided to add his own portrait to the picture, in the guise of the middle rower, which can just be seen in the distance.
Original dimensions: 82 cm x 117.5 cm. Yours for just £479 plus free delivery.
March's Art Reproduction
Edouard Manet (1832-83) and his very famous oil painting, 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergere' is our artist and art reproduction of the month. Manet's favourite subject matter was the celebration of Parisian life and the Foiles-Bergere was the most famous of the cafe-concert halls, which provided entertainment as well as refreshment. An example of this entertainment can be seen, if you look closely at the top left part of the painting, where you can just about see the legs of a trapeze artist! Manet also gives prominence to the electric lighting in the cafe, which was still a novelty at this time. Unfortunately, Manet was terminally ill when he painted this wonderful and well-known masterpiece and did not paint this painting in the Folies-Berger itself but rather his studio where he had an imitation bar installed. Regarding the background of the painting, Manet had to work from memory, which shows a hazy reflection of the glamorous world he was leaving behind.
Hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas. Original dimensions: 96cm x 130cm with free delivery. Yours for just £645.
February's Art Reproduction
Kitty Lange Kielland's (1843 - 1914) Summer Night is our artist and art reproduction of the month. Kitty became a part of an important group of Norwegian Realist artists working in Munich and Summer Night is definitely one of her most evocative paintings. This beautiful oil painting has a romantic quality and exudes tranquility and reflection, with the waters dotted with water lilies and glowing with the light of early evening. Summer Night appears almost photographic in it's clarity, but is also infused with an atmosphere of nostalgia.
Hand-painted oil replica painting on canvas. Original dimensions: 100.5 cm x 135 cm. Yours for just £695 with free delivery.
January's Art reproduction
Gustav Klimt's Mother and Child is our art reproduction and artist of the month. Klimt
(1862 - 1918) was a fantastic Austrian artist. He was influenced by
Margaret Macdonald, Charles Rennie Mackintosh's wife, whose linear
style included the use of semiprecious gems.Mother and Child is a detail of The Three Ages of Woman, c.1905. The warm and harmonious colours exude serenity exquisitely portraying love in the purest of forms.
Oil On Canvas. Yours for just £197 with free delivery.
December's Art Reproduction
Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802- 1873) is our artist and reproduction oil painting of the month. Landseer was the greatest animal painter of his age.The popularity of stag paintings was linked to the changing image of the Scottish Highlands, which had been made fashionable thanks to novels by Sir Walter Scott and the patronage of Queen Victoria. Monarch of the Glenn was originally commissioned for the refreshment room of the House of Lords but was deemed to be too expensive by the Commons so had to be sold privately.
Oil on Canvas. Original dimensions: 163.8cm x 169cm. Yours for just £850 with free delivery.
November's Art Reproduction
November's artist of the month is Jewish Italian artist, Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920). Modigliani briefly attended art classes at the Free School of Nude Studies in Florence. He also was introduced to sculptor Brancusi who remained an important artistic inspiration. By 1917 a solo exhibition was organised in Paris. However his nudes provoked a scandal that led to the closure of the show by the Parisian police only a few hours after its opening. We like the painting below, Seated Nude.
Oil on canvas - 50cm x 60cm. Yours for just £197 with free delivery.
October's Art Reproduction
October's artist of the month is none other than Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525 - 1569) and his painting The Peasant Wedding. Bruegel was known primarily as a painter of comic peasant scenes; in fact he used his peasant subjects as vehicles for moral allegories. According to some accounts, Bruegel liked to visit country weddings, disguised as a peasant, so that he could observe the festivities at first hand. However, in this painting the question remains, where is the groom? The bride is easily identified, sitting in the place of honour, but the location of her husband is far less certain. One possible suggestion is the man in the foreground turning around to call for more drink. He has been suggested because of a theory that the woman is marrying a townsman, which is also supported by the presence of a few well-heeled, urban guests. The venue is furnished like a parady of a great man's hall, with a blanket serving as a makeshift tapestry. Ironically, the most distinguished looking guest, the man on the far right is seated on a upturned tub.
Original dimensions: 114cm x 164cm. Commission your art reproduction oil painting for just £750 with free delivery.
September's Art Reproduction
September's artist of the month is Laurits Anderson Ring (1854-1933) and his beautiful oil painting called At Breakfast. This masterpiece captures the feeling of a leisurely breakfast spent in a cozy room flooded with morning light. It also reflects a major preoccupation of artists around the turn of the century, the balance between depicting something in a naturalistic way and conveying a deeper kind of truth. Ring, a major Danish painter, is known as a Realist and Symbolist. This painting is a convincing portrayal of a woman at breakfast, but painted in a way that fills it with moody immediacy, giving it a more powerful kind of realism. The overall effect of the painting is of a private moment snapped in passing but one where the viewer recognizes and feels the mood of the moment intensely.
Original dimensions: 52cm x 40.5cm. Commission your art reproduction oil painting for just £295and free delivery.
August's Art Reproduction
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863 -1923) a fantastic Spanish Impressionist painter is our artist of the month. Sorolla gained international recognition as the foremost artist of Mediterranean light and the sensation of movement. Sorolla painted portraits and everyday subjects, but his brightest and most luscious masterpieces were his beach paintings. He was fascinated by the blinding sunlight of his native Valencia, which is reflected in his spontaneous and daring perspectives. Las Tres Velsa is a perfect example.
Original dimensions: 96 x 138 cm. Handpainted oil painting reproduction on canvas.
July's Art Reproduction
Franz Marc's Blue Horse II is July's art reproduction of the month. In 1903, Franz Marc (1880-1916) saw paintings by Gauguin and Van Gogh in Paris; their use of colour to describe something other than material reality prompted the development of his own colour theories. Believing that animals are purer than humans, Marc thought that the animalization of art could could evoke the sense of God in everything. Blue Horse II shows a blue horse looking across a multicoloured landscape; viewers are invited to see the landscape through the horse's sensibility. "Blue is the male principle, astringent and spiritual", he wrote. The predominant colour is yellow, however, which for Marc symbolized joy and the female element.
June's Art Reproduction
Alfred Sisley (1839-99) is our artist of the month with his beautiful painting, The Moret Bridge in the Sun. After meeting Monet and Renoir in the 1860s he became associated with the impressionist group, although he was always a relatively marginal, private personality. Monet had an enduring impact upon Sisley's landscape art, but his work also reflects the influence of Corot. Sisley painted the bridge at Moret on a number of occassions. This work painted in 1892, is solidly structured in contrasting areas of water, buildings and sky, with reflections fastening the town and river together. As in almost all of Sisley's work, human figures are few and small. This is a townscape that aspires to the calm solitude of landscape. With no device to lead the viewer's eye into the picture, the gaze is free to roam over the sundrenched medieval walls and soft luminous sky. The gentle, charming, seductive quality of Sisley's painting can easily lead to its being underrated.
May's Art reproduction
Odilon Redon's is May's Artist of the Month with his painting The Birth of Venus Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916) was a visual artist associated with the Symbolist movement. The Symbloists were searching for ways to escape their contemporary industralized world through art. Redon developed an unprecedented style, constantly transforming natural landscapes into somber visions and odd fantasies. In The Birth of Venus, he offers his own interpretation of a classic myth. Venus is painted in a very unusual manner, emphasizing the contours of her silhouette, as if she had been drawn in a cave. The background is surreal, it is not clear where Venus is, she could be in the skies or in a shell under the sea. Redon leaves it to the viewer's imagination.
Original dimensions: 54 x 73 cm. Oil painting on canvas.
April's Art Reproduction
April's Artist of the Month is Jean-Francois Millet (1814-75) and his most influential painting, The Sower. The Sower was produced at a time when the Realist style of painting was causing ripples through the art world. Paintings of peasant life had been popular for centuries, but Millet's versions of the theme were radically different.In the past, scenes of rustic life had usually been small and picturesque. Designed for the town-dweller, they presented a quaint and unthreatening view of the countryside. In contrast, Millet's peasants were large and unidealized. They shocked the critics, because they were produced on a heroic scale that was normally reserved for classical deities. The Sower was greeted enthusiastically by republican and socialist critics, but drew a far more negative response from conservatives.
Original dimensions: 40 x 32 inches. Yours for just £297 with free delivery.
March's Art Reproduction
In the 1880s the lower-middle classes flocked to the Grande Jatte in Paris for a riverside stroll and a picnic on Sunday afternoons. Georges Seurat worked on A Sunday onLa Grande Jatte for two years, Seurat was also developing the pointilliste technique of applying colour in dots that were intended to fuse when seen from a distance and it coexists here with his more conventional earlier style. Some forty figures crowd the canvas, mostly in profile or full face. They appear static and frozen in an uncommunicative proximity. Many figures have been identified as known Parisian sterotypes. For example, the woman standing in the right foreground, with the striking bustle, is identified by her pet monkey - symbol of lasciviousness - as a woman with loose morals. Seurat said that his aim was to represent modern life in the style of a classical Greek frieze.
February's Art Reproduction
Max Liebermann (1847 - 1935) once considered a highly controversial artist and also one of the most important artists of his time is our artist of the month with his painting - Reiter am Strand nach Link. Born into a rich Jewish family, at a time when Jews were oppressed in Germany, Liebermann was a young adult when the laws were finally changed and Jews were granted the same rights as other German citizens. His realist paintings depicted working people as they actually were, not idealized and were seen as subversive. As an enthusiastic rider himself, motifs of horse riding start to reoccur in his art from the beginning of the 1900s. His impressionistic style captures the restlessness of the horse and the agitated movement of sea.
January's Art Reproduction
Hungarian painter, Jozsef Rippl-Ronai is January's artist of the month with his painting, Woman with a Birdcage. This painting is typical of the dark interiors he was painting at the time. The woman is bending slightly backward to balance the cage and its canary, which she is admiring. The curve of her back is in harmony with the curve at the back of the seat of the sofa behind her. She is clearly a young and attractive woman yet she is dressed in a sombre brown. The only bright patches are her hands and face, the cage and its contents.
December's Art Reproduction
Naive artist, Henri Rousseau's Tiger in a Tropical Storm is our art reproduction of the month. Rousseau's primitive style of art is instantly recognisable, yet in his time and for some years after his death, the artist was repeatedly ridiculed and his work was often deemed childish. Tiger in a Tropical Storm is the first of the series of jungle scenes that Rousseau painted, he claimed he got inspiration whilst serving in Mexico in 1860, although in truth, he had never left France. He therefore probably got his inspiration from the botanical gardens in Paris. Although critics of the period dismissed his work, he was much admired by his fellow artists including Matisse and Picasso.
November's Art Reproduction
Francis Baurrad with his most famous painting that we all know and love - His Master's Voice is November's art reproduction of the month. The dog in the painting, Nipper so named because he had a tendency to nip the backs of visitors legs was actually a stray before the Baurrad brothers took him in. Nipper
discovered the phonograph (a cylinder recording and playing machine)
and Francis Barraud often noticed how puzzled he was to make out where
the voice came from. This scene must have been indelibly printed in
Barraud's brain, for it was three years after Nipper died (in September
1895) that he committed it to canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 80 cm. Yours for just £267 plus FREE delivery
October's Art Reproduction
Van Gogh with his final painting entitled: Wheat Field with Crows is our art reproduction of the month. It was painted in July 1890 just before his suicide. According to some reports, it is actually the same field where the artist shot himself. Elements of the natural world, which he had so often celebrated joyously in his art, have now taken on a threatening tone. The overripe corn does not sway gently, the darkened sky looks threatening and huge black crows advance towards the viewer. The spectator, like the artist feels hemmed in.Van Gogh applied his paint very thickly, making no attempt to smooth out the surface or blend his colours. This is what gives his paintings such a sense of vibrant energy.
Original dimensions: 51 x 103 cm. Yours for just £247!
September's Art Reproduction
David Cox was one of the leading English landscape artists of the nineteenth century. Crossing the Sands is a highly evocative and atmospheric work depicting travelers crossing open flat landscapes in windy weather. There is a great sense of hope, as the travelers, who appear weary, leave the dark skies behind them and head toward the light.
August's Artist Reproduction
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 -1938) is our artist of the month. In this painting, entitled Berlin Street Scene, prostitutes strut through the street, but are hemmed in by the men on the right and the traffic on the left. The man on the right gazes into a shop window, drawing a parallel between the objects for sale in the shop, and the woman for sale on his right. This painting used to hang in the Brucke Museum in Berlin, but the German government returned the work to the heirs of its original Jewish owners in 2006.
July's Artist of the Month
Julybrings usCharles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and artist who is celebrated around the world as one of the most creative figures of the early 20th century. We simply love his stylish painting entitled Yellow Tulips and feel it's one of his most beautiful pieces of work produced during his stay in London 1915 -1923.
June's Artist of the Month
This month we bring you Cubist artist, Georges Valmier and his paintingNature Morte devant une Fenêtre. A spiritual descendent of Cézanne, Valmier was one of the first painters to pursue the cubist esthetic. Valmier created abstracted pictorial harmonies which corresponded to harmonies of his soul. In 1930 Lévy published Valmier's album with decorative projects called 'Décors et Couleurs'. This publication became a recognized source of inspiration for many abstract painters.
May's Artist of the Month
James Dickson Innes is May's artist of the month with his fabulous painting entitled Bala Lake. Using a notational method and painting for the most part on a small scale, as in Bala Lake he developed a style notable for its lucidity and immediacy of touch.
100% Hand painted oil on canvas. Dimensions: 50 x 76cm (20 x 30in). Yours for just £217!
April's Artist of the Month
This month we're paying homage to French Artist Paul Ransonwith his superb painting 'Apple tree with red fruit'. Ranson was the creative leader of a group called Les Nabis - a group of Post-impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s.
Yours for just £217 (60 x 80cm) Oil on canvas
March's Artist of the Month
From Paris to Kew Gardens. Camille Pissarro is March's artist of the Month with his special series of paintings depicting Kew Gardens.
Pissarro's Kew Gardens - Crossroads near the Pond. 50 x 60 cm (20 x 24 in) £147
Pissarro's Church at Kew Size: 55 x 46 cm (21 x 18 in) £147
Pissarro's Kew Gardens
50 x 60 cm (20 x 24 in) £147
Pissarro's Kew Gardens - Path between the Pond and the Palm House 50 x 60 cm (20 x 24 in) £147
Pissarro's Kew Gardens - The Little Greenhouse 50 x 60 cm (20 x 24 in) £147
February's Artist of the Month
Brit artist Spencer Gore is February's artist month with his beautiful painting The Icknield Way (1912). The use of vibrant colours in this painting would uplift and brighten up any room, whilst adding impact onto neutral walls.
Get your own hand painted recreation for just £167! Oil on canvas. Original size: 63cm x 76cm.
January's Artist of the Month
Claude Monet is January's artist of the month with his impactful painting entitled Leicester Square La Nuit (1901). This painting which also sold at Christie's auction house was bought for a very respectful $700,000.
Get your own dazzling hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas for just £167! Original size 80cm x 64cm
December's Artist of the Month
This Month's artist in none other than Gustav Klimt and his painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II. This painting was bought for an unbelievable $87,936,000, at Christie's in New York, Nov. 8, 2006. This is now the third highest price for a painting sold at auction.
Get your own genuine hand made oil replica for a fraction of the cost. Yours for just £177(Special offer) (Size 95cm x 60cm) The dimension shown above is in proportion to the original size. However, should you wish to have a smaller size such as 50x60cm then please email us at quote@fabulousmasterpieces.co.ukand we will work with you to find a suitable size for your home.
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Original dimensions: 54 x 73 cm. Oil painting on canvas. 
