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Gabriel Cot was the daughter of Bouguereau's most famous student, Pierre August Cot. Bouguereau was planning to use her for one of his major paintings, and so he started this as a study for that painting, but, as he worked, he was so captivated by Gabriel's beauty, including her intense inner beauty, that he finished it as one of his only un-commissioned portraits.

[Oil on canvas, 38 x 45.5 cm]

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Of Swedish descent, Olsson (1864 - 1942) was portrayed by contemporary reviewers as a latter-day Viking, roaming abroad on the briny-deep with paintbrush and easel, capturing images of the sea in all of its many moods. He was indeed an accomplished yachtsman who knew “the coast from the Scillies to the Isle of Wight as well as most men know their way to the nearest Railway station.” There was one time of day, however, which Olsson was felt to have made peculiarly his own: “It is that tender half-time between day and night, when the moon, as yet but a pale disc, peeps over the distant horizon and lays a ribbon of golden sheen across the pale waters.” A painting of this subject, Moonlit Shore, (London, Tate Britain) was acquired by the Chantrey Bequest from the Royal Academy in 1911, at the height of Olsson’s popularity.

[Oil on canvas, 61 x 76 cm]

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[Acrylic on canvas, 76.4 x 95.7 inches]

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Grimshaw (Leeds, September 6, 1836 – Leeds, October 13, 1893) was primarily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. True to the Pre-Raphaelite style, he put forth landscapes of accurate colour and lighting, and vivid detail. He often painted landscapes that typified seasons or a type of weather; city and suburban street scenes and moonlit views of the docks in London, Leeds, Liverpool, and Glasgow also figured largely in his art. By applying his skill in lighting effects, and unusually careful attention to detail, he was often capable of intricately describing a scene, while strongly conveying its mood. His paintings of dampened gas-lit streets and misty waterfronts conveyed an eerie warmth as well as alienation in the urban scene.

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Louis-Jean-Francois Lagrenee (Paris, December 30, 1724 - Paris, June 19, 1805) was a French painter. In 1804 Napoleon conferred on him the cross of the Legion D’honneur, and on June 19, 1805 he died in the Louvre, of which he was honorary keeper.

[Oil on canvas, 85 x 100 cm]

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