Roman Charity
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Artist: Charles Mellin (Born: 1597 in Nancy France - Died: 21 September 1649 in Rome Italy)
Painted: Date Not Available
Comments: Trained in the Duchy of Lorraine as French Baroque artist; Charles Mellin spent most of his professional career in Rome and Naples Italy.
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Artist: Jean-Baptiste Deshays (Born: 1729 in Colleville France - Died: 1765 in Paris France)
Painted: Date Not Available
Comments: Jean-Baptiste Deshays spent his formative years in Normandy. He received instruction in drawing from Collin de Vermont, religious painting from Jean Restout, and the rococo style from Francois Boucher. Deshays imaginative style was influenced by Eustache Le Sueur, Charles Le Brun, Rubens, and the Carracci.
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Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Born: 21 August 1725 in Tournus France - Died: 4 March 1805)
Painted: About 1767
Comments: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a French rococo and portrait painter, studied at the Académie Royale in Paris. In 1755, he won acclaim for his "Blind Man Deceived" and "Father Reading the Bible to His Children". However, during the French Revolution, Greuze lost both popularity and fortune; dying in poverty in 1805. His work hangs in the Louvre, London's Wallace Collection, the Edinburgh National Gallery, and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Artist: Lorenzo Pasinelli (Born: 4 September 1629 in Bologna Italy - Died: 4 March 1700 in Bologna Italy)
Painted: 1670
Comments Lorenzo Pasinelli, an Italian Baroque painter, trained under Simone Cantarini.
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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Born: 28 June 1577 in Antwerp Belgium - Died: 30 May 1640)
Painted: 1612
Comments: Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most prolific and influential painters of the European Renaissance period. By combining the realistic tradition of Flemish painting with the classical themes of Italian Renaissance, he had a profound effect on northern European painting styles. Even today, the word "Rubenesque" is often used to describe a full figured woman.
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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Born: 28 June 1577 in Antwerp Belgium - Died: 30 May 1640)
Painted: 1625
Comments: Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most prolific and influential painters of the European Renaissance period. By combining the realistic tradition of Flemish painting with the classical themes of Italian Renaissance, he had a profound effect on northern European painting styles. Even today, the word "Rubenesque" is often used to describe a full figured woman.
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Artist: Dirck van Baburen (Born: 1595 in Utrecht Netherlands - Died: 1624 in Utrecht Netherlands) - Also know as Teodoer van Baburen
Painted: 1623
Comments: Van Baburen spent several years in Rome, where he was influenced by the works of Caravaggio. However, his career being very short, only a few of his paintings have survived. In addition to Roman Charity, some of these works are: "Deposition" (San Pietro in Montorio, Rome), "Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan" (1623) and "The Procuress" (Boston Museum of Fine Arts - 1622)
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Artist: Johan Zoffany (Born: 13 March 1733 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany - Died: 11 November 1810 at his riverside home near Kew, at Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick England.)
Painted: 1769
Comments: Johann Zoffany, born Johannes Zauffaly, was apprentice to a Regensburg painter, Martin Speer, who had been a pupil of Francesco Solimena. After only three years of apprenticeship, he traveled to Rome in 1750, where he studied under Agostino Masucci. His earliest dated work is an altarpiece at Regensburg of 1753.
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Artist: Johannes Phokela (Born: 1966 in Soweto South Africa)
Painted: 1997
Comments Johannes Phokela studied at the Federated Union of Black Arts in Johannesburg South Africa, before continuing his studies at the Royal College of Art in London. His recreations of Old Masters are heavily influenced by both European and South African social history.
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Artist: Matthias Meyvogel (Budapest ?)
Painted: Date Not Available
Comments Little information is available for Matthias Meyvogel.
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