ANTHONIE DE LORME

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ANTHONIE DE LORME (1610–1673) was a Dutch painter. He was called a Master of Space. He mainly painted real and imaginary church interiors of Rotterdam. Many of his details (depicted in the interior of the Church of Saint Lawrence, Rotterdam) were used for restorations after WW-II.

De Lorme's imaginary views of the church interiors were his forte for the first twenty years of his career, but around 1652, he began to draw accurate or real-life interior views of the local churches with a few figures, probably inserted by a friend. Later he painted church interiors’ close-up, bathed in light. From 1660s De Lorme refined his simple, realistic style into a more decorative manner, using architecture to create spatial effects than an objective scenes. He experimented with bold light effects and shadows, often from a single source like candles and torches at night.

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ALSON SKINNER CLARK

 

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Alson S. Clark (1876-1949) was California's most well known painters. He is remembered for his tonal portraits and figure studies, extensive work on urban landscape scenes like industrial structures railroads, bridges, factories and painting en plein air work in Spanish areas.

He began studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, as a Saturday evening student. He spent his early career in Paris. Clark travelled extensively visiting Normandy, Gavarnie, parts of Italy and Spain, the Netherlands, Dalmatia, and Canada, besides the Panama Canal construction site.

He went to California to recover from a hearing disability incurred during the war After WW-I. ‘He was reluctant to resume his painting career, but found the desert, coast and mountains of the Southern California too fascinating to resist’. He began now working on large plein-air landscapes in a free and brighter mode.

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ANNA ALMA-TADEMA

 

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Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943), was a British (born in Brussels, Belgium) artist. She was the younger of the two daughters of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, a famous artist. She was schooled at home and taught to paint by her father and stepmother (also an accomplished artist).

Anna started painting at the age of Eighteen. She painted portraits, interior scenes, flowers and buildings, in pencil, pen-ink, chalk, water colour and oil paint. She inherited her father's ability to reproduce details and stepmother’s skill of composition. She painted more in oils towards the end of the nineteenth century, with a dramatic change in genre and style. Her work in 1900s, gained Impressionistic approach. She explored the depiction of surface light and texture. She was good at showing human emotions. Her paintings have a sense of contentment and quietude to them.

Anna Alma-Tadema was actively involved in Women's Suffrage Movement of 1897. Her sister Laurence, was a writer. The two sisters never married, and lived in poverty in later part of their life.

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