JAN WEISSENBRUCH

 

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Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch (1824-1903) was a Dutch Painter of the Hague School. He is noted especially for his watercolours. Weissenbruch's early works show, strong influence of Dutch Romanticism. He found his inspiration in the surroundings of the city, where he resided. After 1875, Weissenbruch regularly returned to the wet landscapes, found in the areas surrounding Nieuwkoop and Noorden. He only travelled abroad once.

Weissenbruch's early landscapes and city scenes were in meticulous details. But over the years he began to attend to the form, through plain colours. He exploited shadows showing the sunlit parts on one face, and shadowed parts on the other side of the street, creating a balance. He often began with on-site preparatory architectural sketches. His Interiors, unlike architectural scenes are simple factual spaces, bereft of details of being lived-in areas. 

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ATTILIO PRATELLA

 

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Attilio Pratella (1856-1949) was an Italian painter of landscapes and realistic scenes of urban life. He studied art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, and also at Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.

Pratella's work consists of many small, quickly rendered views of Naples. He used vibrant colours, alternating with sudden warm tones, and strong whites. His favourite subjects were markets, street corner hawkers, water-fronts with architectural back drops, and rain soaked streets. Pratella preferred oil paints, but for studies, sketches and portraits he used crayon pastels.

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ROBERT BEVAN

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Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group of London, and the Cumberland Market Group (English Post-Impressionist artists). His work shows impressions of Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. He also received encouragement from Renoir, particularly in his drawing of horses. His painting, Courtyard is described as the first exercises in the expressive use of pure colour in this century.

Robert Bevan used simpler colour schemes of large extensive fills. He avoids using the shadows to present the forms including the architecture. He was initially influenced by many of his contemporary artists, but eventually mastered own style. After a break of nearly twenty years, he began working on lithography, but now the works are more as tonal translations of colour paintings. 

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