Girl with a Watering Can, 1876 by Pierre Auguste Renoir.
Renoir painted this young girl to attract people and some portrait business. Portraiture was the 19th century artist's bread and butter.
He Never Fails to Amaze
Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess of d'Abernon by John Singer Sargent, 1904, The Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Another beautiful portrait by Sargent.
Kehinde Wiley in Cleveland
Kehinde Wiley,
Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps (Self-Portrait),
Oil on canvas, 2005
Artist
will speak at
Cleveland Museum of Art's Gartner Auditorium, Saturday August 29th
at 2:00. His beautiful work harks back to an earlier style while creating very modern portraits. Wiley's recent one man exhibition at the
was very well received by the art world and the public, alike. The Cleveland lecture is part of the
Cleveland Public Library's The Lockwood Thompson Dialogues
.
Kehinde Wiley
Triple Portrait of Charles I
, oil and enamel on canvas. Triptych, 2007,