@OopaliOperajita I don't know, he lived Chiswick (Turnham Green) for a long time, from the late 1930s until 1970.

Albert Bierstadt's cloud studies (this is from 1860) combine the feeling of a freshly discovered observation of nature with the close detail of his finished work - they exemplify the pull he inspired in his contemporaries to explore the wonders of the American west.

The word 'sensitive' can be over-used in the context of English painting and can imply merely a certain weak charm. Nothing could be further from the truth in Robert Duckworth Greenham's case and particularly this portrait of the actress Anna Sten from 1937.

Floris Verster was one of the great influencers of Dutch painting and grouped with van Gogh and Johannes Vermeer as a guiding light for future generations of artists. He's also one of the most underappreciated painters of the late Hague School.

@pirateirwin Great PR!

The subject of 'Woman and Dog at Table,' (1908) is Marthe, Pierre Bonnard's most frequently portrayed model and although the couple did not marry until 1925, their closeness is evident in the many paintings and photographs of her Bonnard made in the intervening years.

'Winter Night in the Mountains,' was made in 1901 when critics were trying to associate Harald Sohlberg with Impressionism. He dismissed the idea saying he had no interest in capturing ‘half-hour of devotion,' to atmosphere but the vastness and physical presence of the landscape.

'Helping with Homework.' (c1900) Horace Mann Livens studied with Vincent Van Gogh at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Antwerp and they became close friends - van Gogh invited Livens to join him in the South of France, but he declined, preferring instead to paint in London.

@CTerryObserver Ag, you're probably right, a spinach moment, perhaps.

This painting shows a corner of Matisse’s apartment at 19 Quai St. Michel, Paris where he lived from 1899 to 1907. The subjects of domestic interiors and still lifes (such as the carefully arranged objects on the small stand here) were typical of his works of this period.

@Bahrain54 That sun is greatly needed on a day like today!

@PeterIntheswim Yes, and of course this gives emphasis to the subject.

Horace Pippin's painting from 1942 shows President Abraham Lincoln pardoning William Scott, a Vermont soldier who fell asleep on duty while serving during the American Civil War and who was originally sentenced to death by firing squad.

@janeinonrus Thanks, Jane.