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The park is at its most beautiful with a colours on every bend of the paths in may 2020. just stunning for a few weeks an explosion of multi colours of this this stunning plant..Rhododendron 'Mrs T. H. Lowinsky
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Dulwich Picture Gallery was endowed by Edward Alleyne, Elizabethan actor and theatre impresario, who bequeathed it his collection of paintings. Other collections were added, chiefly by Sir Francis Bourgeois and Noël Desenfans, who were then commissioned by the king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to assemble a national collection. It took them five years, by which time Poland no longer existed. When Bourgeois died he left instructions for a gallery to be built at Dulwich to house the collection and the gallery opened in 1817.
This is Rembrandt’s Girl at a Window, 1645. It’s not known who she was but legend has it that when Rembrandt put the portrait in his window, passers by thought the girl was there in real life.
Painted only the year before Watteau's ball scene in 1715, this is just a small part of Jan van Huysum's Vase with Flowers. Still-life studies of flowers and fruit in hyper-real detail, were all the rage at the time, and with good reason when you look closely.
Dulwich Park is a 30.85-hectare park in Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark, south London, England. The park was created by the Metropolitan Board of Works from former farmland and meadows. While the initial design was by Charles Barry, it was later refined by Lt Col J. J. Sexby.
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We went to Dulwich Picture Gallery today, took Frances for her birthday treat. We had a picnic in the grounds (the weather was lovely!) and then went in to see the Winifred Knights exhibition - which I'd recommend. An extraordinary artist.
We sat near this old black mulberry tree . . . Frances sketched it and I took some photos . . .
6 shot pano merged in LR. A skewed POV gives an unusual perspective.
RAF files processed with Iridient X-Transformer, then in Nik Color Efex Pro after merging.
College Road, SE21
Entrances - College Gate, College Road, Queen Mary’s Gate & Rosebery Gate. Dulwich Common, Court Lane the light was so beautiful on a saturday walk
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Dulwich Picture Gallery was endowed by Edward Alleyne, Elizabethan actor and theatre impresario, who bequeathed it his collection of paintings. Other collections were added, chiefly by Sir Francis Bourgeois and Noël Desenfans, who were then commissioned by the king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to assemble a national collection. It took them five years, by which time Poland no longer existed. When Bourgeois died he left instructions for a gallery to be built at Dulwich to house the collection and the gallery opened in 1817.
Another Rembrandt, this is a portrait of a young man, possibly his son Titus, painted around 1668 (though Titus died in September of that year). Titus was born in 1641 and became part of the financial struggle between Rembrandt and his wife Saskia, who was daughter of a local mayor. When Titus was 14 and during an outbreak of the Plague, Rembrandt forced him to make a will, naming his father as his sole heir as he himself was constantly in debt. Titus married the daughter of a silversmith in February 1668, but died on 4th September. Six months later, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Titia. She eventually inherited Titus' considerable inheritance of 12,000 guilders.
More paintings by Danish artist Anna Ancher (1859-1935), whose work is being shown at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Her favourite subjects were interiors at Skagen and portraits of its inhabitants, many engaged on their daily tasks. This is an interior of the hotel at Skagen, owned by her parents, where she was born and grew up. Painted in 1916, it's typical of her fascination with sunlight – and quite puzzling to work out where these pools of light are coming from.
More of Anna Ancher's paintings at Dulwich, these all painted in her home town of Skagen, Denmark. Skagen itself, which is on a narrow strip of land at the northernmost tip of Norway, where the North Sea and Baltic meet, was very popular with artists. This is Harvesters, painted in 1905, which must have been a good summer and perhaps a happy time for Anna Ancher. Painted in thick strokes, it’s unusual in dividing the canvas in half (which you’re told never to do…), and also for her perspective, which is far below the three figures. These figures are also not centred, and the scythe touches the border of the canvas at the top while the rake on the right extends beyond it. The harvesters look very serious, no doubt focusing on the task ahead.
The last three of the Anna Ancher exhibition that were painted by herself. She also had a spiritual side, though this rather unexpected scene, Grief, was apparently based on a dream. The accompanying legend says it may have been Ancher's grief and internal struggle as a female artist coming to terms with the struggle against conservative religious values. I would simply say it's mysterious and well painted.
The last three of the Anna Ancher exhibition that were painted by herself. Very different from either Ancher’s interiors or summer outdoors is Blue Sunset, frustratingly undated, but presumably a later work. It could hardly have a simpler subject, but there’s plenty of texture in the thick brushstrokes.