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    School of Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) ‘Portrait of Alice & Martha Andrews, in a Landscape’ Oil on canvas 59 ½ x 44¾ in. (151 x 113.6 cm.) Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterized by a light palette and easy strokes. He preferred landscapes to portraits, and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.
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    Scandinavia school ‘Portrait of a Young person' oil on canvas 39 x 31 in.
  • JaquesNatoire with indistinct signature, ‘F Boucher’ “Zephyr Flora” Laid down on canvas 10 ½ x 8 inches (26.7 x 20.3 cm) CL102794-137 451003-2 @NB-1040 #62
  • Jean A. Watteau (French, 1684-1821) Women in Nature Oil on canvas 12 ¾ x 9 ½ inches S71791-173 142001-3 @AL 7/13
  • Antonio Allegri, il Coreggio “Venus, Cupid and a Satyr” Oil on Canvas 32” x 21 ½” (81.3 x 54.7 cm) CL102794-126 564601-2 @Albertson (5/19/03)
  • Carlo (Vavaliere) Maratta (Italian, 1625-1713) “Time Revealing Truth and Justice” Oil on canvas 53 x 43 ½ inches (134.6 x 110.5 cm) CL102794-128 3108801-2 NB-1040 #49
  • Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Italian, 1675-1741) “The Young Bacchus” Oil on panel 11 x 7 ½ inches (27.9 x 19.2 cm) Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (29 April 1675 – 2 November 1741) was one of the leading Venetian history painters of the early 18th century. His style melded the Renaissance style of Paolo Veronese with the Baroque of Pietro da Cortona and Luca Giordano.  He travelled widely on commissions which brought him to England, the Southern Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, Germany, Austria and France.  He is considered an important predecessor of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. One of his pupils was Antonio Visentini.  Pellegrini was a pupil of the Milanese painter Paolo Pagani. He travelled with his master to Moravia and Vienna in 1690 and was back in Venice in 1696 where he painted his first surviving works.
  • Bartoloméo Estenban Murillo 1618-1682, Spanish “The Virgin with the Infant Christ Standing” Oil on canvas 62” x 42” 157.5 x 106.7 cm CL102794-63 9115603-2 @AC-NB
  • Antonio Allegri, il Correggio “The Virgin Adoring the Christ Child” Oil on Canvas 31 ½” x 26 ½’’ 80 x 67.3 cm CL102794-79 761203-2 @AC-GN
  • Lodewyck de Vadder ‘The Temptation in the Wilderness’ oil on canvas 17 ¾ x 44 in. (45 x 111.8 cm) CL102794-177 351003-2 @AC-NB
  • David Teniers ‘The Palm Reader’ oil on panel 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (17.5 x 11.7 cm) CL102794-253 39520-2 @AC-NB
  • Francesco Solimena (Italian, 1657-1747) “The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine” Oil on canvas, Oval 12 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (31.8 x 24.7 cm) CL102794-97 430602-2 @NB-1040 #61
  • Antonio Allegri da Correggio “The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine” Oil on canvas 10 ½” x 9” (26.7 x 22.8 cm) Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as Correggio (Italian), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Rococo art of the 18th century. He is considered a master of chiaroscuro. In 1503 he was apprenticed to Francesco Bianchi Ferrara in Modena, where he probably became familiar with the classicism of artists like Lorenzo Costa and Francesco Francia, evidence of which can be found in his first works. After a trip to Mantua in 1506, he returned to Correggio, where he stayed until 1510.
  • Antonio Allegri da Correggio “The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine” Oil on canvas 32 x 28 inches (81.3 x 71.2 cm) CL102794-78 3108802-2 @NB-1040 #68
  • Andrea (‘dAnqiolo) del Sarto (Italian, 1487-1531) “The Madonna of the Harpies” Oil on canvas 20 x 8 inches (50.8 x 20.3 cm) Andrea del Sarto (Italian: 1486–1530) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. Though highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist senza errori ("without errors"), his renown was eclipsed after his death by that of his contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.  Andrea del Sarto was born Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca di Paolo del Migliore in Florence on 16 July 1486. Since his father, Agnolo, was a tailor (Italian: sarto), he became known as "del Sarto" (meaning "tailor's son"). CL 102794-91 322101-2 @NB-1040 #18 OM-294
  • Francesco Curradi (Italian, 1570-1661) “The Madonna and the Angel Gabriel” Oil on canvas 26 x 20 inches (66 x 50.8 cm) CL102794-83/1 334002-2 @NB-1040 #16
  • Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian, 1255-1318) “The Madonna and Child” Oil on panel 18 ½ x 13 inches Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian; c. 1255–1260 – c. 1318–1319) was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. He is considered to be the father of Sienese painting and, along with a few others, the founder of Western art. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Duccio is credited with creating the painting styles of Trecento and the Sienese school, and also contributed significantly to the Sienese Gothic style. Although much is still unconfirmed about Duccio and his life, there is more documentation of him and his life than of other Italian painters of his time. It is known that he was born and died in the city of Siena, and was also mostly active in the surrounding region of Tuscany. Other details of his early life and family are as uncertain, as much else in his history.  Nevertheless, his artistic talents were enough to overshadow his lack of organization as a citizen, and he became famous in his own lifetime. In the 14th century Duccio became one of the most favored and radical painters in Siena. CL102794-10 561202-2 @NB-1040 #7
  • Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640) “The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John and Saint Elizabeth” Oil on canvas CL102794-52 140802-2 43 x 36 ½ inches (109.2 x 92.7 cm)
  • Carlo Dolci (Italian, 1616-1686) “The Madonna and Child with Saint Clare” Oil on copper 8 ¼ x 6 inches (21 x 15.3 cm) Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (25 May 1616 – 17 January 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions. He was born in Florence, on his mother's side the grandson of a painter. Although he was precocious and apprenticed at a young age to Jacopo Vignali, Dolci was not prolific. "He would take weeks over a single foot", according to his biographer Baldinucci. His painstaking technique made him unsuited for large-scale fresco painting. He painted chiefly sacred subjects, and his works are generally small in scale, although he made a few life-size pictures. He often repeated the same composition in several versions, and his daughter, Agnese Dolci, also made excellent copies of his works. Dolci was known for his piety. It is said that every year during Passion Week he painted a half-figure of the Savior wearing the Crown of Thorns. In 1682, when he saw Giordano, nicknamed "fa presto" (quick worker), paint more in five hours than he could have completed in months, he fell into a depression. Dolci's daughter, Agnese (died circa 1680), was also a painter. Dolci died in Florence in 1686.
  • Lorenzo de Curo “The Immaculate Conception” Oil on canvas, Oval 32 ¼ x 24 1/8 inches (82 x 61.2 cm) CL 102794-56 322101-2 @NB-1040 260 (not online)
  • Antonio Allegri, il Correggio “The Holy Family with Saint Francis” Oil on Canvas 47 ½” x 41” CL102794-64 374802-2
  • Gabriel Metsu ‘The Game Seller’ oil on panel 19 x 16 in. (48.3 x 40.7 cm) CL102794-239 654401-2 @AC-NB
  • Francesco Ruschi “The Crucifixion” Oil on canvas 60 ¼ x 40 ½ inches
  • Donato Creti “Studies of Heads” Pen and brown ink on paper 10 ¾ x 7 ¼ inches @NB-1040 #26 Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical style. It is an academicized grand style, that crystallizes into a manneristic neoclassicism, with crisp and frigid modeling of the figures. Among his followers were Aureliano Milani, Francesco Monti, and Ercole Graziani the Younger. Two other pupils were Domenico Maria Fratta and Giuseppe Peroni.