Albert Anker
Guardian Oak -42-
The Tuscan General Alessandro del Borro
Adoration of the Child
Stleo
Bathazar Castiglione,ecrivain et deploma
Mona Lisa -La Gioconda- sdg
View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam
First sketch for Shearing the Rams
The New Market Square in Dresden.
Discarded Treasures
Titian-s First Experiments with Colour
The Little country maid
St.Dominic
Jennings
Saltash,Cornwall -31-
An Evangelist Writing -33-
MASTER of Saint Veronica
The canterer of Luxembourg Park
Nica
The Fortuneteller
Frits Thaulow
The SculPtor-s Model
Westlafayette
Female bather
Newportrichey
Portrait of a landy,said to be marie de
Art bridge
A Scene on the Ice
Whitehall
The Apparition
Landscape -detail- f
FYT, Jan
Noc-turne-Blue and Silver-Bognor -43-
Sandnessjeen
photo factory
Robert Louis Stevenson -18-
The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover -
Composition NO.ii Composition with Blue
Femmes fellahs au bord du Nil -32-
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Nicolas de Stael:
Russian Painter.1914-1955
was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles Nocolas de Stael was born in the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, (a member of the Stael von Holstein family, and the last Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress) and his wife, Olga Sakhanskaya. De Stael's family was forced to emigrate to Poland in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution; Both, his father and stepmother, would die in Poland and the orphaned Nicolas de Stael would be sent with his older sister Marina to Brussels to live with a Russian family (1922). He eventually studied art at the Brussels Acad??mie royale des beaux-arts (1932). In the 1930s, he travelled throughout Europe, lived in Paris (1934) and in Morocco (1936) (where he first met his companion Jeannine Guillou, also a painter and who would appear in some of his paintings from 1941-1942) and Algeria. In 1936 he had his first exhibition of Byzantine style icons and watercolors at the Galerie Dietrich et Cie, Brussels. He joined the French Foreign Legion in 1939 and was demobilized in 1941.
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