Spring forward.
To delete this message, click the X at top right.

Old Masters, Paintings, Sculptures, Furniture

Post Reply
User avatar
RTH10260
Posts: 14206
Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:16 am
Location: Switzerland, near the Alps
Verified: ✔️ Eurobot

Old Masters, Paintings, Sculptures, Furniture

#1

Post by RTH10260 »

Shakespeare portrait said to be only one made in his lifetime on sale for £10m
The artwork by Robert Peake went on display on Wednesday at Grosvenor House hotel in west London

Nadeem Badshah
Wed 16 Nov 2022 22.46 GMT

A portrait said to be the only signed and dated image of William Shakespeare created during his lifetime has gone on sale for more than £10m and is being displayed in London.

The owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, is offering the piece for sale by private treaty without an auction.

It is the work of Robert Peake, court painter to King James I, and is signed and dated 1608. The artwork went on display on Wednesday at Grosvenor House hotel in west London.

Prior to 1975, the picture hung in the library of a stately home in the north of England, once home to the Danby family. Since then it has been in private ownership.

Those behind its sale claim the connections between Shakespeare and Peake are “extensive” and that the artist was regularly commissioned to paint the portraits of high-ranking members of the court and Jacobean society.

They also noted he was commissioned by the Office of the Revels, which oversaw the presentation of plays, and worked in the premises in Clerkenwell, London, where some of Shakespeare’s plays were rehearsed.

However, only two paintings of Shakespeare, both posthumous, are generally recognised as validly portraying him – the engraving that appears on the title page of the First Folio, published in 1623, and the sculpture at his funeral monument in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare died in 1616, at the age of 52.



https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... le-for-10m
User avatar
RTH10260
Posts: 14206
Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:16 am
Location: Switzerland, near the Alps
Verified: ✔️ Eurobot

Old Masters, Paintings, Sculptures

#2

Post by RTH10260 »

may fit here

User avatar
AndyinPA
Posts: 9755
Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:42 am
Location: Pittsburgh
Verified:

Old Masters, Paintings, Sculptures

#3

Post by AndyinPA »

Really lovely!
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
User avatar
RTH10260
Posts: 14206
Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:16 am
Location: Switzerland, near the Alps
Verified: ✔️ Eurobot

Old Masters, Paintings, Sculptures, Furniture

#4

Post by RTH10260 »

The only artist in the world to embed gold leaves in glass; kirikane | Yamamoto Akane: Making Beauty

The British Museum
7 Dec 2023

This series celebrates the work of living Japanese artists and craftspeople.
Yamamoto Akane puts the traditional decorative technique of kirikane centre stage in her stunning glass sculptures, with painstaking precision she melds gold leaves together, cuts them into tiny strands and shapes and then uses them to create mesmerising geometric designs inspired by Buddhist sculpture decoration.

This film, sadly delayed by Covid, is the last in the Making Beauty series. It is a fitting end piece to a series celebrating the innovation, precision and beauty of Japanese Kogei.

This film series has been produced with the support of JTI.

User avatar
AndyinPA
Posts: 9755
Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:42 am
Location: Pittsburgh
Verified:

Old Masters, Paintings, Sculptures, Furniture

#5

Post by AndyinPA »

Awesome!
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
User avatar
Tiredretiredlawyer
Posts: 7493
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:07 pm
Location: Rescue Pets Land
Occupation: 21st Century Suffragist
Verified: ✅🐴🐎🦄🌻5000 posts and counting

Old Masters, Paintings, Sculptures, Furniture

#6

Post by Tiredretiredlawyer »

:yeahthat:
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
Post Reply

Return to “Arts, Music, Photography, and stuff like that”