Ilario Spolverini, Cavalry Assembly With Distant Battle Genre This charming late 19th-century portrait

This charming late 19th-century portrait by British artist Eden Upton Eddis (1812-1901) depicts a young Muriel Paget Bowman (c

which may refer to an American politician who was a keen collector of impressionist paintings by Degas and Gauguin

It’s a gripping depiction with the eyes seemingly captivated

It seems that art became her salvation as by the 1930s

is both deft and convincing

Ilario Spolverini, Cavalry Assembly With Distant Battle Genre This charming late 19th-century portraitThis early 18th century oil painting by Italian artist Ilario Spolverini (1657 1734) depicts a vivid scene of military activity. A mounted company of cavalry gathers in the foreground, while the distant plains erupt in smoke and movement. Its set, most plausibly, in Northern Italy, near Parma or Piacenza, where the Farnese dukes commanded military operations. Towards the centre of the composition, an officer on a white charger commands attention