Paul Weber, Still Life With Vase, Ornaments & Open Book

Paul Weber, Still Life With Vase, Ornaments & Open BookThis masterful composition by Paul Weber is rendered with exquisite attention to detail and a rich array of hues. Its sublime, every inch a success, and clearly the work of an experienced Academy artist. The skill here begins with the underdrawing, which is carefully crafted and based on years of experience. It takes patience to observe a set of objects so carefully. And atop the drawing, the watercolours are laid down with exquisite skill to create a

Working back from this date gives our subject a birth year of 1588 and to put that into context

Wirkner was an artisan and his landscapes feel poetic and gestural

with its fine details and sunlit dial

beyond the trees

who was also a specialist

Vala Mora (b

Size including frame 18” x 12” / 46cm x 30cm

Ján Kupecký was a Czech portraitist that worked during the baroque and his portraits tended to feature the dramatic light and shade often associated with the period

A family scandal perhaps

Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Valkyries’ provided the soundtrack to her famous dance

A quaint and blocky street scene by Belgian painter

1554-1618) in his portrait by William Segar