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Walter Ufer. Part 2.

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2026/04/05/walter-ufer-part-2/

Published: April 5, 2026 04:51

Life in Taos, New Mexico Walter Ufer Having taken his wife’s advice with regards approaching Chicago’s dignitaries and offering to paint their portraits, Ufer called upon the Carter H Harrison, the 30th mayor of Chicago, who had held office from 1897-1905…

Walter Ufer

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2026/03/24/walter-ufer/

Published: March 24, 2026 16:02

Part 1. The Beginning – America and Germany Self portrait by Walter Ufer (1920) In the next two blogs I am going to look at an artist and his work, who started life in Germany, emigrated to America with his family where his artistic journey began.  He…

Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin.

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2026/03/16/henri-jean-guillaume-martin/

Published: March 16, 2026 22:19

Henri Martin in 1882 The artist whose life and works I am looking at today is the Post-Impressionist painter Henri-Jean Guillaume “Henri” Martin.  He was born on August 5th, 1860, at 127 Grande-Rue Saint-Michel in Toulouse.  His father was a French cabinet…

Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2026/03/04/wilhelm-ferdinand-bendz/

Published: March 4, 2026 09:07

Somebody just asked me how I came to write about a certain artist.  In the case of today’s blog it was just a strange coincidence……… In November 2012 I wrote a blog about the Barber Institute, an English art museum on the Birmingham University campus.  The…

Marie de Roode Heijermans and her “infamous” painting.

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2026/02/18/marie-de-roode-heijermans-and-her-infamous-painting/

Published: February 18, 2026 09:15

Marie de Roode Heijermans The artist I am looking at today is Catherine Mariam ‘Marie’ de Roode-Heijermans who was born in Rotterdam on October 14th, 1859.  She was the daughter of Herman Heijermans, a journalist, and his wife Matilda Moses Spiers. She…

Paul César Helleu and Alice Guérin.

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2025/12/15/paul-cesar-helleu-and-alice-guerin/

Published: December 15, 2025 15:50

Paul César Helleu At the end of my previous blog about the French artist Léon Bonnat, I talked about how he had bequeathed most of his art collection and the majority of his work to the local Bayonne museum and how the town named the Museum after him and…

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat. Part 2

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2025/11/30/leon-joseph-florentin-bonnat-part-2/

Published: November 30, 2025 14:11

The Portrait Artist Léon Bonnat painting a portrait of artist, Alfred Roll (1918) Léon Bonnat was born in Bayonne, France and lived there until he was thirteen years old.  Léon’s family then moved to Madrid where his father took on a book shop.  Léon’s…

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat.

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2025/11/22/leon-joseph-florentin-bonnat/

Published: November 22, 2025 10:39

Part 1. The formulative years Self portrait by Léon Bonnat (1855) The artist I am looking at today was one of the leading French painters of the nineteenth century.  He was a colossal figure in 19th-century French art, a painter whose career managed to tie…

Musée Jacquemart-André, Baron Haussman and Georges de la Tour

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2025/10/20/musee-jacquemart-andre-baron-haussman-and-georges-de-la-tour/

Published: October 20, 2025 16:20

Having been touring Europe for the last three weeks I have had a rest from my blog.   The last part of my journey was a short three-day stay in Paris and it was almost seven years since I had graced this wonderful city. I have visited many art galleries…

Suffolk Artists. Part 2.

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2025/09/06/suffolk-artists-part-2/

Published: September 6, 2025 21:15

This is the second part of my blog which focuses on lesser-known artists that had a connection with the English county of Suffolk. Rose Mead Rose Mead’s self portrait (c.1900) Emma Rose Mead, known as Rose Mead, was born at 15 Hatter Street, Bury St…

Suffolk Artists. Part 1.

https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2025/08/24/suffolk-artists-part-1/

Published: August 24, 2025 09:43

Britain had a number of locations favoured by artists.  There was Newlyn in the south-west and Snowdonia in North Wales to mention just two.  In the next two blogs I want to look at artists who were born or worked in the south-east county of Suffolk during…