Life in Britain just a bit back. Pictures by 20th century British artist James Durden.
Category: Paintings of interiors
People living life in 1830’s Denmark in paintings so detailed you can begin to time travel back just looking. Wilhelm Bendz, artist. Living from 1804 to 1832 he specialized in genre works and portraits.
Two rooms and a winter garden in the New Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia. From the Edward Hau album of watercolors entitled “Interiors of the New Hermitage” which dates from the decade after the early 1850’s when it was built.
Watercolors of 1930’s and 1940’s interiors most of which ran in magazines so you would know how to redecorate if you won the lottery. All by Sir Cecil Beaton. Living from 1904 to 1980 and best known for his photography but he did other creative things too.
What you get if your sister is the tsarina. Watercolors of various rooms in the city residence of Grand Duke Sergei and his wife Elizabeth Feodorovna. From the album “Views of the Church, Residential and Residence of Grand Duke Sergei and Grand Duchess Ella, Moscow.” 1902 and 1905. Russian. Ignatius Nivinsky, artist (1881-1915). One by V. P. Trofimov. Collections of the State Historical Museum, Moscow.
19th century people feeling grand. French. Eugène Lami, artist. Living from 1800 to 1890, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. All of these with Queen Victoria though he painted other people too.
More fabulous watercolors of Russian rooms at mid 19th century. So detailed that you feel you could travel right into the painting and sit down on the sofa. These from the palaces of Tsarkoe Selo. Luigi Premazzi, artist (1814-1891).
Leftovers from the time when having an artist do a watercolor of every room in your home was the ultimate status symbol. This set being of the mansion of Baron A. Stieglitz in Saint Petersburg. 1870. Luigi Premazzi, watercolorist to the tsar (1814-1891).
Must have been taking a break from painting all those rooms in the Winter Palace. Sets of those watercolors coming, and lots of them. Just found more, mostly from Romanov palaces but some being of the drawing rooms of their friends.
The 17th century from the inside out. Paintings of interior spaces in the Netherlands. Painted by perspective painter Emanuel de Witte (1617-1692).
How to live if you are (almost) the tsar. Watercolors of various rooms in the city residence of Grand Duke Sergei and his wife Elizabeth Feodorovna. From the album “Views of the Church, Residential and Residence of Grand Duke Sergei and Grand Duchess Ella, Moscow.” 1902. Russian. Ignatius Nivinsky, artist (1881-1915). Collections of the State Historical Museum, Moscow.
