Genoa 1639-Rome 1709  Related Paintings of Giovanni Battista Gaulli Called Baccicio :. | bacoeariadne fcegk | Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne | Continence of Scipio | Portrait of Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici | Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne |
Related Artists:
Cuvelier Hippolythe
Saint-Omer 1803-1876
George Spencer
painted Hazy Afternoon in 19th Century
Pierre Edouard Frere
(1819-1886), French painter, studied under Hippolyte Delaroche, entered the cole des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the Salon in 1843. The marked sentimental tendency of his art makes us wonder at John Ruskin's enthusiastic eulogy which finds in Frere's work the depth of William Wordsworth, the grace of Joshua Reynolds, and the holiness of Fra Angelico. What we can admire in his work is his accomplished craftsmanship and the intimacy and tender homeliness of his conception. Among his chief works are the two paintings, Going to School and Coming from School, The Little Glutton (his first exhibited picture) and L'Exercice (in the 19th century this work was in John Jacob Astor's collection). A journey to Egypt in 1860 resulted in a small series of Orientalist subjects, but the majority of Frere's paintings deal with the life of the kitchen, the workshop, the dwellings of the humble, and mainly with the pleasures and little troubles of the young, which the artist brings before us with humor and sympathy. He was one of the most popular painters of domestic genre in the middle of the 19th century.