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(1867—1950) Is one of the most notable painters of the genre painting school around the turn of the 20th century. An American, Roseland was primarily known for paintings centered on poor African-Americans. One of his most popular subjects was his paintings of black women fortune tellers who read the palms and tea leaves of white women clients. While known mostly for his paintings of African Americans, his work encompassed many genres, including seascapes and portraits. He also gained renown for his paintings of laborers in the coastal areas of New England and New York and his many interior paintings. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. 

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Please see the prior Max Weyl page for more of his works and the biography about this fantastic Washington D.C. artist.

This 17th century painting and attribution is currently being researched.

The painting is titled 

" Alexander the Great before Diogenes & His Tub"

(1850-1903) A Philadelphia artist with a specialization for figurative scenes, Henry T. Cariss began his career in the theaters, painting backdrops, as well as earning the reputation as a performer. As an artist, he joined the Philadelphia Sketch Club in 1878, where he is recorded that Cariss “in his early 30s, was a most popular member of the Club, with a good singing voice, which he was always willing to inflict on social gatherings.” He was elected President of the Sketch Club in 1883, and was also a member of the Society of Etchers, and was a founding member of the Philadelphia Art Club. He also produced etchings and stained glass works of his original paintings.

(c 1720-1791) was born in Edinburgh. 

George studied painting under his father and Alan Ramsay and in 1751 he went to Rome, where he mixed with the expatriate Jacobites, and he went on from there to Florence and Minorca, where he painted the governor general, Baron William Blakeney. A mezzotint of this painting is in the National Portrait Gallery.

About 1760 George returned to Edinburgh, where he assumed the baronetcy in 1764. Sir George Chalmers became the 4th holder of the title in 1764, on the death of a relative of the same name.  In 1778 he moved from Edinburgh to Hull, and in 1784, to London where he died in 1791. He exhibited 24 works at the Royal Academy between 1775 and 1790.

Sir George’s best known painting is The Captain of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers William St Clair of Roslin (1771), which now hangs in the hall of the Royal Company of Archers in Edinburgh. Other works are in the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the City of Edinburgh Collection, and at Drum Castle and Fyvie Castle. 

 (1888-1972)  He is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Philips Memorial Gallery in Washington and the Brooklyn Museum, to name only a few of the many institutions that feature his work. This painting, with its colorful composition and its loose style of figuration- demonstrates his abstraction abilities. As you can see, this shows why is works became popular. This piece depicts a woman with animals in a barnyard. Costigan  explored Picasso, Degas, and countless other modernists- and demonstrates it with his distinctive style.