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What is the name of one of the most famous paintings ever painted?
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The name of one of the most famous paintings ever made is the Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci produced the captivating portrait during the early 16th century. Some other widely known paintings include Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night, Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Edvard Munch's The Scream, Pablo Picasso's Guernica, Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas, Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, Grant Wood's American Gothic, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Salvador Dalí's Persistence of Memory and Rembrandt's The Night Watch. On 1stDibs, explore a wide range of fine art paintings.
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Fuchsia Bellflowers, Illustration Style Painting, Wild Flowers, Spring Bouquet
Located in Barcelona, ES
This vibrant painting captures the graceful charm of delicate Fuchsia Bellflowers. Sweeping brushstrokes and vivid colors bring these flowers to life, highlighting their stylized sha...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
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India Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Beneath the Blue Ridge"
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Beneath the Blue Ridge" is from my series dedicated to the beauty of Austrian nature. The beauty of nature and the lake where I live inspired me to create this series. Made by blend...
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2010s Landscape Paintings
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Acrylic
Still Life with Currants
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel. It features red currants reflected in a silver vessel. A house finch perches above the scene, its red breast complimenting the berrie...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
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Oil
An English setter reclining in a landscape
By Sawrey Gilpin
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Sawrey Gilpin (1733-1807)
An English setter reclining in a landscape
Signed 'S: Gilpin' lower right
Oil on canvas
Painting Size - 40 x 46 in
Framed Size - 45 x 51 in
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18th Century Old Masters Animal Paintings
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Oil
"Nautilus" & "The Ameer" - Arabian horses
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Frederick Herring Snr (Surrey 1795-1863 Kent)
'The Ameer, an Arabian' and 'Nautilus'
Signed and dated 'J.F.Herring. Senr./1842' lower right
Inscribed 'The Ameer./An Arabian' low...
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19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Awakening - Important Royal Academy Oil Painting of Neoclassical Nudes Nymphs
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Awakening’ by Herbert James Draper (1864-1920).
This monumental masterpeice oil painting – which depicts two wood nymphs rising to meet the morning sun – is signed by the artist an...
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Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Nude Paintings
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Oil