Grose Evans

French Painting: 19th Century The story of French painters during the nineteenth century is an exciting one, colored by personal rivalries and revolutions in taste. In the face of an indifferent or jeering public, artists often had to make great sacrifices to achieve the sincere expression of...

Spanish Painting The earliest Spanish paintings in the National Gallery of Art reflect the taste of the age of Ferdinand and Isabella (c. 1474-1516). At that time Spanish nobles and prominent clergy imported both paintings and painters from Flanders, which was a very prosperous section of north...

French Painting: 19th Century The story of French painters during the nineteenth century is an exciting one, colored by personal rivalries and revolutions in taste. In the face of an indifferent or jeering public, artists often had to make great sacrifices to achieve the sincere expression of...