Man painting

1899: William Bruce Ellis Ranen, his sisters and their Mother. 1904. 1927. 1937. 1918: 'Pipe Practice.' 1926: 'The garden door.' 1933: 'Hall at Warbrook.' Ca. 1922: 'Hibicus Flower' and 'An Anglo-Indian Student.' Who was this young man? Like Sargent, Ranken was unmarried. Like Ranken, his friend and mentor, John Sargent,...

Lippert: The Young Apprentice. But if course it is the reflection of the older man which grabs the attention, not the apparent and superficial subject of the picture. re-blogged from blastedheath

At the age of twenty-five, 1923. The Honorable Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, later 2nd Viscount Rothermere (29 May 1898 – 12 July 1978), British Conservative politician and press magnate. The son of Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, who had founded the Daily Mail in partnership with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, he was educated at Eton and commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery in World War I. His two older brothers were both killed in action. In 1919…

The tight cropping and close focus on the face gives this portrait study of a young man a contemporary feeling. I like the intense immediacy of this close observation and the insouciance in his glance. I love painting portraits that give a vivid sense of an individual while conveying a mysterious, unknowable quality. This is a print of my original painting "Over the Shoulder Glance" which was created in 2019 in oil on canvas. The original painting has been sold. There is a slight luster to…

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The tight cropping and close focus on the face gives this portrait study of a young man a contemporary feeling. I like the intense immediacy of this close observation and the insouciance in his glance. I love painting portraits that give a vivid sense of an individual while conveying a mysterious, unknowable quality. This is a print of my original painting "Over the Shoulder Glance" which was created in 2019 in oil on canvas. The original painting has been sold. There is a slight luster to…

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Ron Hicks was born in Columbus, Ohio but spent most of his childhood growing up in the modest and friendly neighborhood of Park Hill in Denver, Colorado. He shared a dream with a close childhood friend early on... "He just always knew he would go to college and become an artist", remembers Ron's friend.