Paintings — Remastered: Old Masters from the Collection of J.E. Safra
Philippe de Momper the Elder was a Flemish landscape painter and a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp.
Philippe was born into the famous family of landscape painters and engravers Momper of Bruges, who settled in Antwerp in the 16th century. His father was the famous landscape painter Joos de Momper (1564-1635). Together with Jan Brueghel the Younger, he traveled in Italy and created several views of Rome and its environs. As a pupil of his father, Philippe painted in a similar style, but contributed his own touches as well. Philippe de Mompera's paintings of winter landscapes, river valleys with deer and groups of walking people are also known.
Matthias Withoos, also known as Calzetta Bianca and Calzetti, was a Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes, best known for the details of insects, reptiles and undergrowth in the foreground of his pictures.
Francesco Lupicini was an Italian Baroque painter who worked in Spain.
Lupicini lived and worked in Zaragoza. His most famous painting is Mary Magdalene Instructed by her sister Martha, which is in the collection of the Historical Museum. He also painted allegories, portraits and scenes with religious motifs.
Jakob Philipp Hackert was a German painter of the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries. He is known as a landscape painter and printmaker, a representative of neoclassicism and romanticism.
Hackert reached the peak of creative activity in 1770-1780. He was recognized by the European aristocracy, and for a time served as court painter to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, as well as receiving commissions from representatives of the Russian imperial family, such as Empress Catherine II and the heir to the throne, Paul Petrovich. His work, according to critics, was characterized by high craftsmanship and aristocratic elegance.
Joseph Wright, styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution".
Wright is notable for his use of tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes the contrast of light and dark, and for his paintings of candle-lit subjects. His paintings of the birth of science out of alchemy, often based on the meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of scientists and industrialists living in the English Midlands, are a significant record of the struggle of science against religious values in the period known as the Age of Enlightenment.
Many of Wright's paintings and drawings are owned by Derby City Council, and are on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
Peder Balke, née Peder Andersen, was a Norwegian landscape painter and marinist.
Balke is one of the most prominent representatives of Romantic painting in Northern Europe. After receiving his art education at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, he made a great journey to the northernmost parts of Norway in 1832, which inspired him for the rest of his life. Throughout this long itinerary, the artist made sketches and sketches that later developed into large canvases. Some of these paintings were bought by the Swedish royal family, some went to the Palace of Versailles and the National Gallery of Oslo. Balke also traveled to Germany and Russia, and visited Paris and London.
Peder Balke mainly depicted Arctic landscapes - snowy cliffs and mountains, midnight sun and northern lights, a sea full of danger with ice. But this wild, pristine and powerful beauty of Norway in the artist's view is full of drama and perhaps in need of protection.
