This floral magic in the paintings of Cecil Kennedy. Kennedy Cecil - all paintings by the artist Cecil Kennedy paintings in high resolution

Cecil Kennedy (1905 - 1997) - English painter, master of still life, was born on February 4, 1905 in Leyton, into a large Victorian family of artists. Kennedy is one of the most famous representatives of the English modern school.

From 1950 to 1970, Kennedy's paintings were regularly exhibited at the Fine Art Society in London. The artist was awarded twice at the Paris Salon: in 1956 with a silver medal and in 1970 with a gold medal. Among the fans of Cecil Kennedy's work there were many famous and influential people: the Duke of Windsor, Lord Thompson, the Astor family. “When I see Cecil Kennedy’s paintings, I smell the flowers and hear the hum of the bees,” Queen Mary said about the artist’s work.

Cecil Kennedy is undoubtedly the best British artist to paint floral still lifes in the twentieth century. In his work, he often combined modern hybrid exotic flowers with traditional English flowers and herbs, with plants that were depicted on their canvases by the old masters. He knew a lot about flowers, and his use of white in many still lifes reflects trends in 20th-century gardening. Cecil Kennedy's paintings can be found all over the world - in royal, corporate and private collections.

Cecil Kennedy (1905 - 1997) - English painter, master of still life, was born on February 4, 1905 in Leyton, into a large Victorian family of artists. Kennedy is one of the most famous representatives of the English modern school.

From 1950 to 1970, Kennedy's paintings were regularly exhibited at the Fine Art Society in London. The artist was awarded twice at the Paris Salon: in 1956 with a silver medal and in 1970 with a gold medal. Among the fans of Cecil Kennedy's work there were many famous and influential people: the Duke of Windsor, Lord Thompson, the Astor family. “When I see Cecil Kennedy’s paintings, I smell the flowers and hear the hum of the bees,” Queen Mary said about the artist’s work.

Cecil Kennedy is undoubtedly the best British artist to paint floral still lifes in the twentieth century. In his work, he often combined modern hybrid exotic flowers with traditional English flowers and herbs, with plants that were depicted on their canvases by the old masters.

He knew a lot about flowers, and his use of white in many still lifes reflects trends in 20th-century gardening. Cecil Kennedy's paintings can be found all over the world - in royal, corporate and private collections.

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Anne-Francois-Louis Janmot

(French, 1814-1892)

PortraitureReligious from auctions and museums

"Flower of the Fields" (Lyon Museum of Fine Arts)

Anne-François-Louis Yanmot (21 May 1814 – 1 June 1892) was a French artist and poet at the time of the rise of France's first emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte.
Janmot was seen as a transitional figure between Romanticism and Symbolism, a prototype of the French part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; his work was admired by Pouvy de Chavannes, Odilon Redon and Maurice Denis.

In the paintings of Louis Janmot, Ingres' impeccable finishing was combined with a mysticism that had parallels in the work of his Nazirite and Pre-Raphaelite contemporaries.
The Pre-Raphaelites drew inspiration from the works of Perugino, Fra Angelico, Giovanni Bellini and other Florentine artists of the early Renaissance, who worked “before Raphael” and Michelangelo. They were dissatisfied with the conventions of the Victorian era, academic traditions and blind imitation of the classics.

Self-portrait, 1832 (Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon)

Louis Janmot was born in Lyon, France, into a Catholic family who were deeply religious. The death of his brother (1823) and the death of his sister (1829) left a deep imprint on the boy’s soul.
Louis Janmot became a student at the Royal College of Lyon, where he met Frédéric Ozanam and other followers of his philosophy, Abbé Noirot.
In 1831, Louis Janmot was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, and a year later he received its highest award, the Golden Laurel. In 1833, Louis Janmot came to Paris to take painting lessons from Victor Orcel and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Together with other artists of Lyon, he joined the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1835 he went to Rome with Claudius Laverne, Jean-Baptiste Fresne and other students and met Hippolyte Flandrin.

After his return to Lyon in 1836, Louis Janmot would attract the attention of the critics at the Salon of Paris by producing large-scale paintings with religious inspiration, such as The Resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Nain (1839) or Christ in Gethsemane (1840).
After 1845, he attracted the interest of Charles Baudelaire with his painting Flower of the Fields, which allowed him access to the 1846 Salon.