Abbott H Thayer

The waterlilies painting is bordering on landscape painting, but it's still, sort of, a still life.

Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher.

Fantin-Latour

Peonies

Arnoldus Bloemers

(Dutch, 1786-1844)

Lilacs, Peonies, Tulips, Roses, Irises and other Flowers with Fruit and a Bird's Nest on a Marble Ledge.

32½ x 28¾ in. (82.5 x 73 cm.)

Cornelis Kick

Frederick Judd Waugh

Still Life Peonies 26.5 x 37 inches

The American painter, Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940), was best known for his seascapes. He had an impeccable sense of composition.

Hermitage Museum

Works from the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg:
Fantin-Latour
Jean Francois van Dael, details
Van Huysum

Egon Schiele

Field of Flowers

Johan Laurentz Jensen - Danish

detail

Simon Luttichuys

Luttichuys was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

The subdued palette, consisting of interesting greys, browns and whites, and the composition with its central glass, is restful to the eye.

Interesting greys can be made by mixing colours which are opposite on the colour wheel. If the colours are incompletely mixed, with suggestions of the constituent pigments visible, then the greys become vibrant and alive. A subdued palette does not have to be a dead one. The absence of bright colours in this case allows the painting to showcase the subtle play of light on various objects: reflective metal, transparent glass, absorptive cloth.

Olga Sugorova