Guess the Artist

Your clues this week are:

• The artist was a Romantic who associated with The Ancients, and was active through most of the 19-century.
• Because the artist received almost no formal training, the artist's style is now described as original, unique, and ahead of its time.
• There was never one day in the artist's life that money wasn't an issue.

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• The artist's father-in-law was also a painter ... a very successful painter who had been trained by Benjamin West. So successful, in fact, that he enjoyed a rivalry with John Constable, and counted William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley as friends. Now, you might think that a fellow artist would be sympathetic to a painter who was just starting out. You might even think that Mr. Successful, being family and all, would put in a good word and send a bit of business to the artist who sorely needed it. I thought that, too, but I was wrong. It turns out that the father-in-law never missed an opportunity to rub the younger painter's nose in it.

Please email me your guesses over the coming week. I'll post the winner and correct answer with next week's guessing game. Good luck!

Last Week's Answer:

Last week's clues fooled no one. The artist was Alfred Stevens and please note: that would be Alfred-Émile-Léopold-Victor Stevens (1823-1906) the Belgian painter, not Alfred George Stevens (1817-1875) the English sculptor. The painting is titled A Duchess (The Blue Dress) (ca. 1866). Michaela had the correct answer in by 6:30 AM EDT, which is some kind of record. Way to make those fingers fly, Michaela, and many thanks to everyone else who played!