John Aquilino

View from My Hotel Room, Oil Painting on Canvas

2016

Portrait of the late British artist Francis Bacon. A fairly youthful Bacon sits lost in thought in his studio. I decided to sit him in front of one of his pieces from that era, I l...

Original oil painting on canvas. The sides are always spotless white. This provides a good view of any environment and this makes it possible not to use an additional frame. All pa...

Large dimensional oil painting in pop art - realism style. Story about painting: "Waiting and antipation are inherent in our daily lives. We create ideas about the future in our ...

Moon is my daughter's middle name. I would have preferred it to have been her first name but worried that she might resent it over time. Beautiful milky skin, a tumble of pre-Raph...

This is the third in my serious of paintings of a girl swimmer swinging her wet hair up out of the water with a trail of water flying behind it. :: Painting :...

Portrait of the wonderful Georgia O'Keeffe. I wanted to paint O'Keeffe towards the end of her life, with a beautifully lined face- evidence of a life lived. ...

Ray Richardson is a contemporary British artist known for his cinematic paintings. The artist employs icons of working-class London, including bull terriers, soccer pitches, and grit...

Ray Richardson is a contemporary British artist known for his cinematic paintings. The artist employs icons of working-class London, including bull terriers, soccer pitches, and grit...

Ray Richardson is a contemporary British artist known for his cinematic paintings. The artist employs icons of working-class London, including bull terriers, soccer pitches, and grit...

Ray Richardson is a contemporary British artist known for his cinematic paintings. The artist employs icons of working-class London, including bull terriers, soccer pitches, and grit...

Ray Richardson is a contemporary British artist known for his cinematic paintings. The artist employs icons of working-class London, including bull terriers, soccer pitches, and grit...

An auction at Drouot's in Paris. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Around 1900-1910. René François Xavier Prinet (31 December 1861, Vitry-le-François – 26 January 1946, Bourbonne-les-Bains) was a French painter and illustrator who drew his subjects from middle-class society. He was born to Henri Prinet, an Imperial Prosecutor in Vitry-le-François. A promotion led to him being posted in Paris, where they lived in a home not far from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. His father painted as a hobby and was supportive of his desire to study art, having him seek the advice of Louis Charles Timbal [fr], a well-known church painter and friend of the family. Around 1880, he began his studies in earnest, in the studios of Jean-Léon Gérôme; remaining with him until 1885. That year, his painting "The Infant Jesus" was accepted for display at the Salon. This was followed by studies at the Académie Julian. At this time, he also became associated with a group of young artists known as the Bande Noire (Black Stripe), which included Lucien Simon, André Dauchez...