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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Bukovac was a painter of figures and portraits in oils. He left his native Croatia to study in Paris in 1878. At the École des Beaux Arts he studied under the painter Cabanel, a fashionable portraitist and orientalist. Through his friendship with Samson Fox, the Mayor of Harrogate, Bukovac received many commissions to work in England, but returned to Croatia in the late 1890s, where he became a founder member of the Society of Croatian Painters and was responsible for the building of the Zagreb in 1898. After Samson Fox's death, an auction held in July 1911 of Grove House in Harrogate recorded seventeen paintings by Bukovac. This painting has a great deal of local interest, and is indicative of an interesting conversation, in actual and visual terms, taking place between artist and sitter. | Subjects: | Samson) portrait (Fox | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bukovac, Vlacho (Croatian painter, 1855-1922) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8612... | Go to resource |
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