Kruisafneming – Decent From The Cross
Kruisafneming (Decent From The Cross) by Valentine Green (1739 – 1813) c1800, after a painting by Italian-English Painter Maria Hadfield (1760 – 1838)
A powerful scene that depicts the anguish of Mary Magdalene the mother of Jezus and two of his followers who are holding his lifeless body that is laying on Mary’s lap after Jesus was taken down from the Cross; as Mary cast her gaze and open arms to the heavens.
With dark clouds looming above the faith a light is cast upon the faithful from the heavens above.
Kruisafneming is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
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Valentine was a British mezzotinter engraver and print publisher who trained under British engraver Rober Hancock (1730 – 1817) of Worcester, Ingelân.
He first started his career in the solicitor’s office at Evesham; in posysje dy't syn heit foar him krigen hie; mar nei twa jier besleat hy it juridyske berop te ferlitten en yn 'e keunst te gean, learling wurde fan Robert Hancock.
Yn 1765 hy ferhuze nei Londen en begûn te wurkjen as mezzotint graveur, fluch opstean nei in posysje as in top tier Britske graveur.
Yn 1767 waard hy lid fan de Incorporated Society of Artists, en in associate graveur fan de Royal Academy yn 1775 en foar de folgjende 40 jierren grut súkses as graveur.
Maria Cosway; waard berne Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Hadfield op 1760 yn Florence Itaalje oan de Ingelsen Charles Hadfield in súksesfol herberch te Livorno, Itaalje, en wa't leauden wie in ynwenner fan Shrewsbury, Ingelân en in Italjaanske mem.
Se wie ien fan de acht bern, en fan iere leeftyd wylst hy studearre oan in roomsk-katolyk kleaster; displayed a talent for art.
Maria and three of her siblings, brothers Richard and George, and a younger sister Charlotte survived into adulthood; but her other siblings were murdered by a deranged nursemaid that claimed she was sending them to heaven.
Maria’s brother George Hadfield became an architect and designed Arlington House in Virginia, USA; which was later was owned by the American Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
When Maria was in Florence she studied under Italian Painter Violante Cerroti (Violante Beatrice Siries 1709 – 1783) and German Neoclassical Painter Johann Zoffany (1733 – 1810).
For a five year period from 1773 nei 1778 Maria copied the artwork of the Old Masters at the gallery of Uffizi; and for her work was elected to the Academia del Disegno in Florence in 1778, and during this period also traveled to Rome where she studied under Italian Painter Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708 – 1787); she also studied under Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 – 1779), Henry Fuseli (1741 – 1825), and Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 – 1797).
With the help of Angelica Kauffman (1741 – 1807), Maria exhibited her art for the first time in 1781, presenting three works – Rinaldo, Creusa appearing to Aeneas (engraved in mezzotint by V. Green), and Like patience on a monument smiling at grief. Hadfield went on to gain success as a painter of mythological scenes.[9][failed verification]
Maria became a successful painter, composer, musician and society hostess along with her husband celebrated miniature portrait painter Richard Cosway (1741 – 1821); whom she married in 1781.