French Baroque Era Painter, ca.1594-1632 Related Paintings of VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE :. | The Fortune Teller (mk05) | Le jugement de Salomon | Card-sharpers at | Die Falschspieler | Christ Driving the Money Changers out of the Temple kjh | Related Artists:
Lower Rhenish Schoolearly fifteenth century
Rudolf Swoboda1859 - 1914
was a 19th-century Austrian painter, born in Vienna. He studied under Leopold Carl M??ller, and voyaged with him to Egypt in 1880. He was a well-known Orientalist. In 1886, Queen Victoria commissioned Swoboda to paint several of a group of Indian artisans who had been brought to Windsor as part of the Golden Jubilee preparations. Victoria liked the resulting paintings so much that she paid Swoboda's way to India to paint more of her Indian subjects.Swoboda painted many of the ordinary people of India in a grouping of small (no more than eight inches high) paintings which resulted. While in India, he stayed, part of the time, with John Lockwood Kipling, and met his son Rudyard Kipling. The younger Kipling was unimpressed with Swoboda, writing to a friend about two "Austrian maniacs" who thought they were "almighty" artists aiming to "embrace the whole blazing East".Upon his return from India, he also painted (in 1888 and 1889) two portraits of Abdul Karim,
WITHOOS, MathiasDutch painter (b. 1627, Amersfoort, d. 1703, Hoorn).
