Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage
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Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage
''Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage'' is an 1834 history painting by the British artist David Wilkie. It is held in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. History and description It depicts a scene in 1485 at the La Rábida Friary in Huelva when the explorer Christopher Columbus sets out his plans to reach Asia by sailing westwards. Departing seven years later he was instead to land in the Americas, a major moment in the Age of Discovery. It is also known by the longer title ''Christopher Columbus in the Convent of La Rabida Explaining His Intended Voyage''. Wilkie had visited Spain in the late 1820s, where he had met and befriended the American author Washington Irving. The painting was inspired by a passage from Irving's biography of Christopher Columbus. Having failed in an attempt to gain backing in Portugal for his planned voyage, Columbus arrived in Spain with his young son Diego to seek patronage. The support and backing from ...
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David Wilkie (artist)
Sir David Wilkie (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his genre scenes. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes, portraits, including formal royal ones, and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East. His main base was in London, but he died and was buried at sea, off Gibraltar, returning from his first trip to the Middle East. He was sometimes known as the "people's painter". He was Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria. Apart from royal portraits, his best-known painting today is probably '' The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch'' of 1822 in Apsley House. Early life David Wilkie was born in Pitlessie Fife in Scotland on 18 November 1785. He was the son of the parish minister of Cults, Fife. Caroline Wilkie was a relative. He developed a love for art at an early age. In 1799, after he had attended school at Pitlessie, Kingske ...
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Diego Columbus
Diego Columbus (; ; ; 1479/1480 – February 23, 1526) was a navigator and explorer under the Kings of Castile and Aragón. He served as the 2nd Admiral of the Indies, 2nd Viceroy of the Indies and 4th Governor of the Indies as a vassal to the Kings of Castile and Aragón. He was the eldest son of Christopher Columbus and his wife Filipa Moniz Perestrelo. He was born in Portugal, either in Porto Santo in 1479 or 1480, or in Lisbon in 1474. He spent most of his adult life trying to regain the titles and privileges granted to his father for his explorations and then denied in 1500. He was greatly aided in this goal by his marriage to María de Toledo y Rojas, niece of the 2nd Duke of Alba, who was the cousin of King Ferdinand. Early life Diego was made a page at the Spanish court in 1492, the year his father embarked on his first voyage. Diego had a younger half-brother, Fernando, by Beatriz Enríquez de Arana. Diego Columbus was taught by Christopher Columbus's mistre ...
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Royal Academy Exhibition Of 1835
The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1835 was an art exhibition held at Somerset House in London between 4 May and 18 July 1835. It was sixty seventh annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. The exhibition took place during the reign of William IV of the United Kingdom, William on the cusp of the Victorian era. The President of the Royal Academy, the Irish artist Martin Archer Shee, exhibited a Portrait of William IV (Archer Shee), a portrait of the king. The celebrated landscape painter John Constable featured a single entry ''The Valley Farm'', a view of a scene near Flatford in Constable Country although it received poor comparisons to earlier pictures he had produced of the same scene. His rival J.M.W. Turner displayed a range of paintings amongst which was ''Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight'', a view of the River Tyne at Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle. Turner also submitted his ''The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons'' depicting the Burning of P ...
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