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The road (1870) by Camille Pissarro

Coughton Court from the East

Artist: Allen Edward Everitt (English, 1824-1882)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Watercolour

Collection: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

by ursu.1971

Temple of Apollo, Stourhead, Wiltshire, UK

by Chanita Sykes

Yesterday I visited the Penates - the house of Russian painter Ilya Repin. It stands surrounded by pine forest, and the Bay of Finland is a 5 minute walk from the house.

The wooden house is very Russian style with little roofs and multiple terraces and enamel fireplaces in every room. There's a large studio on the second floor with large windows and skylights to allow as much natural light in as possible.

Repin was a very prolific painter and a huge name in his day, but also a bit of an eccentric. He always slept in a small unheated terrace, even through the winter. Him and his wife were vegetarian and practiced no-help dinner parties (with no servants at the door or the table). His weekly dinner parties on Wednesdays were attended by a multitude of artists, musicians, scientists. He was friends with Gorky, Mayakovsky, Chukovsky, Tolstoy, Yesenin etc. etc.

(Last picture: Ilya Repin paints opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin in his studio, 1914.)

The Bridge House, Perthshire

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City clock in Auxerre, Burgundy region of France

French vintage postcard

Azure Grotto, Naples (1841) by Ivan Aivazovsky