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Nathaniel Sichel, (German, 1843-1907)

The sorceress 

Oil on canvas

31 x 52in (78.7 x 132cm)

Private collection

Nathaniel Sichel's artistic career began at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, where he was trained in the academic tradition by Julius Schrader. He continued his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux arts where he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1864 with a painting entitled Joseph explains the dreams of the Pharaoh. This work solidified his reputation as a painter of Orientalist and historical subjects. Among these, he is mostly known for his depictions of Oriental beauties, dressed in opulent costumes and adorned with gold coins and jewelry.

One of the finest examples of Sichel's work is evident in The sorceress; here, the artist composed a picture of female figures in a Moorish setting, dressed in sensuous and dramatic attire. The artist's depiction of the Eastern world is skillfully executed with varied patterns in the architecture, décor, carpets, and textiles, emphasized by his superior draftsmanship and adept brushwork. More on Nathaniel Sichel

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Henri Frédéric Schopin, (German, 1804-1881)

The halt of the caravan 

Oil on canvas

22 1/8 x 31 7/8in (56 x 81cm)

Private collection

Henri Frédéric Schopin was born in 1804 in the north-German city of Lübeck to French parents. His father was the sculptor Jean-Louis-Théodore Chopin, of whom very little is known. Young Henri entered the studio of Antoine-Jean Gros and at the same time followed courses at the École des beaux-arts between 1821-1831, which allowed him to compete for the Prix de Rome. He won this competition in 1831 and subsequently spent the allocated four years in Rome painting after the old masters and preparing for his debut Salon exhibition of 1835.

During his long and distinguished career, Schopin painted elaborate allegorical and historcal paintings, often referencing current events, such as Divorce entre Napoléon et Joséphine (Malmaison), Le Divorce de Joséphine (Wallace Collection) and Bataille de Hohenlinden (Versailles). A great number of his paintings were engraved by Jean Pierre Marie Jazet. More on Henri Frédéric Schopin

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Jean-François Portaels, (Belgian, 1818-1895)

The tambourine player in repose, c. between 1840 and 1895

Oil on cradled panel

31 x 40in (78.8 x 101.6cm)

Private collection

Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels (3 April 1818 – 8 February 1895) was a Belgian painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and orientalist subjects. He was also a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He is regarded as the founder of the Belgian Orientalist school. He was praised in his time as the premier painter of 'everyday elegance and feminine grace'. Through his art, teaching and his leadership of the Académie Royale in Brussels he exerted an important influence on the next generation of Belgian artists.

Portaels traveled extensively on a five-year excursion through Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Spain, Greece, Hungary  More on Jean-François Portaels

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Eugène Delacroix

Collision of Arab Horsemen, c. 1833/34

Oil on canvas

31 11/16 × 39 9/16 inches

Private collection

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action.

However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible." MoreFerdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix

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Arnulf de Bouche, (German, 1872–1945)

Aegypterin, c. 1913

Oil on canvas

64 x 54.3 cm. (25.2 x 21.4 in.)

Private collection

Arnulf De Bouche 1872-1945 (German)  was the son of the glass painter Karl de Bouché (1845-1920), he received his first painting lessons from his father, then from November 2, 1863, studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Gabriel von Hackl and Paul Hoecker. 

In 1901 he exhibited his works in the Munich Glass Palace, in 1914 he took part in the Great BerlinArt Exhibition. 

The main theme of his work were women's acts, often in the Orient milieu, and the names of the depicted women were marked by oriental eroticism. 

Some of his works are in the collections of German museums, For example, the self-portrait of 1912 in the Stadtmuseum Nürnberg, but most of the pictures are in private collections. More on Arnulf De Bouche

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Frederick Arthur Bridgman, (AMERICAN, 1847-1928) 

THE FRUIT SELLER, 1926 

Oil on canvas

18 x 21 3/4 in.

Private collection

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 - 1928) was an American artist, born in Tuskegee, Alabama. The son of a physician, Bridgman would become one of the United States' most well-known and well-regarded painters and become known as one of the world's most talented "Orientalist" painters. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for the American Bank Note Company in 1864-1865, and studied art in the same years at the Brooklyn Art Association and at the National Academy of Design; but he went to Paris in 1866 and became a pupil of Jean-Leon Gerome. Paris then became his headquarters. A trip to Egypt in 1873-1874 resulted in pictures of the East that attracted immediate attention, and his large and important composition, The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile, in the Paris Salon (1877), bought by James Gordon Bennett, brought him the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Other paintings by him were An American Circus in Normandy, Procession of the Bull Apis (now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), and a Rumanian Lady (in the Temple collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). More on Frederick Arthur Bridgman

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Maher Morcos, United States

The Belly dancer 

Oil on Canvas

48 H x 36 W x 1.1 in

Private collection

Orientalism is a term that is used for the depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern cultures. It refers to the works of the Western artists on Oriental subjects, produced from their travels in Western Asia, during the 19th century. Depictions of Islamic "Moors" and "Turks" can be found in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art. A creative apprehension of a completely different world with its own laws, customs, special attitude towards life and death, love, feelings, and beauty. Wikipedia/Yana Naumovna Lukashevskaya

Belly dance, also referred to as Arabic dance. Raqs sharqi, is an Arabic expressive dance which originated in Egypt and that emphasizes complex movements of the torso. It has evolved to take many different forms depending on the country and region, both in costume and dance style.

In common with most folk dances, there is no universal naming scheme for belly dance movements. Some dancers and dance schools have developed their own naming schemes, but none of these is universally recognized. More on Belly dance

Maher Morcos. From his evocative illumination of the female form, to the enchanting imagery of North America , Europe and the exotic mystery of the Middle East, resulting in the greatest masterpieces of our time... He holds two degrees. One in fine arts, and a degree in architecture. The Artist has also pursued his passionate dream of becoming an accomplished saxophone player.

Morcos has been widely published; won innumerable awards, and is represented in the finest corporate and private collections throughout the world. He has clearly earned his position amongst the worlds most accomplished artists. More on Maher Morcos

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