Artist: John Opie (1761 - 1807)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
John Opie displayed artistic talent at a young age and was first discovered by John Wolcot. In 1781, Wolcot started Opie’s career in London, marketing him as a naïve genius under the nickname, “The Cornish Wonder.” Opie painted portraits and other paintings in a style similar to that of Rembrandt. His later work was uninspired and repetitive. In 1805, he became a professor of painting at the Royal Academy and his lectures were published in 1909 after his death. Opie also produced history paintings for Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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John Opie, Shakespeare - Romeo & Juliet - Act IV, Scene V., 18th - 19th century
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John Opie, Shakespeare - Timon of Athens - Act IV, Scene III, 18th - 19th century
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Miss Walker John Opie (British, 1761-1807)Oil on canvas; 29 7/8 x 24 7/8 in. (75.9
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior, John Opie, 18th - 19th century
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John Opie, Shakespeare - Part two of King Henry the Sixth - Act I ,SceneIV, 18th - 19th century
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John Opie, Shakespeare - First Part of King Henry the Sixth - Act II, Scene III., 18th - 19th century
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Catherine Opie - RV Trip 1998 chromogenic print Miami Art Museum American
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John Kay, John Campbell of Blythewood, 1784
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John Steuart Curry - John Brown 1938 Lithograph Arkansas Arts Center American
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John Wollaston - John Stevens c. 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. John Greene 1769 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Vanderlyn - John Sudam 1829-1830 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - John Gray 1766 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - John Greene c. 1769 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
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John Smibert, John Nelson, 1732
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John Smibert - Mrs. John Pitts 1735 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Durand - John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Hoppner - John Granville 1790-95 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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John Frazee - John Marshall 1834-35 marble Boston Athenaeum American
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John Durand - Mrs. John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Johnston - John Peck c. 1795 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Willson Peale - Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr. 1790 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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John Smith, John Duke of Marlborough, 1705
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John Smith, Sir John Percival Bart, 1704
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John Stuart Curry, John Brown, 1939
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John B. Neagle, William Helmuth (or John Henry Helmuth), 1834
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John Singleton Copley - Portrait of John Scollay 1764 black and white chal Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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John R. Johnston - Mrs. John R. Johnston before 1857 salted paper print f Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - The Honorable John Erving c. 1774 oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man, Said to Be John Durham, ca. 1790 John Barry (British, active
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: artist unknown Title: Tapestry Fragment of Virgin and St. John Date: about 1520 -
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John Faber the Younger, St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, 1754
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John Wesley Jarvis - Commodore John Rodgers c. 1814 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Colonel John Montresor c. 1771 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
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John Sartain, John Calvin, 19th century
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John Smith, John Lambert the Elder, (after same), 17th - 18th century
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John Trumbull - John Trumbull 1793 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Hall, King John, Act IV, Scene I, 18th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (18)
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Photographer's Gallery: Altered States of America: Catherine Opie
Im kind of a twisted social documentary photographer Catherine Opie shot to prominence in the mid 1990s with a spectacular sequence of Portraits of her close friends within Los Angeles leather community: transvestites, female-to-male tr...
MAK Center for Art and Architecture: TRESPASSING: Houses x Artists
The projects engage the house as subject, investigating its forms, functions and significance while imagining a wide variety of prototypes for living. Presenting renderings, models, video and an interactive installation, the artists and architects...
Tate Britian: Intelligence: New British Art 2000
Intelligence means both information gathering (intelligence as in MI5) and the faculty employed to process information into something new. Many artists today can be seen as intelligence agents at large in society, gathering, siftin...
Tate Modern: Between Cinema and a Hard Place
Ranging from film and video to sculpture, the exhibition features works by the following artists: Miroslaw Balka, Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff and George Bures-Miller, James Coleman, Stan Douglas,...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West
Well-known early photographers such as Carleton E. Watkins, William H. Jackson, and Eadweard Muybridge are represented, along with contemporary photographers including Karen Halverson, Mark Klett, Gus Foster, Robert Dawson, Stuart Klipper, Cath...
Sheffield Galleries and Museum Trust, Graves Art Gallery: Tate Sculpture: The Human Figure in British Art from Moore to Gormley
Tate Sculpture will display 20 major works focussing on the human form, by internationally renowned masters such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, alongside contemporary artists such as Sarah Lucas, Ron Mueck and Antony Gormley. Tate Sculptu...
Wiener Secession, Vereinigung Bildender Künstler: Rita McBride, Secession Tower
McBride's technique can best be compared to transformation and alienation. She assumes that the material of an object is in itself a carrier of meaning. Ignoring the seemingly obvious coupling of form, function and material, Rita McBride works wi...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: Uniform: Order and Disorder
The artists: Adel Abdessemed, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Lina Bertucci, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Chris Burden, Maurizio Ca...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000
Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000 begins at the point at which photographers began to make work that was in part a reaction to this established vocabulary, and at the same time a continuation and extension of its tradition.  The exhibition w...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Open City: Street Photographs since 1950
On the opening day, the exhibition's co-curators--Kerry Brougher, the Hirshhorn's chief curator, and Russell Ferguson, deputy director/chief curator of the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles--will discuss the show in a slide illustrated "Curators' Ta...
Transition: Hans in Transition: Paintings by Hans Scheirl
"For Hans in Transition I plan to create a dynamic between self-portraits from that time and my new work, which is more abstract, more graphic design and comix inspired." "Staging myself as a man and staging myself as a painter is juxtaposed...
Tate Liverpool: Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop
The technique of remixing has been used since the mid 1960s when King Tubby and Lee Perry first started to experiment with Dub music in Kingston, Jamaica. The bringing together and reconfiguring of a wide range of sources is now at the heart of t...
Seattle Art Museum: Only Skin Deep: Photography’s Role in Shaping America’s Identity
The curators Coco Fusco, Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Brian Wallis, ICP’s Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator, explore America’s stereotypical notions of race through more t...
Whitney Museum of American Art: Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000
Curator Sylvia Wolf's selection focuses on artists who live and work in this country. Portraits, landscapes, street photographs, and genre subjects will be featured, including works by Vito Acconci, Diane Arbus, Matthew Barney, Dawoud Bey, Nancy B...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Photography Transformed: Selections from the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company Collection
The exhibition will include large-scale portraits, urban and natural landscapes, and staged works by 54 artists, most working in color media. They in...
Laguna Art Museum: The OsCene: Contemporary Art and Culture in Orange County
In fact, it has been over twenty years since a survey exhibition of contemporary art in Orange County has been organized by a museum (the last major effort being done by Newport Harbor Art Museum in 1979). Tremendous growth and change have occurre...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Arizona State University Art Museum: SITES AROUND THE CITY: ART AND ENVIRONMENT
Citywide project committee is co-managed by Heather Sealy Lineberry and Felicie Regnier. EXHIBITION AT THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM:
The ASU Art Museum's exhibition and catalogue will present the most challenging contemp...

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