The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #148269 Message #3442679
Posted By: JohnInKansas
26-Nov-12 - 06:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Do you know this painting?-Boyhood of Raleigh
Subject: RE: BS: Do you know this painting?-Boyhood of Raleigh
I looked at the "official index of artists" and didn't find Millais at ARC. Maybe their index is just a little out of date (like the search index here(?)).
I didn't try a site search (Google or otherwise) for new items.
When I last spent much time at the site, you could right-click and "save picture" for any of them. They've recently restricted most of the "big images" to members only, even for viewing; but I wasn't feeling sufficiently needy when I found that change to try to find what it takes to be a member. For some time, they've blocked saving/copying images for living artists who've requested it.
They have added (according to their count) about 22,000 images since the last time I went through all of what they had and quit checking for updates. (I did, back then, systematically look at about 48,000 of their images - it took about 3 years part time.) Before the rules changed, I "collected" samples from about 2900 artists - about 9,000 images; but I was "specializing" on researching a particular kind/style of works with no prior knowledge of what artists did the kind I was looking for.
One of their most interesting features is in their pages on winners of their latest competitions. Some very nice work being done; but it's been a couple of years since I've taken a serious look even there.