Fernande Olivier Fernande Olivier Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 26 January 1966) was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him. Picasso painted over 60 portraits of Olivier. Olivier was born of an out-of-wedlock relationship between her mother and a married man. She was raised by an aunt and uncle, who attempted to arrange a marriage for her. Instead, Olivier ran away and married a man who abused her. In 1900, when she was 19 years old, she left her
Joseph H. Davis (painter) (e.g. musical instruments, inkwells, books, etc.) used to characterize the personalities portrayed, suggesting their professions and showing off their life styles. He is "best known for his double portraits of married couples" facing each other across a table, which endows the interiority of his work with an explicitly Romantic quality. Joseph H. Davis (painter) Joseph H. Davis (active 1832–1837) was an itinerant American portrait painter. Over a period of only five years, from 1832–37, the itinerant artist Joseph H. Davis painted about 150 watercolor portraits of residents of Maine and New Hampshire. The body of work he left behind is