Two exhibits run through this weekend at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach

This is the final week to view two exhibitions at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.

“Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucian Freud” and “Eduard Angeli: Cities on Water” will be on display through Sunday.

Here’s what you need to know about each exhibit.

‘Contemplating Character’

This exhibit includes 80 works on paper by notable portrait artists from Europe and America, from the 18th century to the present day. The works examine how artists grapple with the challenge of portraying a person’s physical appearance while capturing their personality as well.

There are seven thematic sections to the exhibit:

∙ Artists’ self-portraits

∙ Images of family and friends

∙ Portraits of artists

∙ Anonymous subjects

∙ Scenes of drama and imagination

∙ Portraits of celebrities and other notable figures

∙ Death portraits

Artists in the exhibition include Aubrey Beardsley, George Wesley Bellows, Pierre Bonnard, William Merritt Chase, R. Crumb, Edgar Degas, Alfred Hitchcock, Thomas Lawrence, Maximilien Luce, Adolf von Menzel and Eìdouard Vuillard.

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The portraits come from the collection of Robert Flynn Johnson, curator emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, who curated graphic art for more than four decades.

‘Eduard Angeli’

This is Angeli’s first U.S. solo exhibit, curated by Society of the Four Arts President and Chief Executive Philip Rylands.

Angeli has lived in and painted a number of locations, including Istanbul, Turkey; St. Petersburg, Russia; and Venice, Italy. The 18 large works in the exhibit includes paintings from each of these three locations.

"Eduard Angeli is a landscape painter. His preferred medium is charcoal drawing. His motifs are derived from nature, but do not copy it,” Rylands said.

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“Instead, they convey ‘ideas’ or realities beyond appearances: ideas that Descartes would classify as ‘accidental’ and which, when we look at his works, evoke in us uncanny sensations and impressions. Angeli's works connect to the expressive and representational forms of 19th century symbolism and the ‘metaphysical’ painting of Giorgio de Chirico. In particular, his somber, deserted scenes, reflecting what commentators on the art of Edward Hopper call 'the loneliness thing', express a delicious, sentimental melancholy, just like de Chirico's paintings."

If you go

Where: The Esther B. O’Keeffe Building, 102 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach

When: 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday

Tour and lectures: Docents provide free 45-minute tours at 11 a.m. Wednesday and Saturday

Cost: $10; free for Four Arts members and children ages 14 and younger. Tickets may be purchased online or by phone in advance, or at the door.

Information: 561-655-7226, www.fourarts.org

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Two exhibits nearing end at Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach