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Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695 - 1736) - France (Valenciennes)
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Jean-Baptiste Pater (December 29, 1695 – July 25, 1736) was a French rococo painter. Born in Valenciennes, Pater was the son of sculptor Antoine Pater and studied under him before becoming a student of painter Jean-Baptiste Guide. Pater then moved to Paris, briefly becoming a pupil of Antoine Watteau in 1713. Watteau, despite treating Pater badly, ...... |
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Alessandro Magnasco (1667 - 1749) - Italy (Genoa)
Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes. Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and ...... |
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Charles Antoine Coypel (1694 - 1752) - France (Paris)
Charles-Antoine Coypel (11 July 1694 – 15 June 1752) was a French painter, art commentator, and playwright. He lived in Paris. He was the son of the artist Antoine Coypel and grandson of Noël Coypel. Charles-Antoine inherited his father’s design and painting duties as premier peintre du roi (First Painter to the King) at the French court when his f...... |
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Carlo Cignani (1628 - 1719) - Italy (Bologna)
Carlo Cignani (15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well as those of Simone Cantarini. This gentle manner marked a break with the more energetic style of earlier Bo...... |
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Adélaide Labille Guiard (1749 - 1803) - France (Paris)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (11 April 1749 – 24 April 1803), also known as Adélaïde Labille-Guiard des Vertus, was a French miniaturist and portrait painter. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was born in Paris, the youngest of eight children, to a bourgeois family. Her father, the haberdasher Claude-Edme Labille, owned a shop named 'A La Toilette' situated in th...... |
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Jean Baptist Isabey (1767 - 1855) - France (Nancy)
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (11 April 1767 – 18 April 1855) was a French painter born at Nancy. At the age of nineteen, after some lessons from Dumont, miniature painter to Marie Antoinette, he became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Employed at Versailles on portraits of the dukes of Angoulême and Berry, he was given a commission by the queen, which opens...... |
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Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin (1686 - 1755) - France (Saint-Dié-Des-Vosges)
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. Jean-Baptiste Oudry was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Oudry, a painter and art dealer, and his wife Nicole Papillon, relative...... |
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Asmus Jakob Carstens (1754 - 1798) - Germany (Sanct Jürgen)
Asmus Jacob Carstens (or "Jakob", May 10, 1754 – May 25, 1798) was a Danish-German painter, one of the most committed artists of German Neoclassicism. His career was erratic, partly because of his difficult personality, and the majority of his large projects were left incomplete, or subsequently destroyed. Much of what survives is in the form of dr...... |
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Ralph Earl (1751 - 1801) - United States (Shrewsbury)
Ralph Earl (May 11, 1751 – August 16, 1801) was an American painter known for his portraits, of which at least 183 can be documented. He also painted six landscapes, including a panorama display of Niagara Falls. Ralph Earl was born in either Shrewsbury or Leicester, Massachusetts. By 1774, he was working in New Haven, Connecticut as a portrait pai...... |
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Charles Joseph Natoire (1700 - 1777) - France (Nimes)
Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 – 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751–1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Boucher, he played a prominent role in the artistic life of France. He is remembered above all for the series of the...... |
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Adriaen Van Der Werff (1659 - 1722) - Netherlands (Kralingen)
Adriaen van der Werff (21 January 1659 – 12 November 1722) was an accomplished Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. His brother, Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722), was his principal pupil and assistant. At the age of ten he started to take lessons, two years later moving in with Eglon van der Neer, specializing ...... |
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George Morland (1763 - 1804) - United Kingdom (London)
George Morland (26 June 1763 in London – 29 October 1804 in Brighton) was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes. George Morland was born in London on 26 June 1763. He was the son of Henry Robert Morland, and grandson of George Henry Morland, said by Cunningham to have been lineally descended from Sir Samuel Morland, while other biographer...... |
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Joseph Parrocel (1646 - 1704) - France (Brignoles)
Joseph Parrocel (3 October 1646 – 1 March 1704) was a French Baroque painter, best known for his paintings and drawings of battle scenes. He was born in Brignoles, into an artistic family that produced fourteen painters over six generations. His grandfather Georges Parrocel (1540- ca. 1614) (no surviving works) and his father Barthélemy Parrocel (1...... |
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Balthasar Permoser (1651 - 1732) - Austria (Salzburg)
Balthasar Permoser (13 August 1651 – 18 February 1732) was among the leading sculptors of his generation, whose evolving working styles spanned the late Baroque and early Rococo. Permoser was born in Kammer bei Waging, Salzburg, today a part of the Bavarian town of Traunstein. He was trained first in Salzburg, in the workshop of Wolf Weißenkirchner...... |
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Giuseppe Castiglione (1688 - 1766) - Italy (Milan)
Giuseppe Castiglione, S.J. (simplified Chinese: 郎世宁 traditional Chinese: 郎世寧 pinyin: Lángshìníng) (19 July 1688 – 17 July 1766), was an Italian Jesuit lay brother and a missionary in China, where he served as an artist at the imperial court of three emperors – the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors. He painted in a style that is a fusion of Eu...... |
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Gabriel Grupello (1644 - 1730) - Germany (Grammont)
Gabriël Grupello (also Gabriël de Grupello or Gabriël Reppeli 22 May 1644 – 20 June 1730) was a Flemish Baroque sculptor who produced religious and mythological sculptures, portraits and public sculptures. He was a virtuoso sculptor who enjoyed the patronage of several European rulers. Grupello was born as the son of Bernardo Rupelli, an Italian ca...... |
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Giovanni Antonio Fumiani (1645 - 1710) - Italy (Venice)
Giovanni Antonio Fumiani (1645–1710) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Venice in 1645, he trained in Bologna under Domenico degli Ambrogi, a specialist in quadratura, but by 1668 he was back in Venice, where he painted a Virgin and Saints in San Benedetto. He was influenced by Ludovico Carracci and Alessandro Tiarini, and soon a...... |
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Daniel Gran (1694 - 1757) - Italy (Vienna)
Daniel Gran (22 May 1694 in Vienna – 16 April 1757 in Sankt Pölten), was an Austrian painter. His pictures ornament several public buildings in his native city. He was of some consideration in his time and after a century of Italian dominance one of the first important painters of the German-speaking countries, but his works are relatively unknown ...... |
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Willem Van Mieris (1662 - 1747) - Netherlands (Leiden)
Willem van Mieris (3 June 1662 – 26 January 1747) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Willem van Mieris was a painter, sculptor and etcher active in Leiden. He studied under his father Frans van Mieris I (1635-1682), who was a successful genre painter. Willem had a reasonably successful career, being supported by a few patron...... |
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Jean Antoine Houdon (1741 - 1828) - France (Versailles)
Jean-Antoine Houdon (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃n‿ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]) (25 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-09), Jean-Jacques Rousse...... |
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Jean Ii Restout (1692 - 1768) - France (Rouen)
Jean II Restout (26 March 1692 – 1 January 1768) was a French painter, whose late baroque classicism rendered his altarpieces, such as the Death of Saint Scholastica an "isolated achievement" that ran counter to his rococo contemporaries. Jean Restout was born in Rouen, the son of Jean I Restout and Marie M. Jouvenet, sister and pupil of the then w...... |
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Sebastiano Bombelli (1635 - 1719) - Italy (Udine)
Sebastiano Bombelli (1635 – 7 May 1719) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Venice, during the Baroque period. Bombelli was born in Udine, where he was apprenticed to his father, Valentino Bombelli, and his godfather, Girolamo Lugaro. He is claimed by some to have studied with Guercino. He is best known for his full-length portraits of the Ven...... |
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Ivan Petrovich Argunov (1729 - 1802) - Russia (St. Petersburg)
Ivan Petrovich Argunov (Russian: Иван Петрович Аргунов) (1729–1802) was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting. He was a serf belonging to Count Sheremetev and had grown up in the family of his uncle, Semyon Mikhaylovich Argunov, who was a steward of princess Cherkassky and later a majordomo for count Sher...... |
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Houel Jean Pierre (1735 - 1813) - France (Rouen)
Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houël (28 June 1735 – 14 November 1813) was a French painter, engraver and draftsman. During his long life Houël witnessed the reign of Louis XV, the French Revolution, and the period of Napoleon's First Empire. He was born at Rouen into a family of prosperous artisans, who sent him to the city's drawing academy when he wa...... |
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Arthur William Devis (1712 - 1787) - United Kingdom (London)
Arthur William Devis (10 August 1762 – 11 February 1822) was an English painter of history paintings and portraits. He painted portraits and historical subjects, sixty-five of which he exhibited (1779–1821) at the Royal Academy. Among his more famous works are a depiction of the Death of Nelson and a posthumous portrait of Nelson. Devis was born in...... |
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Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio) (1639 - 1709) -
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista), was an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand illusionistic vault frescos in the Church of the Gesù in Rome, Italy. His work was influenced by Gian Lorenzo B...... |
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Jean Baptiste Perronneau (1715 - 1783) - Netherlands (Amsterdam)
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (c. 1715 – 19 November 1783) was a French painter who specialized in portraits executed in pastels. Perronneau was born in Paris. He began his career as an engraver, apparently studying with Laurent Cars, whose portrait he drew, and working for the entrepreneurial printseller Gabriel Huquier, rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, makin...... |
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Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1762 - 1844) - Italy (Milan)
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (16 June 1762 – 24 August 1844) was an itinerant Italian painter of frescoes, landscapes, vedute, capriccios and some religious works. He was born in Palmanova. When he was still a boy, his family moved to Brescia, where he saw the works of Girolamo Romani and decided to become a painter. Later, his family moved again, to ...... |
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Domenico Piola (1627 - 1703) - Italy (Genova)
Domenico Piola (1627 – 8 April 1703) was a Genoese painter of the Baroque period. He was the leading artist in Genoa in the second half of the 17th century, working on ceiling frescoes for many Genoese churches and palaces and canvas paintings for private collectors. His family studio was highly prolific. He was a frequent collaborator with other a...... |
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Anton Von Maron (1733 - 1808) - Austria (Vienna)
Anton von Maron (January 8, 1733 – March 3, 1808) was an Austrian painter, active in Rome. Von Maron was born in Vienna, but moved at a young age to Rome. There, he studied under Anton Raphael Mengs, and became an accomplished portrait painter. He married a sister of Mengs, Therese Maron, who was a painter in her own right. He lived the rest of his...... |
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Jacob Van Oost (1637 - 1713) - Belgium (Bruges)
Jacob van Oost the Younger (1639, in Bruges – 1713, in Bruges), was a Flemish Baroque painter. According to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, he was a pupil of his father Jacob sr. and brother to the painter Willem. He is known for portraits and genre works. More...... |
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Claude Iii Audran (1658 - 1734) - France (Lyon)
Claude Audran III (August 5, 1658 – May 27, 1734) was a French painter. Audran was born in Lyon into a family of artists. He lived with his uncle, Claude Audran the Younger. Painter to the Louis XIV of France in 1699. From 1700-1701 he took part in the decoration of the Menagerie of Versailles and the Chapels of Versailles, and the Palace of Fontai...... |
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Caspar Van Wittel (1653 - 1736) -
Caspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel (born Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel, Italian name variations: Gaspare Vanvitelli [ˈɡaspare vaɱviˈtɛlli], Gasparo degli Occhiali [ˈɡasparo deʎʎ okˈkjaːli] 1652 or 1653, Amersfoort – September 13, 1736, Rome) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman who had a long career in Rome. He played a pivotal role in the develop...... |
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Giovanna Fratellini (1666 - 1731) - Italy (Florence)
Giovanna Fratellini (1666 – 1731) was a Florentine artist during the Baroque period. Born in Florence as Giovanna Marrmocchini Cortesi, she married Guiliano Fratellini in 1685 and changed her name to Fratellini. This well-born woman pastellist was a lady-in-waiting to Vittoria della Rovere, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. She was trained in painting ...... |
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Martin Knoller (1725 - 1804) - Austria (Steinach Am Brenner)
Martin Knoller (18 November 1725 – 24 July 1804) was an Austrian-Italian painter active in Italy who is remembered for his fresco work. Born in Steinach am Brenner near the Austrian city of Innsbruck, Knoller studied under Paul Troger and Michelangelo Unterberger in Salzburg and Vienna. Specializing in frescoes and altarpiece paintings, his first f...... |
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Benedetto Gennari (1633 - 1715) - Italy (Cento)
Benedetto Gennari II (October 19, 1633 – December 9, 1715) was an Italian painter active during the Baroque period. Belonging to a dynasty of painters, Gennari was a student of Guercino, the grandson of Benedetto Gennari, and older brother of Cesare Gennari. His father was Ercole Gennari and mother Lucia Barbieri. He trained at the workshop of the ...... |
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Alessandro Marchesini (1644 - 1738) - Italy
Alessandro Marchesini (30 April 1664 – 27 January 1738) was an Italian painter and art merchant of the late-Baroque and Rococo, active in Northern Italy and Venice. He first trained in Verona with Biagio Falcieri and then with Antonio Calza. He then moved to Bologna, to work in the studio of Carlo Cignani. He is described as gaining fame for his al...... |
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785) - Italy (Florence)
Giovanni Battista Cipriani RA (1727 – 14 December 1785) was an Italian painter and engraver, who lived in England from 1755. He is also called Giuseppe Cipriani by some authors. Much of his work consisted of designs for prints, many of which were engraved by his friend Francesco Bartolozzi. Cipriani was born in Florence. His family were originally ...... |
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Benjamin Wilson (1721 - 1788) - United Kingdom
Benjamin Wilson (June 21, 1721 – June 6, 1788) was an English painter, printmaker and scientist (natural philosopher). He was the 14th child of Major Wilson, a wealthy York clothier whose house was decorated by the French history painter, Jacques Parmentier (d 1730). His father's business failed and Wilson moved to London, where he became a legal c...... |
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Robert Jacques François Lefèvre (1755 - 1830) -
Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre (24 September 1755 in Bayeux – 3 October 1830 in Paris) was a French painter of portraits, history paintings and religious paintings. He was heavily influenced by Jacques-Louis David and his style is reminiscent of the antique. Robert Lefèvre made his first drawings on the papers of a procureur to whom his fath...... |
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Thomas Malton Junior (1748 - 1804) - United Kingdom (London)
Thomas Malton (1748 – 7 March 1804), "the younger", was an English painter of topographical and architectural views, and an engraver. J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Girtin were amongst his pupils. He is designated "the younger" to differentiate him from his father Thomas Malton, the elder. Malton was born in London, the son of Thomas Malton the elder (...... |
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François Verdier (1651 - 1730) - France (Paris)
François-Alexandre Verdier (c. 1651 - 1730) was French painter, draftsman and engraver. He was a student and assistant of Charles Le Brun. François-Alexandre Verdier was born in Paris around 1651. He studied under Charles Le Brun. In 1668 he was awarded the 1st prize in drawing at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. From 1668 to 1671 he li...... |
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Matthijs Naiveu (1647 - 1726) - Netherlands (Leiden)
Matthys or Matthijs Naiveu (16 April 1647, Leiden – 4 June 1726, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken he was trained in drawing by Abraham Toorenvliet (1620–1692), a glass painter and drawing instructor (and father of Jacob Toorenvliet), and he learned the art of painting from Gerrit Dou. At the time Houbraken was writ...... |
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Balthasar Denner (1685 - 1749) - Germany (Altona)
Balthasar Denner (15 November 1685 – 14 April 1749) was a German painter, highly regarded as a portraitist. He painted mostly half-length and head-and-shoulders portraits and a few group portraits of families in interiors. Usually Denner concentrated on the face clothes and paraphernalia were done by other painters or later his daughter. His chief ...... |
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Jan Van Huchtenburgh (1647 - 1733) -
J(oh)an and Jacob van Huchtenburg (Hughtenburg or Hugtenburg(h)) were two Dutch Golden Age painters in the second half of the seventeenth century. Both brothers were natives of Haarlem, moved to Paris, but died in Amsterdam. The main source about their lives is from Arnold Houbraken. Some of the information from the 19th century is contradictive. J...... |
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Luigi Ademollo (1764 - 1849) - Italy (Milan)
Luigi Ademollo (April 30, 1764 – February 11, 1849) was an Italian painter. He was born in Milan. He studied at the Brera Academy, where he was taught by Giulio Traballesi, Giocondo Albertolli, and Giuseppe Piermarini. He left Milan in 1783 and traveled and worked in Rome and Florence. He married Margaret Cimballi Ferrara in Rome in 1792 and had se...... |
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Antonio González Velázquez (1723 - 1793) -
Antonio González Velázquez (1723–1793), was a Spanish late-Baroque painter. Velázquez was born in Madrid into a family of artists his father Pablo González Velázquez and brothers Alejandro and Luis were all painters. He received a scholarship to travel to Rome in 1747 from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando where he was studying unde...... |
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Thomas Barker (1769 - 1847) - United States (Pontypool)
Thomas Barker (1769 – 11 December 1847), (known as 'Barker of Bath,') was a British painter of landscape and rural life. Barker was born in 1769, at Trosnant near the village of Pontypool, in Monmouthshire. His father, Benjamin Barker, was the son of a barrister, and practiced as an artist, but never attempted more than the portraits of horses. He ...... |
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Anton Maria Ii Zanetti (1706 - 1778) - Italy (Venezia)
Count Anton[io] Maria Zanetti (1679–1757) was a Venetian artist, engraver, art critic, art dealer and connoisseur. He formed a collection of engraved gems, of which he published a lavish catalogue. Zanetti spent his early manhood making wise investments in marine insurance, accumulating sufficient capital to support his true vocation, as a writer a...... |
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Gustavus Hesselius (1682 - 1755) - Sweden (Folkärna)
Gustavus Hesselius (1682 – May 25, 1755) was a Swedish born painter who emigrated to the New World in 1711. He was the father of painter John Hesselius and cousin of the religious leader Emanuel Swedenborg. Hesselius left his home country of Sweden for Wilmington, Delaware in 1711. There he lived until 1717 when he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvan...... |
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Thomas Daniell (1749 - 1840) -
Thomas Daniell RA (1749 – 19 March 1840) was an English landscape painter. He spent seven years in India, accompanied by his nephew William, also an artist, and published several series of aquatints of the country. Thomas Daniell was born in 1749 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. His father was the landlord of the Swan Inn at Chertsey (where he was ...... |
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Mather Brown (1761 - 1831) - United States (Boston)
Mather Brown (baptized October 11, 1761 – May 25, 1831) was a portrait and historical painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts, but active in England. Brown was the son of Gawen and Elizabeth (Byles) Brown, and descended from the Rev. Increase Mather on his mother's side. He was taught by his aunt and around 1773 (age 12) became a pupil of Gilbert St...... |
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Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1687 - 1771) -
Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1687–1771) was an Italian painter of rustic landscapes with farms, villas and graceful figures and capricci of ruins and views of towns in the Veneto. He was born in Salò on Lake Garda, not far from Brescia. He studied under Antonio Aureggio and later in Bologna with the landscape painter Antonio Calza, before moving to ...... |
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Nicolas Pineau (1684 - 1754) - France (Paris)
Nicolas Pineau (1684–1754) was a French carver and ornamental designer, one of the leaders who initiated the exuberant asymmetrical phase of the high Rococo. He worked in St. Petersburg and Paris. Pineau, the son of the carver Jean-Baptiste Pineau (died 1694), who appears in the Bâtiments du Roi accounts for Versailles and elsewhere from 1680, was ...... |
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Joseph Nollekens (1737 - 1823) - United Kingdom (Soho)
Joseph Nollekens R.A. (11 August 1737 – 23 April 1823) was a sculptor from London generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century. Nollekens was born on 11 August 1737 at 28 Dean Street, Soho, London, the son of the Flemish painter Josef Frans Nollekens (1702–1748) who had moved from Antwerp to London in 1733. He stu...... |
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Antoine Berjon (1754 - 1843) - France (St Pierre De Vaise)
Antoine Berjon (17 May 1754 – 24 October 1843) was a French painter and designer, among the most important flower painters of 19th-century France. He worked in a variety of media including oil, pastel, watercolour, and ink. Berjon was born in St Pierre de Vaise, a commune of Lyon, to the son of a butcher, and he first studied drawing with the local...... |
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Pierre Alexandre Aveline (1702 - 1760) - France (Paris)
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (1702–1760) was a French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker. Aveline was born in Paris into a family of artists, including his father Pierre Aveline and brother Antoine Aveline. In 1737 he joined the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) in Paris. He primarily worked ...... |
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Jonathan Richardson The Elder (1667 - 1745) -
Jonathan Richardson (London 12 January 1667 – 28 May 1745 London) sometimes called "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son (Jonathan Richardson the Younger) was an English artist, collector of drawings, and writer on art, working almost entirely as a portrait-painter in London. He was considered by some art-critics as one of the three foremost ...... |
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Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (1654 - 1727) -
Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (10 March 1654 – 8 September 1727), also known simply as Giuseppe Chiari, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mostly in Rome. Born in Rome, he was one of the main assistants, along with Giuseppe Passeri and Andrea Procaccini, in the studio of an elder Carlo Maratta. His father had opposed the career,...... |
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John Pine (1690 - 1756) - United Kingdom (Maywood)
John Pine (1690–1756) was an English designer, engraver, and cartographer notable for his artistic contribution to the Augustan style and Newtonian scientific paradigm that flourished during the British Enlightenment. Little is known of Pine’s parents or ancestry. Biographical sketches frequently refer to him as black or of African ancestry, especi...... |
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Stefano Pozzi (1699 - 1768) -
Stefano Pozzi (9 November 1699 (1707?) — 11 June 1768) was an Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator whose career was spent largely in Rome. Born in Rome, he was one of four artist sons of his father, an innkeeper: Rocco (1701–74) was an engraver, with whom Stefano worked on occasion Andrea (1718–69), a carver in ivory Giuseppe (1723–...... |
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George Arnald (1763 - 1841) -
George Arnald ARA (1763 – 21 November 1841) was a British painter who specialised in landscapes, including topographical views to illustrated county histories. He is best known for his celebrated painting depicting the Battle of the Nile. George Arnald was born in 1763. One account places his birth in the village of Farndip (now Farndish) in Northa...... |
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Apollonio Domenichini (Maestro Della Fondazione Langmatt) (1715 - 1770) - Italy (Venice)
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Marie Guillemine Benoist (Marie Guillemine De Laville Leroux) (1768 - 1826) - France (Paris)
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Arthur Pond (1701 - 1758) -
Arthur Pond (1705?–1758 London) was an English painter and engraver. Born about 1705, was educated in London, and stayed for a time in Rome studying art, in company with the sculptor Roubiliac. He became a successful portrait-painter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1752, and died in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 9 Septe...... |
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George Frost (1754 - 1821) -
George Frost (1754–1821) was an English landscape painter who lived in Ipswich, Suffolk. Frost was the son of a builder at Ousden in Suffolk, and was originally brought up to his father's business. He subsequently obtained a post in the office of the Blue Coach at Ipswich where he worked until about eight years before his death. Frost had a natural...... |
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Winthrop Chandler (1747 - 1790) -
Winthrop Chandler (6 April 1747 – 9 July 1790) was an American artist known for his portraits, mainly of family members and neighbors, and a few landscapes. He also worked as an ornamental artist. Chandler was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. He was the son of William Chandler, a farmer, and Jemima Bradbury Chandler of Woodstock, CT. After his fathe...... |
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Benjamin Vandergucht (1753 - 1794) -
Benjamin Vandergucht or Van der Gucht (1753–1794) was a picture-dealer, restorer and painter. He was the thirty-second child of Gerard Vandergucht the engraver, and one of twins. He studied drawing in St Martin's Lane Academy, and on the foundation of the Royal Academy he became one of the first students in its schools. Vandergucht became better kn...... |
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