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- Title: Short Bio of Pieter Aertsen (1508/09-1575)
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- Aertsen was the head of a long dynasty of painters, of whom the most
- Title: Short Bio of Albrecht Altdorfer
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- personal. Most of his paintings are religious works, but he was one of
- Title: Short Bio of Altichiero (active 1372-84)
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- Most of his surviving work is in Padua, where he had a hand in fresco cycles
- Title: Short Bio of Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55)
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- was in touch with the most advanced developments in contemporary
- But even in the most lavishly decorative of them all the
- For most of his career Angelico was based in S. Domenico in Fiesole
- (he became Prior there in 1450), but his most famous works were painted
- Perugia, and most importantly in Rome, where he frescoed the private
- Minerva, where his tombstone still exists. His most important pupil was
- Vasari, who referred to Fra Giovanni as a simple and most holy man',
- Title: Short Bio of Zacharie Astruc (1833-1907)
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- was receiving recognition as a sculptor, his most popular
- Title: Short Bio of Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634)
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- Dutch painter, active in Kampen, the most famous exponent of the winter
- Title: Short Bio of Hans Baldung
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- His most characteristic paintings, however, are fairly small in scale erotic
- Title: Short Bio of Federico Barocci (c. 1535-1612)
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- Barocci is generally considered the greatest and most individual painter of
- Title: Short Bio of Jacopo Bassano (1553-1613)
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- the most celebrated member of a family of artists who took their name from
- Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Bellini (1430?-1516)
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- viewer can tell not only the season of the year but also almost the hour of
- Title: Short Bio of William Blake (1757-1827)
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- The most famous of Blake's lyrical poems is
- England's great figures of art and literature and one of the most inspired
- Title: Short Bio of Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Moriano Filipepi, 1444/5-1510)
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- Although he was one of the most individual
- The most original
- Title: Short Bio of François Boucher (1703-1770)
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- with the painter François Le Moyne but was most influenced by the
- considered him the most fashionable painter of his day. Examples of
- Title: Short Bio of Marie Bracquemond
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- he produced are among the most innovative of the century.
- Title: Short Bio of Agnolo Bronzino
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- painter to Duke Cosimo I de Medici for most of his career, and his work
- almost insolent assurance.
- Bronzino was also a poet, and his most personal portraits are perhaps
- of S. Lorenzo (S. Lorenzo, Florence, 1569), in which almost every one
- Title: Short Bio of Pieter Bruegel (about 1525-69)
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- painter of the 16th century, is by far the most important member of the
- Italy in 1551 or 1552, completing a number of paintings, mostly landscapes,
- Title: Short Bio of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-89)
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- as one of the most successful and influential academic painters of the
- Title: Short Bio of Gustave Caillebotte
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- works in a more realistic style than that of his friends. Caillebotte's most
- Title: Short Bio of Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
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- Venetian painter, the most famous view-painter of the 18th century.
- precise handling characteristics that mark most of his later work.
- Title: Short Bio of Alonso Cano (1601-67)
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- cathedral (1667), one of the boldest and most original works of
- Title: Short Bio of Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610)
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- (1573-1610). Probably the most revolutionary artist of his time,
- Title: Short Bio of Antoine Caron
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- painting. His style is characterized most obviously by extremely elongated,
- Title: Short Bio of Carracci (1557-1602)
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- test of a painter's ability and the most suitable vehicle for painting
- overcome by melancholia and gave up painting almost entirely after 1606.
- and Jacopo Bassano. His most fruitful period was
- of an almost Expressionist force, such as
- Title: Short Bio of Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
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- techniques, and her work in this area must count amongst the most
- Title: Short Bio of Pietro Cavallini (active 1273-1308)
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- and a fragmentary fresco cycle, the most important part of which is a
- Title: Short Bio of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
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- art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his
- Title: Short Bio of William Chase
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- most important American teacher of his generation. He taught at the Art
- Title: Short Bio of Théodore Chassériau (1819-56)
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- He was the most gifted pupil of
- these were almost completely destroyed by fire. There are other examples
- Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Cima
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- Venice. His paintings are mostly quiet devotional scenes, often in landscape
- Title: Short Bio of Clouet
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- c.1460. Almost nothing is known for certain of his life and works. The
- mistress of Charles IX. A number of drawings, mostly in the Musée Condé,
- Title: Short Bio of John Constable (1776-1837)
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- For his most ambitious works six-footers as he called them he
- Title: Short Bio of Joseph Cornell (1903-72)
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- American sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of
- Title: Short Bio of Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
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- Correggio as one of the boldest and most inventive artists of the
- dome painting (one of the most important successors,
- Title: Short Bio of Piero Cosimo
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- is one of Vasari's most entertaining biographies, for he portrays Piero
- scene of the utmost pathos and tenderness. He was a marvellous painter
- is one of his most memorable creations. Piero also painted portraits, the
- Title: Short Bio of Lucas Cranach (1472-1553)
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- and most original works. They include portraits, notably those of
- Title: Short Bio of Jasper Cropsey
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- and painted whenever he could. Cropsey mostly painted landscapes, copied
- Title: Short Bio of Cuyp
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- Aelbert Cuyp (1620-91) is the most famous member of the family
- and now one of the most celebrated of all landscape painters, although
- have virtually abandoned painting. He was almost forgotten for two generations
- Title: Short Bio of Edward d'Ancona
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- Although he was a prolific pin-up artist who produced hundreds of enjoyable images, almost nothing is known about his background. He sometimes signed his paintings with the name "D'Amarie", but his real name appears on numerous calendar prints published from the mid 1930s through the mid 1950s, and perhaps as late as 1960.
- Title: Short Bio of Gerard David
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- Most of his work was of traditional religious themes, but his best-known
- Title: Short Bio of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
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- greatest and most influential of French painters. He is most often classified
- Title: Short Bio of Billy DeVorss
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- While his work does not have the almost photographic quality of Vargas, it is
- his use of colour that make Billy DeVorss's work stand out. He worked almost
- Title: Short Bio of Gustave Doré (1832-83)
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- The most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid 19th
- Title: Short Bio of Dosso Dossi
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- Ferrara, where he spent most of the rest of his career, combining with
- works, portraits, and decorative frescos and is perhaps most important
- Title: Short Bio of Peter Driben
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- was perhaps one of the most productive pin-up artists of
- advertising and for Hollywood, perhaps his most famous work being the
- (usually red, yellow, blue and green), and the fact that most of the girl's
- Title: Short Bio of Thomas Eakins
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- Eakins is regarded by most critics as the outstanding American painter
- Title: Short Bio of Adam Elsheimer
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- by which he has deprived the world of the most beautiful things'; he also
- Title: Short Bio of Jan Eyck
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- painting. His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and
- Title: Short Bio of Master Flémalle (active 1406-44)
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- for Daret was Campin's pupil and Rogier almost certainly was.
- and dramatic force of the figures. The most famous work associated with
- Title: Short Bio of Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
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- French painter whose scenes of frivolity and gallantry are among the most
- in 1767 and almost all his work was done for private patrons. Among them was
- Mme du Barry, Louis XV's most beautiful mistress, for whom he painted the
- characterization, and spontaneous brushwork ensured that even his most
- Title: Short Bio of Lucian Freud
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- a formidable reputation as one of the most powerful contemporary figurative
- set him apart from the sober tradition characteristic of most British
- Title: Short Bio of Caspar Friedrich
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- mysticism. In 1808 he exhibited one of his most controversial paintings, The
- Title: Short Bio of Pearl Frush
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- calendars of her work, however she soon became one of the most successful
- Title: Short Bio of Henry Fuseli
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- me almost spew'. Fuseli's extensive writings on art include Lectures
- Title: Short Bio of Thomas Gainsborough
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- and fancy pictures, one of the most individual geniuses in British art.
- small portrait groups in landscape settings which are the most lyrical
- seen at its most characteristic in full-length portraits (Mary, Countess
- of van Dyck (his admiration is most clear in The
- and unlike most of his contemporaries he never employed a drapery painter.
- Title: Short Bio of Aert Gelder
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- last pupils in Amsterdam. He was not only one of the most talented of Rembrandt's
- pupils, but also one of his most devoted followers, for he was the only
- Title: Short Bio of Gentile (c. 1370-1427)
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- Italian art centers and was recognized as one of the foremost artists
- of his day, but most of the work on which his great contemporary reputation
- Title: Short Bio of Domenico Ghirlandaio
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- craftsman and good businessman and had one of the most prosperous workshops
- His most famous pupil, however, was Michelangelo.
- Title: Short Bio of Luca Giordano
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- Giordano, Luca (1634-1705). Neapolitan painter, the most important
- Title: Short Bio of Francisco Goya
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- factory in Madrid. This was the most important period in his artistic
- Title: Short Bio of El Greco (1541-1614)
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- Title: Short Bio of Antoine-Jean Gros
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- are among the most stirring images of the Napoleonic era. Compared to the
- Title: Short Bio of Matthias Grünewald (his real name was Mathis Neithart, otherwise Gothart, 1470/80-1528)
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- Grünewald was to develop into the masterful, individualistic style most
- Title: Short Bio of Francesco Guardi
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- next to Canaletto he is the most celebrated
- Title: Short Bio of Willem Heda
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- active in Haarlem. He and Pieter Claesz. are the most important representatives
- (d. 1702) was his most important pupil.
- Title: Short Bio of Jan Heem
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- Antwerp, became a citizen of that city in 1637, and spent most of his very
- which he is most renowned and are very different in spirit from his earlier
- Title: Short Bio of Nicholas Hilliard
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- Hilliard, Nicholas (1547-1619). The most celebrated of English
- Title: Short Bio of Meindert Hobbema
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- to have painted only in his spare time. His most famous work, however,
- Title: Short Bio of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
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- Hokusai's most typical wood-block prints, silkscreens,
- developed into a series of spirals that imparted the utmost freedom
- Title: Short Bio of Ron Kitaj
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- has been one of the most prominent figures of the Pop art movement.
- Title: Short Bio of Paul Klee
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- Klee's early works are mostly etchings and pen-and-ink drawings. These
- Title: Short Bio of Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716)
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- Sunrise in the Salon d'Apollon are his most
- Title: Short Bio of Nicolas Largillière (1656-1746)
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- the wealthy middle classes. Most artists of his time took as their
- Title: Short Bio of Charles Le (1619-90)
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- or supervised the production of most of the paintings, sculptures, and
- Among the most outstanding of his works for the king were the
- Title: Short Bio of Earl MacPherson
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- almost immediately after leaving his schooling, painting the portrait
- Title: Short Bio of Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935)
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- the most important pioneer of geometric
- Title: Short Bio of Franz Marc
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- as its dramatis personae a collection of animals, most notably a
- thirty-six, but not before he had created some of the most exciting
- Title: Short Bio of Simone Martini (circa 1280-1344)
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- most original and influential artists of the Sienese school. Simone
- Title: Short Bio of Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
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- artist often regarded as the most important French painter of the 20th century.
- completed some of his most exciting paintings. In 1941 Matisse was
- the beautiful and produced some of the most powerful beauty ever painted.
- Title: Short Bio of Hans Memling (1430?-94)
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- craftsmanship. Unlike most artists, his style varied little throughout his
- Title: Short Bio of Jean-François Millet (1814-75)
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- those who most clearly helped to create the Barbizon School.
- compared with most of his predecessors and, indeed, his
- Title: Short Bio of Earl Moran
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- Bigelow. One of his most famous models whilst in Hollywood was the young
- 40's and oil on canvasboard in the 50's, he most commonly worked in pastels.
- Title: Short Bio of Berthe Morisot
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- brother-in-law in 1874 and was the most important single influence on the
- development of her style. Unlike most of the other impressionists, who were
- are generally considered the most important women painters of
- Title: Short Bio of Rowena Morrill
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- Rowena Morrill is unquestionably the most significant female fantasy painter in the world today.
- Title: Short Bio of Bartolomé Murillo (1617-82)
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- date on most of his paintings, these changes in his style are often used to
- Title: Short Bio of GeorgePetty
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- and most respected of the pin-up artists. Petty was born in Abbeville,
- Title: Short Bio of Ludovic Piette (1826-77)
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- during a period when his works were almost indistinguishable
- Title: Short Bio of Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
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- trouble, his later years were his most prolific. The Parisian and
- Title: Short Bio of Pierre Puvis (1824-98)
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- The foremost French mural painter of the second half of the 19th
- Title: Short Bio of Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
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- Paris, and until he was in his fifties he worked almost exclusively in
- Title: Short Bio of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
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- the basis for some of Rodin's most influential and powerful work. In 1884 he
- Title: Short Bio of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
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- French painter, the most celebrated of
- Title: Short Bio of Peter Rubens
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- 30, 1640 was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is
- now widely recognized as one of the foremost painters in Western art history.
- by injecting into his works a lusty exuberance and almost frenetic energy.
- A love of monumental forms and dynamic effects is most readily apparent in
- his most famous assistants were
- Title: Short Bio of John Sargent (1856-1925)
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- he came to know most of them, and they reacted to his work in varying
- Title: Short Bio of Egon Schiele
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- d. Oct. 31, 1918, was at odds with art critics and society for most of his
- Title: Short Bio of Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
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- for most of this section.
- Title: Short Bio of Joshua Shaw
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- area admired for its natural beauty. There is an almost identical
- Title: Short Bio of Yves Tanguy (1900-55)
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- in 1940 and becoming an American citizen in 1948. Tanguy's most
- Title: Short Bio of James Tissot
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- His pictures are distinguished most obviously by his love of painting
- Title: Short Bio of Jesse Trevino
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- Hospital has become a San Antonio landmark. But tragedy almost deprived
- Title: Short Bio of Joseph Turner (1775-1851)
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- English watercolor landscape painting. Some of his most famous works are
- Title: Short Bio of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
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- from common life, called genre pictures. Most of them, however, are portraits
- wedding of the Infanta Maria Theresa to Louis XIV of France. This was a most
- Velasquez was called the "noblest and most commanding man among the
- Title: Short Bio of Jan Vermeer
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- Dutch genre painter who lived and worked in Delft, created some of the most
- Title: Short Bio of Leonardo (c.1485-1532)
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- Mona Lisa (1503-06) are among the most
- Title: Short Bio of James Whistler (1834-1903)
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- soon afterwards his most famous work,
- Title: Short Bio of Joseph Wright
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- date from 1763 to 1773; the most
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