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• Title: Short Bio of Pieter Aertsen (1508/09-1575)
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  • Netherlandish painter, active in his native Amsterdam and in Antwerp.
  • genre painting, he is best known for scenes that at first glance look
  • Aertsen was the head of a long dynasty of painters, of whom the most
• Title: Short Bio of Albrecht Altdorfer
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  • Altdorfer, Albrecht (c. 1480-1538). German painter and graphic artist
  • personal. Most of his paintings are religious works, but he was one of
  • pure landscape paintings (without any figures) by him are known (National
  • emperor Maximilian and Louis X, Duke of Bavaria, for whom he painted the
• Title: Short Bio of Altichiero (active 1372-84)
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  • Italian painter. He probably came from Zevio near Verona and is sometimes
• Title: Short Bio of Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55)
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  • Florentine painter, a Dominican friar.
  • illuminator, and his early paintings are strongly influenced by
  • (he became Prior there in 1450), but his most famous works were painted
  • assistants painted about fifty frescos in the friary (c.1438-45)
  • fresco painting.
  • and he had considerable influence on Italian painting. His particular
  • The painter has long been called ‘Beato Angelico’ (the Blessed Angelico),
• Title: Short Bio of Rolf Armstrong
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  • the ‘Flapper Girl’, and many of his paintings have a haughty,
  • art deco sophistication to them. Although he carried on painting throughout
• Title: Short Bio of Balthasar Ast (1593/94-1657)
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  • Dutch still-life painter, the brother-in-law of
  • exquisite that Bosschaert's, but his range was wider, his paintings often
• Title: Short Bio of Zacharie Astruc (1833-1907)
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  • Sculptor, painter and art critic, he participated in the first
  • (1879; Musée d'Orsay), and was painted by
• Title: Short Bio of Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634)
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  • Dutch painter, active in Kampen, the most famous exponent of the winter
  • His paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully observed skaters,
• Title: Short Bio of Dirck Baburen
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  • Baburen, Dirck van (c. 1595?-1624). Dutch painter of religious works
  • This picture is seen in the background of two paintings by Vermeer,
• Title: Short Bio of Francis Bacon
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  • 1909-92, English painter; b. Ireland. Self-taught, he expressed the
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Baldung
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  • Baldung Grien, Hans (1484/85-1545). German painter and graphic artist.
  • His most characteristic paintings, however, are fairly small in scale — erotic
• Title: Short Bio of Federico Barocci (c. 1535-1612)
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  • (c. 1535-1612). Italian painter.
  • suggests comes out in his work. It consists mainly of religious paintings,
  • His color harmonies are sharp but subtle and, although his paintings often
  • productive career; he was prolific as a draughtsman as well as a painter
  • Barocci is generally considered the greatest and most individual painter of
  • Italian painter of his period and lamented that he had ‘languished in
• Title: Short Bio of Jacopo Bassano (1553-1613)
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  • Bassano, Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) (c.1510/18 - 1592). Italian painter,
  • the Elder (c.1475-1539), was a village painter and Jacopo always retained
  • way he helped to develop the taste for paintings in which the genre or
  • Bassano had four painter sons who continued his style — Francesco
• Title: Short Bio of Frédéric Bazille (1841-70)
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  • French painter, one of the early
  • with whom he painted out of doors at Fontainebleau and in Normandy.
  • He was, however, primarily a figure painter rather than a landscapist,
• Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Bellini (1430?-1516)
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  • painting, Giovanni Bellini raised Venice to a center of
  • rivaled Florence and Rome. He brought to painting a new degree of realism, a
  • about his family. His father, a painter, was a pupil of one of the leading
  • beginning he was a painter of natural light. In his earliest pictures the sky
  • which is still in the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, was painted
  • of expression. His method of using oil paint brought not only a greater
  • In 1479 Bellini took his brother's place in continuing the painting of
  • painting six or seven new canvases. These, his greatest works, were destroyed
  • painters. His ability to portray outdoor light was so skillful that the
  • the day. Bellini lived to see his own school of painting achieve dominance
  • younger contemporary, the German painter
  • "He is very old, and still he is the best painter of them all."
• Title: Short Bio of Abraham Beyeren
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  • Beyeren, Abraham van (1620/21-90). Dutch painter, little regarded
  • in his day but now considered one of the greatest of still-life painters.
• Title: Short Bio of William Blake (1757-1827)
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  • English poet, painter, engraver; one of the earliest and greatest
  • a hindrance and not action." Thus William Blake — painter, engraver, and
  • and original painters of his time.
  • realization of pain and terror in the universe. This book contains his famous
• Title: Short Bio of Hieronymus Bosch
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  • Late Gothic Painting
  • eccentric painter of religious visions who dealt in particular with the
  • of noble families of the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and they were
  • imitated in a number of paintings and prints throughout the 16th century,
  • painted several altarpieces for the Cathedral of Saint John's, Hertogenbosch,
• Title: Short Bio of Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Moriano Filipepi, 1444/5-1510)
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  • painter whose
  • painters of the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli remained little known
  • apprenticed to a goldsmith. Later he was a pupil of the painter Fra Filippo
  • 1481-82. There he painted wall frescoes in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican.
  • Medici family. He painted portraits of the family and many religious
  • of his paintings are those illustrating Greek and Roman legends. The best
• Title: Short Bio of François Boucher (1703-1770)
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  • (1703-1770), French painter, noted for his pastoral
  • with the painter François Le Moyne but was most influenced by the
  • return to France, he created hundreds of paintings, decorative boudoir
  • Gobelins tapestries. In 1765 he was made first painter to the king,
  • Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. He painted her portrait several
  • considered him the most fashionable painter of his day. Examples of
  • his work are the paintings
• Title: Short Bio of Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)
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  • landscape painters to paint in the open air, directly from nature.
• Title: Short Bio of Adolphe-William Bouguereau (1825-1905)
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  • painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with
• Title: Short Bio of Dirk Bouts
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  • Netherlandish painter, born probably in Haarlem and active mainly in Louvain,
  • where he was city painter from 1468. His major commissions there were the
• Title: Short Bio of Marie Bracquemond
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  • Although his paintings attracted considerable approval at the Salon,
  • and 1880; but as a painter he was never really in sympathy with
  • The paintings of his wife Marie were both a good deal closer to the
  • any criticisms she might venture about his paintings.
  • Palais, Geneva) were painted in her own garden. She was a vocal
• Title: Short Bio of Melchior Broederlam (active 1381-1409)
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  • Netherlandish painter, court painter to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy,
• Title: Short Bio of Agnolo Bronzino
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  • painter, the pupil and adopted son of Pontormo, who introduced his portrait
  • as a child into his painting Joseph in Egypt (National Gallery,
  • and excelled as a portraitist rather than a religious painter. He was court
  • painter to Duke Cosimo I de Medici for most of his career, and his work
  • Florence, c.1560). He was less successful as a religious painter, his lack
• Title: Short Bio of Ford Brown
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  • Brown, Ford Madox (1821-93). English painter.
  • sculptor, for Australia. The other famous anthology piece that Brown painted,
  • later part of his career is a cycle of paintings (1878-93) in Manchester
• Title: Short Bio of Pieter Bruegel (about 1525-69)
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  • family of Flemish painters. He spelled his name Brueghel until 1559, and his
  • painter of the 16th century, is by far the most important member of the
  • Netherlands. Accepted as a master in the Antwerp painters’ guild in 1551, he
  • Italy in 1551 or 1552, completing a number of paintings, mostly landscapes,
  • peasant themes run strongly. His paintings, including his landscapes and
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Burgkmair
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  • Burgkmair, Hans the Elder (1473-1531). German painter and designer
  • to Italy, for his paintings, with their warm glow of color, their decorative
  • a painter and engraver.
• Title: Short Bio of Sir Burne-Jones (1833-1898)
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  • (1833-1898), English painter, designer, and illustrator, born in
  • Pre-Raphaelite painter
  • painting and design. His paintings, inspired by medieval, classical,
• Title: Short Bio of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-89)
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  • (1823-89). French painter.
  • as one of the most successful and influential academic painters of the
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Caillebotte
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  • painter and a generous patron of the
  • Paris that same year. He participated in later shows and painted some 500
  • intriguing paintings are those of the broad, new Parisian boulevards. The
  • boulevards were painted from high vantage points and were populated with
  • Paris). Caillebotte's superb collection of impressionist paintings was left
• Title: Short Bio of Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
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  • Venetian painter, the most famous view-painter of the 18th century.
  • He began work painting theatrical scenery (his father's profession),
  • By 1723 he was painting dramatic and picturesque views of Venice, marked
  • At the same time he began painting the ceremonial and festival subjects
• Title: Short Bio of Alonso Cano (1601-67)
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  • Spanish sculptor, painter, architect, and draughtsman,
  • He studied painting in Seville with
  • painter to the Count-Duke Olivares and was employed by Philip IV to
  • in his later paintings; they are much softer in technique than his earlier
  • Cano's works in painting and sculpture, including a polychrome wooden
• Title: Short Bio of Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610)
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  • the Italian painter Caravaggio abandoned the rules that had guided a century
  • age 11, he was apprenticed to the painter Simone Peterzano of Milan for four
  • as an assistant to painters of lesser skill. About 1595 he began to sell his
  • paintings through a dealer. The dealer brought Caravaggio to the attention of
  • Through the cardinal, Caravaggio was commissioned, at age 24, to paint for
• Title: Short Bio of Antoine Caron
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  • Caron, Antoine (c.1520-c.1600). French Mannerist painter.
  • He is one of the few French painters of his time with a distinctive
  • Fontainebleau under Primaticcio in the 1540s and later became court painter
  • painting. His style is characterized most obviously by extremely elongated,
  • painting of his period is such an obscure area that Caron's name is liable
• Title: Short Bio of Carracci (1557-1602)
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  • Carracci. Family of Bolognese painters, the brothers Agostino
  • painting.
  • supreme masterpieces of painting. It was enormously influential, not only
  • painting. In this sense, Annibale exercised a more profound influence than
  • test of a painter's ability and the most suitable vehicle for painting
  • of painting. Pictures such as Domine, Quo Vadis? (National Gallery,
  • him on the whole language of gesture in painting. He developed landscape
  • painting along similar lines, and is regarded as the father of ideal landscape,
  • overcome by melancholia and gave up painting almost entirely after 1606.
  • the form) and in his early genre paintings, which are remarkable for their
  • and highly personal. Painterly and expressive considerations always outweigh
  • 1585-95, but near the end of his career he still produced remarkable paintings
  • Bolognese painters, who were one of Ruskin's pet hates and whom he considered
  • his place as one of the giants of Italian painting.
• Title: Short Bio of Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
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  • de Beaufresne, near Paris, Fr.), American painter and printmaker who
• Title: Short Bio of Pietro Cavallini (active 1273-1308)
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  • Italian painter and mosaic designer, active mainly in Rome, where he must
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
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  • French painter, one of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, whose
  • conventional values of painting in the 19th century through its
  • insistence on personal expression and on the integrity of the painting
  • itself. He has been called the father of modern painting.
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779)
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  • French painter, one of the
  • Chardin was admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1728
  • In the 1730s, he began to paint scenes of everyday life in
  • Chardin's technical skill gave his paintings an uncannily realistic texture.
  • mastery in these areas unequaled by any other 18th-century painter.
• Title: Short Bio of William Chase
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  • Chase, William Merritt (1849-1916). American painter. He settled
  • the best American painting of the early 20th century owes a good deal to
  • his example. His pupils (whom he encouraged to paint in the open air) included
  • of more than 2000 paintings included still lifes, portraits, interiors,
• Title: Short Bio of Théodore Chassériau (1819-56)
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  • (1819-56). French painter.
  • Chassériau was also an outstanding portraitist and painted nudes and
• Title: Short Bio of Petrus Christus
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  • (d. 1472/73). Netherlandish painter.
• Title: Short Bio of Giovanni Cima
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  • painter, named after the town of his birth, and active mainly in nearby
  • Venice. His paintings are mostly quiet devotional scenes, often in landscape
• Title: Short Bio of Clouet
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  • Clouet. A family of painters descended from Jean Clouet (or
  • evidence. The paintings belong to the school of Flemish naturalism that
  • Jean's son, François (c. 1510-72), succeeded him as court painter
  • (Louvre, Paris, 1562), much more Italianate than any of his father's paintings,
• Title: Short Bio of Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
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  • landscape painter who was a founder of the Hudson River school.
• Title: Short Bio of John Constable (1776-1837)
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  • English painter, ranked with
  • Although he showed an early talent for art and began painting his
  • Ruisdael and the Dutch 17th-century landscape painters.
  • the pictorial conventions of 18th-century landscape painters, who, he said,
  • of the world', and in a then new way he represented in paint the
  • brickwork, I love such things. These scenes made me a painter.’
  • such as Delacroix, on the painters of the
• Title: Short Bio of John Copley (1738-1815)
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  • Generally considered the finest painter
  • of colonial America, John Singleton Copley painted portraits and historical
  • arrived from Ireland. He began to paint in about 1753. His earliest works
  • usually found in 18th-century American painting.
  • who urged him to come to London. He did so in 1774 and painted his
  • there in 1778. In this painting
  • successful, his historical paintings never had the vitality or realism of his
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875)
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  • French painter.
• Title: Short Bio of Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
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  • Italian painter, named after the small town in Emilia where he was born.
  • Little is known of his life, but his paintings suggest under whom he may
  • manner in many of his early paintings indicate that he may have studied
  • paintings of
  • paintings in which Correggio developed the
  • dome painting (one of the most important successors,
• Title: Short Bio of Piero Cosimo
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  • Cosimo, Piero di (c.1462-1521?). Florentine painter, a pupil of
  • cooked while he was boiling his glue, to save the firing'. The paintings
  • 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 Gustave Courbet (1819-77)
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  • (1819-77). The painter Courbet started and dominated the
  • soon decided to study painting and learned by copying the pictures of master
  • countryside and produced one of his greatest paintings,
• Title: Short Bio of Thomas Couture (1815-79)
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  • (1815-79). French historical and portrait painter, a pupil of
  • Like other ‘one-picture painters', his reputation has sunk with that of
  • type of bombastic academic painting, impeccable in every detail and totally
• Title: Short Bio of Lucas Cranach (1472-1553)
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  • (1472-1553). German painter.
  • (he left in 1504), but in his period there he painted some of his finest
  • glade of a German pine forest. It was painted in 1504, just before Cranach
  • went to Wittenberg as court painter to Frederick III (the Wise), Elector
• Title: Short Bio of Jasper Cropsey
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  • His artistic skills improved rapidly as Jasper mimicked whatever paintings,
  • and painted whenever he could. Cropsey mostly painted landscapes, copied
• Title: Short Bio of Cuyp
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  • Cuyp. The name of a family of Dutch painters of Dordrecht, of which
  • Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594-1651/2) was the son of a glass painter
  • as a portrait painter — his portraits of children are particularly fine — but
  • He is noted principally for paintings of biblical and genre scenes which
  • and now one of the most celebrated of all landscape painters, although
  • he also painted many other subjects. He was the son and probably the pupil
  • he also painted views of Westphalia. A prodigious number of pictures are
  • his paintings but rarely dated them, and a satisfactory chronology has
  • Cuyp had several imitators there, and some of the paintings formerly attributed
  • 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.
  • The first company to publish d'Ancona pin-ups, about 1935 to 1937, was Louis F. Dow in St Paul. d'Ancona worked in oil on canvas and his originals from that time usually measured about 30 x 22 inches. His early work is comparable in quality to that of the young Gil Elvgren, who had begun to work for Dow in 1937. Because d'Ancona produced so much work for Dow, one might assume that he was born in Minnesota and lived and worked in the St Paul, Minneapolis area. It is known that he supplied illustrations to the Goes Company in Cincinnati and to several soft-drink firms, which capitalized on his works similarity to the Sundblom/Elvgren style, which was so identified with Coca-Cola. During the 1940s and 1950s, d'Ancona's superb use of primary colors, masterful brushstrokes, and painterly style elevated him to the ranks of the very best artist in pin-up and glamour art. His subject matter at this time resembled Elvgren's. Both enjoyed painting nudes and both employed situation poses a great deal. d'Ancona also painted a fair amount of evening-gown scenes, as did Elvgren, Frahm, and Erbit.
• Title: Short Bio of Honoré Daumier
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  • French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor.
  • but since his death recognition of his qualities as a painter has grown.
• Title: Short Bio of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
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  • French painter, one of the central figures of Neoclassicism.
• Title: Short Bio of Gerard David
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  • (d. 1523). Netherlandish painter.
  • Bruges, where he entered the painters’ guild in 1484 and became the city's
  • important role in the flourishing export trade in paintings that it
  • paintings are probably the pair representing
• Title: Short Bio of Stuart Davis (1894-1964)
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  • (1894-1964). American painter.
  • observed reality: ‘I paint what I see in America, in other words I
  • paint the American Scene.’
• Title: Short Bio of Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
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  • others. He is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and
• Title: Short Bio of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
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  • painter, whose use of colour was
  • Postimpressionist painters. His inspiration came chiefly from
  • greatest and most influential of French painters. He is most often classified
  • painters and even modern artists such as
  • painter Pierre-Narcisse Guerin and began a career that would produce more
  • than 850 paintings and great numbers of drawings, murals, and other works. In
• Title: Short Bio of Alexandre-François Desportes (1661-1743)
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  • painter who specialized in portraying animals, hunts, and emblems of
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Doré (1832-83)
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  • In the 1870s he also took up painting (doing some large and ambitions
• Title: Short Bio of Dosso Dossi
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  • Dossi, Dosso (Giovanni Luteri) (c.1490?-1542). The outstanding painter
  • etc. Dosso painted various kinds of pictures — mythological and religious
• Title: Short Bio of Peter Driben
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  • Driben went on to paint covers for all of Harrisons magazines, often having
• Title: Short Bio of Albrecht Dürer
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  • [Germany] — d. April 6, 1528, Nürnberg), painter and printmaker
  • German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art
• Title: Short Bio of Thomas Eakins
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  • American painter.
  • Eakins is regarded by most critics as the outstanding American painter
• Title: Short Bio of Adam Elsheimer
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  • Elsheimer, Adam (1578-1610). German painter, etcher, and draughtsman,
  • he played a key role in the development of 17th-century landscape painting.
  • into Egypt, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 1609). He painted a few pictures
  • copies of his works. His paintings were engraved by his pupil and patron,
  • (National Gallery, Dublin) made paintings of The Flight into Egypt
• Title: Short Bio of Gil Elvgren
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  • architecture but soon realised that he loved painting more, for this reason
• Title: Short Bio of Jan Eyck
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  • painter who perfected the newly developed technique of oil
  • painting. His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
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  • (1836-1904). French painter and lithographer.
  • He is best known for his luxurious flower pieces, but he also painted several
• Title: Short Bio of Robert Feke
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  • (active 1740s). American Colonial portrait painter.
• Title: Short Bio of Master Flémalle (active 1406-44)
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  • Netherlandish painter named after three paintings in the
  • (active 1406-44), who was the leading painter of his day in Tournai but
  • on the similarity between the Master of Flémalle's paintings and those
  • The hypothesis that the Master of Flémalle's paintings are early works by
  • as one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of painting. None of
  • the paintings given to him is dated — with the exception of the wings of
  • the Master of Mérode. However, the attribution of this painting has also been
• Title: Short Bio of Jean Fouquet (c. 1420-c. 1481)
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  • (c. 1420-c. 1481). The outstanding French painter of the 15th century.
  • when he painted a portrait, now lost, of Pope Eugenius IV. Much has been made
  • the strongly scrulptural character of his painting, which was deeply rooted
• 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
  • at Tivoli, memories of which occur in paintings throughout his career.
  • After his marriage in 1769 he also painted children and family scenes.
  • Mme du Barry, Louis XV's most beautiful mistress, for whom he painted the
  • Fragonard was a prolific painter, but he rarely dated his works and it is not
  • paintings seem to sum up an era. His delicate coloring, witty
• Title: Short Bio of Art Frahm
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  • Frahm, whose commercial art ranged from magazine cover illustration to zany "hobo" calendar paintings, excelled in (and perhaps created) the "ladies in distress" series for the Joseph C. Hoover & Sons calendar company, in which a lovely girl is literally caught with her panties down, her lacy undies slipping to her ankles while she's in the process of bowling, walking the dog or changing a tire.
• Title: Short Bio of Lucian Freud
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  • German-born British painter.
  • painters. Portraits and nudes are his specialities, often observed in
  • arresting close-up. His early work was meticulously painted, so he has
• Title: Short Bio of Caspar Friedrich
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  • The German romantic painter
  • Some of Friedrich's best-known paintings are expressions of a religious
  • mysticism. In 1808 he exhibited one of his most controversial paintings, The
  • fir trees are an allegory of hope. Friedrich painted several other important
  • Even some of Friedrich's apparently nonsymbolic paintings contain inner
  • painter also intended the composition to represent both the church shaken by
• Title: Short Bio of Pearl Frush
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  • Pearl Frush's work was painted primarily in watercolours and gouache,
• Title: Short Bio of Henry Fuseli
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  • Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli) (1741-1825). Swiss-born painter,
  • He was the son of a portrait painter, Johann Caspar Füssli (1707-82),
  • encouraged him to tape up painting, and he spent the years 1770-78 in Italy,
  • throes of a violently erotic dream, this painting shows how far ahead of
  • output; he painted several works for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, and
  • with an exhibition of forty-seven of his own paintings.
  • on Painting (1801) and a translation of Winckelmann's Reflections
  • on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (1765).
• Title: Short Bio of Thomas Gainsborough
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  • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-88). English painter of portraits, landscapes,
  • and in 1752 he set up as a portrait painter at Ipswitch. His work at this
  • time consisted mainly of heads and half-length, but he also painted some
  • were members of Society, and he developed a free and elegant mode of painting
  • and delicate and evanescent colors. He became a favorite painter of the
  • Painter.
  • landscape painting was his pleasure, and he continued to paint landscapes
  • made drawings which he varnished. He also, in later years, painted fancy
  • painting; at Bath his change of portrait style owed much to a close study
  • and unlike most of his contemporaries he never employed a drapery painter.
  • his commissions, writing that ‘painting and punctuality mix like oil and
  • great passion outside painting being music (his friend William Jackson
• Title: Short Bio of (Eugène-Henri-) Gauguin (1848-1903)
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  • French painters of the Postimpressionist period, whose development of
• Title: Short Bio of Aert Gelder
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  • Gelder, Aert de (1645-1727). Dutch painter, active mainly in his
  • religious paintings, in particular, with their imaginative boldness and
• Title: Short Bio of Gentile (c. 1370-1427)
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  • (c. 1370-1427). Italian painter named after his birthplace, Fabriano
  • painted for the church of Sta Trinità in Florence, which places him alongside
• Title: Short Bio of (Jean-Louis-André-) Géricault (1791-1824)
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  • Painter who exerted a seminal influence on the development of
  • whose dramatic paintings reflect his colourful, energetic, and
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Léon Gérôme
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  • Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904). French painter and sculptor. He was
• Title: Short Bio of Domenico Ghirlandaio
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  • Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1449-94). Florentine painter. He trained
  • altarpieces. He also painted portraits, the finest of which is Old Man
  • Raphael and a portrait painter of some distinction.
• Title: Short Bio of Luca Giordano
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  • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705). Neapolitan painter, the most important
  • under the influence of such great decorative painters as Veronese, whose
  • and mythological painter. He worked mainly in Naples, but also extensively
  • he was called to Spain by Charles II and stayed there for 10 years, painting
  • painters as Tiepolo.
• Title: Short Bio of Giotto (c. 1267-1337)
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  • Florentine painter and architect.
  • Outstanding as a painter, sculptor, and architect,
  • a well-known Florentine painter, discovered Giotto's talents. Cimabue
  • much that he was finally allowed to study painting.
  • The earliest of Giotto's known works is a series of frescoes (paintings on
  • animals. In about 1305 and 1306 Giotto painted a notable series of 38
  • and with one continuous stroke painted a perfect circle. He then assured the
  • saw it, he "instantly perceived that Giotto surpassed all other painters of
  • paintings is a portrait of his friend the poet Dante. The Church of Santa
  • knowledge of anatomy and perspective that later painters learned. Yet what he
• Title: Short Bio of Hugo Goes
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  • Goes, Hugo van der (d. 1482). The greatest Netherlandish painter
  • the painters’ guild at Ghent. He had numerous commissions from the town
  • in 1475 he became dean of the painters’ guild. In the same year he entered
  • a priory near Brussels as a lay-brother, but he continued to paint and
  • No paintings by Hugo are signed and his only securely documented work
  • a strong influence on Italian painters with its masterful handling of the
  • (Groeningemuseum, Bruges), a painting of remarkable tension and poignancy
• Title: Short Bio of Vincent Gogh (1853-90)
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  • greatest Dutch painter after
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  • Gonçalves, Nuño (active 1450-71). Portuguese painter, recorded in
  • 1463 as court painter to Alfonso V (1437-81). No works certainly by his
  • the outstanding Portuguese painting of the 15th century. The style is rather
• Title: Short Bio of Francisco Goya
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  • Fuendetodos, Spain — d. April 16, 1828, Bordeaux, Fr.), consummately
  • Spanish artist whose multifarious paintings, drawings, and engravings
  • 19th- and 20th-century painters. The series of etchings
  • the Napoleonic invasion. His masterpieces in painting include
  • For the bold technique of his paintings, the
  • Fuendetodos, a village in northern Spain. The family later moved to
  • apprenticed to Jose Luzan, a local painter. Later he went to Italy to
  • continue his study of art. On returning to Saragossa in 1771, he painted
  • From 1775 to 1792 Goya painted cartoons (designs) for the royal tapestry
  • development. As a tapestry designer, Goya did his first genre paintings, or
  • resulted in a looser, more spontaneous painting technique.
  • established as a portrait painter to the Spanish aristocracy. He was elected
  • to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1780, named painter to the king in
  • 1786, and made a court painter in 1789.
  • Goya served as director of painting at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1797
  • and was appointed first Spanish court painter in 1799. During the Napoleonic
  • as court painter to the French. He expressed his horror of armed conflict in
  • Black Paintings,
  • paintings hang in Madrid's Prado art museum.
• Title: Short Bio of El Greco (1541-1614)
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  • Cretan-born painter, sculptor, and architect who settled in Spain and
  • Domenikos Theotocopoulos; and it was thus that he signed his paintings
  • the Byzantine tradition of icon painting, notably the recently discovered
  • In 1566 he is referred to in a Cretan document as a master painter;
  • but of all the Venetian painters
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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  • Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (1725-1805). French painter. He had a great
  • in paint', and as representing the highest ideal of painting in his day.
  • He also wished to succeed as a history painter, but his Septimius Severus
  • his career he received a commission to paint a portrait of Napoleon (Versailles,
• Title: Short Bio of Antoine-Jean Gros
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  • Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835). French painter. He trained with
  • of Rubens and the great Venetian painters than
  • his official battle painter. He followed Napoleon on his campaigns, and
  • his huge paintings such as The Battle of Eylau (Louvre, Paris, 1808)
  • lies, but they are painted with such dramatic skill and panache that they
  • (although he painted excellent portraits), and haunted by a sense of failure
• Title: Short Bio of Matthias Grünewald (his real name was Mathis Neithart, otherwise Gothart, 1470/80-1528)
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  • Late Gothic Painting
  • painters that also included
  • 13 of his paintings and some drawings survive. His present worldwide
  • (c.1513-15), which was long believed to have been painted
  • Pinakothek, Munich), a colorful, vehemently expressive painting demonstrating
  • his ability to create dazzling light effects. The painting depicts Christ
• Title: Short Bio of Francesco Guardi
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  • Guardi, Francesco (1712-93). Venetian painter, the best-known member
  • view-painter of the 18th century, but he produced work on a great variety
  • in poverty. Recognition of his genius came in the wake of Impressionism, when his vibrant and rapidly painted views were seen as
  • the authorship of paintings representing The Story of Tobit that
  • divided as to whether these brilliant works, painted with brushwork of
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste Guillaumin
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  • Fr. — d. June 26, 1927, Paris), French landscape painter and engraver
• Title: Short Bio of Frans Hals (1582/3-1666)
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  • Dutch painter.
• Title: Short Bio of Willem Heda
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  • Heda, Willem Claesz. (1593/94-1680/82). Dutch still-life painter,
  • of ontbijt (breakfast piece) painting in the Netherlands. His overall
• Title: Short Bio of Jan Heem
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  • Heem, Jan Davidsz. de (1606-83/84). Dutch still-life painter. He
  • productive life there. The paintings he did in Flanders are the ones for
  • painting. His work formed a link between the Dutch and Flemish still-life
  • of painters and his many followers in Flanders and Holland included his
• Title: Short Bio of Velino Shije Herrera
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  • Santa Fe and was started in art by Dr. Edgar L. Hewett. He began painting about
  • 1917 and had a successful studio in Santa Fe in 1932. He was a painting
  • oriole (red bird) and bad egg. This is the name by which he signed paintings.
  • ceased painting in 1950 following a disabling auto accident.
• Title: Short Bio of Nicholas Hilliard
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  • lyne showeth nothing'. But while for Holbein a miniature was always a painting
  • paintings attributed to him are portraits of Elizabeth I in the National
• Title: Short Bio of Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858)
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  • (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker,
  • and he entered the studio of Utagawa Toyohiro, a renowned painter,
• Title: Short Bio of Meindert Hobbema
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  • Hobbema, Meindert (1638-1709). Dutch landscape painter. He worked
  • the majesty of nature. He painted a narrow range of favorite subjects — particularly
  • to have painted only in his spare time. His most famous work, however,
• Title: Short Bio of David Hockney (1937- )
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  • British painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer, and designer.
• Title: Short Bio of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
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  • Japanese painter and wood engraver, born in Edo (now Tokyo).
  • and landscape paintings were done between 1830 and 1840.
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Holbein (1465?-1524)
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  • Holbein, like his brother Sigmund, painted richly colored religious works in
  • the late Gothic style. In addition to the altar paintings that are his
  • paintings show the transition from the late
  • addition he painted pictures and portraits and, like his father, designed
  • painted portraits and murals for the town hall. In 1532 he left his wife and
  • In England, where he became court painter to Henry VIII, Holbein was known
  • chiefly as a painter of portraits. His services were much in demand. The more
  • services at court relates that he painted the portrait of the king, "life
  • and character of the people he painted.
  • sent Holbein to paint her portrait. In 1543 Holbein was in
• Title: Short Bio of Pieter Hooch
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  • Rotterdam, Neth. — d. c. 1684, Amsterdam?), Dutch genre painter of the
• Title: Short Bio of Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
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  • Pre-War American Painting
  • American painter, active mainly in New York.
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
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  • French painter, born at Montauban, the son of a minor painter and
• Title: Short Bio of Johan Jongkind
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  • 1891, Côte-Saint-André, Fr.), painter and printmaker whose small,
• Title: Short Bio of Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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  • creators of pure ab straction in modern painting. After successful
  • painting. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and,
• Title: Short Bio of Ken Kelly
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  • international reputation as one of a handful of master painters of sword
• Title: Short Bio of Anselm Kiefer
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  • (born 1945), German painter, born in Donaueschingen; 1966 left
  • Karlsruhe, Dusseldorf; made huge paintings using symbolic photographic images
  • particularly Nazi period; in 1970s painted series of landscapes that capture
  • rutted, somber German countryside; paintings of 1980s acquired physical
• Title: Short Bio of Ron Kitaj
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  • American painter and graphic artist, active mainly in England, where he
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Klee
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  • A Swiss-born painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gently
  • into his small-scale, delicate paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Klee
  • painter Franz von STUCK. Klee later toured Italy (1901-02), responding
  • exhibited his etchings for the first time. His friendship with the painters
  • this blessed moment. Color and I are one. I am a painter."
  • Klee often incorporated letters and numerals into his paintings, as in
  • reflections on death and war, but his last painting,
• Title: Short Bio of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
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  • The work of the Austrian painter and illustrator
  • founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession,
• Title: Short Bio of Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716)
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  • Fr. — d. Dec. 13, 1716, Paris), painter whose decorative historical and
  • brightly coloured style that presaged the Rococo painting of the 18th
  • The greatest influence on La Fosse's painting was the work of his
• Title: Short Bio of Laurent de La Hire
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  • classical painter
• Title: Short Bio of Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)
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  • genre painter whose brilliant depictions of fêtes galantes, or scenes
• Title: Short Bio of Nicolas Largillière (1656-1746)
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  • historical and portrait painter who excelled in painting likenesses of
• Title: Short Bio of Charles Le (1619-90)
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  • France — d. Feb. 12, 1690, Paris), painter and designer who became the
  • or supervised the production of most of the paintings, sculptures, and
  • French painter and art theorist, the dominant artist of Louis XIV's reign.
  • he was raised to the nobility and named Premier Paintre du roi,
  • he purported to codify the visual expression of the emotions in painting.
• Title: Short Bio of Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
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  • French-born British painter, etcher, and sculptor, now remembered
• Title: Short Bio of Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)
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  • ideal-landscape painting, an art form that seeks to present a view of
• Title: Short Bio of Earl MacPherson
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  • School of Fine Arts he spent several years painting portraits and acting
  • almost immediately after leaving his schooling, painting the portrait
  • MacPherson was working in Hollywood, painting portraits of the Earl
  • despite painting the best selling pinup girl for the Shaw-Barton Calendar
  • Foster ‘How to’ art books: ‘Pinup Art: How to Draw and Paint Beautiful
• Title: Short Bio of Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935)
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  • Russian painter and designer, with
  • abstract geometric patterns in style he called suprematism; taught painting
  • (1926), on his theory; first to exhibit abstract geometric paintings; strove
  • to produce pure, cerebral compositions; famous painting
  • manner, but by 1912 he was painting peasant subjects in a massive
  • as early as 1913, but Suprematist paintings were first made public
  • (There is often difficulty also in knowing which way up his paintings
• Title: Short Bio of Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
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  • French painter and printmaker who in his own work accomplished the
  • painting as the arrangement of paint areas on a canvas over and above
  • young painters who later formed the nucleus of the Impressionists. His
• Title: Short Bio of Andrea Mantegna (1431?-1506)
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  • (1431?-1506). An Italian painter and engraver, Mantegna
  • painted heroic figures, often using a dramatic perspective that gives the
  • is apparent in his art. His paintings helped foster the growing interest in
  • For them Mantegna created some of his greatest paintings. In one famous work,
  • called the Camera degli Sposi (wedding chamber), he painted the walls and
  • On the ceiling a painted dome opens onto a painted sky, with painted men and
  • A series of nine paintings,
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  • and touching paintings of the Expressionist movement.
• Title: Short Bio of Simone Martini (circa 1280-1344)
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  • (circa 1280-1344), Italian painter, who was one of the
  • expression, and serenity of mood. He painted many frescoes,
  • painted altarpiece panels, such as the
• 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.
  • was a born leader and taught and encouraged other painters, while Picasso,
  • styles of painting from
  • completed some of his most exciting paintings. In 1941 Matisse was
  • the beautiful and produced some of the most powerful beauty ever painted.
  • of painting: Picasso destroyed his fear of women in his art, while Matisse
• Title: Short Bio of Hans Memling (1430?-94)
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  • painting, Hans Memling was born in Seligenstadt, near what is today Frankfurt
  • established himself as a painter in Brussels. In style and composition his
  • painter. Because of this, Memling is thought to have studied under the older
  • many other Flemish masters, Memling painted with glowing colors and fine
  • Many of Memling's well-known religious works were painted for the Hospital
  • depicting St. Ursula's journey to Rome, which he painted for the hospital's
  • Memling was a master of portraiture. The faces he painted with careful
  • to the portraits Memling painted for the notables of Brugge, he also received
• Title: Short Bio of Michelangelo (1475-1564)
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  • sculptor, painter, architect, and
  • ‘‘I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.'’
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-François Millet (1814-75)
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  • His paintings on rural themes attracted growing acclaim and between
  • 1858 and 1859 he painted the famous
  • It was he who, on a visit to Le Havre to paint portraits,
  • He never painted out-of-doors, and he had only a limited awareness
• Title: Short Bio of Amedeo Modigliani
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  • During the early 1900s in Paris, the Italian painter and sculptor
  • Paul Cezanne's paintings is
  • After 1915, Modigliani devoted himself entirely to painting, producing
  • figure paintings is a reclining
• Title: Short Bio of Piet Mondrian
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  • development. His reputation rests on about 250 abstract paintings dating from
  • 1917 to 1944, a modest number for over 25 years of work. Each painting was
• Title: Short Bio of Claude Monet (1840-1926)
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  • French painter, initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of
• Title: Short Bio of Earl Moran
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  • artist, along with Peter Driben etc., for Robert Harrison, and indeed painted
  • and comenced painting film stars along with his calendar work for Brown and
  • continued to paint for Brown and Bigelow well into the late fifties before
  • deciding to retire to paint fine art subjects. He signed with Aaron Brothers
  • Galleries and continued to paint for collectors until 1982 when his eyesight
• Title: Short Bio of Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
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  • French painter, one of the leading
  • treated with an extraordinary sensuousness, his paint encrusted and
• Title: Short Bio of Berthe Morisot
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  • The first woman to join the circle of the French impressionist painters,
  • conventional lessons in drawing and painting. She went firmly against
  • are generally considered the most important women painters of
• Title: Short Bio of Rowena Morrill
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  • Rowena began painting at age of twenty-three due to her restlessness as a military wife, but it wasn't long before her painting evolved from a part-time avocation to a full-time occupation. In the course of the next ten years she brought together her diverse experience, vivid imagination, inspiration and talent and developed the style and technique for which she is now so well known.
  • Rowena Morrill is unquestionably the most significant female fantasy painter in the world today.
• Title: Short Bio of Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
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  • Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intense, evocative treatment of
  • painting
• Title: Short Bio of Bartolomé Murillo (1617-82)
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  • (1617-82). An artist whose many religious paintings
  • was the first Spanish painter to achieve renown throughout Europe. In
  • influence can be seen in the paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds and
  • who painted during the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • Spain and in the Spanish colonies in America.
  • In Madrid, Murillo would also have seen paintings by the
  • date on most of his paintings, these changes in his style are often used to
  • determine the order in which he painted them.
  • Among the pictures painted when Murillo was a youth are several
  • and cherubs, that surrounds the central figures. The few portraits he painted
  • In 1681 Murillo was in Cadiz, painting the
  • Among Murillo's well-known paintings are three versions of the
  • St. Anthony of Padua was another of the subjects that he painted
  • several times. Many people like best the series he painted for the Charity
• Title: Short Bio of Pierre Patel (1605-1676)
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  • French landscape painter. He was a pupil of
  • with whose paintings his own have sometimes been confused.
  • (1648-1708), painted in his father's manner.
  • Both men often featured Classical ruins in their paintings,
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  • By the early 20's Petty was working as a freelance artist, painting
• Title: Short Bio of Piero (1420?-92)
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  • Piero della Francesca painted religious works that are
  • studied painting with one of several skilled artists of the Sienese school
  • Piero was skilled in perspective, and his paintings are also known for the
  • Rome. For Count Federigo da Montefeltro he painted a diptych, or two-panel
  • painting, that portrays the count and his wife and was probably done in honor
  • life Piero apparently ceased painting to pursue other interests, including
  • writing. He wrote a treatise on painting and others on geometry and applied
• Title: Short Bio of Ludovic Piette (1826-77)
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  • A landscape-painter, who was a pupil of
  • of Montfoucault in Brittany, and where Pissarro painted a number
  • Around 1870 Piette painted a picture in gouache of Pissarro
  • at work, which later belonged to Camille, the painter's son;
• Title: Short Bio of Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
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  • painter,
• Title: Short Bio of Jackson Pollock (1912-56)
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  • ‘‘On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting,
  • literally ‘in’ the painting.''
  • American painter, the commanding figure of the
  • He began to study painting in 1929 at the Art Students’ League, New York,
  • under the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton.
  • influenced also by the Mexican muralist painters
  • By the mid 1940s he was painting in a completely abstract manner,
  • his canvas to the floor or the wall and poured and dripped his paint from
  • This manner of Action painting had in common with Surrealist theories
  • style of painting which avoids any points of emphasis or identifiable
  • painting had no relation to the shape or size of the canvas — indeed in
  • painting which matured in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
• Title: Short Bio of Pierre Puvis (1824-98)
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  • The foremost French mural painter of the second half of the 19th
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  • painter and architect of the Italian High
  • ‘‘While we may term other works paintings, those of Raphael are living things;
• Title: Short Bio of Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
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  • French painter and graphic artist, one of the outstanding figures of
  • During the 1890s Redon turned to painting and revealed remarkable powers
  • mythological scenes and flower paintings. He showed equal facility in
• Title: Short Bio of Rembrandt (1606-69)
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  • Neth. — d. Oct. 4, 1669, Amsterdam), Dutch painter, draftsman, and
  • paintings are characterized by luxuriant brushwork, rich colour, and a
• Title: Short Bio of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
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  • French painter originally associated with the
  • disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings,
  • painter, born at Limoges. In 1854 he began work as a painter in a
  • He painted with them in the
  • particularly close at this time, and their paintings of the beauty
  • afterwards; the two little girls on the right are painted with the
  • confined to a wheelchair), but he continued to paint until the end
• Title: Short Bio of Dante Rossetti
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  • The poet, painter, and designer
  • PRE-RAPHAELITES, a group of English painters and poets who hoped to bring to
  • Rossetti's first Pre-Raphaelite paintings in oils, based on religious
  • London. Although he won support from John Ruskin, criticism of his paintings
  • love was Rossetti's main theme in both poetry and painting.
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
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  • French painter, the most celebrated of
  • a product of his imagination. He took up painting as a hobby and
  • He tried to paint in the academic manner of such traditionalist artists as
  • (MOMA, New York, 1910). These two paintings are works of great
• Title: Short Bio of Peter Rubens
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  • painter
  • now widely recognized as one of the foremost painters in Western art history.
  • By completing the fusion of the realistic tradition of Flemish painting
  • painting, he fundamentally revitalized and redirected northern European
  • painting.
  • master painter whose aesthetic and religious outlook led him to look to Italy
  • years (1600-08) as court painter to the duke of Mantua, he assimilated the
  • to Spain that had a profound impact on the development of Spanish baroque
  • art. He also spent a considerable amount of time in Rome, where he painted
  • of painting and drawing. A devout Roman Catholic, he imbued his many
  • religious paintings with the emotional tenor of the Counter-Reformation.
  • sharply with the more private and secular paintings of his great Dutch
  • 21-painting cycle (1622-25; Louvre, Paris), chronicling the life of Marie de
  • Medicis, originally painted for the Luxembourg Palace. In order to complete
  • painters’ workshops, in which fully qualified artists executed paintings
  • helped conclude (1629-30) a peace treaty between England and Spain. Charles I
  • Flemish painter and commissioned his only surviving ceiling painting, The
  • the turbulent drama of his earlier paintings but reflect a masterful command
• Title: Short Bio of Donald Rust
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  • Donald Rust was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1932. He began drawing and painting at a very early age and has never had the desire to be anything but a serious artist. His early work was directly influenced by his grandfather, Emil Rust, Gil Elvgren, Bob Toombs, and Norman Rockwell. However, he feels there has been no one single influence in his wildlife art and insists that all wildlife artists have affected his style.
  • For many years, Rusty's paintings concentrated on circus and portrait subjects; but recently, wildlife subjects have intrigued him more and more. His portraits include such prominent individuals as: Emmett Kelly Sr., Emmett Kelly Jr., Merle Evans (Ringling band leader), Norman Rockwell, and Molly Rockwell. In fact, D.L. Rust and Norman Rockwell used to correspond regularly and in one letter Rockwell emphasized that Rusty's artwork "is very good indeed."
  • Rust's paintings hang in the Ringling Museum of the Circus, Sarasota, Florida, the Norman Rockwell Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
  • Rust has produced more than 14,000 paintings and has 2,000 originals registered by owners with the National Museum and Gallery Registration Association (an NMGRA record!).
• Title: Short Bio of John Sargent (1856-1925)
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  • as a painter. After studying with Carolus-Duran, he achieved
  • In the 1880s he began to paint landscapes that were overtly
  • on several occasions, painting two memorable portraits of him:
  • Claude Monet Painting at the Edge of a Wood
  • Indeed, Sargent's technique for painting large canvases out of doors,
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  • aesthetic considerations. He painted a number of outstanding portraits, such
• Title: Short Bio of Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
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  • Painter, founder of the 19th-century French school of
  • when looking at the entire work but making his paintings shimmer with
  • (1859-91). A French painter who was a leader in the
  • at the official Salon in 1883. Panels from his painting
  • in Paris, drawing and producing one large painting each year, and his summers
  • monumental paintings, 60 smaller ones, drawings, and sketchbooks. He kept his
  • painting
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  • England. Apprenticed in his youth to a sign and house painter, he
  • to Philadelphia. A key figure in the development of landscape painting
  • painting, filtered through the eyes of a nostalgic expatriate. Certainly
  • the Butler Institute painting seems less a portrait of a specific place
  • seventeenth-century Franco-Italian painter, Claude Lorraine, and to
  • paintings by Shaw's older contemporaries — Julius Caesar Ibbetson, Philip
  • masters such as Nicolaes Berchem, whose paintings Shaw is known to have
  • nevertheless continued to paint British landscapes virtually until
  • Despite the pronounced British flavor of paintings such as Landscape
  • American landscape painting. As an artist born and trained in England,
• Title: Short Bio of Paul Signac
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  • One of the principal neoimpressionist painters,
  • training; he taught himself to paint by studying the works of
  • of painting with dots — or "points" in French — of color, which led to the
  • What Signac called "muddy mixtures" were to be banished from painting and
  • inspired by the bright sunlight of southern France. He also painted some
• Title: Short Bio of Alfred Sisley
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  • 1899, Moret-sur-Loing), painter who was one of the creators of French
  • He spent some time painting in Fontainebleau, at Chailly with Monet,
  • He now saw himself as a full-time professional painter and part of
  • influence on him, and a series of landscape paintings of the area
  • dominates his paintings, and also in the effects of snow, the two
• Title: Short Bio of Yves Tanguy (1900-55)
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  • French-born American painter.
  • Originally a merchant seaman, he was impelled to take up painting after
  • his life, marrying the American Surrealist painter
  • characteristic works are painted in a scrupulous technique reminiscent
• Title: Short Bio of Dorothea Tanning
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  • American painter Dorothea Tanning, b. Galesburg, Ill., Aug. 25, 1910,
  • learned to paint, she claimed, by visiting art museums.
  • and painted in her spare time. A commercial artist in New York, she began
  • painting as a professional after meeting a group of French
  • painters that included
  • paintings have evolved from her early surrealist evocations of perverse
  • children's games and fantasies to experiments with different painting and,
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  • Venetian painter.
• Title: Short Bio of James Tissot
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  • French painter and graphic artist. Early in his career he painted historical
  • His pictures are distinguished most obviously by his love of painting
  • works on the history of costume than on the history of painting.
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  • The greatest painter of the Venetian school.
• Title: Short Bio of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
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  • (1864-1901). Many immortal painters lived and
• Title: Short Bio of Jesse Trevino
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  • is one of America's finest realist painters and muralists. Two of
  • Treviño's paintings are in the collection of the Smithsonian's American
  • murals and his large photorealistic style paintings. His nine-story by
  • San Antonio College and gradually learned to paint and draw with his
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-François Troy (1679-1752)
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  • French Rococo painter known for his tableaux de mode, or scenes of
• Title: Short Bio of Joseph Turner (1775-1851)
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  • paintings was exhibited at the Royal Academy. By the time he was 18 he had
  • he developed a painting technique all his own. Instead of merely recording
  • watch him while he painted. He gave up attending the meetings of the academy.
  • sell his paintings. When he was persuaded to sell one, he was dejected for
  • called "decaying artists." His collection of paintings was bequeathed to his
  • English watercolor landscape painting. Some of his most famous works are
• Title: Short Bio of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
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  • (1599-1660). Spain's greatest painter was also one of the
  • any other painter.
  • Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez was born in Seville, Spain, presumably
  • the first painter of common things than second in higher art." He learned
  • went to Madrid. When he was 24 he painted a portrait of Philip IV, who became
  • bought many paintings — by
  • Except for these journeys Velasquez lived in Madrid as court painter. His
  • paintings include landscapes, mythological and religious subjects, and scenes
  • of court notables that rank with the portraits painted by Titian and
  • artists of his country." He was a master realist, and no painter has
  • "the painter's painter." Ever since he taught
  • has directly or indirectly led painters to make original contributions to the
  • His famous paintings include
• Title: Short Bio of Jan Vermeer
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  • Dutch genre painter who lived and worked in Delft, created some of the most
  • exquisite paintings in Western art.
• Title: Short Bio of Leonardo (c.1485-1532)
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  • ‘‘The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body
  • Italy] — d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.), Italian painter, draftsman,
  • widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His
• Title: Short Bio of Jim Warren
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  • Beginnings: Started painting at age 1, like all children. Went through the usual string of career choices such as: artist, magician, artist, rock star, artist etc. I officially decided in high school in 1967 that an artist, a "Rich and Famous" one at that, was what I was going to be!
  • Tools: Traditional oil paint on stretched canvas which I coat with a gesso primer. Only paintbrushes are used to paint with and NO airbrush, as people have sometimes thought.
  • Philosophy of Art: "To hell with the rules...paint what you like."
  • 1978: Commissioned by jazz greats Billy Cobham and George Duke to paint first album cover.
  • 1990: Painted "Earth...Love It or Lose It." This painting received critical acclaim, was featured on posters, magazines, billboards, t-shirts ect. and soon became the visual representation for the global environmental movement.
  • 1992: Began the unique trendsetting idea of collaboration paintings with famed marine life artist, Wyland, showcasing both artists' specialties...Marine Life (Wyland) and People (Jim).
  • 1992 - 1993: Comic Images released two sets of collector cards of Jim's paintings. Each set is comprised of 96 images.
• Title: Short Bio of John Waterhouse (1849-1917)
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  • English painter.
  • Early in his career he painted Greek and Roman subjects, but in the
  • 1880s he turned to literary themes, painted in a distinctive, dreamily
  • but his handling of paint is quite different from theirs — rich and
• Title: Short Bio of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
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  • graceful paintings show his interest in theater and ballet, Antoine Watteau
  • scenes from the life of Marie de’ Medici painted in the early 1600s by the
  • executed a series of military scenes. In the years 1710-12 he painted the
  • pilgrims embark but never arrive. The paintings represented impossible
  • and Italian paintings and who admired Watteau's paintings. Watteau lived for
  • seclusion. This began the period of his major paintings, including the fetes
  • London to see a noted physician, Richard Mead, for whom he painted
  • a painting of the interior of Gersaint's shop intended for use as a
  • The paintings of Watteau and his fellow rococo painters
• Title: Short Bio of Benjamin West (1738-1820,)
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  • American-born painter of
  • influence on the development of historical painting in Britain. He was
  • historical painter to George III (1772-1801), a founder of the Royal
  • development of art in the United States through such young American painters
  • West abandoned the tradition of painting people in Greek and Roman dress, the
  • and it was said that he got his first paints from his Indian friends. When he
  • Joshua Reynolds, England's leading painter. Soon other influential Londoners,
  • III commissioned him to paint several pictures, and in 1772 he appointed West
  • historical painter to the king with an annual allowance of 1,000 pounds. By
  • West painted historical and religious subjects on huge canvases. Among his
  • painting in which he broke away from classical costumes;
  • painting. Modern critics regard West's
• Title: Short Bio of Rogier Weyden (1399/1400-1464)
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  • The leading Netherlandish painter of the mid-15th century.
• Title: Short Bio of James Whistler (1834-1903)
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  • American-born painter and graphic artist, active mainly in England.
  • was radical. He believed that painting should exist for its own sake,
  • the flawless harmonies of tone and color he created in his paintings,
  • (Detroit Institute of Arts), accusing him of ‘flinging a pot of paint
  • Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother
• Title: Short Bio of William Winstanley
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  • William Winstanley was an English-born American painter, specializing
• Title: Short Bio of Joseph Wright
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  • Eng. — d. Aug. 29, 1797, Derby), English painter who was a pioneer in
  • European painter of artificial light of his day.
  • Wright was trained as a portrait painter by Thomas Hudson in the