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- Title: Short Bio of Hans Baldung
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- and mythologies, portraits, designs for stained glass and tapestries, and
- Title: Short Bio of Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Moriano Filipepi, 1444/5-1510)
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- Medici family. He painted portraits of the family and many religious
- Title: Short Bio of François Boucher (1703-1770)
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- Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. He painted her portrait several
- Title: Short Bio of Agnolo Bronzino
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- painter, the pupil and adopted son of Pontormo, who introduced his portrait
- and excelled as a portraitist rather than a religious painter. He was court
- influenced the course of European court portraiture for a century. Cold,
- cultured, and unemotionally analytical, his portraits convey a sense of
- Bronzino was also a poet, and his most personal portraits are perhaps
- Title: Short Bio of Ford Brown
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- portraits of several of the Brotherhood.
- Title: Short Bio of Hans Burgkmair
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- portraits, seems to have influenced Hans Holbein
- Title: Short Bio of William Chase
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- of more than 2000 paintings included still lifes, portraits, interiors,
- Title: Short Bio of Théodore Chassériau (1819-56)
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- Chassériau was also an outstanding portraitist and painted nudes and
- Title: Short Bio of Clouet
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- A handful of portraits, however, including Man holding Petrarch's Works
- dominated French portraiture at this time, but the drawings are more personal
- to him, the celebrated portrait of Francis I in the Louvre, showing the
- too, was mainly a portraitist, his signed works including Pierre Quthe
- Title: Short Bio of John Copley (1738-1815)
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- of colonial America, John Singleton Copley painted portraits and historical
- subjects. His Boston portraits show a thorough knowledge of his New England
- the rococo device called portrait d'apparat portraying the subject with
- Boston portraits. Copley died in London on Sept. 9, 1815.
- Title: Short Bio of Piero Cosimo
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- is one of his most memorable creations. Piero also painted portraits, the
- Title: Short Bio of Gustave Courbet (1819-77)
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- Title: Short Bio of Thomas Couture (1815-79)
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- (1815-79). French historical and portrait painter, a pupil of
- 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 Cuyp
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- as a portrait painter his portraits of children are particularly fine but
- Title: Short Bio of Dosso Dossi
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- works, portraits, and decorative frescos and is perhaps most important
- Title: Short Bio of Peter Driben
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- Driben turned, like many of his colleagues, to portrait and fine-art work,
- including a portrait of Dwight Eisenhower. His wife, Louise Driben, organised
- Title: Short Bio of Albrecht Dürer
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- portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts,
- known work, one of his many self portraits, was made in 1484. Died in Nürnberg
- Title: Short Bio of Adam Elsheimer
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- and on copper (the only exception is a self-portrait in the Uffizi, Florence,
- Title: Short Bio of Jan Eyck
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- painting. His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and
- Title: Short Bio of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
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- group portraits that are important historical documents and show his
- and others grouped round a portrait of
- progressive artists, Fantin-Latour was a traditionalist, and his portraits
- Title: Short Bio of Robert Feke
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- (active 1740s). American Colonial portrait painter.
- Nothing is known of his life until 1741 when he executed a large portrait
- portraits from his hand and about fifty more are reasonably attributed to him.
- Colonial portraits.
- Title: Short Bio of Master Flémalle (active 1406-44)
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- The National Gallery also has three portraits associated with the Master
- Title: Short Bio of Jean Fouquet (c. 1420-c. 1481)
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- when he painted a portrait, now lost, of Pope Eugenius IV. Much has been made
- Title: Short Bio of Lucian Freud
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- painters. Portraits and nudes are his specialities, often observed in
- Title: Short Bio of Henry Fuseli
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- He was the son of a portrait painter, Johann Caspar Füssli (1707-82),
- 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
- small portrait groups in landscape settings which are the most lyrical
- seen at its most characteristic in full-length portraits (Mary, Countess
- Gainsborough sometimes said that while portraiture was his profession
- painting; at Bath his change of portrait style owed much to a close study
- Title: Short Bio of Domenico Ghirlandaio
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- the life and manners of his time (he often included portraits in his religious
- altarpieces. He also painted portraits, the finest of which is Old Man
- Raphael and a portrait painter of some distinction.
- Title: Short Bio of Giotto (c. 1267-1337)
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- paintings is a portrait of his friend the poet Dante. The Church of Santa
- Title: Short Bio of Vincent Gogh (1853-90)
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- masterpieces are numerous self-portraits and the well-known
- Title: Short Bio of Nuño Gonçalves
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- of highly individualized portraits of members of the court, including a
- presumed self-portrait. There are affinities with contemporary Burgundian
- Title: Short Bio of Francisco Goya
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- established as a portrait painter to the Spanish aristocracy. He was elected
- weakness. His portraits became penetrating characterizations, revealing their
- called before the Inquisition to explain his earlier portrait of
- Title: Short Bio of Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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- his career he received a commission to paint a portrait of Napoleon (Versailles,
- Title: Short Bio of Antoine-Jean Gros
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- (although he painted excellent portraits), and haunted by a sense of failure
- Title: Short Bio of Nicholas Hilliard
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- paintings attributed to him are portraits of Elizabeth I in the National
- Portrait Gallery, London, and in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. In
- Title: Short Bio of Hans Holbein (1465?-1524)
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- portrait drawings that foreshadow the work of his famous son. His later
- 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
- chiefly as a painter of portraits. His services were much in demand. The more
- than 100 miniature and full-size portraits he completed at Henry's court
- services at court relates that he painted the portrait of the king, "life
- Holbein's portraits provide remarkably little insight into the personality
- sent Holbein to paint her portrait. In 1543 Holbein was in
- London working on another portrait of the king when he died, a victim of the
- 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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- generation trained in his studio. Lebrun was a fine portraitist and an
- 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
- Title: Short Bio of Hans Memling (1430?-94)
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- 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 Jean-François Millet (1814-75)
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- mythological subjects or portraiture, at which he was especially
- adept (Portrait of a Naval Officer, 1845; Musée des
- It was he who, on a visit to Le Havre to paint portraits,
- Title: Short Bio of Amedeo Modigliani
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- Today his graceful portraits and lush nudes at once evoke his name, but
- the portraits convey a sharp sense of the sitter's personality, as in
- Title: Short Bio of Bartolomé Murillo (1617-82)
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- and cherubs, that surrounds the central figures. The few portraits he painted
- Title: Short Bio of Nehemiah Partridge
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- Title: Short Bio of Rembrandt (1606-69)
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- mastery of chiaroscuro. Numerous portraits and self-portraits exhibit
- Title: Short Bio of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
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- disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings,
- as a portraitist in the late 1870s and was freed from financial
- Title: Short Bio of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
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- Title: Short Bio of Peter Rubens
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- portraits, genre scenes, and landscapes. These later works, such as
- Title: Short Bio of Donald Rust
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- 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.
- Title: Short Bio of John Sargent (1856-1925)
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- a great reputation for his portraits, employing a style that
- on several occasions, painting two memorable portraits of him:
- Title: Short Bio of Egon Schiele
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- aesthetic considerations. He painted a number of outstanding portraits, such
- self-portraits. Late works such as
- Title: Short Bio of Joshua Shaw
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- the Butler Institute painting seems less a portrait of a specific place
- Title: Short Bio of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)
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- went to Madrid. When he was 24 he painted a portrait of Philip IV, who became
- from common life, called genre pictures. Most of them, however, are portraits
- of court notables that rank with the portraits painted by Titian and
- The Surrender of Breda, an equestrian portrait of Philip IV,
- and a portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa.
- Title: Short Bio of James Whistler (1834-1903)
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- which are mainly portraits and landscapes, particularly scenes of the
- achieve honors and substantial success. His portrait of Thomas Carlyle
- Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother
- Title: Short Bio of Joseph Wright
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- Wright was trained as a portrait painter by Thomas Hudson in the
- was also noted for his portraits of English Midlands industrialists
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