Friedrich von Amerling Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting 1803 - 1887
Portraitist, he began as an illuminator of maps and engravings. He studied at the Academy of Vienna (1816-1823) and in Prague, at T. Lawrence in London (1827) and at H. Vernet in Paris (1828). His academic and work travels: Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, Orient. A prominent portraitist of Vienna society including court circles. |
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865). |
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George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and his novel Trilby. He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier. He was also the father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and thus grandfather of the five boys who inspired Peter Pan. |
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Claude Monet Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting Claude Monet, also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet, (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). |
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William Collins Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting William Collins (1788–1847) was a British landscape and genre painter. |
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James Jacques Joseph Tissot Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting James Jacques Joseph Tissot (October 15, 1836 – August 8, 1902) was a French painter. |
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Rene Lynch Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting "My work explores that period of puberty that embodies pure spirit and an inchoate knowledge of power and vulnerability, when a child begins to break free and desires, like Alice in Wonderland, to see what is beyond the looking glass." - R.Lynch |
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Maud Tindall Atkinson Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting British, 1906-1937 |
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Sir John Everett Millais Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. |
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Karl Briullov Added: 2010-01-26 Category: Painting Karl Pavlovich Briullov (Russian: Карл Павлович Брюллов), called by his friends the Great Karl (December 12, 1799–June 11, 1852) was a Russian painter. He is regarded as a key figure in transition from the Russian neoclassicism to romanticism. |
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