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Anthony, Edward  

American, 19th century, male.

Born 31 January 1819, in New York City; died 14 December 1888, in New York City.

Photographer, businessman.

E. & H.T. Anthony (firm).

Edward Anthony received instruction in photography from Samuel F.B. Morse, an early practitioner of the medium. By 1844...

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Arrowsmith, Charles  

French, 19th century, male.

Born 1798, in Paris.

Painter, picture dealer. Panoramas.

Charles Arrowsmith studied with Daguerre and painted dioramas alongside him. He exhibited in Paris in 1827, in Douai in 1829, and at the Royal Academy in London in 1830. He was responsible for promoting English watercolourists and introducing them and also Constable to a broader public in France....

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Bacci, Torello  

Italian, 19th century, male.

Active in Livorno (Tuscany).

Died after 1873.

Sculptor, art dealer.

Torello Bacci produced the monument to his father at the Santa Croce convent in Florence and the statue of Pier Capponi in a portico at the Uffizi Gallery.

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Buschmann, Ernst  

Flemish School, 19th century, male.

Born 13 September 1814, in Sept-Fontaines, near Luxembourg; died 19 February 1853, in Ghent.

Engraver, collector.

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Cicognara, Leopoldo (Count)  

Italian, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 27 November 1767, in Ferrara; died 5 March 1834, in Venice.

Painter, collector. Landscapes. Decorative schemes.

Cicognara was active in Venice and Ferrara, executing mostly landscapes and decorative paintings. He was president of the fine arts academy in Venice, and a noted critic, theorist and historian, publishing ...

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Cottier, Maurice  

French, 19th century, male.

Born 1822; died 9 November 1881, in the château at Cangé, near Tours.

Painter, art collector.

He painted several watercolour portraits and landscapes, but was known principally for his valuable art collection.

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Cutting, James Anson  

American, 19th century, male.

Born 18 June 1813, in Hanover, New Hampshire; died 31 July 1867, in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Photographer, lithographer, inventor.

James A. Cutting’s earliest success was as the designer of a beehive patented in 1844. Later in the 1840s he was associated with several patents for railroad equipment, and in the 1850s he turned his attention to photographic experimentation. In ...

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Dumortier, Paul  

Flemish School, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1763, in Tournai; died December 1838.

Sculptor, art dealer.

Paul Dumortier was a pupil of Moitte in Paris.

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Dyce, Alexander  

British, 19th century, male.

Born 30 June 1798, in Edinburgh; died 15 May 1869, in London.

Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, writer, collector. Botanical subjects, insects.

Alexander Dyce was an amateur sketcher and painter. His watercolours and drawings were chiefly of flowers and butterflies.

London (Victoria and Albert Mus.): ...

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Eastman, George  

American, 19th–20th century, male.

Born 12 July 1854, in Waterville, New York; died 14 March 1932, in Rochester, New York, by suicide.

Inventor, businessman, and photographer.

In 1877 George Eastman, then a bank clerk, acquired his first camera. Committed to making the camera easier to use, he refined the dry plate process and produced dry plate negatives for sale. Searching to simplify the process further, he developed Eastman American Film, a flexible film that could be rolled up and was easier to manipulate than glass plates. In 1884 Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company was formed with investor Henry Strong as president and Eastman as treasurer. Eastman continued to create new products and eventually patented 32 inventions....

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Eeghem, J. van  

Dutch, 19th century, male.

Active in Amsterdam.

Painter, art dealer, collector. Landscapes.

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Engelberts, Engelbert Michael  

Dutch, 18th – 19th century, male.

Active in Amsterdam.

Born 17 December 1773, in Hoorn; died 7 December 1843, in Gendringen.

Painter, art dealer. Landscapes.

Engelbert Michael Engelberts was the son of Engelbertus Matthias Engelberts. He painted townscapes and winter landscapes.

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Forel, Alexis  

Swiss, 19th century, male.

Born 5 May 1852, in Lully, near Morges; died 24 December 1922, in Morges.

Engraver (etching), collector. Urban landscapes, landscapes.

Alexis Forel was both an artist and a chemical engineer. After making a name for himself in science through his study of aniline paints, he moved to Paris and took up etching in ...

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Gillot, Charles  

French, 19th century, male.

Born 1853, in Paris; died 1903.

Engraver, collector.

Charles Gillot was the son of Firmin Gillot, inventor of the gillotage etching technique (whereby a waxy ink is rolled onto sidewalls of lines and dots to prevent lateral etching). Charles Gillot had an impressive collection of medieval and Japanese art, which fetched a large sum (827,000 francs) at posthumous auction on ...

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Goetz, Richard  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born at the end of the 19th century, in the Rhineland.

Painter, collector.

Richard Goetz was a naturalised citizen of the USA who had lived in Paris for many years. It is very unlikely that he ever painted in America. His collection of work is small. He lived in Montparnasse well before ...

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Gretor, Willy  

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 16 July 1868, at Wundlacken Castle, near Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia); died between 1914 and 1918, in France.

Painter, art dealer. Portraits.

Willy Gretor was a pupil of N. Peterson Mols and Bertha Wegmann and studied at the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen. At the academy's exhibition he showed studies of portraits in ...

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Günther, Franz  

Hungarian, 19th century, male.

Painter, art dealer.

Franz Günther is mentioned c. 1820.

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Hay, Robert  

British, 19th century, male.

Born 6 January 1799, in Duns Castle (Berwickshire), Scotland; died 1863.

Draughtsman, collector.

Robert Hay travelled to Egypt in 1924 as part of a customary 'grand tour' in keeping with family tradition. He was accompanied by the sculptor Joseph Bonomi who was charged with recording the sites visited during his travels. An accomplished draughtsman, Hay soon joined Bonomi in producing meticulous records of the tombs, temples, and principal monuments along the Nile. Before long, he rounded up a team of artists and architects to contribute to this accurate copy work while he turned his attention to recording panoramic landscape views. In ...

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Hoffstadt, Friedrich  

German, 19th century, male.

Born 1802, in Amorbach; died 7 September 1846, in Aschaffenburg.

Painter, sculptor, engraver, collector. Church decoration.

He studied a wide range of subjects in Munich. Among other things, he decorated the Catholic church in Nördlingen (Bavaria).

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Knoll, François Cornelis  

Dutch, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1771 or 1772, in Rotterdam; died 23 March 1827, in Utrecht.

Painter, art dealer. Still-lifes.

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