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Adeline, Jules  

French, 19th century, male.

Born 28 April 1845, in Rouen; died September 1909, in Rouen.

Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, architect, art writer.

Jules Adeline was a first-time exhibitor at the Paris Salon in 1873, when, as a young architect, he initially contributed sketches and architectural projects. From ...

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Aidé, Charles Hamilton  

British, 19th century, male.

Active in Londonc.1880.

Born 4 November 1826, in Paris; died 13 December 1906, in London.

Painter, poet, novelist, dramatist, musician. Landscapes.

Charles Hamilton Aidé is above all remembered as an accomplished dramatist and musician. He travelled extensively and made sketches on his travels. He submitted three canvases to the Grafton Gallery in ...

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Allier, Achille  

French, 19th century, male.

Born 1808, in Moulins (Allier); died 3 April 1836, in Bourbon-l'Archambault (Allier).

Engraver (etching), lithographer, writer. Landscapes.

Perhaps Achille Allier's greatest merit is that he was and remained an essentially local artist, having made a determined effort to remain outside the artistic mainstream. After completing a number of engravings in ...

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Americo, Pedro di Figuiredo (Don)  

Brazilian, 19th century, male.

Born 1843, in Areias (Pernambuco); died 1905.

Painter, writer. History painting.

Americo studied painting in Paris with Ingres. The German emperor owned one of his early works, Woman from Rio de Janeiro. He produced many paintings that celebrated Brazilian independence. He was also interested in literature, the natural sciences and politics. He spent a long period working in Florence, where he produced and successfully exhibited one of his large pictures, ...

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Andersen, Hans Christian  

Danish, 19th century, male.

Born 2 April 1805, in Odense; died 4 August 1875, in Copenhagen.

Writer, graphic artist, creator of silhouettes and collages.

The author of the Fairytales and the Picture Book Without Pictures proved, on occasion, to be a gifted engraver. He left delicate silhouettes of girls, cupids and swans beneath the trees. He also decorated screens with collages....

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Arnac, Marcel  

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Draughtsman, watercolourist, illustrator, novelist.

Marcel Arnac illustrated François Villon's Works (1928) with miniature watercolours, and illustrated his own work, 83 Centimetres of Adventures (Les éditions Georges-Anquetil, 1925), with drawings. He also wrote and illustrated Le Brelan de Joie...

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Astruc, Zacharie  

French, 19th century, male.

Born 20 February 1835, in Angers; died 24 May 1907, in Paris.

Sculptor, painter, watercolourist, poet, art critic.

Zacharie Astruc initially exhibited as a sculptor at the 1871 Salon des Artistes Français. As a painter, he participated in the first Impressionist Exhibition at Nadar's in ...

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Audeoud, Jean François, or James  

Swiss, 19th century, male.

Born 2 October 1793, in Geneva; died 12 March 1857, in Geneva.

Miniaturist, enameller, art writer. Portraits.

An artist who was also a connoisseur and writer and the possessor of a renowned collection of paintings. His wrote a treatise on painting on enamel....

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Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli (Marquis)  

Italian, 19th century, male.

Born 24 October 1798, in Turin; died 15 January 1866, in Turin.

Painter, draughtsman, caricaturist, lithographer, writer. Historical subjects, battles, figures, landscapes with figures, landscapes, waterscapes, seascapes, architectural views.

Massimo Azeglio was the son of Marquis Cesare Taparelli d'Azeglio who was made minister plenipotentiary to the Holy See by King Victor Emmanuel in ...

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Bachelin, Auguste  

Swiss, 19th century, male.

Born 30 September 1830, in Neuchâtel; died 3 August 1890, in Bern.

Painter, writer. Historical subjects, genre scenes, landscapes, flowers.

Initially a pupil of William Moritz in his native city, he moved to Paris in 1850, where he worked in the studios of Charles Gleyre and Thomas Couture. In ...

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Baehr, Johann Karl  

Russian, 19th century, male.

Born 18 August 1801, in Riga; died 29 September 1869, in Dresden.

Painter, writer. History painting, portraits.

Baehr was a pupil at the Dresden and St Matthew's academies. During visits to Italy in 1827 and 1834, he met Thorvaldsen, J.A. Koch, Cornelius, F. Reinhart and Horace Vernet. In ...

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Baes, Edgar Alfred  

Belgian, 19th century, male.

Born 24 June 1837, in Ostend.

Painter, watercolourist, engraver (etching), writer.

Edgar Baes painted seascapes and landscapes in both oils and watercolour. His paintings include Martyrdom of Marguerite of Louvain and Storm in the Dunes, his engravings include Death of Marguerite of Bourgogne...

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Baldry, Alfred Lys  

British, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1858, in Torquay; died 1939, in Marlow Common (Buckinghamshire).

Painter, watercolourist, art critic. Portraits, figures, landscapes.

Alfred Lys Baldry was initially a pupil at the Royal College of Art and then studied under and assisted Albert Moore. From 1880...

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Balkema, Cornelis Filippus  

Dutch, 19th century, male.

Born 25 December 1805, in Holwierda.

Draughtsman, art writer.

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Barbier, Nicolas Alexandre  

French, 19th century, male.

Born 18 October 1789, in Paris; died 4 February 1864, in Sceaux.

Painter, writer. Genre scenes, interiors with figures, landscapes, waterscapes, architectural views.

Nicolas Barbier studied under Xavier Leprince and subsequently taught composition to the son of Louis-Philippe. He painted genre scenes with the accent on background architectural motifs, exhibiting at the Paris Salon ...

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Barlach, Ernst  

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 2 January 1870, in Wedel (Holstein); died 1938, in Rostock.

Sculptor, painter, engraver, dramatist, writer.

Barlach was the son of a country doctor. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Hamburg from 1888 to 1891 and was then a student of Robert Dietz at the academy in Dresden from 1891 to 1895. He then went to Paris where he worked for a year at the Académie Julian. He became interested in the work of Millet, Meunier and Van Gogh - art with social implications. When he returned to Germany in 1898 he worked as a designer on the journal ...

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Bartholomew, Anne Charlotte  

British, 19th century, female.

Born 28 March 1800, in Loddon (Norfolk); died 18 June 1862, in London.

Painter, miniaturist, writer. Portraits, landscapes, flowers.

Anne Charlotte Bartholomew, first married to composer W. Turnbull, later married the flower painter V. Bartholomew. She exhibited a series of miniature paintings at the Royal Academy ...

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Bartlett, William Henry  

British, 19th century, male.

Born 26 March 1809, in Kentish Town, London; died 13 September 1854, at sea, between Malta and Marseilles.

Painter, watercolourist, engraver, draughtsman, writer. Genre scenes, landscapes with figures, landscapes, topographical views.

Orientalism.

William Henry Bartlett is thought to have exhibited at the Royal Academy ...

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Bataille, Henry  

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 4 April 1872, in Nîmes; died 1922, in Rueil (Hauts-de-Seine).

Draughtsman, engraver (dry-point/etching), lithographer, dramatist, poet. Figures, nudes, portraits. Posters.

Henry Bataille intended originally to be a painter. He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the private Académie Julian in Paris. As an engraver, he learned the dry point, etching and lithography techniques. He was also attracted by literature and published his first collection of poetry in ...

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Beaulieu, Anatole Henri de  

French, 19th century, male.

Born 1819, in Paris; died 1884, in Paris.

Painter, writer. Scenes with figures.

A pupil of Delacroix; exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1844 and 1874, receiving a medal at the 1868 Salon. Beaulieu remained faithful to the lyrical Romanticism of his mentor. He was drawn to Spain and Italy, and both his painting and written work address themes drawn from the Inquisition and from Neapolitan life. His style is fully exemplified by one of his contributions to the 1874 Salon - the ...