Turkish, 19th–20th century, male.
Born 29 May 1868, in Constantinople (now Istanbul); died 23 August 1944, in Paris.
Painter and collector. Portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.
Abdul-Medjid was the son of Sultan Abdülaziz, and later Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph. He was taught painting by Fausto Zonaro, an Italian artist who worked in the Ottoman court ...
Russian, 19th century, male.
Active between 1809 and 1826 in Moscow.
Engraver (line-engraving).
This artist belonged to the school of the Moscow printer and collector P.P. Beketov. Under the direction of J. Rosanov, N.Z. Sokolov and A.J. Ossipov, Afanasiev engraved a series of three hundred portraits of famous Russians, published in three volumes between ...
Spanish, 17th century, male.
Activec.1645.
Engraver (line-engraving).
Engraver of the frontispiece for Museum of Unknown Spanish Medals ( Museo de las medallas desconocidos espagnolas) by the scholar, collector and patron of the arts Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, Lord of the Manor of Figaruelas....
Italian, 18th century, male.
Active in Cremona.
Engraver (etching), draughtsman.
No details are known of this acknowledged art lover and collector.
Italian, 19th century, male.
Born September 1846, in Rome.
Painter. History painting, landscapes.
Augusto Alberici was an art collector who trained in historical and landscape painting at the Accademia di San Luca. His best works are Crossing of the Rubicon by Julius Caesar and Battle of Crescentino...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1 May 1786, in Lyons; died 2 July 1872, in Lyons.
Painter, engraver.
Balthazar Alexis started out as an engraver before going on to draw and paint landscapes and portraits. He is best known as an avid collector, whose collection was sold off in Lyons in February ...
Italian, 19th century, male.
Sculptor. Figures, portraits. Busts.
A great number of Orazio Andreoni's works are owned by English and American collectors. He exhibited: Pharisee in Turin in 1884; two clay subjects, Black Woman and Moorish Woman in Berlin in 1892; and Messaline in Munich in ...
German, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 1633; died 1714.
Engraver.
This prince was in turn a considerable novelist, a poet and a large-scale art collector. On becoming regent in 1685, he spent much time building up the Brunswick painting gallery until it was really quite outstanding. A small number of plates are attributed to him. It is thought that he was given technical advice by Prince Rupert of the Palatinate....
American, 19th – 20th century, female.
Born in Philadelphia.
Painter.
Elizabeth H. Atkinson trained in Philadelphia and at the Académie Julian in Paris. Her works are owned by collectors in Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore. She participated in the Salon d'Hiver in Paris.
German, 19th century, male.
Active in Frankfurt am Main around the middle of the 19th century.
Engraver (burin/steel).
In his Handbook for Collectors of Copperplate Engravings ( Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler), Aloys Apell only mentions Backenberg's Love in an ornamental frame. According to Mengs he may also be the creator of the following engavings : ...
British, 20th century, female.
Born 5 May 1937, in London.
Painter.
Patricia Fleur Bagrit was brought up in artistic surroundings: her grandfather had been a sculptor and her father was a great art collector. She studied at Oxford, then went to the USA to work with the painters Felix Feininger and Ben Shahn. Her art tended towards the abstract. She had solo exhibitions, notably in London and Paris....
Italian, 16th – 17th century, male.
Born in Bologna; died 25 February 1615.
Painter.
Bernardino Baldi was a scholar as well as a talented artist. As a collector he left a number of ancient manuscripts classified by him. He founded the Accademia degl'Indifferenti, which remained very popular up to the opening of the Carracci academy. On ...
British, male.
Born in Loughborough (Leicestershire).
Painter, engraver.
Harry Baldwin was a collector and an engraver.
French, 17th century, male.
Born 1653, in Aix-en-Provence; died 1703, in Aix-en-Provence.
Painter, engraver. Portraits.
The education of Sébastien Barras was taken in hand by Boyer d'Aiguilles, a rich collector, painter and engraver in Aix. He was Sébastien's first master, and sent him to study in Rome. On his return, he painted, in the house of his teacher, a copy of the ceiling executed in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome by Pietro da Cortona ...
British, 18th century, male.
Active in London during the first half of the 18th century.
Engraver (aquatint).
Thomas Beard's portraits, engraved after P. Ashton and Godfrey Kneller, are highly rated by collectors.
British, 18th century, male.
Born 1723, in London; died 1765, in Copenhagen.
Engraver.
Carl Bertram was a collector. Nagler says that he personally engraved the frontispiece of the book he had published at his own expense: A History of the Ancient Painters of the British People...
German, 20th century, male.
Active in Munich.
Painter.
De Beyros participated at the 1909 Berlin exhibition, where he showed his Collector and Faithful Guardian.
Chinese, 18th century, male.
Active during the reign of the Qing Emperor Qianlong (1736-1796).
Born in Taicang (Jiangsu).
Painter.
Bi Long was a painter of bamboos and landscapes and a disciple of Cao Zhibo. He was also a poet and a famous collector of calligraphy and paintings....
Italian, 16th century, male.
Died 1567.
Sculptor (ivory).
This artist is known by a Madonna belonging to an English collector, Philip Hardwick.
Dutch, 19th century, male.
Born 25 September 1806, in Dordrecht; died c. 1876.
Painter. Landscapes, seascapes.
Blyk was the son of the Dordrecht collector Raphaël van den Blyck, and the pupil of J.-C. Schotel.
Paris, 1858: View of the Port of Flushing and the Scheldt...
