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...
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....
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.
Italian, 18th century, male.
Born c. 1675, in Rome; died c. 1730.
Engraver (burin), art dealer. Religious subjects, architectural views.
Worked initially under the tutelage of his father, Pietro Santo Bartoli. It is probable that this is the same artist as F. Bartoli who produced coloured drawings based on religious works in St Peter's in Rome on behalf of the English art collector John Talman. The volume containing these engraved illustrations has been in the British Museum in London since ...
French, 18th century, male.
Active in Paris during the second half of the 18th century.
Engraver, art dealer.
Swiss, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 1664 or 1673, in Augsburg; died 1758 or 1766, in Augsburg.
Draughtsman, engraver, picture dealer. Historical subjects, figures, landscapes.
Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder painted historical figures and views, some of which were collected under the title: The Glory and Might of Europe...
British, 20th century, female.
Born 30 August 1911, in Norwood (London); died 1991, in Hampstead (London).
Painter, illustrator, muralist, lithographer, collector. Still-lifes, figures, landscapes, nature.
East London Group, London Group.
Phyllis Bray was the daughter of William de Bray, attaché to the mother of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. Her first husband was the painter John Cooper, and her second was Eric Phillips. She studied on a scholarship at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, where her tutor was Henry Tonks. She was a leading figure in the formation of the ...
Flemish School, 19th century, male.
Born 13 September 1814, in Sept-Fontaines, near Luxembourg; died 19 February 1853, in Ghent.
Engraver, collector.
Dutch, 18th century, male.
Born 22 January 1701, in Amsterdam; died 1781, in Amsterdam.
Draughtsman, engraver, collector.
Australian, 20th century, male.
Born 8 July 1902, in Edinburgh; died 30 September 1972, in Adelaide.
Painter, gallery administrator. Landscapes, seascapes.
Robert Richmond Campbell moved to Brisbane, Australia, with his family in 1916. He began working as a commercial artist. In 1928 he travelled to Europe with Rupert Bunny. Having spent time in France, Spain, England and Scotland, he returned to Australia in ...
Italian, 18th century, male.
Active in Amsterdam.
Born 1685, in Verona; died 1755, in Verona.
Painter, art dealer.
French, 18th century, male.
Born 31 October 1692, in Paris; died 5 September 1765, in Paris.
Engraver, draughtsman, collector.
Son of the Comtesse de Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières de Caylus fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, and when peace came he travelled in Italy, Greece and Asia Minor, from which he brought back archaeological treasures collected in his search for the ruins of Troy, Ephesus and Colophon. Returning to France, he devoted himself to engraving and issued more than two hundred prints after Rubens, Van Dyck and Leonardo da Vinci, all held in the royal collection. He was made an honorary councillor of the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture on ...
American, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1931, in Pittsburgh; died 3 March 2005, in Pittsburgh.
Conceptual artist, mail artist, educator. Artists’ books.
Don Celender earned a BA in fine art from Carnegie Mellon University in 1956 and an art history PhD in 1963 from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught art for 40 years at Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota. In ...
French, 18th century, male.
Born in Sedan (Ardennes); died 1720, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Medallist, engraver, printer, art dealer.
Nicolas Chevalier took refuge in the Netherlands after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which restricted the liberties of Huguenots. He lived in Amsterdam and Utrecht....
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Dutch, 18th century, male.
Born c. 1726, in Dordrecht; died c. 1785, in Dordrecht.
Painter, engraver, art dealer. Animals.
Wouter Dam was a pupil of Aaart Schouman in The Hague in 1749. He taught drawing.
London, 21 Jan 1970: Hunting Scene, GBP 260
Dutch, 17th century, male.
Died between 1658 and 1661, in Amsterdam.
Painter, art dealer.
In 1640, Jan Dammeron worked in Amsterdam.
British, 17th century, male.
Born in Wales; died c. 1692.
Engraver, picture dealer. Religious subjects, portraits.
Edward Davis was a pupil of Loggan. He went to work in Paris, producing, among other works, Ecce Homo, after Annibale Carracci, and St Cecilia, after Van Dyck. He returned to London and became an art dealer. In ...
