British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 13 May 1867, in Bruges, Belgium, to English parents; died 11 June 1956, in Ditchling.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, engraver, lithographer, illustrator. Religious subjects, figure compositions, figures, local scenes (carnival), rustic scenes, urban landscapes, architectural views, urban views, harbour scenes, seascapes...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 4 January 1810, in Nancy; died 26 March 1881, in Algiers.
Painter (gouache), watercolourist, pastellist, lithographer, draughtsman. Genre scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures, seascapes, church interiors.
Jules Achille Noël studied under Cherioux in Brest (Brittany) before moving to Paris. He debuted at the Salon in 1840 and continued exhibiting there until 1879, winning a third-class medal in 1853....
American, 19th–20th century, male.
Active from 1891 in France.
Born 21 June 1859, in Pittsburgh; died 25 May 1937, in Paris.
Painter, illustrator, pastellist, watercolourist, engraver, photographer. Religious subjects, genre scenes, harbour views, landscapes, urban landscapes, seascapes, animals.
Symbolism.
Tanner’s father was the minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, then in Philadelphia from 1866, and became Superintendent of his Church in 1888. His mother, Sarah Miller, had escaped slavery during her childhood, getting to Pittsburgh through the network called the Underground Railway. She set up a school in her own house for the children of the community. Tanner studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1880 to 1882 under Thomas Eakins (Eakins did a portrait of Tanner in 1900). He became an illustrator, notably for ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 14 June 1861, in Lyons; died 27 April 1943, in Treignac.
Painter, illustrator, lithographer, watercolourist. Religious subjects, allegorical subjects, figures, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, waterscapes, seascapes. Murals, designs for tapestries.
Edmond Tapissier studied under Jean-Baptiste Chatigny in Lyons, and under Alexandre Cabanel and Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He spent time in St Petersburg and then visited Italy, Greece and the Middle East. Tapissier was appointed as a naval painter in ...
full name: Émile Jean Horace Vernet
French, 19th century, male.
Born 30 June 1789, in Paris; died 17 January 1863, in Paris.
Painter, lithographer. Religious subjects, military subjects, military portraits, battles, horse racing scenes, horses.
Horace Vernet was born in the apartments his family occupied in the Louvre palace. In 1792, the Vernets were driven from their home by the revolutionary armies. Like his father, Carle, Horace Vernet showed extraordinary talent already as a child, earning a living by drawing and painting from a very early age. He contributed drawings to the Journal des Modes (Journal of Fashions) but, fascinated by parades and military tattoos, Vernet chose to exhibit at the 1810 Salon a canvas opportunely entitled Taking of an Entrenched Position.
Although the Vernets had been avid royalists, Horace rallied to the cause of the Empire, an affiliation expressed in the painting he elected to exhibit at the 1812 Salon: a portrait of ...
