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Claude Laroche
(b Paris, Nov 9, 1812; d Chatou, Aug 2, 1884).
French architect and restorer. He was the son of a Neo-classical architect of the same name (1783–1868), who was a pupil of Charles Percier and architect to the département of Charente. The younger Paul Abadie began studying architecture in 1832 by joining the atelier of Achille Leclère and then entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1835. While he was following this classical training, he participated in the rediscovery of the Middle Ages by going on archaeological trips and then, from 1844, in his capacity as attaché to the Commission des Monuments Historiques. He undertook his first restoration work at Notre-Dame de Paris, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc. Abadie was appointed deputy inspector at Notre-Dame in 1845, and in 1848, when the department responsible for diocesan buildings was created, he was appointed architect to the dioceses of Périgueux, Angoulême and Cahors. He subsequently completed about 40 restoration projects, mainly on Romanesque churches in Charente, in the Dordogne and the Gironde, and as a diocesan architect he was put in charge of two large cathedrals in his district: St Pierre d’Angoulême and St Front de Périgueux. In the former he undertook a huge programme of ‘completion’, returning to a stylistic unity that was in line with current episcopal policy (...
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Italian, 19th century, male.
Born 1836, in Naples; died 1868, in Florence.
Painter. Genre scenes, portraits, church interiors, architectural views, landscapes, seascapes.
Macchiaioli Group.
Giuseppe Abbati was one of the interesting figures of the new Italian School. He trained under his father Vincenzo Abatti, a Neapolitan painter. He then went to work at the school of fine arts in Venice. In ...
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Sandra L. Tatman
(Francis)
(b Philadelphia, PA, April 29, 1881; d Philadelphia, PA, April 23, 1950).
African American architect. Born and educated in Philadelphia, Abele was the chief designer in the firm of Horace Trumbauer. Unknown for most of his life, Julian Abele has become renowned as a pioneer African American architect.
Abele attended the Institute for Colored Youth and Brown Preparatory School before enrolling at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, where in 1898 he earned his Certificate in Architectural Drawing and the Frederick Graff Prize for work in Architectural Design, Evening Class Students. Abele then enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania. Again he distinguished himself in the architectural program, and at his 1902 graduation he was awarded the prestigious Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Prize. Abele’s work was also exhibited in the Toronto Architectural Club (1901), the T-Square Club Annual Exhibition (1901–2), and the Pittsburgh Architectural Club annual exhibition of 1903.
As an undergraduate Abele worked for Louis C. Hickman (...
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Jens Peter Munk
(b Copenhagen, Sept 11, 1743; d Frederiksdal, Copenhagen, June 4, 1809).
Danish painter, designer and architect. His paintings reveal both Neo-classical and Romantic interests and include history paintings as well as literary and mythological works. The variety of his subject-matter reflects his wide learning, a feature further evidenced by the broad range of his creative output. In addition to painting, he produced decorative work, sculpture and furniture designs, as well as being engaged as an architect. Successfully combining both intellectual and imaginative powers, he came to be fully appreciated only in the 1980s.
He studied at the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi in Copenhagen (1764–72), and in 1767 he assisted Johan Edvard Mandelberg (1730–86) in painting the domed hall of the Fredensborg Slot with scenes from the Homeric epic the Iliad. In 1772 he was granted a five-year travelling scholarship from the Kunstakademi to study in Rome. During his Roman sojourn he extensively copied works of art from the period of antiquity up to that of the Carracci family. His friendships with the Danish painter Jens Juel, the Swedish sculptor Johan Tobias Sergel and the Swiss painter Johann Heinrich Fuseli placed him among artists who were in the mainstream of a widespread upheaval in European art. In these years Abildgaard developed both Neo-classical and Romantic tastes; his masterpiece of the period is ...
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British, 19th century, male.
Born 1790, in Doncaster; died 1845.
Draughtsman, architect. Architectural interiors.
Frederick Abraham exhibited at London's Royal Academy in 1833 and 1834.
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British, 19th century, male.
Active in London between 1827 and 1840.
Painter. Architectural views.
Henry Robert Abraham specialised in architectural subjects; he exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Suffolk Street Gallery.
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British, 19th century, male.
Active during the first half of the 19th century, active in London between 1819 and 1840.
Painter. Architectural views.
School of London.
Robert Abraham exhibited architecture-based compositions at the Royal Academy.
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Italian, 19th century, male.
Born 1780, in Rome; died 1847, in Rome.
Draughtsman, engraver (line-engraving). Urban landscapes, architectural views, ruins.
Under the name of Acquaroni it is possible to find an Antonio, a Giuseppe and a Giovanni, who are probably all one and the same artist....
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British, 18th – 19th century, male.
Active at the end of the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century.
Painter, engraver. Architectural views.
S. Acton lived in London between 1791 and 1802 and exhibited at the Royal Academy.
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French, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1737, in Valenciennes; died 1820, in Valenciennes.
Sculptor.
Grégoire Adam is not mentioned in artists' records, but Gombert, the architect from Lille who built the Hôtel Merghelynck at Ypres, thought him fit to compete with the best artists of French Flanders in the ornamentation of this supreme expression of 18th-century art. He decorated one of the salons, installing in it medallions of ...
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French, 18th – 19th century, male.
Active at the beginning of the 19th century.
Engraver. Architectural views.
Jean Adam was a pupil of the older Sellier and of Van Mechel. He made the plates for Belidore's Hydraulic Architecture ( Architecture Hydraulique), for Carnot's Attack and Defence of Strongholds...
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British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 12 October 1854, in Edinburgh; died 1929, in North Berwick.
Painter (including gouache). Interiors with figures, landscapes, urban landscapes, gardens, urban views, architectural views, interiors, portraits.
Having studied at the Royal Scottish Academy under George Paul Chalmers and MacTaggart, Patrick Adam went on to exhibit at the Royal Scottish Academy at the age of 18 and at the London Royal Academy ...
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British, 19th century, male.
Active during the second half of the 19th century.
Painter, architect. Portraits.
A.J. Adams lived in London between 1874 and 1879. He specialised in architectural themes, exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy between 1874 and 1879. He exhibited again with a portrait of A. Oldham....
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British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in England between 1873 and 1902.
Architect, painter.
Cole Adams handled mainly architectural subjects and exhibited six works at the London Royal Academy in about 1880.
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British, 19th century, male.
Active in Ipswich during the second half of the 19th century.
Painter. Architectural views.
Harry Adams exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1888, chiefly with paintings of architectural subjects.
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British, 19th century, male.
Active in London during the first half of the 19th century.
Born 1785, in Plymouth; died 1850.
Architectural draughtsman.
James Adams exhibited architectural drawings at London's Royal Academy between 1808 and 1819.
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T. Affleck Greeves
(b Burgess Hill, Sussex, 1849; d London, Aug 17, 1933).
English architect, editor and draughtsman. After completing his articles with H. N. Goulty of Brighton, he became assistant to William Ralph Emerson, and Architect to Brighton Council. Between 1872 and 1923 he was Editor of Building News. He instituted the Building News Designing Club, which enabled young architects to submit designs for his criticism. He contributed largely to the paper’s illustrations, redrawing designs for lithographic reproduction, and covered a wide range of subjects in a skilful and accurate, if somewhat dull, linear style. He also published several architectural books. Through the owner of Building News he obtained his major architectural commissions, notably Camberwell Polytechnic and Art Gallery (1902). He also designed country houses near London, for example Queensmead Cottage, Kings Road, Windsor, Berks (1883), for Reginald Talbot, as well as in Australia (e.g. Bellevue Hill, Double Bay, for Charles B. Fairfax in the mid-1880s) and America, where he designed timber houses in New Jersey for E. S. Wilde in ...
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British, 19th century, male.
Draughtsman.
Maurice Adams worked in London between 1876 and 1893 and exhibited architectural compositions at the Royal Academy.
