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...
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
German, 18th century, male.
Active in Nuremberg.
Born 30 December 1705; died 17 September 1761, in Nuremberg.
Engraver (burin), reproductions engraver, painter, art dealer.
Georg Wolfgang Knorr engraved portraits, views and animals after Dürer, Kilian, etc. He published scientific works.
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1814; died 1895.
Painter, engraver, art dealer. History painting.
The painter Louis Martinet (1814-1895) became widely known for organising independent exhibitions in a gallery space at 26, Boulevard des Italiens. Amongst his many activities, Martinet founded the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts together with Théophile Gautier in ...
Flemish School, 17th century, male.
Born 1 May 1602, in Antwerp; died 21 October 1653.
Painter, engraver, art dealer.
Recorded in the register of the Antwerp painters' guild as a pupil of Rubens, Jacques Moermans married Maria Schut in 1626 and qualified as master in ...
Flemish, 16th century, male.
Born c. 1500, in Geele.
Painter, engraver, art dealer.
Antwerp School.
Marten van Geele Peeters was a member of the Antwerp guild from 1525 to 1565.
Flemish School, 16th century, male.
Born 1560, in Antwerp; died c. 1607, in Antwerp.
Painter, art dealer.
Antwerp School.
In 1585 David Ryckaert I appears on the guild list as a paint mixer and canvas stretcher, so he must have worked for other painters. He married Catharina Rem in 1585 and his three sons, David, Martin and Paul, were also his pupils. It is thought that he was especially employed in painting figures into the paintings of his colleagues. Among his works is ...
Dutch, 17th century, male.
Born c. 1590, in Haarlem, c. 1625 according to Bryan's Dictionary (erroneously); died c. 1638, in Amsterdam, in 1679 according to some sources.
Painter, engraver, draughtsman, art dealer. Religious subjects, scenes with figures, landscapes with figures, landscapes, waterscapes.
Hercules Seghers was probably a pupil of Gilles Coninxloo for a period of months before the latter's death in 1607, when Seghers acquired a number of drawings and prints at the sale of the contents of Coninxloo's studio. He was a member of the guild of Haarlem in 1612 and made an arranged marriage to Anneken van den Brugghen (then aged 40) in 1614. He established himself on the Lindengracht in 1619 and was resident in Amsterdam in 1629, Utrecht in 1631 and The Hague in 1633. Acording to some historians, he travelled to Italy, Dalmatia and Montenegro....
Dutch, 16th – 17th century, male.
Born c. 1572, in Antwerp; died 1632, in Amsterdam.
Painter, engraver (burin), picture dealer.
Bernard or Barent van Somer was the brother of Paul van Somer and a pupil of P. Lisart in 1588. He married Leonora, the daughter of Arnold Mystens, and in ...
British, 19th century, male.
Born 13 January 1814, in Drypool (Yorkshire); died January 1900, in Florence.
Painter, engraver (burin), collector, dealer. Portraits.
William Spence studied in London, Rome and Florence, settling in Florence in 1838. He lived in the Villa Medici, just below Fiesole, where he received artist friends including the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt....
Swiss, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1753, in Arlesheim; died 1836, in Munich.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, lithographer, art dealer. Landscapes, waterscapes.
Stuntz painted many watercolour landscapes and published a series of views of Switzerland in collaboration with J. Hartmuum. In 1802 he went to Strasbourg and became established as an art dealer. He then went to Munich and concentrated on lithography....
British, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1751, in Dublin; died 17 June 1814, in London.
Painter, engraver (mezzotint), draughtsman, poet, picture dealer.
Henry Tresham was a pupil of West in Dublin. He won an exhibition prize at the Dublin Society of Artists in 1773. He went to London in ...
French, 16th – 17th century, male.
Born 1561 (?), in France; died after 1626.
Painter, engraver (burin), picture dealer.
Turpin lived in Rome from 1597 to 1602. He made engravings of religious subjects and one entitled Henry IV on Horseback.
Italian, 16th century, male.
Born c. 1560, in Bologna.
Painter, engraver (burin), draughtsman, illustrator, art dealer. Portraits, urban landscapes.
Francesco Valesio is known for a number of his plates illustrating books. These include a series of hermits for Illustrium Anachoretorum Elogio by the Benedictine monk Jacobus Cavcius, published in Venice in ...
British, 19th century, male.
Born 1780, in Edinburgh; died 27 November 1848, in Edinburgh.
Painter, engraver (burin), art dealer. Landscapes.
Andrew Wilson first studied with Alexander Nasmyth, then went to the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1876. Travels in Italy completed his training. In ...
