Italian, 17th century, male.
Active in Rome.
Born 1593, in Borgo San Sepolcro.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, art theorist. Religious subjects. Frescoes.
Served as Secretary to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome (founded by Zuccharo). In 1585, he published in Rome a benchmark Treatise on the Noble Art of Painting...
French, 18th century, male.
Born 1724, in Paris; died 13 April 1806, in Paris.
Painter, draughtsman, writer and administrator. Religious subjects, portraits, animals, still-lifes (including flowers, fruit, game), cats, decorative motifs.
Jean-Jacques Bachelier was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Pierre. He later became the director of painting at the Manufacture de Sèvres (Sèvres Porcelaine Factory), and founded the École Royale Gratuite de Dessin, an independent school of industrial arts, where he worked very successfully as a painter of flowers and still-lifes. The school, intended for young artisans aspiring to make a living in the applied arts, taught ornamental design, architecture, and the drawing of the human figure, animals and plants. He also tried his hand at biblical subjects. His works include: ...
German, 15th century, male.
Born c. 1435; died 1504.
Painter, miniaturist, illuminator, writer, printer. Religious subjects.
School of Alsace.
Hans Baemler's name appears for the first time in 1453. He established himself in Augsburg as a printer. His name appears on two miniatures, a Crucifixion...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 2 September 1911, in Charlotte (North Carolina); died 12 March 1988, in New York.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, lithographer, screen printer, engraver, collage artist, newspaper cartoonist, illustrator, art theorist. Religious subjects, figure compositions, local figures. Humorous cartoons, frontispieces, stage sets...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 16 January 1834, in Mirabeau, Provence; died 28 December 1912, in Brignoles, Provence.
Painter, writer. Religious subjects.
Jules Marie Béguin was ordained in 1857, and became a canon in 1902. That same year, he published a book on St Mary Magdalene. He left a corpus of over 400 paintings in a number of churches in Provence including Cuers, Camps-la-Source, Puget-sur-Argens....
British, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 28 November 1757, in London, United Kingdom; died 12 August 1827, in London.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, poet. Religious subjects, figure compositions.
William Blake was the son of a draper. He showed a strong artistic tendency from an early age and, at the age of 10, started to study drawing at Henry Par’s Academy in the Strand. He learnt engraving under Ryland and was then apprenticed to James Basire. During his seven years with Basire (1772–1779), Blake was made to copy the sculptures of Westminster Abbey and of London’s old churches, thus stimulating his fascination with Gothic art. He studied briefly at the Royal Academy in 1779, where he made friends with Barry, Fuseli, Mortimer, Flaxman, and Stodhart. While there, his studies concentrated on Michelangelo....
French, 17th century, male.
Born 1604, in Tours; died 14 February 1676, in Paris.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver (etching/burin), art writer. Religious subjects, historical subjects, figures, genre scenes, interior scenes, architectural interiors, landscapes.
The son of a tailor, Abraham Bosse went to Paris aged about 15 to improve his drawing skills, which showed considerable promise. He appears to have started his study of engraving under Melchior Tavernier. Back in his native city in 1622, he engraved a ...
Belgian, 19th century, male.
Born 1816, in Courtrai; died 1878, in Antwerp.
Painter, writer. Religious subjects, genre scenes.
This Flemish artist was a pupil of Gustave Wappers and Nicaise de Keyser in Antwerp.
Courtrai: Praying Monk (1841)
Italian, 19th century, male.
Born 1814, in Sondrio; died 1878, in Milan.
Painter, art writer. Religious subjects, historical subjects, portraits.
Caimi was a pupil of Giuseppe Diotti in Bergamo and of Luigi Sabatelli at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where he later (between ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1808 ou 1813, in Paris; died 1881, in Paris.
Painter, sculptor, poet. Religious subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
A pupil of Guillon-Lethère at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1827, Chatillon exhibited at the Salon from 1831. He published collections of poems illustrated by his collaborator and friend André Gil, with prefaces by Théophile Gautier, ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1787, in Toulon; died 1880, in Paris.
Painter, writer.
He studied under Lebarbier the Elder and Girodet, and exhibited Christ on the Cross at the Paris Salon of 1841. Among his other works are Healing of the Paralysed Man, Sons of Zebedee...
Flemish School, 16th – 17th century, male.
Active also active in Italy.
Born c. 1561, in Antwerp; died 1634, in Brussels.
Painter, architect, writer. Religious subjects.
Antwerp School.
This artist was a pupil of Martin de Vos. He worked in Paris in 1576, in Rome and in Naples with Giovanni Franco, whose daughter he married. He was in Antwerp between ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 7 June 1931, in Eatonton (Georgia).
Painter, draughtsman (including ink), collage artist, print artist, sculptor, collector, art historian. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, figure compositions, scenes with figures, landscapes. Designs for stained glass.
David C. Driskell earned a BFA at Howard University in ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 25 March 1813, in Paris; died 16 January 1880, in Montigny-lès-Cormeilles (Val d'Oise).
Painter, pastellist, draughtsman, lithographer, art critic. Religious subjects, allegorical subjects, still-lifes. Designs for stained glass.
He studied initially under his uncle Auguste Hesse before going on to complete his artistic education in the studios of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Denis Foyatier. He exhibited at the Paris Salon ...
Italian, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 28 June 1674, in Rome; died 5 March 1755, in Rome.
Painter, engraver, musician, scholar. Religious subjects, portraits.
Pierleone Ghezzi was the son and pupil of Giuseppe Ghezzi. He was commissioned by Pope Benedict XIV, together with L. Garzi, F. Trevisani and B. Luti, to paint, among other things, a series of ...
Belgian, 19th century, male.
Born 8 March 1821, in Liège; died 15 February 1906, in Liège.
Painter, engraver, art restorer, art critic. Religious subjects, historical subjects. Church decoration.
He was a pupil at the academies in Liège and in Düsseldorf. He worked on the decoration and restoration of numerous paintings in churches in Liège and along the Meuse. He was the director of ...
Italian, 18th century, male.
Born 1703, in Pisa, to English parents; died 16 August 1778, in Florence.
Painter, engraver, scholar. Religious subjects, portraits.
Hugford studied art in Florence.
Florence (Church of S Felicità): St Raphael
Florence (Mus.): several paintings
German, 18th – 19th century, male.
Active in Aachen.
Born 1758; died 1834.
Painter, poet.
Ferdinand Jansen painted views of Aachen and the surrounding area in oils and watercolours. He also painted portraits, including a self-portrait, and religious works. In 1825, he restored paintings in the vault of the cathedral and furnished the west vault with a painting....
French, 19th century, male.
Born 10 May 1809, in Boulogne; died 8 April 1877, in Comborn (Corrèze).
Painter, illustrator, art writer. Historical subjects, religious subjects, military subjects, portraits, genre scenes, scenes with figures, rustic scenes, landscapes, harbour scenes. Church decoration.
Philippe Auguste Jeanron studied under Souchon in Lille and then Sigalon in Paris. He made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1831, was awarded a second class medal in 1833 and exhibited further in 1848, 1850, 1852, 1853 and 1855....
Spanish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1865, in Barcelona; died 1915.
Painter, art critic. Religious subjects, genre scenes, landscapes.
Sebastián Junyent Sans studied at the academy of fine arts in Barcelona. As well as a painter, he was art critic of the review Youth ( ...
