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Abbéma, Louise  

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31 October 2011
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French, 19th – 20th century, female.

Born 30 October 1858, in Étampes; died 1927, in Paris.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, pastellist, engraver, draughtswoman, illustrator. Allegorical subjects, genre scenes, portraits, interiors, flowers. Decorative panels.

Abbéma was a pupil of Chaplin, Henner and Carolus-Duran. Until 1926, she exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français, gaining an honourable commendation in 1881 and a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. She was made a Chévalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1906....

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Acke, Johan Axel Gustav  

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31 October 2011
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Swedish, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1 April 1859, in Stockholm; died 1924.

Painter, engraver, decorative designer. Genre scenes, landscapes.

Johan Axel Gustav Acke worked at the academy of art in Stockholm from 1876 to 1881 before going to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and travelling in Italy, Holland, Belgium and Finland, where he stayed for a considerable time....

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Adam, Henri Albert  

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31 October 2011
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Swiss, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1766, in Geneva; died 1820, in St Petersburg.

Enameller, miniaturist. Figures.

He worked in Geneva, subsequently in Russia. A miniature by him (a portrait of a man) was sold by René Ch. in 1919 for 520 francs.

Geneva: Adrienne Lecouvreur...

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Adam, Hippolyte Benjamin  

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French, 19th century, male.

Born 28 September 1808, in Paris; died 1853, in Paris.

Painter, decorative artist. Portraits, genre scenes.

Hippolyte Adam studied first under Langlois, and then under Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited at the Paris Salon between ...

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Adam, J. Louis  

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French, 19th century, male.

Born 1789, in Paris.

Painter, decorative artist.

J. Louis Adam is known principally for his Taking of the Trocadero, now in the town hall in Angoulême (Charente), and his decorative work for the Hotel Rothschild and the Hotel Schickler in the Place Vendôme in Paris....

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Ademollo, Luigi  

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Italian, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 30 April 1764, in Milan; died 11 February 1849, in Florence.

Painter, draughtsman (including ink), watercolourist, engraver (line-engraving). Allegorical subjects, historical subjects, battles, genre scenes, scenes with figures. Decorative schemes, church decoration, decorative designs.

After studying in Milan and Rome, Ademollo was invited to Florence to decorate the Teatro della Pergola (which has since been destroyed). He settled in Florence until his death and was widely regarded as one of the neo-classical masters of the Tuscan School. At the start of his career, he painted principally arabesques, but went on to develop his technique to the point where Ferdinand III commissioned him to decorate the Pitti Palace and to paint historical and allegorical subjects for its individual rooms. One of his best-known works is ...

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Aglio, Agostino  

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31 October 2011
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Italian, 19th century, male.

Born 1777, in Cremona; died 1857.

Painter, watercolourist, decorative designer, illustrator. Portraits, landscapes with figures, landscapes. Murals, church decoration, theatre decoration.

Agostino Aglio trained in Milan at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. In 1803 he went to England to collaborate with William Wilkins, the architect, on a work concerning the antiquities of ancient Greece, which was published in ...

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Agneni, Eugenio  

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Italian, 19th century, male.

Born 1819, in Sutri, near Rome; died 1888, in Rome.

Painter, fresco artist, decorative designer. Religious subjects, mythological subjects.

Eugenio Agneni was a pupil of Franc Coghetti, under whose direction he found work in 1832. In 1847 Pope Pius IX entrusted him with the production of the paintings for the Throne Room of the Quirinal. In ...

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Agutte, Georgette  

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French, 19th – 20th century, female.

Born 17 May 1867, in Paris; died 4 September 1922, in Chamonix.

Painter, sculptor, draughtswoman. Portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, flowers. Decorative panels.

Georgette Agutte came from a wealthy bourgeois family who were interested in art. She began studying sculpture by Louis Schroeder. She attended lessons given by Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as did Matisse and Rouault, artists of her generation. After her divorce in ...

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Ahlgrenson, Fredrik August or Fritz  

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31 October 2011
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Swedish, 19th century, male.

Born 31 January 1838, in Stockholm; died 26 October 1902.

Painter, decorative artist.

Ahlgrenson completed his studies in Paris and Vienna, where he painted scenery for the theatre. He worked with, and then succeeded, his first teacher, Emil Roberg, at the royal theatre in Stockholm. In ...

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Ahrenberg, Johan Jakob  

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Swedish, 19th century, male.

Born 1847, in Wiborg, Finland.

Watercolourist, decorative artist.

Ahrenberg studied first in Helsinki in 1866, then from 1870 onwards he worked in Stockholm and went on study tours. In 1886, he was appointed as a government architect. He was responsible for many buildings in Finland, Sweden and Russia. His watercolours are mainly of architectural subjects. He received an honourable mention at the Paris Exposition Universelle in ...

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Aikman, William  

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British, 19th – 20th century, male.

Stained glass painter, enameller.

From 1893, Aikman exhibited the designs and executions of his works. He endeavoured to bring back to life in England the science of the master stained-glass painters of the Renaissance as well as that of the artists of the Gothic period....

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Alaux, Jean  

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31 October 2011
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French, 19th century, male.

Born 15 January 1786, in Bordeaux; died 2 March 1864, in Paris.

Painter, fresco artist, watercolourist, draughtsman. Figure compositions, historical subjects, battles, mythological subjects, portraits, interiors with figures, ruins. Murals, decorative panels.

The second son of the painter and decorative artist Pierre Joseph Alaux, Jean studied initially under Pierre Lacour the Elder at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, then under François André Vincent at the Beaux-Arts in Paris (where one of his fellow pupils was Horace Vernet). He went on to study under Pierre Narcisse Guérin, where he made the acquaintance of Ary Scheffer and Eugène Delacroix. Alaux won the Grand Prix de Rome in ...

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Alaux, Pierre-Joseph  

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French, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 16 July 1756, in Lautrec (Tarn); died most probably, in Bordeaux.

Painter, decorative designer. Theatre decoration.

Pierre-Joseph Alaux studied painting and decoration with his father, Joseph, a painter, decorator and master weaver born at the beginning of the 18th century. Pierre-Joseph had several children, including three painter sons: Jean-Pierre the Elder, who created the 'neorama', Jean, nicknamed Romain, and Jean-Paul, known as Gentil. He worked principally in Bordeaux, a town then expanding rapidly, and where in ...

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Albertolli, Fedele  

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Italian, 19th century, male.

Active in Milanc.1812.

Born 1789, in Bedano; died February 1832, in Monza.

Painter, decorative designer.

Fedele Albertolli was a pupil of Darsato at the academy in Venice. Around 1812 he worked in several palaces in Milan.

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Aldin, Cecil Charles Windsor  

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British, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 28 April 1870, in Slough; died 6 January 1935.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman (including ink/wash), pastellist, illustrator. Sporting subjects, genre scenes, hunting scenes, animals, landscapes. Posters, decorative schemes.

Cecil Aldin studied anatomy and animal painting with the animal painter William Frank Calderon at Kensington Art School. His watercolour drawings, with their sure touch and pure colours, brought him to fame. He also wrote and illustrated many children's books, such as ...

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Alinovi, Giuseppe  

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31 October 2011
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Italian, 19th century, male.

Born 25 February 1811, in Parma; died 9 August 1848, in Parma.

Painter, watercolourist, decorative designer. Landscapes, urban landscapes.

Distinguished successor of Giuseppo Boccaccio, Giuseppe Alinovi exhibited a View of Lake Como for the first time in 1837. In 1839, by order of the Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, he painted a setting on the road from Parma to Pontremoli and a stage set with a view of the town of Ischl....

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Alleaume, Ludovic  

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31 October 2011
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French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 24 March 1859, in Angers; died 1941, in Angers.

Painter, decorative artist, lithographer. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, genre scenes. Designs for stained glass.

He was a pupil of Ernest Hebert and Luc-Olivier Merson at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between ...

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Altmann, Anton, the Elder  

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31 October 2011
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German, 19th century, male.

Born 1777, in Datschitz; died 26 February 1818, in Vienna.

Painter, watercolourist, fresco artist, decorative designer. Genre scenes, landscapes, waterscapes.

Anton Altmann established himself in Vienna, where he gained a reputation doing fresco decorations. He did pastoral subjects and landscapes particularly well....

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Amable  

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31 October 2011
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French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 27 February 1846, in Rouen; died 1917.

Painter, draughtsman, decorative artist. Stage sets.

The son of an actor, Amable had his stage debut in a pantomime at the Funambules Theatre on Boulevard du Temple in 1852, which casts doubt on his accepted date of birth, and then played at the Comte Theatre in ...