Russian, 19th century, male.
Active between 1809 and 1826 in Moscow.
Engraver (line-engraving).
This artist belonged to the school of the Moscow printer and collector P.P. Beketov. Under the direction of J. Rosanov, N.Z. Sokolov and A.J. Ossipov, Afanasiev engraved a series of three hundred portraits of famous Russians, published in three volumes between ...
Spanish, 17th century, male.
Activec.1645.
Engraver (line-engraving).
Engraver of the frontispiece for Museum of Unknown Spanish Medals ( Museo de las medallas desconocidos espagnolas) by the scholar, collector and patron of the arts Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, Lord of the Manor of Figaruelas....
Italian, 18th century, male.
Active in Cremona.
Engraver (etching), draughtsman.
No details are known of this acknowledged art lover and collector.
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1 May 1786, in Lyons; died 2 July 1872, in Lyons.
Painter, engraver.
Balthazar Alexis started out as an engraver before going on to draw and paint landscapes and portraits. He is best known as an avid collector, whose collection was sold off in Lyons in February ...
German, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 1633; died 1714.
Engraver.
This prince was in turn a considerable novelist, a poet and a large-scale art collector. On becoming regent in 1685, he spent much time building up the Brunswick painting gallery until it was really quite outstanding. A small number of plates are attributed to him. It is thought that he was given technical advice by Prince Rupert of the Palatinate....
German, 19th century, male.
Active in Frankfurt am Main around the middle of the 19th century.
Engraver (burin/steel).
In his Handbook for Collectors of Copperplate Engravings ( Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler), Aloys Apell only mentions Backenberg's Love in an ornamental frame. According to Mengs he may also be the creator of the following engavings : ...
British, male.
Born in Loughborough (Leicestershire).
Painter, engraver.
Harry Baldwin was a collector and an engraver.
French, 17th century, male.
Born 1653, in Aix-en-Provence; died 1703, in Aix-en-Provence.
Painter, engraver. Portraits.
The education of Sébastien Barras was taken in hand by Boyer d'Aiguilles, a rich collector, painter and engraver in Aix. He was Sébastien's first master, and sent him to study in Rome. On his return, he painted, in the house of his teacher, a copy of the ceiling executed in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome by Pietro da Cortona ...
British, 18th century, male.
Active in London during the first half of the 18th century.
Engraver (aquatint).
Thomas Beard's portraits, engraved after P. Ashton and Godfrey Kneller, are highly rated by collectors.
British, 18th century, male.
Born 1723, in London; died 1765, in Copenhagen.
Engraver.
Carl Bertram was a collector. Nagler says that he personally engraved the frontispiece of the book he had published at his own expense: A History of the Ancient Painters of the British People...
British, 20th century, female.
Born 30 August 1911, in Norwood (London); died 1991, in Hampstead (London).
Painter, illustrator, muralist, lithographer, collector. Still-lifes, figures, landscapes, nature.
East London Group, London Group.
Phyllis Bray was the daughter of William de Bray, attaché to the mother of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. Her first husband was the painter John Cooper, and her second was Eric Phillips. She studied on a scholarship at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, where her tutor was Henry Tonks. She was a leading figure in the formation of the ...
Flemish School, 19th century, male.
Born 13 September 1814, in Sept-Fontaines, near Luxembourg; died 19 February 1853, in Ghent.
Engraver, collector.
Dutch, 18th century, male.
Born 22 January 1701, in Amsterdam; died 1781, in Amsterdam.
Draughtsman, engraver, collector.
French, 18th century, male.
Born 31 October 1692, in Paris; died 5 September 1765, in Paris.
Engraver, draughtsman, collector.
Son of the Comtesse de Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières de Caylus fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, and when peace came he travelled in Italy, Greece and Asia Minor, from which he brought back archaeological treasures collected in his search for the ruins of Troy, Ephesus and Colophon. Returning to France, he devoted himself to engraving and issued more than two hundred prints after Rubens, Van Dyck and Leonardo da Vinci, all held in the royal collection. He was made an honorary councillor of the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture on ...
German, 18th century, male.
Born 1700, in Coburg; died 1756, in Leipzig.
Engraver.
A collector, he taught at the University of Leipzig.
French, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1753, in Paris; died 1820, in Paris.
Engraver.
Charles Melchior Descourtis was a student of Janinet. His prints were highly prized by the collectors of his time. He made colour prints using several plates. His notable works are Don Quixote...
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, 20th century, male.
Born 31 July 1901, in Le Havre; died 12 May 1985, in Paris.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, lithographer, writer, collector.
At the age of 15, Jean Dubuffet attended evening classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre and then enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris, staying there for six months. He met Suzanne Valadon, Max Jacob, Raoul Dufy, André Masson, Fernand Léger, and Juan Gris between 1919 and 1922. In 1924, at barely 24 years old, he gave up painting for the first time and went to work for a central heating company in Buenos Aires for six months. When he returned to France, Dubuffet joined the family wine business in Le Havre. A few years later, he established his wholesale wine trading business in the Bercy district of Paris. He returned to painting full time in 1934 and appointed a manager for his business. Three years later, threatened with bankruptcy, he had to go back to his business and abandoned painting a second time. That year Dubuffet married Émilie Carlu (Lili), and in 1942, he abandoned his business for good and started painting again, this time until his death. He became acquainted with Jean Paulhan and, through him, met Paul Éluard, Pierre Seghers, André Frénaud, Jean Fautrier, Francis Ponge, and Eugène Guillevic. That year was pivotal in respect to the early development of his work; it was then that his style developed, and the breaking with the past can be seen in ...
British, 19th century, male.
Born 30 June 1798, in Edinburgh; died 15 May 1869, in London.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, writer, collector. Botanical subjects, insects.
Alexander Dyce was an amateur sketcher and painter. His watercolours and drawings were chiefly of flowers and butterflies.
London (Victoria and Albert Mus.): ...
Italian, 18th century, male.
Active in Florence.
Draughtsman, engraver, collector. Portraits. Vignettes, decorative designs.
Antonio Fedi I published two series of engravings, Bronze Low-reliefs and Marble Group, and drew vignettes for G. Buganza's Treasury of Latin Verse. Three of his engravings from 1788 are preserved in the national library of Florence. F. Rainaldi engraved some of Fedi's portraits of celebrated composers....
