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Bull, Knud Geelmuyden  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Norwegian, 19th century, male.

Born 1811, in Bergen; died 1889.

Painter. Landscapes, mountainscapes, urban landscapes.

Condemned to 40 years of forced labour for forgery and deported to Norfolk Island in the Pacific in 1846, Knud Bull was transferred to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) the following year. Freed conditionally in ...

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Kokan  

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Published online:
31 October 2011
Collection:
Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Japanese, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1747, in Edo (now Tokyo); died 1818, in Edo.

Painter, engraver.

Kokan, a pupil of Harunobu (1725?-1770), one of the great ukiyo-e masters, is infamous as one of the most brilliant forgers of his master’s work, openly admitting his wrongdoing in his autobiography ...