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Abreu, João Nunes de  

Portuguese, 18th century, male.

Active in Lisbon at the beginning of the 18th century.

Died 1738, in Lisbon.

Painter, designer of ornamental architectural features.

Abreu's works in Lisbon include the ceilings of the Menino de Deus church and the vestibule of the church of Nossa Senhora da Graça....

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Abriot, David Nicolaus  

German, 18th century, male.

Active still in 1810.

Born 1757, in Mompelgard.

Draughtsman, architect.

He furnished proof of remarkable aptitude for drawing while very young, such that at 14 he was enrolled for the academy of fine arts in Stuttgart. He was a brilliant student, and on ...

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Achmiller, Franz Xaver  

German, 18th century, male.

Active in Munich at the beginning of the 18th century.

Sculptor. Architectural views.

Munich (Royal Collection): Façade of a House (drawing)

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Acton, S.  

British, 18th – 19th century, male.

Active at the end of the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century.

Painter, engraver. Architectural views.

S. Acton lived in London between 1791 and 1802 and exhibited at the Royal Academy.

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Adam, Grégoire Joseph  

French, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1737, in Valenciennes; died 1820, in Valenciennes.

Sculptor.

Grégoire Adam is not mentioned in artists' records, but Gombert, the architect from Lille who built the Hôtel Merghelynck at Ypres, thought him fit to compete with the best artists of French Flanders in the ornamentation of this supreme expression of 18th-century art. He decorated one of the salons, installing in it medallions of ...

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Adam, Jean  

French, 18th – 19th century, male.

Active at the beginning of the 19th century.

Engraver. Architectural views.

Jean Adam was a pupil of the older Sellier and of Van Mechel. He made the plates for Belidore's Hydraulic Architecture ( Architecture Hydraulique), for Carnot's Attack and Defence of Strongholds...

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Adam, Robert  

British, 18th century, male.

Born 3 July 1728, in Kirkcaldy (Fife); died 3 March 1792, in London.

Draughtsman, watercolourist, engraver, architect. Landscapes, architectural views, interiors, ruins. Decorative models.

Robert Adam was the son of William Adam, a well-known Scottish architect. He initially trained in his father's practice in partnership with his bothers, John and James. Examples of his early architectural work include Hopetoun House in Lothian (c. ...

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Adelcrantz, Carl Fredrik  

Swedish, 18th century, male.

Born 1716; died 1796.

Draughtsman, architect.

Stockholm, 19 May 1992: Designs for the decorations for a royal ceremony (watercolour and ink, 9 × 17¾ ins/22 × 45 cm) SEK 6,500

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Agnelli, Federico  

Italian, 18th century, male.

Active in Milanc.1700.

Painter, engraver.

Essentially a portraitist, but also painted several emblematic subjects and architectural themes. His engravings include a series of plates representing Milan Cathedral that he signed in conjunction with the architect Carlo Butio.

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Agnelli, Jacopo  

Italian, 18th century, male.

Active in Ferrarac.1740.

Engraver, designer of ornamental architectural features.

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Agrote, Antonio  

Italian, 18th century, male.

Active in Milanc.1750.

Painter. Architectural views.

Paintings by Agrote feature in chapels at the Carmelite Church in Milan and the church of S Maria in Brescia; Carbori executed the figures in the latter.

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Aigner, Karl  

Polish, 18th century, male.

Active probably at the end of the 18th century.

Painter.

Karl Aigner was the brother of the architect Pierre Aigner and was sent by the King of Poland, Stanislaus August, to Rome in 1786 in order to perfect his painting skills. He successfully attended the city's art academy, but died a young man....

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Aillard  

French, 18th century, male.

Active in Paris.

Engraver, designer of ornamental architectural features.

Aillard's known works are based on the drawings of Gilles-Paul Cauvet.

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Alberghetti, Giovanni  

Italian, 17th – 18th century, male.

Sculptor, founder, designer of ornamental architectural features. Religious subjects.

London, 3 May 1977: Baptismal Fonts (bronze, h. 14¼ ins/36.5 cm, diam. 17 ins/43.2 cm) GBP 12,000

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Albert, C. G.  

German, 18th century, male.

Active during the second half of the 18th century.

Painter (porcelain), designer of ornamental architectural features.

Taken on by the Fürstenberg porcelain factory, he painted a certain number of dinner services (Brunswick, Kassel) with game and bird motifs.

Brunswick (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.)...

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Alberti, Carlo Filippo  

Italian, 18th century, male.

Active in 1736.

Born in Piedmont.

Painter.

An architect known above all for his ornamental work in theatres.

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Albertolli, Giocondo  

Italian, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 24 July 1742, in Bedano; died 15 or 16 November 1839, in Milan.

Sculptor, designer of ornamental architectural features, draughtsman.

Studied initially at an atelier of sculpture in Parma, then at the academy there and in Rome. His fame as a designer of ornamental features spread rapidly and he was appointed to teach at the Milan academy in ...

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Albrecht, Carl  

German, 18th century, male.

Engraver, architect.

He is documented in Breslau (now Wroclaw) in 1749. He is thought to be confused with the painter known simply as Albrecht, whose drawings were the basis of etchings done in Memmingen in 1779.

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Aleijadinho  

Brazilian, 18th century, male.

Born c. 1738, in Vila Rica (now Ouro Prêto), Minas Gerais; died 18 November 1814, in Villa Rica.

Sculptor.

Aleijadinho studied European style from engravings and prints in contemporary journals of architecture. He was fascinated by the elaborate Rococo style and southern German religious representations. He was given the nickname Aleijadinho (the little cripple) because of an illness that progressively destroyed his fingers and toes from ...

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Alekseev, Fedor Yakovlevich  

Russian, 18th – 19th century, male.

Born 1754, in St Petersburg; died 1824, in St Petersburg.

Painter, watercolourist. Urban landscapes, architectural views, still-lifes. Stage sets (?).

The son of a retired soldier employed as a custodian at the fine arts academy in St Petersburg, Alekseev trained there ...