Belgian, 20th century, male.
Born 1912, in Zingem.
Painter, engraver. Religious subjects.
Jos van den Abeele was a student at the fine art academies of Audenaerde, Ghent and Tournai. He used country folk as models for his works, which were often symbolic in nature.
Filipino, 20th century, male.
Born 1930, in Bohol, Philippines.
Sculptor. Figures, historical subjects, religious subjects, allegory, myths.
Napoleon Veloso Abueva graduated in 1953 from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UPCFA), where he was mentored by the first National Artist for Sculpture, Guillermo Tolentino. He received another scholarship from the Fulbright/Smith–Mundt Foundation and in 1955 finished his master’s degree at the Cranbook Academy of Art in Michigan. He also studied at the University of Kansas and Harvard University. Regarded as pioneer of Philippine modern sculpture, Abueva also works in the figurative style and uses a variety of material, such as local hardwood, metal, marble, adobe, and cement. Among his early innovations are his ‘buoyant sculptures’, which he introduced in 1951. Many of his works are at the University of the Philippines campus in Quezon City, including the Crucifix of the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice (1957...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 3 February 1864, in Collobrières (Var); died 8 October 1923, in Collobrières.
Painter, watercolourist. Religious subjects, allegorical subjects, figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes with figures, seascapes.
Joseph Acosta came from a family of modest means and it was only because of a municipal bursary that he was able to take up studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris ...
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 9 February 1927, in London; died 9 March 2005, in London.
Painter, illustrator, theatre designer. Religious themes.
London Group.
Norman Adams was a student at Harrow School of Art (1940-1946) before he went on to the Royal College of Art in London (...
Danish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1857 or 19 November 1859, in Ansager (Jutland); died 1925.
Painter. Religious subjects, portraits, landscapes.
Although Hans Agersnap did execute some portraits and religious paintings, he specialised in studying Denmark and reproduced the steppes of Jutland in various guises. His snow impressions are of particular interest....
Hungarian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1850, in Dombóvár; died 1919.
Painter. Religious subjects, genre scenes, animals.
Szolnok Artists' Colony.
Julius Agghazy studied initially at the academy in Vienna, then with Alex von Wagner and subsequently in Paris with Munkácsy. He sent his first picture to the Budapest Exhibition when he was 24. He executed a series of religious paintings portraying ...
Spanish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1837, in Orihuela; died 1919, in Valencia.
Painter. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.
Joaquim Agrasot y Juan trained under Francisco Martínez at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia, and he completed his studies in Rome....
British, 20th century, male.
Born 13 January 1926, in Edinburgh.
Painter. Religious subjects, portraits, landscapes, still-lifes.
London Group.
Craigie Aitchison studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1952 to 1954. In 1955 he was awarded a British Council scholarship and travelled to Italy, where he was affected by the light and landscapes of that country and by early Italian art. Using a deliberately blurred diaphanous technique, he paints a wide range of subjects in a Symbolist style with a certain degree of real or apparent naivety. His portraits, typically set against single colour backgrounds, recall the work of André Derain. It is in his poetic and harmonious landscapes that his affection for Italy is most apparent, as are his references to his native Scotland. Aitchison's subjects have included the Isle of Arran and his farmhouse near Siena, with his use of colour becoming more vibrant and lyrical as his work developed. A favourite religious subject is the Crucifixion which, like the artists of the Italian Renaissance, he sets in the landscapes that surround him. In ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 18 February 1912, in Baku.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, engraver, decorative designer. Religious subjects, figures, nudes, scenes with figures, landscapes, seascapes, architectural views, still-lifes, animals. Designs for tapestries, designs for mosaics, murals, church decoration.
A self-taught artist of Armenian origin, George Akopian went to France in ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 18 January 1868, in Paris.
Painter, illustrator. Religious subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
Henri Alberti studied under Doucet, J. Lefebvre and Luc-Olivier Merson. He first exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1894, and showed work there until 1920...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 26 October 1945, in Beaumont (Texas).
Painter. Scenes with figures, religious subjects.
John Alexander is the leader of the Houston school known as Fresh Paint. His religious paintings have a theatrical quality, with bright colours and a sometimes primitive style. Several of his paintings are of fantastical scenes....
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 ...
Spanish, 20th century, male.
Active in Argentina.
Born 11 August 1878, in Barcelona.
Sculptor.
Mateo Alonso is best known for his monumental Christ the Redeemer, which stands on the border of Chile and Argentina.
Buenos Aires (National Mus.)
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 7 December 1881, in Mede Lomellina (Pavia); died 8 September 1941, in Portofino.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator. Figure compositions, religious subjects, figures, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, still-lifes (including flowers). Murals.
Giuseppe Amisani trained with Cesare Tallone and Vespesiano Bignami at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. In 1914 he began making frequent trips to Portofino and London; he also travelled around France, Egypt (where Prince Farouk commissioned paintings from him in the 1920s), Algeria and South America. He exhibited his works during his travels....
20th century.
Born 7 April 1887, in Chiari, near Brescia; died 9 November 1950, at Cavaglio Spoccia, near Novara (Piedmont).
Painter, pastellist, watercolourist, draughtsman. Religious subjects, figures, portraits.
Symbolism.
Attilio Andreoli studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and was a pupil of Clemente Tafuri at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. He painted figures and portraits, often of women, where features seem to dissolve in the vibrations of ochre and dark tones....
Canadian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1870; died 1963.
Sculptor. Figures.
Henri Angers sculpted religious figures in an archaic regional style. Four of his sculptures were burnt when a fire destroyed the church of St-Amboise in Loretteville, Quebec.
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Born 1929, in Ostend.
Sculptor, painter. Religious subjects, nudes.
D'Anneel studied at the Brussels Academy. He became a teacher at the college of fine arts in the district of Uccle in Brussels.
Belgian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 3 January 1854, in Antwerp; died 1930.
Painter. History painting, religious subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
Anthony was the son of a silversmith and studied under L. Hendricx, a painter of historical subjects. His altar panel with the Story of St Barbara...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1879, in Naples.
Painter. Religious subjects, figures, landscapes.
Aprea was a pupil of the history painter Domenico Morelli and the Realist painter Filippo Palizzi at the fine art academy in Naples. As early as 1900 he showed his painting Queen of the Sky...
Brazilian, 20th century, male.
Born 1942, in São Vincente.
Painter.
Iaponi Araujo exhibited in Brazil, the USA, London, Milan and Paris. Inspired by religious feelings, he paints scenes of prayer, fear and jubilation.
