French, 19th century, male.
Born 28 April 1845, in Rouen; died September 1909, in Rouen.
Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, architect, art writer.
Jules Adeline was a first-time exhibitor at the Paris Salon in 1873, when, as a young architect, he initially contributed sketches and architectural projects. From ...
Italian, 17th century, male.
Active in Rome.
Born 1593, in Borgo San Sepolcro.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, art theorist. Religious subjects. Frescoes.
Served as Secretary to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome (founded by Zuccharo). In 1585, he published in Rome a benchmark Treatise on the Noble Art of Painting...
Spanish, 17th century, male.
Born 1640, in Cordova; died 1680, in Madrid.
Painter, engraver, poet, writer.
Alfaro studied with Antonio de Castillo and later served an apprenticeship with Velázquez in Madrid, copying the works of Titian, Rubens and Van Dyck. His Incarnation in the church of the Discalced Carmelites in Cordova and ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1808, in Moulins (Allier); died 3 April 1836, in Bourbon-l'Archambault (Allier).
Engraver (etching), lithographer, writer. Landscapes.
Perhaps Achille Allier's greatest merit is that he was and remained an essentially local artist, having made a determined effort to remain outside the artistic mainstream. After completing a number of engravings in ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 13 November 1914, in Fulham, London; died 12 June 2000, in Aberdeen.
Painter, lithographer, wood engraver, poet. Still-lifes, landscapes, portraits.
Leonard Appelbee studied under Clive Gardiner at Goldsmiths College from 1931 to 1934, and under Barnett Freedman at the Royal College of Art ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 16 September 1886, in Strasbourg; died 7 June 1966, in Basel.
Collage artist, engraver, sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator, poet.
Dadaism.
Der Moderne Bund, Dadaist groups in Zurich and Cologne, Artistes Radicaux, Das Neue Leben, Paris Surrealist Group, Abstraction-Création.
Hans Arp joined the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg in 1902, at the age of 16. In 1903 he began painting and contributed to a local magazine. In 1904 he made his first trip to Paris. From 1905 to 1907 he studied under Ludwig von Hoffmann at the fine arts academy in Weimar, where he attended modern art exhibitions. He returned to Strasbourg, which his family then left for Weggis, on the edge of the Lac des Quatre Cantons in Switzerland. Between 1908 and 1910 he made a second trip to Paris and worked for a time at the Académie Julian. In Weggis he completed his first Abstract compositions and learned the art of modelling. In 1911 he co-founded the group...
Italian, 19th century, male.
Born 24 October 1798, in Turin; died 15 January 1866, in Turin.
Painter, draughtsman, caricaturist, lithographer, writer. Historical subjects, battles, figures, landscapes with figures, landscapes, waterscapes, seascapes, architectural views.
Massimo Azeglio was the son of Marquis Cesare Taparelli d'Azeglio who was made minister plenipotentiary to the Holy See by King Victor Emmanuel in ...
German, 15th century, male.
Born c. 1435; died 1504.
Painter, miniaturist, illuminator, writer, printer. Religious subjects.
School of Alsace.
Hans Baemler's name appears for the first time in 1453. He established himself in Augsburg as a printer. His name appears on two miniatures, a Crucifixion...
Belgian, 19th century, male.
Born 24 June 1837, in Ostend.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver (etching), writer.
Edgar Baes painted seascapes and landscapes in both oils and watercolour. His paintings include Martyrdom of Marguerite of Louvain and Storm in the Dunes, his engravings include Death of Marguerite of Bourgogne...
Flemish, 16th century, male.
Born c. 1525, in Antwerp; died c. 1598.
Painter, engraver, poet. Genre scenes, village scenes, local scenes (kermesses).
Antwerp School, Flemish School.
A member of the guild of St Luke in 1540, Pieter Balten became the dean of the guild in 1569. As an artist he was much influenced by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Indeed, a large composition by Pieter Balten now in the museum in Amsterdam, ...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 2 January 1870, in Wedel (Holstein); died 1938, in Rostock.
Sculptor, painter, engraver, dramatist, writer.
Barlach was the son of a country doctor. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Hamburg from 1888 to 1891 and was then a student of Robert Dietz at the academy in Dresden from 1891 to 1895. He then went to Paris where he worked for a year at the Académie Julian. He became interested in the work of Millet, Meunier and Van Gogh - art with social implications. When he returned to Germany in 1898 he worked as a designer on the journal ...
British, 19th century, male.
Born 26 March 1809, in Kentish Town, London; died 13 September 1854, at sea, between Malta and Marseilles.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver, draughtsman, writer. Genre scenes, landscapes with figures, landscapes, topographical views.
Orientalism.
William Henry Bartlett is thought to have exhibited at the Royal Academy ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 4 April 1872, in Nîmes; died 1922, in Rueil (Hauts-de-Seine).
Draughtsman, engraver (dry-point/etching), lithographer, dramatist, poet. Figures, nudes, portraits. Posters.
Henry Bataille intended originally to be a painter. He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the private Académie Julian in Paris. As an engraver, he learned the dry point, etching and lithography techniques. He was also attracted by literature and published his first collection of poetry in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 2 September 1911, in Charlotte (North Carolina); died 12 March 1988, in New York.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, lithographer, screen printer, engraver, collage artist, newspaper cartoonist, illustrator, art theorist. Religious subjects, figure compositions, local figures. Humorous cartoons, frontispieces, stage sets...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 13 June 1884; died 20 September 1924.
Painter, engraver, poet. Portraits, landscapes.
A pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angers under Eugène Brunclair, Charles Berjole exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1921 to 1924. In 1988, his work was honoured in an exhibition entitled ...
Italian, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 18th century, in Parma; died 1829.
Painter, engraver, architect, writer.
Giuseppe Bertoluzzi's watercolours and etchings are on display in the academy and royal library in Parma.
Parma (Accademia)
Parma (Royal Library)
Paris, 12 May 1919...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 5 February 1902, in Mestry (Calvados); died 23 April 1982, in Rochefort-en-Yvelines.
Painter (gouache), sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, newspaper cartoonist, humorist artist, poster artist, illustrator, writer. Landscapes with figures, landscapes, village views. Advertising art.
Georges Pierre Beuville studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and then at the École des Arts Décoratifs....
British, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 28 November 1757, in London, United Kingdom; died 12 August 1827, in London.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, poet. Religious subjects, figure compositions.
William Blake was the son of a draper. He showed a strong artistic tendency from an early age and, at the age of 10, started to study drawing at Henry Par’s Academy in the Strand. He learnt engraving under Ryland and was then apprenticed to James Basire. During his seven years with Basire (1772–1779), Blake was made to copy the sculptures of Westminster Abbey and of London’s old churches, thus stimulating his fascination with Gothic art. He studied briefly at the Royal Academy in 1779, where he made friends with Barry, Fuseli, Mortimer, Flaxman, and Stodhart. While there, his studies concentrated on Michelangelo....
French, 19th century, male.
Born 17 November 1813, in Castres (Tarn); died 1882, in Paris.
Engraver, art writer.
A pupil of Calamatta and Mercuri, Charles Blanc was Director of the École des Beaux-Arts from 1 April 1848 to March 1850. He was both an engraver and writer and is best known as the author of ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 9 November 1932, in Chalon-sur-Saône; died 9 August 1992, in Paris.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator, poet.
Alexandre Bonnier studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Aubusson. He became a teacher and then a director, first of the École des Beaux-Arts in Moulins, and then of the École des Beaux-Arts in Lille. He was a driving force behind the administration of art education in France. In his first period, Alexandre Bonnier used traditional materials in his paintings, in a style somewhere between two apparently opposite poles: surreal eroticism and informal abstraction. Pieyre de Mandiargues, justifiably comparing him with Gustave Moreau and Fautrier, notes that Bonnier 'is driven to seek and to find pictorial equivalents to sensations of sound, taste and touch'. These kinds of nudes, which evoke touch or sound, were the subject of his ...
