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Çigdem Kafesçioglu and Walter B. Denny

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Aerni, Franz Theodor  

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 19 October 1853, in Aarburg; died 1918.

Painter. Genre scenes, landscapes.

Having studied with Malatesta at the art academy in Modena, Franz Theodor Aerni accompanied Herm-Carrodi on his trip to Egypt and Cyprus, bringing back many studies (1879...

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Agbokou, Félix Nyakpogbé  

Togolese, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 12 February 1977, in Lomé.

Painter (mixed media).

Félix Agbokou studied under Sokey Edoth between 1996 and 1999. He abandoned realism in favour of depicting a fantasy world, and his paintings are spontaneous to the extent that they have no predefined theme. Painted at night and by candlelight, each series of paintings is directly inspired by its immediate surroundings: Lomé, Kouma, Abouri or Ghana. Agbokou uses materials that come readily to hand - leaves of indigenous plants or the bark of local trees - and mixes them with acrylic paint, outlining his forms and individual colours with a black line obtained from a mixture of coconut milk and old nails. His work has featured at group exhibitions, including the ...

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Çigdem Kafesçioglu and Walter B. Denny

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Akeley, Carl Ethan  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1864, in Clarendon (New York); died 1926, in Mont Mikeno or Kabale, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo).

Sculptor, photographer. Animals.

Carl Ethan Akeley began working as a taxidermist at the age of 17 at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, New York. He later became associate curator at the Roosevelt American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he laid out the African rooms and the Hall of African Mammals was named after him. On trips to Africa for the museum, Akeley observed animals closely. In ...

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‛Alawi family  

Marianne Barrucand

[‛Alawī; Filālī]

Islamic dynasty and rulers of Morocco since 1631. Like their predecessors the Sa‛dis, the ‛Alawis are sharīfs (descendants of the Prophet Muhammad), and both dynasties are sometimes classed together as the ‘Sharifs of Morocco’. From a base in the Tafilalt region of south-east Morocco, the ‛Alawi family was able to overcome the centrifugal forces exerted by the Berber tribes who had destroyed the Sa‛di state in the first half of the 17th century. To restore political authority and territorial integrity, Mawlay Isma‛il (reg 1672–1727) added a new black slave corps to the traditional tribal army. Although royal power was weak during the 19th century and the early 20th, when the French and Spanish established protectorates, the ‛Alawis’ power was fully restored after independence from the French in 1956.

‛Alawi building activities (see Islamic art, §II, 7(v)) were concentrated in the four cities that have served as their capitals: Fez and Marrakesh at various times from ...

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Algeria, Alvarez  

French, 19th century, male.

Active at the end of the 19th century.

Painter, watercolourist. Genre scenes.

Algeria painted a watercolour entitled Cardinal.

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Alléon, Maurice Paul  

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born in Paris.

Painter, pastellist. Portraits.

His work Algerian Woman was shown at the Paris Salon of 1888. He participated in the Expositions Internationales de Blanc et Noir in 1885 and 1886.

Paris, 9 July 1992: Portrait of a Woman...

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Almeida, J.  

French, 19th century, male.

Painter.

Almeida exhibited at the Paris Salons of 1881 and 1882 with Flight into Egypt and At Rest, respectively.

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Ambros, Raphael von  

Bohemian School, 19th century, male.

Born 1845, in Prague; died 1895.

Painter. Genre scenes, local scenes.

Orientalism.

At the Miethkes exhibition (1881), and at the 1887 Salon de Paris, Raphael von Ambros showed his works Child Killers and Old Egypt.

London, 31 March 1906...

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Amelaine, Gaston Claude  

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born in St-Benin-d'Azy.

Engraver.

This artist was a pupil of Dézarrois and Dubouchet. He exhibited a portrait after Ingres at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1905.

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André, Edmond Alphonse  

French, 19th century, male.

Born 1837; died 24 April 1877, in Algeria.

Painter, engraver. Military subjects, genre scenes, seascapes, landscapes.

Son and pupil of the landscape painter Jules André, the first painter to be employed at the Sèvres porcelain factory, Edmond André studied in Paris under Isidore Pils, and exhibited at the Paris Salon from ...

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Andreis, Alexandre de  

Belgian, 19th century, male.

Born c. 1830; died 1920.

Painter. Military subjects, genre scenes.

During his military career, this artist spent time at the court of Sweden, and later, in 1859, in the service of France at the time of the Morocco campaign. He was also in Spain....

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Assier, Maurice  

French, 20th century, male.

Active in Algeria, France and Canada.

Born 1923, in Douera (Algeria).

Painter, illustrator. Portraits.

Symbolism.

Maurice Assier's early artistic leanings were towards music. He then took classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Algiers. After 1945 he illustrated books and exhibited at the Salon du Livre in Algiers in ...

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Aubourg  

French, 19th century, male.

Active at the beginning of the 19th century.

Engraver (burin/etching).

Meyer attributes to Aubourg an unsigned folio of views of Egyptian monuments.

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Aubry, Emile  

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 18 April 1880, in Sétif, Algeria; died 1964, in Voutenay-sur-Cure (Yonne).

Painter. History painting, nudes, portraits.

Orientalism.

School of Algiers.

Emile Aubry was a pupil of Gérôme and later of Carolus-Duran. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français between ...

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Augimeri, Teofilo  

Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in Paris.

Born October 1864, in Palmi (Calabria); died 1909, in Naples.

Painter. Genre scenes, landscapes.

Augimeri studied in Naples and worked in Paris and later Egypt. He was mainly a miniaturist. He participated in the Exposition Coloniale in Paris in ...

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Avgherinos, N.  

Greek, 19th century, male.

Active in Paris.

Born in Constantinople, of Greek parents.

Painter. Genre scenes.

This artist lived in Alexandria and travelled in Egypt. He exhibited in the Paris Salons of 1893 and 1896.

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Baboon Master  

South African, 19th century, male.

Wood carver(s).

There is no biographical information to tell us who the ‘Baboon Master’ was. This is the case with the majority of black South African carvers working in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The appellation was given on the strength of a stylistic affinity shared by a number of carved staffs with finials containing baboons and other motifs. It is most likely that the carver was a man living in the Pietermaritzburg or Durban regions in the 1880s and 1890s. A family or workshop of carvers could also have produced the staffs. A variance in the quality of the works may also indicate copies made by less skilled competitors or by learners in the workshop....

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Baines, Thomas  

British, 19th century, male.

Active in South Africa.

Born 1820, in King’s Lynn (Norfolk), England; died 1875, in Durban, South Africa.

Painter (oils, watercolours), printmaker (etching), draughtsman, explorer, cartographer, writer. Landscapes, marine and seascapes, portraits, natural history and ethnographic subjects.

Thomas Baines arrived at the Cape in ...