Spanish, 18th – 19th century, male.
Painter.
Adriazola was also a mathematician, journalist and soldier.
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Adriazola, José
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Albertin, André
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 4 June 1867, in Grenoble; died 1933, in Grenoble.
Painter, watercolourist. Landscapes.
André Albertin was a journalist and art critic who learned painting from Laurent Guétal and Ernest Hareux. He exhibited at the various Paris Salons in 1895, 1896 and ...
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Andersson, Oskar
Swedish, 19th century, male.
Born 11 January 1877, in Stockholm; died 28 November 1906.
Draughtsman, illustrator.
Oskar Andersson was a cartoonist who worked for numerous illustrated journals.
Stockholm, 21 Nov 1988: A Dream (ink and watercolour, a pair, each 13½ × 9½ ins/34.5 × 24 cm) ...
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Arsenne, Louis Charles
French, 19th century, male.
Born 13 December 1780, in Paris; died 3 August 1855.
Painter.
Louis Arsenne tried his hand at various painting genres but enjoyed more success as an author and publisher. Among his books is his Painter and Sculptor's Handbook ( Manuel du peintre et du sculpteur...
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Auerbach, Arnold
British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1898, in Liverpool; died 1978, in London.
Sculptor, painter, printer. Portraits, cityscapes, still-lifes.
Arnold Auerbach took art classes at the Liverpool Institute as a boy before going on to study at the Liverpool School of Art. He also studied in Paris and in Switzerland. He was enlisted during World War I, but was invalided out of the army in ...
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Aylmer, George R.
British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Draughtsman.
George R. Aylmer contributed illustrations, mainly of historical subjects, to the London Art Journal.
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Aze, Jacques Firmin
French, 19th century, male.
Active in Paris between 1828 and 1835.
Born c. 1788, in Rennes.
Painter, engraver (burin/stippling).
Aze's father was a printer and engraver working in the Rue St-Jacques near the Place Cambrai in Paris. Jacques Firmin Aze enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in ...
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Barillet, F.
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in Nevers (Nièvre) at the end of the 19th century.
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Figures.
As well as being an artist, Barillet was also a printer.
Versailles, 26 Oct 1980: Fishermen on the River (1904, oil on canvas, 18 × 22 ins/45.5 × 55 cm) ...
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Baschet, Marcel-André
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 5 August 1862, in Gagny; died 1941.
Painter, pastellist. Portraits.
Marcel-André Baschet was the son of the art publisher Ludovic Baschet. In 1879, he attended the Académie Julian and then studied with Jules Lefèbvre and Gustave Boulanger at the École des Beaux-Arts. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in ...
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Baxter, George
British, 19th century, male.
Born 31 July 1804, in Lewes (Sussex); died 11 January 1867, in Sydenham, near London.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver, lithographer. History painting, portraits.
George Baxter was the son of a publisher and bookseller and was apprenticed to a wood engraver in London. In ...
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Beeger, Max
19th century, male.
Activec.1851-1853.
Painter, engraver, lithographer, draughtsman.
His etchings were published in Berlin, London and New York and he also worked as a publisher in Paris; he signed his work Bgr.
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Beltrami, L
French, 19th century, male.
Active in Parisc.1877 (?).
Engraver, draughtsman.
His Cloister of St-Trophime in Arles appeared in the Paris journal Illustration Nouvelle in 1877.
London (Victoria and Albert Mus.): Cloister of St-Trophime in Arles
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Belville, Eugène
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1863, in Belleville.
Painter.
Director of the School of Commercial Arts and editor of various publications on the decorative arts. In 1909, he published a collection of Monograms ( Monogrammes) composed and drawn by himself.
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Benard
French, 19th century, male.
Active at the beginning of the 19th century in Paris.
Painter, publisher, print publisher.
Le Blanc cites his Collection of Engravings ( Un recueil de gravures) based on antique vases.
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Bénez, A
French, 19th century, male.
Active in the middle of the 19th century.
Draughtsman, designer of ornamental architectural features, engraver (etching), print publisher.
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Bernard
French, 19th century, male.
Draughtsman, lithographer, printer.
Active in Alès (Gard).
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Bertrand, Louis, Called Aloysius
French, 19th century, male.
Born 20 April 1807, in Ceva (Piedmont), to a French father and an Italian mother; died 29 April 1841, in Paris.
Draughtsman.
Louis, called Aloysius, was a Romantic poet, journalist, short-story writer and playwright. He spent his childhood in Dijon, where he was fascinated by the medieval churches and houses that still survived in this former capital of the Duchy of Burgundy; he was also enthusiastic about the engravings of Jacques Callot and the tales of Hoffmann. After various unsuccessful attempts at journalism, he went to Paris and struck up friendships with Sainte-Beuve, Victor Pavie and, above all, David d'Angers. He also knew the great Romantic writers such as Victor Hugo. His friends encouraged him to publish his prose poems, inspired by the Middle Ages and Dijon, that he entitled ...
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Bignami, Adolfo
Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1846, in Bologna; died 13 April 1906, in Bologna.
Painter, engraver.
Bignami lived and worked for several years in Florence. Together with his pupils Signorini, Costa and Turletti, he founded the journal Arte in Italia (The Arts in Italy) as a mouthpiece for the younger school of Italian engravers. Bignami also painted a number of landscapes, one of which ( ...
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Booth, Franklin
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1874, in Carmel (Indiana); died 1943, in New York.
Draughtsman.
Franklin Booth was a student at the Westfield Quaker Academy, Indiana, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. He started out as a journalist and illustrator for the Indianapolis News...
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Bordallo-Pinheiro, Rafael
Portuguese, 19th century, male.
Born 1846 or 1847, in Lisbon; died 1905, in Lisbon.
Draughtsman, caricaturist, potter.
Rafael was the son of Manoel Maria and the brother of Columbano Bordallo-Pinheiro.
He ran several journals and in 1875 created a comic character whom he named Ze Povinho...
