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Robert Adam (1728 - 1792) - United Kingdom (Kirkcaldy)
Robert Adam FRSE FRS FSA (Scot) FSA FRSA (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative...... |
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Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman,[a] was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was one of the two female found...... |
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Alexander Liberman (1912 - 1999) - Russia (Kiev)
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999) was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications. When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow. Life there became di...... |
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Alexis Grimou (1678 - 1733) - France (Argenteuil)
Alexis Grimou (24 May 1678 – 1733) was a French painter. Alexis Grimou was never an apprentice in a studio. His father had been a Swiss guard at Versailles. He trained himself by copying works of Van Dyck and Rembrandt. He painted mainly spirited portraits or portrait scenes, such as women singing and playing musical instruments. He was admitted to...... |
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Master Of Badia A Isola Italy
The Master of Badia a Isola was an Italian painter. His name is taken from a depiction of the Madonna and Child that hangs in the Badia dei Santi Salvatore e Cirino in Abbadia a Isola, located near Monteriggioni, a comune in the province of Siena a number of other paintings by his hand are also believed to exist. More...... |
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Ádám Mányoki (1673 - 1757) -
Ádám Mányoki (1673, Szokolya - 6 August 1757, Dresden) was a Hungarian Baroque portrait painter. He was the son of a Reformed pastor. The family was very poor, so he was apparently given into the care of a German staff officer named Dölfer, who promised to provide him with an education. He first went to Lüneburg, then on to Hamburg for further scho...... |
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Andrew Carrick Gow (1848 - 1920) - United Kingdom (London)
Andrew Carrick Gow RA (15 or 18 June 1848 – 1 February 1920) was a British painter who painted scenes from British and European history as well as portraits and genre. Born in London, Gow studied at Heatherley's School of Art. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and elsewhere from 1867 onwards, and in 1881, he was elected an Associate ...... |
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Laureys a Castro or Lorenzo A. Castro was a Flemish painter of marine views and portraits who is mainly known for his work executed in England roughly between 1672 and 1700. He was regarded as a leading marine painter in England. There are very few details about Laureys a Castro’s life and training. It is assumed he was the son of the Flemish marin...... |
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Andrea Modica United States (Brooklyn)
Andrea Modica (born 1960, in Brooklyn, NY) is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University. Modica is known for portrait photography and for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera. Andrea Modica earned her BFA in Visual Arts and Art History from State University of New York College (S...... |
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Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel) (1872–1950) was a British artist. Buchel was born in Mainz, Germany, but immigrated to England as a child. Buchel studied art at the Royal Academy Schools. He was hired by the actor-manager, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1898, and worked with him for sixteen years. Buchel painted several portraits of Tree, and als...... |
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Carlos A Cortéz (1923 - 2005) -
Carlos Cortez (August 13, 1923 – January 19, 2005) was a poet, graphic artist, photographer, muralist and political activist, active for six decades in the Industrial Workers of the World. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1923, the son of a Mexican-Indian Wobbly union organizer father and a German socialist pacifist mother, Cortez spent 18 months in...... |
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