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Jasper Johns United States (Augusta)
Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism
Jasper Johns is a non-fiction coffee table book written by Michael Crichton about the artist Jasper Johns. It was originally published in 1977 by Harry N. Abrams Inc in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a second revised edition (ISBN 0810935155) was published in 1994. The psychiatrist Janet Ross owned a copy of the painting N...... |
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James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836 - 1902) - France (Nantes)
Impressionism, Realism, Academicism
Jacques Joseph Tissot (French: [tiso] 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot (/ˈtɪsoʊ/), was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted ...... |
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Jens Jørgensen Juel (1745 - 1802) - Denmark (Falster)
Jens Juel (12 May 1745 – 27 December 1802) was a Danish painter, primarily known for his many portraits, of which the largest collection is on display at Frederiksborg Castle. He is regarded as the leading Danish portrait painting of the 18th century. He was born in the house of his mother's brother Johan Jørgensen, who was a school teacher in Bals...... |
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Jens Juel (1745 - 1802) - Denmark (Falster)
Jens Juel (12 May 1745 – 27 December 1802) was a Danish painter, primarily known for his many portraits, of which the largest collection is on display at Frederiksborg Castle. He is regarded as the leading Danish portrait painting of the 18th century. He was born in the house of his mother's brother Johan Jørgensen, who was a school teacher in Bals...... |
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James Jaques Joseph Tissot (1836 - 1902) -
Jacques Joseph Tissot (French: [tiso] 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot (/ˈtɪsoʊ/), was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted ...... |
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Jacques Joseph (James ) Tissot (1836 - 1902) -
Jacques Joseph Tissot (French: [tiso] 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot (/ˈtɪsoʊ/), was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted ...... |
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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (a.k.a. Lagrenée the elder) (21 January 1725 – 19 June 1805) was a French rococo painter and student of Carle van Loo. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1749 and was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1755. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagrenée (a.k.a. Lagrenée the you...... |
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Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1678 - 1755) - France (Paris)
Jacques Caffieri (1678–1755) was a French sculptor, working for the most part in bronze. Jacques Caffiéri was the fifth son of Philippe Caffieri (1634-1716), the founder of this family of artists. Jacques was received a maître fondeur-ciseleur by 1715, the date of his first known work, a design for a pall for the Corporation des Fondeurs-Ciseleurs,...... |
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Jacques François Joseph Saly (1717 - 1776) - France (Valenciennes)
Jacques François Joseph Saly, also known as Jacques Saly (20 June 1717 – 4 May 1776), French-born sculptor who worked in France, Denmark, Italy and Malta, was born in Valenciennes to François Marie Saly and his wife Marie Michelle. He began his training as a sculptor at nine years of age under local master Antoine Gilles in Valenciennes from 1726-1...... |
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Jakob Johann Zeiller (1708 - 1783) - Austria (Reutte)
Johann Jakob Zeiller (8 July 1708 – 8 July 1783) was an Austrian painter. Zeiller was born in Reutte, trained by his father Paul who was also a painter. In 1723 he began his apprenticeship with Sebastiano Conca in Rome, and then from 1729 to 1732 with Francesco Solimena in Naples. From there, Zeiller moved directly to Vienna, where he operated from...... |
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Jean Louis Nicolas Jaley (1802 - 1866) - France (Paris)
Jean-Louis Nicolas Jaley (27 January 1802, Paris - 30 May 1866, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of his father Louis Jaley and Pierre Cartellier. In 1827, he won - together with François Lanno - the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a bas-relief Mucius Scævola devant Porsenna. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery (49t...... |
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Juan De Juanes (1972 - 1579) -
Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez (born August 9, 1972), better known as Juanes (for the contraction of his first and second name), is a Colombian musician who was a member of the rock band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. In 2000, his solo debut album Fíjate Bien won three Latin Grammy Awards. According to his record label, Juanes has sold more ...... |
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Jean Jacques François Lebarbier (1738 - 1826) - France (Rouen)
Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (born in Rouen on 11 November 1738 — died in Paris on 7 May 1826) was a writer, illustrator and painter of French history. His most famous work was a representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen he made in 1789. He was the father of artist Élise Bruyère. Media related to Jean-Jacques-Fra...... |
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Louis Jean Jacques Durameau (1733 - 1796) - France (Paris)
Louis-Jacques Durameau (Paris, 5 October 1733- Versailles, 3 September 1796) was a French painter. A son of Jacques Durameau (master printer in intaglio) and Marie Rocou (or Rocan), he was intended for an engraver by his father and trained in drawing at the studio of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Defernex. He then entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste M...... |
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Jean Jacques Barre (1873 - 1951) - France (Paris)
Jean-Jacques Waltz (23 February 1873, Colmar – 10 June 1951), also known as "Oncle Hansi", or simply "Hansi" ("little John") was a French artist of Alsatian origin. He was a staunch pro-French activist, and is famous for his quaint drawings, some of which contain harsh critiques of the Germans of the time. He was also a French hero of both the Firs...... |
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John Wesley Jarvis (1781 - 1839) - United Kingdom (South Shields)
John Wesley Jarvis (1780 or 1781 – January 14, 1839) was an American painter. John Wesley Jarvis (nephew of Methodist leader John Wesley), was born at South Shields, England. His father was an American mariner, who moved his family to the United States in the mid-1780s. The Jarvis family settled in Philadelphia there he spent his childhood and bega...... |
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John Jones (1946 - 1658) -
John Richard Baldwin (born 3 January 1946), better known by his stage name John Paul Jones, is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. Best known as the bassist for the English rock band Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a solo career. A versatile musician, Jones also plays organ, guitar, koto, la...... |
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Johan Laurentz Jensen (1800 - 1856) - Denmark (Gentofte)
Johan Laurentz Jensen, often referred to as J. L. Jensen (8 March 1800, Gentofte – 26 March 1856, Copenhagen) was a Danish artist who specialized in flower painting. In parallel with his studies at the Danish Academy, he became a pupil of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and also of Cladius Detlev Fritzsch. Specializing in flower painting, Jensen con...... |
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James John Hill (1811 - 1882) - United Kingdom (Broad Street)
James John Hill RBA (1811 – 27 January 1882), known also by his alias J. J. Hill, was an English landscape and portrait painter, known for his many rustic paintings and portraits of Lady Burdett-Coutts. James John Hill was born sometime in 1811 in Broad Street, Birmingham to Daniel Hill, plater, and Elizabeth Rowlinson, the daughter of a brass foun...... |
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Jean Baptiste Joseph Olive (1848 - 1936) -
Jean-Baptiste Olive ((1848-07-31)July 31, 1848 - 1936) was a French painter. Olive, the son of a wine merchant, was born in Marseille's Saint-Martin neighbourhood. Étienne Cornellier, a decorator, encouraged him to register at École des beaux-arts de Marseille where he studied under the guidance of Joanny Rave. There he received several awards incl...... |
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John James Chalon (1778 - 1854) -
John James Chalon RA (27 March 1778 – 14 November 1854) was a Swiss painter active in England. He treated a wide range of subjects — landscapes, marine scenes, animal life, and figure-pieces. He was born at Geneva, of an old French family who had taken refuge there after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He went to England when quite young, an...... |
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Hans Jacob Ulrich (1798 in Zurich – 1877) was a Swiss painter. Ulrich was brought up to be a merchant, but gave up business and devoted himself to painting. He travelled in France, Italy, England, and the Netherlands for improvement, and became a successful painter of landscapes, sea-pieces, birds, and animals. He was a professor at the Zurich Poly...... |
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Jean Jules Louis Cavaillès (1901 - 1977) -
Jules Cavailles (20 June 1901, Carmaux – 29 January 1977, Épineuil) was a well-known, highly regarded, and versatile French painter. He started as a technical draughtsman during which time he met “le pere Artigue” - who was a friend of the famous pointillist artist Henri Martin – and who encouraged him to go to Paris to study fine art. In 1925 he e...... |
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John James Halls (1776–1853) was an English painter. A native of Colchester, he was named by his father after Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was nephew through his mother of Dr. John Garnett, dean of Exeter. Halls exhibited a landscape at the Royal Academy in 1791, and about 1797 settled as a professional artist in London. In 1802 he accompanied Henry F...... |
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Jr John Held (1889 - 1958) -
John Held Jr. (January 10, 1889 – March 2, 1958) was an American cartoonist, printmaker, illustrator, and author. One of the best-known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, Held created cheerful art showing his characters dancing, motoring and engaging in fun-filled activities. The drawings depicted the flapper era in a way that both satirized and i...... |
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John James Masquerier (5 October 1778 – 13 March 1855) was a British painter of French Hugenot descent. His work was mainly portrait painting, including of notables such as Lady Hamilton. He was born at Chelsea, London in October 1778. Both his parents were from French refugee Protestant families, his mother's maiden name being Barbot. As a child h...... |
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William Joseph Julius Caesar Bond (1833 - 1928) -
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