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Elizabeth Thompson was a painter who specialized in British military scenes. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, she moved to London in 1866. Thompson gained popularity for her paintings of soldiers that emphasized their bravery, but also for including details such as dirt and heat that showed the realistic aspects of war. Many of her paintings depicted…
Read More A British painter and sculptor, Edwina Sandys is a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to British cultural interests in New York. One of her most well-known sculptures, Breakthrough, includes eight sections of the Berlin wall and has traveled around the world in many exhibitions.
Read More Dora Carrington was an English painter who studied at the Slade School of Art at the University College in London in 1910; she received a scholarship and several prizes for her work. While she may be best known for her complicated relationships and otherwise complex life, she was an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes…
Read More Vanessa Bell, the older sister of famed author Virginia Wolf, was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a group of artists, writers, and intellectuals in mid-20th Century London. Bell’s early career was influenced by exposure to impressionist and post-impressionist exhibitions, manifesting in her loose brushwork and vibrant color palette. In her mid-career, Bell turned…
Read More Mary Beale was a prolific portrait painter in Baroque-era England. She is known for being the first female artist in England to fully support herself and her family with her work. Her father was a member of the Painter-Stainers’ Company and helped Beale learn to paint in her youth. At 18 she married Charles Beale,…
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Mary Gartside was an English watercolorist and color theorist. She wrote books and essays about mixing colors and the use of light and shadow in her paintings. She observed the changes of color in nature and by using watercolors, was able to create cloud-like images that played with the many colorful hues that ranged from…
Read More Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life. Born into a wealthy Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger…
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (/ˈdænti ˈɡeɪbriÉ™l rəˈzÉ›ti/; 12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the…
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was a British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner…
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Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the “Grand Style” in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first president of the Royal Academy, and was knighted by George III…
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William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration…
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Gustav Sohon (1825–1903) was an artist, interpreter, and topographical assistant. Born in 1825 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Gustav Sohon immigrated to the United States in 1842 at the age of 17. In the early 1850s, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Upon his enlistment he was stationed in the West, and eventually found his way…
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John Webber Muyundo RA (London 6 October 1751[1] – 29 May 1793 London) was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Read More A London based photographer, Vinton’s practice is informed by ethnographic practice and focuses on themes of life, movement, freedom, space, and world cultures. She works to visually document cultures and ways of life that are dying out especially nomadic cultures. She has worked with the Royal Geographic Society on expeditions and has contributed to the…
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
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Frances “Fanny” Flora Bond Palmer was a British American artist and lithographer who worked for the celebrated firm Currier & Ives. Palmer created over 200 prints for the firm and was the most prominent woman lithographer of the time. Palmer specialized in landscapes and natural scenes which she would sketch in plein air sometimes using…
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Mary Evelyn de Morgan was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Her works famously contain themes of the female figure, spirituality, pacifism, and a rejection of material wealth– with a heavy emphasis on allegory to do so. DeMorga specialized in literary subjects for most of her career. A protofeminist, De Morgan was the…
Read More (1857 – February 24, 1919) Julian Russell Story was born in 1857 in Walton-upon-Thames, England. He received his education at Eton and Oxford and later studied art in Munich, Germany, and Paris, France. He was a celebrated portrait artist in his day, earning a third-class medal and honorable mention at the Paris salons, as well…
Read More Dame Eileen Mayo (1906- 1994) was an English born artist and designer who worked in almost all mediums, including woodcuts, drawings, calligraphy, and silk screening. During her extensive career, she designed coins, stamps, posters, and tapestries, as well as illustrating and writing eight books about the natural sciences. She studied anatomy at Slade in 1924.…
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Ethel Carrick Fox was an English-born painter who traveled around the world throughout her art career, spending time in both France and Australia. She painted in the impressionist and post-impressionist style and eventually associated with the Australian Heidelberg school. Carrick is best known for her floral paintings and scenes that depict outdoor life both in…
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William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form “what is in proportion to its…
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Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole’s Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape…
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Anna Atkins was a botanist who became interested in photography to record her specimens. Her book, “British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions”, may be the first published books of photography and she is considered one of the first women photographers. Atkins produced her images through the cyanotype process which produces a cyan (blue) color when light hits…
Read More Maude Goodman (1853-1938) was an English-born painter, whose birth name was Matilda Goodman. She was raised and encouraged to pursue art by her step-mother after the passing of her mother. Goodman was known for her paintings which examined the relationship between women and children as well as her Arcadian garden paintings. She was educated at…
Read More Kate Greenaway was an English artist and writer best known for her children’s books. Her style was revolutionary in book illustration and was copied in England and around the world. Her illustrations even influenced fashion trends, inspiring a generation of children’s clothes based on her drawings. Especially later in her career, her work was influenced…
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John Constable (/ˈkÊŒnstÉ™bÉ™lËŒ ˈkÉ’n-/; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as “Constable Country”—which he invested with an intensity of affection. “I should paint my own places best”, he wrote…
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