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Thomas Woodward (1801-1852) was a genre painter from Worcestershire, United Kingdom, who dedicated his whole life to art. When he was only eight years old, the president of the Royal…
Read MoreThomas Gainsborough was born May 14th, 1727 in Sudbury, England. He was the youngest of the 10 children of John and Mary Gainsborough, and showed an interest in painting early…
Read MoreJulius Caesar Ibbetson favored naturalistic, daintily painted landscape and genre scenes. He was born on December 29, 1759, and his unusual middle name stems from his birth via Cesarean section.…
Read MoreElizabeth 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…
Read MoreA 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.…
Read MoreDora 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…
Read MoreVanessa Bell, the older sister of famed author Virginia Woolf, was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a group of artists, writers, and intellectuals in mid-20th Century London. Bell’s…
Read MoreMary 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…
Read MoreMary 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…
Read MoreHelen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English writer and illustrator of children’s books. Born in South Kensington, London, to an upper-class family, governesses educated Potter at home, where she displayed…
Read MoreJohn William Waterhouse was an English painter who was a key figure in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s return to pre-Renaissance subject matter and style. Born into an artistic family, Waterhouse had…
Read MoreDante Gabriel Rossetti was an English painter who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement. Born in London to one of the most famous artistic family dynasties of his time, he received…
Read MoreBritish artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (b. 1775 – d. 1851) was one of the most prominent painters of the British Romantic period, an artistic movement that encouraged emotionalism and…
Read MoreJoshua Reynolds (1723-1792) was an English portrait painter. Born in Plympton, Devon, Reynolds was highly educated due to his father’s position as a headmaster. In 1740 he began a four-year…
Read MoreBritish artist William Morris was born on March 24th, 1834, in Walthamstow, England. He is best known today for his wallpaper, textile, tapestry, and stained glass designs, but he was…
Read MoreGustav 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…
Read MoreJohn 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreGeorge Pyne (1800-1884) was an English painter and architectural draftsman. He is best known for his depictions of the university buildings in Oxford, especially his ability to capture the beauty…
Read MoreWilliam Henry Hunt (1790-1864) was an English watercolor painter. Born in London, Hunt apprenticed under John Varley, a well-known watercolorist, from 1804 to 1811. In 1814 he first exhibited at…
Read MoreCharles Towne was a British animal painter and coach painter born in Wigan, England, in 1763. Coach painting was a genre that later became popular in the American West and…
Read MoreAubrey 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. |…
Read MoreEdward Wilkins Waite was a beloved English landscape painter in the late 19th century. Born into a large family, he learned to paint along with his brothers from their father,…
Read MoreFrances \”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…
Read MoreMary 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–…
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,…
Read MoreFrederick Horsman Varley (1881-1969) was a Canadian painter who was a member of the Group of Seven. He produced primarily landscapes and portraits during his career. Varley was born and…
Read MoreArthur Lismer (1885-1969) was a Canadian Landscape painter who was a member of The Group of Seven. Lismer was born and spent his youth in Sheffield, England. In 1911 he…
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