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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]; c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine school under the patronage of Lorenzo de\’ Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than…
Eugène Boudin was born in 1824 in Honfleur, Normandy, and moved to Le Havre while still a child. A descendant of pilots and sailors, the sea is the dominating note in his landscapes. In Havre, Eugène came into contact with artists working in the area, such as Constant Troyon, Jean-Francois…
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French: [buɡ(ə)ʁo]; November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter and traditionalist. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life he enjoyed significant popularity in France…
Valentin de Boulogne was a 17th-century follower of Caravaggio and best known for his genre paintings of tavern scenes. He was born around 1591 in Coloummiers, France, and his father was a stained glass artist and painter. He likely trained with his father before moving to Italy, where he remained…
Louise Bourgeois was a French-born artist who spent the majority of her adult life working in New York. Throughout her career, she explored various media between painting, printing, and installations of all types, but her work consistently maintained themes of loneliness, anger, jealousy, and fear. She exhibited with the Abstract…
(1636 – 1697) Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella was a French engraver working under her uncle Jacques Stella. She was born in Lyon as the daughter of a goldsmith but studied under her uncle in Paris at his workshop. Claudine staffed the workshop along with her brothers and sisters, with Claudine being the…
Chapin Bowen worked as a commercial and newspaper photographer in Tacoma from 1925 – 1955. Because of his newspaper work, the Bowen collection is slanted towards newsworthy events such as labor strikes, unemployment rallies and other depression era events. He photographed political campaigns, arts activities, sports, labor, business, labor, transportation…
William Bradford was born a Quaker in Fairhaven, Massachusetts on April 30th, 1823. After eight years in the clothing business, the failing twenty-nine year old shopkeeper decided to pursue a career as a painter. He studied books on naval architecture, marine drafting, and closely observed the crowded the wharves and…
In the 1890s, impressionist painter Mary Brady was one of the most progressive artists of her day. She was the first California woman to spend significant time working in Giverny, France, and was influenced by Claude Monet and the other international artists who flocked to Giverny to be near his…
Constantin Brancusi (Romanian: [konstanˈtin brɨnˈkuʃʲ]; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts…
Marianne Brandt was a German artist and designer who began her career studying at the Bauhaus school in Weimar and eventually heading the metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau. The metal workshop was a male dominated discipline, but Brandt was so talented that she became much more successful in…
Georges Braque (/brɑːk/; French: [bʁak]; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1906, and the role he played in the development of Cubism.…
John Leslie Breck was one of the first artists to bring the Impressionist art style to the United States. Born at sea to the son of a Navy captain in 1860, the artist got his primary education in boarding schools near Boston. Once deciding he wanted to pursue art, Breck…
George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer commonly referred to as an ‘Amsterdam Impressionist.’ Born in Rotterdam, Breitner moved to The Hague and began studying at the Royal Academy of Art in 1876. His early work was influenced by the artists of the Hague School and often…
Louise Breslau (1856-1927) was a German-Swiss painter. She was a portraitist and one of the first women from abroad to win the French Legion d’Honneur. Breslau was born in Munich, Germany but shortly after her family moved to Zurich, Switzerland. As a child, she was bedridden with asthma and so…