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Samuel Plimsoll Samuel Plimsoll
Samuel Plimsoll , 1824-98, English reformer. Plimsoll was particularly interested in the welfare of sailors. As a member of Parliament (1868-80) he secured legislation limiting the loading of ships. It required that a line be painted on the sides of all British merchant vessels to show the limit of... Read more
Davy Jones Davy Jones
Davy Jones personification or spirit of the sea. The name is best known in the expression "Davy Jones's locker," meaning the bottom of the sea, to which drowned sailors go.... Read more
Sir Samuel Ferguson Sir Samuel Ferguson
Sir Samuel Ferguson 1810-86, Irish poet and antiquary. Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland (1887) is his best-known work on Irish antiquities. His major poetic works, which deal with Irish history, include the epic Congal (1872).... Read more
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912, English composer. He studied violin and composition at the Royal College of Music in London. He wrote many songs, orchestral works, piano pieces, and some chamber music but is best known for his cantatas, particularly the Hiawatha trilogy (1898-1900) and A Tale... Read more
Samuel van Hoogstraten Samuel van Hoogstraten
Samuel van Hoogstraten , 1627-78, Dutch portrait painter and etcher, studied with his father, Dirk van Hoogstraten (1596-1640), and with Rembrandt. His best works, such as The Old Jew (Vienna), reflect the influence of Rembrandt. He was director of the Academy in Dordrecht and author of a treatise... Read more
Samuel Prout Samuel Prout
Prout, Samuel (b Plymouth, 17 Sept. 1783; d London, 10 Feb. 1852). English painter, best known for his watercolour views of Picturesque buildings and streets in Normandy. Many of them appeared as engravings in illustrated books and they helped to build up the British Romantic image of the... Read more
Ancients Ancients
Ancients. Group of English Romantic artists inspired by William Blake and active for about a decade in the late 1820s and early 1830s. Their name (evidently first used in May 1827, shortly before Blake's death) expressed their admiration for the more spiritual art of the past in preference to that... Read more
Pier Francesco Mola Pier Francesco Mola
Mola, Pier Francesco (bapt. Coldrerio, nr. Lugano, 9 Feb. 1612; d Rome, 13 May 1666). Italian Baroque painter. Although he spent most of his life in Rome, his style, characterized by warm colouring and soft modelling, was formed mainly on the example of Guercino and Venetian art (his early career... Read more
George Richmond George Richmond
Richmond, George (b London, 28 Mar. 1809; d London, 19 Mar. 1896). The best-known member of a family of English painters. He was a pupil of his father, the miniaturist Thomas Richmond Sen. (1771–1837), and also studied at the Royal Academy, where he became a friend of Samuel Palmer. With... Read more

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