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Benjamin Marshall Benjamin Marshall
Marshall, Benjamin (1768–1835). English sporting painter, one of the best followers of Stubbs. He was briefly a pupil of the portrait painter L. F. Abbott, but from c.1792 he turned to animal painting. In 1812 he settled at Newmarket, famous for its racecourse, but he returned to London in... Read more
Gainsborough Dupont Gainsborough Dupont
Dupont, Gainsborough (b Sudbury, Suffolk, 24 Dec. 1754; d London, 20 Jan. 1797). English painter and engraver, the nephew and only assistant of Thomas Gainsborough. He made copies and mezzotints of his uncle's pictures, completed others left unfinished at his death, and painted some original works... Read more
George London George London
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John Downman John Downman
Downman, John (b Ruabon, nr. Wrexham, Wales, c.1750; d Wrexham, 24 Dec. 1824). British portrait painter. His best work is on a small scale and he often worked in a distinctive technique using pencil or charcoal lightly tinted with watercolour (four examples of the type are in the Wallace... Read more
E. McKnight Kauffer E. McKnight Kauffer
Kauffer, E. McKnight (1890–1954). American designer and painter, active mainly in England. After studying in San Francisco, Chicago, and Paris, he settled in London in 1914. He was a member of Group X and of the Cumberland Market Group, but he virtually abandoned easel painting in 1921 and is... Read more
H. H. La Thangue H. H. La Thangue
La Thangue, H. H. ( Herbert Henry La Thangue) (b Croydon, Surrey [now Greater London], 19 Jan. 1859; d London, 21 Dec. 1929). British painter. He studied mainly at the Royal Academy in London and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1887 he described the Academy as ‘the diseased root... Read more
Marcus the Younger Gheeraerts Marcus the Younger Gheeraerts
Gheeraerts, Marcus the Younger (b Bruges, 1562; d London, 19 Jan. 1636). Flemish-born portrait painter, active in England. He settled there in 1568 with his father Marcus the Elder (c.1530–c.1590), an engraver and painter who had fled from Bruges because of religious persecution. Marcus ... Read more
Jack London Jack London
Jack London (John Griffith London), 1876-1916, American author, b. San Francisco. The illegitimate son of an astrologer and a Welsh farm girl, he had a poverty-stricken childhood, brought up by his mother and her husband, John London. At 17, Jack London shipped as an able seaman to Japan and the... Read more
James Collinson James Collinson
Collinson, James (b Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 9 May 1825; d London, 24 Jan. 1881). English painter. He was one of the original members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, but he left it in 1850 because he felt it was incompatible with his Roman Catholic faith and in 1852 began training to... Read more

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