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Angelica Kauffmann Angelica Kauffmann
Angelica Kauffmann , 1741-1807, Swiss neoclassical painter and graphic artist. From her youth she was known for her artistic, musical, and linguistic abilities. She went to England, where she enjoyed success as a fashionable portrait painter and decorator. A protégée of Sir Joshua... Read more
Gluck Gluck
Gluck ( Hannah Gluckstein) (1895–1976). British painter, a rebellious figure who dressed like a man (enjoying the embarrassment this caused) and adopted her monosyllabic name—‘no prefix, suffix, or quotes'—because she thought the sex of the painter was irrelevant. She... Read more
Jan Fyt Jan Fyt
Jan Fyt , 1611-61, Flemish animal and still-life painter and etcher. A pupil of Frans Snyders, Fyt spent 10 years in France and Italy. Returning to Antwerp in 1641, he enjoyed considerable success. He is admired for his realistic textural and lighting effects. The Metropolitan Museum has four of his... Read more
Antoine Joseph Wiertz Antoine Joseph Wiertz
Antoine Joseph Wiertz , 1806-65, Belgian historical painter. He enjoyed such prestige that the government built him a studio in Brussels, now the Wiertz Museum. He delighted in painting complicated, philosophical subjects and scenes from ancient history. Wiertz invented a type of mat painting and... Read more
Jackie Wilson Jackie Wilson
Jackie Wilson1934-1984 Vocalist Jackie Wilson was "a gifted singer of considerable range and an athletic showman who commanded a stage like few before or since," according to his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography. Wilson was a key figure of the late 1950s and early 1960s in American popular... Read more
Newport News Newport News
Newport News independent city (1990 pop. 170,045), SE Va., on the Virginia peninsula, at the mouth of the James River, off Hampton Roads, near Norfolk; inc. 1896. It is a port for transatlantic and intracoastal shipping; commodities handled include coal, oil, tobacco, grain, and ores. Newport News... Read more
Jean-Marc Nattier Jean-Marc Nattier
Jean-Marc Nattier , 1685-1766, French painter; son of the painter Marc Nattier and the miniaturist Marie Courtois. His early works include historical and mythological paintings as well as portraits of Peter the Great and Catherine I of Russia. From 1737 he exhibited portraits regularly at the salons... Read more

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