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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , 1796-1875, French landscape painter, b. Paris. Corot was one of the most influential of 19th-century painters. The son of shopkeepers, he worked in textile shops until 1822, when he began to study painting. The classical landscape painters Michallon and Bertin were his... Read more
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Barbizon school Barbizon school
Barbizon school , an informal school of French landscape painting that flourished c.1830-1870. Its name derives from the village of Barbizon, a favorite residence of the painters associated with the school. Théodore Rousseau was the principal figure of the group, which included the artists... Read more
Jean Baptiste Oudry Jean Baptiste Oudry
Jean Baptiste Oudry , 1686-1755, French animal painter. A pupil of Largillière, he became court painter to Louis XV, recording the king's hunts in his paintings and tapestry designs. He was also director of the Beauvais and the Gobelin tapestry works. He is known for his illustrations of La... Read more
Jan Baptist Weenix Jan Baptist Weenix
Jan Baptist Weenix , 1621-63, Dutch painter and engraver. About 1649 he settled in Utrecht, becoming in the same year the master of the painters' guild there. Weenix excelled in painting pastoral scenes, with ruins and shepherds or shepherdesses and their flocks. He also painted seaports, portraits,... Read more
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , 1699-1779, French painter. He was a major figure of 18th-century painting. While the Académie royale still advocated history painting as the noblest form of art, Chardin painted still lifes and domestic interiors. His ability to evoke textures was... Read more
Thomas Jones Thomas Jones
Jones, Thomas (b Trevonnen, Radnorshire [now Powys], 26 Sept. 1742; d Pencerrig, Radnorshire, 29 Apr. 1803). Welsh landscape painter, a pupil of Richard Wilson. He painted some ambitious classical landscapes in Wilson's manner, but he is now best known for his remarkably fresh and unaffected oil... Read more
Giovanni di Paolo Giovanni di Paolo
Giovanni di Paolo , c.1403-1483, major Italian painter of the Sienese school. Typical of the Sienese painters of his era, he paid scant attention to the artistic innovations made in nearby Florence, but often depended on the style established by the Sienese masters of the 14th cent. Fortunately,... Read more
Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley , 1839-99, French impressionist landscape painter, b. Paris, of English parents. He studied under Corot , Gleyre, and Courbet and was (1873) a founding member of the Impressionist group. After 1871, Sisley lived modestly at Moret-sur-Loing and painted subtly shimmering small-town... Read more
Jean-Baptiste Greuze Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze , 1725-1805, French genre and portrait painter. He studied at the Académie Royale and won recognition in 1755 with his Blind Man Deceived. He traveled in Italy and on his return painted a series of popular realistic pictures of a dramatic and moralizing character—... Read more

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