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Sir Peter Lely Sir Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely , 1618-80, Dutch portrait painter in England. His original name was Pieter van der Faes. He studied in Haarlem but worked in England from c.1643. After the death of Van Dyck he became court painter in 1661. Lely painted in turn the great figures of the court of Charles I, the... Read more
Corneille de Lyon Corneille de Lyon
Corneille de Lyon (b The Hague, c.1500/10; bur. Lyons, 8 Nov. 1575). Netherlandish-born painter who became a French citizen in 1547. He was a native of The Hague (in France he is still often known as Corneille de La Haye), but he had settled in Lyons by 1533 (the first record of him) and in 1540... Read more
Andrea Appiani Andrea Appiani
Andrea Appiani , 1754-1817, Italian neoclassical painter and Italian court painter of Napoleon I, active in Lombardy. His frescoes include work in churches and palaces of Milan. In his portraits his style anticipated the romantic approach. Portraits of Napoleon (1796; Bellagio) and Canova are among... Read more
Joos van Cleef Joos van Cleef
Joos van Cleef , c.1485-1540, Flemish portrait painter. Much of his life was spent in Antwerp. He is often identified with the Master of the Death of the Virgin from altarpieces in Munich and Cologne. Portraits of Henry VIII (Hampton Court) and Francis I (Johnson Coll., Philadelphia) are attributed... Read more
Claudio Coello Claudio Coello
Claudio Coello , c.1642-1693, Spanish baroque painter. As court painter to Charles II he decorated many churches and public buildings of Madrid. His most famous work is the monumental altarpiece for the sacristy of the Escorial, filled with portraits and allegorical figures.... Read more
Sir Francis Grant Sir Francis Grant
Sir Francis Grant 1803-78, Scottish portrait painter. He was self-taught in painting, for which he abandoned a career in law. He began as a painter of hunting scenes ( The Melton Hunt and The Cottesmore Hunt ) but gained success as a fashionable portrait painter. Among his sitters were Scott,... Read more
Guillim Scrotes Guillim Scrotes
Scrotes, Guillim ( William Stretes) (active 1537–53). Netherlandish portrait painter, active mainly in England. He is first heard of in 1537, when he became court painter to Mary of Hungary (see Habsburg), regent of the Netherlands, and by 1545 he was working in England for Henry VIII,... Read more
Alfred Henry Maurer Alfred Henry Maurer
Alfred Henry Maurer , 1868-1932, American painter, b. New York City. He was apprenticed as a lithographer, taught himself painting, and went to Europe in 1897, studying briefly at the Académie Julian, Paris. While in Paris he was the first American painter to take a significant interest in... Read more

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