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Alexander Barclay
Alexander Barclay , 1475?-1552, Scottish clergyman and poet. Although the first to write pastoral eclogues in English, he is best known for The Ship of Fools (1509), a translation and elongation of Sebastian Brant's widely popular poem Das Narrenschiff.
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Gilles Binchois
Gilles Binchois , c.1400-1460, Flemish composer. From about 1430 until his death Binchois served Philip the Good of Burgundy. His secular chansons are considered his best work. The 15th-century theorist Tinctoris ranked him with Dufay and Dunstable.
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , 1814-73, Irish author. He spent his early career as a journalist. In 1863, he began producing a series of stories noted for their reflections of Irish life and supernatural, mysterious atmosphere. His two best works are the novels The House by the Churchyard (1863) and U...
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Joseph-Marie Vien
Joseph-Marie Vien , 1716-1809, French neoclassical painter. A protégé of the comte de Caylus, he won the Prix de Rome and studied in Italy. He was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1775. He is best known as Jacques-Louis David's teacher. His own works, primarily alleg...
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Georg Pencz
Georg Pencz , c.1500-1550, German painter and engraver of the Nuremberg school. He probably studied with Dürer in Nuremberg. He was banished in 1525 but soon returned. Pencz is thought to have visited Italy and to have worked with Raimondi. The influence of Italian mannerism is evident in his w...
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Joseph Stella
Joseph Stella 1877-1946, American painter, b. Italy, emigrated to the United States in 1896. He studied at the Art Students League of New York City with William Chase and later in Italy and Paris. He is best known for his cubist- and futurist-inspired paintings executed in the years around 1920. Th...
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Joseph Black
Joseph Black 1728-99, Scottish chemist and physician, b. France. He was professor of chemistry at Glasgow (1756-66) and from 1766 at Edinburgh. He is best known for his theories of latent heat and specific heat. He also laid the foundations of chemistry as an exact science in his investigations on ...
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Joseph Severn
Joseph Severn , 1793-1879, English portrait and landscape painter. He was consul at Rome from 1861 to 1872. He is best known for his devotion to Keats during the poet's last days. He became a popular portraitist, especially among the friends and associates of Keats.
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Felix Octavius Carr Darley 1822-88, American illustrator, lithographer, and painter, b. Philadelphia. He is best known for his pen-and-ink drawings, which, for their inventiveness, versatility, vigorous style, and technical facility, placed him in the front rank of American illustrators. He illustr...
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Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-93, Canadian political leader. He was a graduate of McGill College, where he served on the law faculty (1853-80). He served in the Canadian House of Commons (1860-74; 1880-87) before his appointment to the Senate in 1887. As prime minister (1891-92), Abbott head...
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