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Johann Heinrich Roos
Johann Heinrich Roos , 1631-85, German painter and etcher. He specialized in depicting animals and landscapes and was court painter to Elector Palatine Charles Louis. He is represented in German galleries, and the New-York Historical Society has two of his paintings.... Read more |
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Richard Parkes Bonington
Richard Parkes Bonington , 1802-28, English painter. Moving to Calais at the age of 15, his first art study was with Louis Francia, who taught him watercolor and lithography. Bonington studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and in 1820 entered the studio of Gros. At that time he formed... Read more |
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Leo von Klenze
Leo von Klenze , 1784-1864, German architect and landscape and portrait painter. He was court architect to Jérôme Bonaparte of Westphalia and to Louis I of Bavaria, for whom he built many structures in the Italian Renaissance and neo-classical styles. His chief works in Munich were the... Read more |
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Bernardo Bellotto
Bernardo Bellotto , 1720-80, Venetian architectural and landscape painter, also called Canaletto, after his uncle and teacher Canaletto . His paintings, at first resembling those of his master, are numerous and may be seen in most of the leading European museums. They usually depict scenes in the... Read more |
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Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon , 1867-1938, French painter. After abandoning successful careers as an acrobat and as artist's model to many of the major impressionists, Valadon, encouraged by Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas, became a painter. Her fresh, intensely personal works, including landscapes, nudes, and... Read more |
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Washington Color Painters
Washington Color Painters. Name given to a group of American painters living in Washington, DC, who in the 1950s and 1960s were leading exponents of Colour Field Painting. The two most important figures were Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland; others were Gene Davis (1920–85), Thomas ... Read more |
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Jan van Huysum
Jan van Huysum , 1682-1749, Dutch painter of still life and landscapes. His father was Justus van Huysum (1659-1716), a successful landscape and genre painter of Amsterdam. Although he painted landscapes in a classical style, Jan is best known for his flower and fruit still lifes in oil and in... Read more |
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Wolfgang Huber
Huber, Wolfgang (or Wolf Huber) (b ?Feldkirch, c.1480/90; d Passau, 3 June 1553). Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, active mainly in Passau in Germany, where he was court painter and architect to the prince-bishop. He was first and foremost a poetic interpreter of landscape and is... Read more |
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The Landscapes of Louis Remy Mignot
THE LANDSCAPES OF LOUIS REMY MIGNOT (1996; $55), by Katherine Manthorne...Washington, DC 20560. The paintings of Louis Mignot have been little noted in histories...authors subtitle their book, A Southern ... |
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GROUP HOSTS TRIP TO SEE NYC EXHIBIT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
...special exhibition of ``Louis Remy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad,'' on Thursday...late 1850s to view Mignot's paintings, which...The Language of the Landscape,'' an exhibition...paintings, and prints by ... |
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A river through time
...historical painter for King George...River School painters Sanford Robinson...Edwin Church, Louis Remy Mignot, Thomas Moran...the great painters here," Evans...the great landscape painters ... |