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Leon Bonnat Leon Bonnat
Bonnat, Léon (b Bayonne, 20 June 1833; d Monchy-Saint-Éloi, Oise, 8 Sept. 1922). French painter and collector. Bonnat's early works were mainly religious paintings in a tenebrist style influenced by 17th-century Spanish painting (he lived in Madrid, 1846–53), but from about 1870... Read more
impressionism impressionism
impressionism in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to achieve brilliance and luminosity. It was loosely structured in that many... Read more
Jan van de Cappelle Jan van de Cappelle
Cappelle, Jan van de (bapt. Amsterdam, 25 Jan. 1626; bur. Amsterdam, 22 Dec. 1679). Dutch marine and landscape painter. He was a wealthy Amsterdam dyer who painted in his spare time, but there is nothing of the Sunday painter in his work. Typically his paintings show handsome vessels on calm rivers... Read more
Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell 1915-91, American painter and writer, b. Aberdeen, Wash. Motherwell taught art at several colleges and during the early 1940s he became a cogent theoretician of abstract expressionism . His canvases are characterized by large, amorphous shapes, painted in strong, austere colors.... Read more
Isaac Oliver Isaac Oliver
Isaac Oliver , 1556?-1617, English miniature painter. Oliver was a worthy follower of Hilliard as miniature painter to Elizabeth's court. His work, more naturalistic than Hilliard's, is to be seen in the British and the Victoria and Albert museums, London, and in the Cleveland Museum. His son and... Read more
Max Liebermann Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann , 1847-1935, German genre painter and etcher. He went to Paris in 1873, where he was impressed by the Barbizon school of painters. In Holland he was influenced by Frans Hals and Jozef Israëls . His early works were realistic, but beginning about 1890 he developed a style... Read more
Washington Allston Washington Allston
Washington Allston , 1779-1843, American painter and author, b. Georgetown co., S.C. After graduating from Harvard (1800), where he composed music and wrote poetry (published in 1813 as The Sylphs of the Seasons ), Allston went to London and there studied painting with Benjamin West. He then spent... Read more
Hercules Seghers Hercules Seghers
Hercules Seghers , c.1590-c.1638, Dutch landscape painter and etcher. Seghers's work greatly influenced early 17th-century Dutch landscape painting. He studied with the painter Coninxloo (1544-1607) and may have traveled to Italy and in the Alps. Some of the frenzy of his personal life can be seen... Read more
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Master of… Term used in art history to label the author of anonymous works or groups of works for convenience in discussing them. This use of invented names is more common in the study of painting and printmaking than of sculpture, and historians of architecture hardly ever resort to it. It... Read more
watercolor painting watercolor painting
watercolor painting in its wider sense, refers to all pigments mixed with water rather than with oil and also to the paintings produced by this process; it includes fresco and tempera as well as aquarelle, the process now commonly meant by the generic term. Gouache and distemper are also... Read more

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