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Thomas Eakins Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins , 1844-1916, American painter, photographer, and sculptor, b. Philadelphia, where he worked most of his life. Eakins is considered the foremost American portrait painter and one of the greatest artists of the 19th cent. Early Career Eakins studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of... Read more
Henry Ossawa Tanner Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859-1937, American painter, b. Pittsburgh; son of a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He studied with Eakins in Philadelphia and in Paris. Tanner made many trips to Palestine to obtain background for his religious paintings. His work is naturalistic, and the... Read more
Cecilia Beaux Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux , 1855-1942, American figure and portrait painter, b. Philadelphia. She studied in Philadelphia under William Sartain (see under Sartain, John ) and Thomas Eakins , in Paris in the Julian and Lazar schools. A skilled technician, she won many honors through her long career. She... Read more
Yves Tanguy Yves Tanguy
Yves Tanguy , 1900-1955, French surrealist painter. At first a merchant seaman, he saw a picture by Chirico in 1923 and instantly decided to take up painting. He created vast imaginary dream landscapes, in which float strange, often amorphous, objects and personages—all meticulously painted.... Read more
William Rush William Rush
William Rush 1756-1833, American sculptor, one of the earliest in the country, b. Philadelphia. His wood carvings, clay models, and figureheads were famous in their day. Of his other works, carved in wood, the statue of George Washington is in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and a bronze replica... Read more
Johannes Lingelbach Johannes Lingelbach
Lingelbach, Johannes (bapt. Frankfurt, 10 Oct. 1622; d Amsterdam, ?Nov. 1674). Dutch painter of German birth. He settled in Amsterdam as a child and lived there for the rest of his life apart from a period abroad in his twenties, when he visited France and Italy (he is documented in Rome from 1647... Read more
Soyer Soyer
Soyer three brothers, American painters, emigrated with their family from Russia in 1912. Two were twins, Raphael Soyer, 1899-1987, and Moses Soyer, 1899-1974, b. Borisoglebsk. They settled in New York City making its inhabitants the chief subject of their paintings. They concentrated on the... Read more
Norman Lewis Norman Lewis
Norman Lewis 1909–1979 Painter Bought Art Books with Gambling Winnings Fascinated by Act of Painting Favored Black Paint Selected paintings Sources Norman Lewis was the first major African-American member of the art movement known as Abstract Expressionism. As such, he occupies a... Read more
Carlo Saraceni Carlo Saraceni
Saraceni, Carlo (b Venice, 1579; d Venice, 16 June 1620). Italian painter. Although he was born and died in Venice, he spent almost all his career in Rome. There he formed his style under the influence of Caravaggio and Elsheimer, painting small, luminous pictures of figures in landscapes as well... Read more
Eugene Boudin Eugene Boudin
Boudin, Eugène (b Honfleur, 12 July 1824; d Deauville, 8 Aug. 1898). French painter. The son of a sailor, he began his career working in a stationery and picture-framing business in the port of Le Havre. His clients there included several well-known artists, notably Millet, who encouraged him... Read more

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