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Thomas Hughes
Thomas Hughes 1822-96, English author. A lawyer, Hughes eventually became a judge; he was also a Liberal member of Parliament and worked assiduously for social reforms. His novel of school life, Tom Brown's School Days (1857), is a classic. Its sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861), was less succe...
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El Greco
El Greco , c.1541-1614, Greek painter in Spain, b. Candia (Iráklion), Crete. His real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos, of which several Italian and Spanish versions are current.
Trained first in the Byzantine school of icon painting, in 1567 he went to Venice, where he is known to have...
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Jules Olitski
Jules Olitski , 1922-2006, American painter, b. Russia as Jevel Demikovsky. While considered a color-field painter (see color-field painting ), Olitski produced works that are freer and less severe than many of those associated with the movement. At first he stained his canvases and later used a sp...
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Leah
Leah , in the Bible, Laban's elder, less beautiful daughter and Jacob's first wife.
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Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb 1838-83, American entertainer, whose original name was Charles Sherwood Stratton, b. Bridgeport, Conn. His career as General Tom Thumb began in 1842, when the showman P. T. Barnum gave him the title and arranged with the child's parents for his exhibition as a midget. His height then wa...
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Cornelis Huysmans
Cornelis Huysmans , 1648-1727, Flemish painter of landscapes and religious subjects. Most of his life was spent in Malines. His landscapes, painted with a broad brush, are rich in warm, dark tones; he emulated the coloring of the Venetians. His works may be seen in many important European museums. T...
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Tom Thomson
Tom Thomson 1877-1917, Canadian painter of typically Canadian outdoor scenes, b. Ontario. Thomson was self-taught. Most of the year he served as a guide at Algonquin Provincial Park in order to support himself as a painter. His love of the outdoors was reflected in bold, vibrantly colored landscape...
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Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch , b. c.1629, d. after 1677, Dutch genre painter. He worked in Delft, Leiden, and Amsterdam, painting intimate interiors that may have been influenced by those of Vermeer. Usually he preferred to paint rooms opening into other rooms or to the outdoors, intriguing the imagination with ...
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Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer , 1480-1538, German painter and engraver. He served as city architect of Regensburg, where much of his life was spent. Although influenced by Dürer, Altdorfer's works are less severe in mood. Altdorfer may have been the first German to paint pure landscape, of which the Danu...
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John Crome
John Crome 1768-1821, English landscape painter, b. Norwich. Crome was the principal painter of the Norwich school. He is often called Old Crome to distinguish him from his son who painted in the same manner but with less mastery. He was born into poverty but rose to the position of a provincial la...
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