Adolphe Yvon was the offcial painter of battles for the Second Empire. His giant compositions served the imperialistic policy of Napoleon Ill, by whom he was highly appreciated.
The son of Marie Besse, who did not offcially recognise him until 1868, forty-one years after his birth, this artist took the pseudonym of Georges Washington.
Probably the most influential of the nineteenth-century artists who settled outside their home country, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal...
Carl Haag, Bavarian-born, introduced new and striking features into the technical development of English watercolour painting. With his deep, cheery, Germanaccented voice, he was a notable feature of every London private view.
Victor Huguet studied painting with Emile Loubon in Marseilles and then with Eugene Fromentin in Paris. While Fromentin never had a formal teaching atelier...
Carl Werner was a pupil at the Leipzig Academy of Schnorr von Carolsfeld, a history painter linked with the Nazarene group of artists.
There has always been a certain amount of confusion about the name of this artist, whose striking paintings have been shown in a number of recent European and American exhibitions.
American painter and illustrator Edwin Austin Abbey was born in Philadelphia in 1852. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Christian Schuessele. Abbey began as an illustrator...
Adrien Dauzats was born at Bordeaux (1804). He was among the first artists to paint the Orient with scrupulous exactitude and impartiality, but, although an initiator in this sense, his work never caught the...
Alexandre Gabriel Decamps was born in Paris (1803). In his youth he travelled in the East, and reproduced Oriental life and scenery with a bold fidelity to nature that puzzled conventional critics. He spent little over a year in the Near East...
Francis Bacon was born in Dublin (1909). Bacon's Surrealist-influenced paintings of the early 1930s already presaged a theme that would dominate his later oeuvre: that of the crucifixion. Inspired by a Picasso...
Jean Arp (Hans Arp) was born in Strasbourg (1866). In 1904, after leaving the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg, he went to Paris where he published his poetry for the first time. He was trained in art in...
Karel Appel was born in Amsterdam, the Netherland (1921). From 1940 to 1943, Karel Appel studied at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, or Royal Academy of Art, in Amsterdam. Together with Pierre...
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