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Juan Sanchez Cotán (1560 - 1627) - Near Toledo. (Orgaz)
Juan Sánchez Cotán (Orgaz, 25 giugno 1560 – Granada, 8 settembre 1627) è stato un pittore spagnolo, tra i massimi esponenti del genere del bodegòn. La sua formazione artistica avvenne a Toledo dove, aperta bottega, ebbe importante clientela. Per venti anni dipinse scene religiose, ritratti e nature morte. Ma nel 1603 decise di intraprendere la vita...... |
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Cornelis De Man (1562 - 1638) - Netherlands (Haarlem)
Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (Haarlem, 1562 – 11 novembre 1638) è stato un pittore e artista olandese, tra i più noti esponenti del Manierismo dei Paesi Bassi, e un importante predecessore di Frans Hals. Cornelis Corneliszoon fu un membro della scuola del Manierismo di Haarlem, che fu influenzata soprattutto dalle opere di Bartholomeus Sprange...... |
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Ben Cunningham (1883 - 1976) - United States (Portland)
Imogen Cunningham (Portland, 12 aprile 1883 – San Francisco, 23 giugno 1976) è stata una fotografa statunitense. Nacque nel 1883 nella città di Portland, in Oregon. Il nome Imogen, di origine celtica, le fu dato dal padre, ispirato dalla lettura della commedia Cymbeline di Shakespeare. All'eta di 18 anni compra la sua prima fotocamera, un banco ott...... |
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Albert-Charles Lebourg (Albert-Marie Lebourg) (1849 - 1928) - France (Montfort-Sur-Risle)
Impressionismo, Impressionismo
Albert Lebourg (1 February 1849, Montfort-sur-Risle – 6 January 1928, Rouen), birth name Albert-Marie Lebourg, also called Albert-Charles Lebourg and Charles Albert Lebourg, was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen). Member of the Société des Artistes Français, he actively worked in a...... |
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Claude Gellée (o Gelée) detto Lorrain, o anche Claudio Lorenese (Chamagne, 16 dicembre 1600 – Roma, 23 novembre 1682), è stato un pittore francese, attivo soprattutto a Roma: con Nicolas Poussin, è considerato il maestro del genere del paesaggio ideale. Giunse a Roma giovanissimo (nel 1616 partecipò alla decorazione pittorica di Villa Lante di Bagn...... |
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Emily C Way (1871 - 1945) - Canada (Victoria)
Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist and Post-Impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until late in her life. As she matured, the subjec...... |
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Alphaeus Philemon Cole (1876 - 1988) - United States (Jersey City)
Alphaeus Philemon Cole (Jersey City, 12 luglio 1876 – New York, 25 novembre 1988) è stato un pittore e incisore statunitense. Era il figlio di Timothy Cole. Al momento della sua morte, a 112 anni, è stato l'uomo vivente più anziano del mondo. Cole studiò arte prima con Isaac Craig, in Italia, poi a Parigi dal 1892 al 1901 con Jean Paul Laurens e Je...... |
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Pieter Claesz (1597 - 1660) -
Pieter Claesz (Berchem, 1598 – Haarlem, 1º gennaio 1661) è stato un pittore olandese. Nacque a Berchem, cittadina nei pressi di Anversa, ma visse nei Paesi Bassi, ad Haarlem dove risulta sposato dal 1618. Le sue opere, eseguite prevalentemente tra il 1621 e il 1657, sono documentate ed evidenziano la svolta artistica apportata da Claesz verso i ban...... |
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Heinrich Campendonk (1889 - 1957) -
Heinrich Campendonk (Krefeld, 3 novembre 1889 – Amsterdam, 9 maggio 1957) è stato un pittore tedesco. Il suo percorso formativo seguì le tappe di Krefeld e di Monaco. Il suo maestro fu l'olandese Thorn-Prikker, simbolista mistico seguace dei Nabis e di Maurice Denis. Nel 1911 intensificò i contatti con il Neue Künstlervereinigung München, movimento...... |
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Carolee Schneemann United States (Fox Chase)
Carolee Schneemann (Fox Chase, 12 ottobre 1939) è un'artista e pittrice statunitense, attiva nel campo della performance art e del video. È conosciuta per il suo lavoro sul corpo, sulla sessualità e sul genere. Il suo lavoro si caratterizza per la ricerca nella tradizione visiva riguardante i taboo e il corpo dell'individuo in relazione con i corpi...... |
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César Manrique (1919 - 1992) -
César Manrique (Arrecife, 24 aprile 1919 – Teguise, 25 settembre 1992) è stato un artista spagnolo. Nacque nel 1919 ad Arrecife, capitale dell'isola di Lanzarote, nell'arcipelago delle Canarie. Manrique fu un artista poliedrico, pittore, scultore, architetto, ecologista, conservatore del patrimonio artistico, disegnatore urbanistico e paesaggistico...... |
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Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg, CBE, RA (born 9 April 1949) is a British sculptor. Tony Cragg's early work involved site-specific installations of found objects and discarded materials. From the mid-1970s through to the early 1980s he presented assemblages in primary structures (as in his first mature piece, the 1975 Stack) as well as in colourful, repr...... |
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Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830 - 1900) - United States (Homer)
Francis Bicknell Carpenter (August 6, 1830 – May 23, 1900) was an American painter born in Homer, New York. Carpenter is best known for his painting First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, which is hanging in the United States Capitol. Carpenter resided with President Lincoln at the White House and in 1866 published his...... |
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Margaret Clarke (1888 - 1961) - Ireland (Newry)
Margaret Clarke RHA (1 August 1884 – 31 October 1961) (née Crilley) was an Irish portrait painter. Margaret Crilley was born in Newry, County Down on 1 August 1884, one of six children of Patrick Crilley. Her date of birth is often given as 29 July 1888, though local records do not support this. Having initially trained at Newry technical school wi...... |
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Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern (1805 - 1867) -
Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern (29 September 1805 – 27 February 1867) was a German landscape painter. Morgenstern is regarded as one of the pioneers in Germany of early Realism in painting. He gained this reputation in Hamburg 1826-1829 together with his contemporary Adolph Friedrich Vollmer while both were still studying from 1830 onwards, M...... |
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Florence Carlyle (1864 - 1923) - Canada (Ontario)
Florence Emily Carlyle (September 24, 1864 – May 2, 1923) was a Canadian figure and portrait painter in the modernist style, known especially as a colorist. Florence Carlyle was born September, 24 1864 in Galt, Ontario, to parents Emily Yoummans Carlyle and William Carlyle. The second eldest of seven children, Florence was known throughout her life...... |
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Cornelis Springer (1817 - 1891) -
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Cornelis Springer (1817, Amsterdam – 1891, Hilversum), was a Dutch 19th century landscape painter. He was a pupil of his father, the carpenter Willem Springer (1778–1857). He was a pupil of Hendrik Gerrit ten Cate, Kasparus Karsen, and Jacobus van der Stok. He became a member of the Amsterdam painters collective Felix Meritis and won a gold medal f...... |
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Carel De Ii Moor (1655 - 1738) -
Carel de Moor (25 February 1655 – 16 February 1738) was a Dutch Golden Age etcher and painter. He was a pupil of Gerard Dou. Carel de Moor was born in Leiden. According to Houbraken, his father was an art dealer who wanted him to study languages and only allowed him to study art when his talent for drawing surfaced at a young age. Houbraken met him...... |
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Charles Alfred Mozley (1914 - 1991) - United Kingdom (Darnall)
Charles Alfred Mozley (29 May 1914, Darnall, Sheffield – 11 January 1991, Kew, London) was a British artist who was also a teacher. He was a prolific book illustrator and designer of book covers, posters and prints. Mozley was born in Sheffield and, while still a schoolboy, attended the Sheffield School of Art. An exhibition of his artworks were he...... |
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Colonia Adam (1634 - 1685) -
Adam Colonia (12 August 1634 – September 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter active in London. Colonia was born in Rotterdam. According to the RKD he was the son of Isaac Colonia, though coming from a painting family and running an art dealership in Rotterdam, may not have been his primary teacher. His work was influenced by Jan Daemen Cool and Eg...... |
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Clive Hicks Jenkins United Kingdom (Newport)
Clive Hicks-Jenkins (born 1951) is a British artist known especially for narrative paintings and artist’s books. His paintings are represented in all the main public collections in Wales, as well as others in the United Kingdom, and his artist’s books are found in libraries internationally. A retrospective exhibition comprising some 200 works from ...... |
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Robert Cleveley (1747 - 1809) -
Robert Cleveley (Deptford, 25 dicembre 1747 – Dover, 28 settembre 1809) è stato un pittore e militare britannico specializzato in dipinti di stile marinaro. Fu pittore ufficiale del Duca di Clarence e del Principe reggente. Nacque a Dover il 25 dicembre 1747, in seno ad una famiglia di artisti in quanto suo padre era John Cleveley il Vecchio (1712-...... |
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Pieter Casteels (1684 - 1749) -
Pieter Casteels III (1684–1749) was a Flemish painter and engraver mainly known for his flower pieces, game pieces and bird scenes. He spent a significant portion of his life in England where he had a varied career as a still life painter, printmaker and textile designer. Pieter Casteels III was born in Antwerp as the son of Elisabeth Bosschaert an...... |
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Pieter Cornelisz van Soest (born c. 1600-1620, flourished c. 1640–67) was a Dutch marine artist, especially prolific in battle-pieces. Little is known about him. In 1642 he became Poorter of Amsterdam where he was recorded until 1667. Among his subjects are the Battle of the Downs and the Second Anglo-Dutch War, particularly the Raid on the Medway....... |
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John Le Capelain (1812 - 1848) -
John Le Capelain, later known as Jean, (1812–1848) was a painter often claimed to have been born in Saint Helier, Jersey, the son of Samuel Le Capelain, a printer and lithographer, and Elizabeth Anne Pinckney, his English wife. He was actually born in London and baptised there two days after his parents married there. After returning to his father'...... |
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Le Carpentier Charles Louis François (1744 - 1822) -
Charles Louis François Le Carpentier, talvolta citato come Lecarpentier, (Pont-Audemer, 1744 – Rouen, settembre 1822), è stato uno scrittore e pittore francese che predilesse la rappresentazione di argomenti storici e paesaggi. Giunto con la famiglia a Rouen all'età di tre anni, Le Carpentier fu, dal 1762 al 1766, allievo di Descamps all'École régi...... |
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George Cuitt the Elder (1743–1818) was an English painter. Cuitt was born at Moulton, in Yorkshire, and having shown a natural taste for drawing and design was sent to Italy at the expense of Sir Lawrence Dundas, whose family had already been painted by him. He studied earnestly for six years at Rome, and also pursued landscape painting, a branch o...... |
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Edward Harrison Compton (11 October 1881 – 6 March 1960) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of English descent. Compton was born in Feldafing in Upper Bavaria, Germany, the second son of notable landscape painter Edward Theodore Compton. He received his early art training from his father, and after a period of study in London at the Cen...... |
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Frederick Gordon Crosby (1885 – August 1943) was an English automotive illustrator. He worked for the magazine Autocar for most of his life. His illustrations and paintings reflect the excitement and glamour that surrounded the birth and early development of the automotive industry. Crosby attended Christ’s Hospital (Bluecoat) school, just outside ...... |
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Clarence Mason Dobell (1836-1917) was a British artist and illustrator. Clarence Dobell was born in Cheltenham. He was the son of John Dobell, a wine merchant, and Julietta Thompson, a daughter of Samuel Thompson (1766-1837). His older brothers were the poet Sydney Dobell and the doctor Horace Dobell, and a younger sister Mary married the painter B...... |
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Stephen Catterson Smith (12 March 1806 – 30 May 1872) was an English-Irish portrait-painter and president of the Royal Hibernian Academy. Smith was born in Skipton, North Yorkshire, the son of Joseph Smith, artist and coach-painter, and Anne, his wife, daughter of Stephen Catterson of Gawflat, Yorkshire. His parents moved early in his life to Kings...... |
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Cuthbert Bradley (1861–1943) was an English painter, sporting writer and magazine illustrator. Cuthbert Bradley was born in Lincolnshire. He graduated from King's College London, where he studied architecture. He worked as a sporting journalist for The Field and as a magazine illustrator for Vanity Fair. He also wrote books about foxhunting. His pa...... |
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William Carse (1800 - 1845) -
William Carse (29 August 1800 – 13 May 1845) was a Scottish painter. Carse was born in Edinburgh in 1800 to (probably) the painter Alexander Carse and his wife. His early paintings are said to be in the style of Paulus Potter. Carse died in Edinburgh of "inflammation" in 1845. One source believes that the Australian painter James Howe Carse is prob...... |
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Thomas Clater (1789–1867), was a painter. Clater was the third son of Francis Clater, farrier, of East Retford, Nottinghamshire, and Anne his wife. Thomas Clater was baptised on 9 June 1789 at East Retford. He first exhibited in London in 1819 at the British Institution, sending two pictures, ‘Children at a Spring’ and ‘Puff and Dart, or the Last S...... |
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Simon Callery (born 1960 in London) is an English artist. He was educated at Campions school, Athens, Greece, and gained a first class honours degree from Cardiff College of Art in 1983. He has worked in Turin, and is now resident in London. He first exhibited at the Whitechapel Open in 1989. He paints cityscapes which are abstracted to the point o...... |
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Hugh Carter (1837–1903) was an English painter, of subject paintings, portraits and landscapes. He was born in Birmingham on 4 March 1837, the son of Samuel Carter, Member of Parliament for Coventry. Coming to London, he studied for a short time at Thomas Heatherley's Art School, and then with John William Bottomley, Alexander Johnson, Francis Will...... |
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Celia Paul (born 1959) is an Indian-born British artist. Celia Paul was born on 11 November 1959 in Thiruvananthapuram (formerly called Trivandrum), South India. She is a British Citizen. From 1976–81 she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she met Lucian Freud who was a visiting tutor. She had a relationship with Freud between...... |
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Charles Catton the younger (30 December 1756 – 24 April 1819) was an English slave owner, topographical artist, illustrator and theatrical scene-painter. Catton, was born in London, the son of Charles Catton the elder. He received art tuition from his father and also studied at the Royal Academy schools. He travelled extensively through England and...... |
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