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" Mr. Grosvenor added: "As a portrait painter she's no Van Dyck.
The messages are from Selina's presidential portrait painter and they're XXX-rated.
A portrait painter may choose who they will accept a commission from.
A few months passed before Bonheur met a young American portrait painter, Anna Klumpke.
"I'm not a portrait painter: I'm an autobiographer," she explained, contrasting her art and Mr. Freud's.
He is known as a portrait painter, but he always has narrative elements in the paintings.
"I'm not a portrait painter: I'm an autobiographer," Ms. Paul explained, contrasting her art and Mr. Freud's.
Mr. Bard cited just one, in 1988: the portrait painter Alphaeus Cole, who lived to be 20073.
Riley paints the limits of people's visual perception; Freud, a portrait painter, plumbed the depths of people themselves.
Yet despite standing for the most famous portrait painter of the day, the young man is not happy.
Born to a working class Swedish family in 1894, Ms. Ryggen trained as a portrait painter before turning to the loom.
Now, take a look at this Oxford American profile of Ralph Wolfe Cowan, a portrait painter in West Palm Beach, Fla.
If the notion of Mr. Bush as a portrait painter is one your brain has trouble accommodating, you are not alone.
Lucia Pittalis, an Italian makeup artist as well as portrait painter and drawer, uses her face as a canvas for her art.
In his posthumous A Critic's Notebook (1994), he noted that despite being an imperialist, Rudyard Kipling was a marvelous portrait painter of India.
Alexander's mother, Nanette, was a fine portrait painter and graphic artist who had studied in Paris at the height of the Post-Impressionist moment.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Henri Farré had a comfortable life as a portrait painter in Buenos Aires when World War I broke out.
He becomes a portrait painter, devoting his life, as Hollinghurst has, to the difficult art of verisimilitude, while himself remaining something of a blank canvas.
In "Killing Commendatore," this man is a portrait painter who makes a living from commissions but has no deep connection to the work he makes.
Born in Mexico in 1946, Mr. Treviño was a commercial portrait painter in New York when, in 1966, he was drafted and sent to Vietnam.
Having previously worked as a portrait painter for notables such as Andrew Cuomo, Zimmerman wanted to dispel the stigma that portraiture was only for the wealthy.
I could draw and compose a picture, but still, not being able to see subtle hues, I realized I could never be a classical portrait painter.
He had received commissions from King George III and Queen Charlotte four years earlier, cementing his status as the most sought-after portrait painter in Britain.
The head of the art center was a Yale graduate, a portrait painter, Eugene Leake, who then became president of Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Jack Shainman "Photo Bloke" (2016), by the Pop-realist portrait painter Barkley Hendricks, depicts a man in a pink suit and white sneakers against a pink background.
He, too, studied at PAFA, where, as family legend has it, he met his future wife, Nanette Lederer, a portrait painter, "over a cadaver" in anatomy class.
The French-speaking artist is a skilled traditional portrait "painter" who has stayed persistent in her unwavering preference in music and movie stars, according to her website's archives.
"I have tried organic versus not, brown eggs and white, and shades between, and found it's not of any significant difference," explains Mona Conner, a tempera portrait painter.
There, conversation among thinkers fizzing with originality had its acme in a club founded in 1764 by the dictionary-maker Samuel Johnson and the portrait painter Joshua Reynolds.
Hanz, who studied fine arts in school in hopes of becoming a portrait painter, has created a dizzying amount of characters since first posting to YouTube in November 2014.
After completing a portrait of the Swedish ambassador's wife, Zinaida Sohlman, he found himself in demand by the diplomatic colony in Moscow as a portrait painter and private teacher.
It was while overseeing its fabrication, in Munich, in 1928, that Wood latched on to a five-centuries-old mentor, Hans Memling, the greatest portrait painter of the Northern Renaissance.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Illustrator and portrait painter Tim O'Brien has a knack for pop culture, often infusing it into artistic visions that simultaneously reveal its strangeness and familiarity.
Passing such a situation on foot, the sight of the rows of human faces trapped behind and framed by their windshields can be especially striking, as though a portrait painter had drawn them.
That is how Gealt and her colleagues first learned about Césarine Henriette Flore Davin-Mirvault (1773–1844), a French portrait painter, and Sor Juana Beatriz de la Fuente, a late 18th-century nun and painter.
The actress Katherine Parkinson has written an hourlong debut play, "Sitting" (at the Gilded Balloon Teviot), featuring three people baring their souls and a body part or two as they sit for an (unseen) portrait painter.
To Laura Cumming, art critic of the Observer, a British Sunday paper, Diego Velázquez, whose precocious talent propelled him to the position of sole portrait painter to Philip IV of Spain at just 24, is something more.
A written portrait of a portrait painter is recursive from the start, but when you're trying to get a fix on the identity of an identity fixer whose own identity is coming unfixed, the whole thing goes uroboric.
Every auction house would love to get all or at least some of the collection, which includes such works as Andy Warhol's 1964 painting of Marilyn Monroe "Orange Marilyn," and Lucian Freud's 1993 self-portrait "Painter Working, Reflection."
In the film, Chastain, 40, plays Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter in 1890s Brooklyn who travels to the Dakotas to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
The couple have pieces by the Portuguese street artist Vhils, including a floor-to-ceiling plastic foam statue in their family room, and work by Kehinde Wiley, the Nigerian-American portrait painter acclaimed for his portrait of Barack Obama, now in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
The story of the fictional portrait begins with the acquisition in 1957 of two important works that were believed to be the portraits of Judah Mears and his wife Jochabed Michaels, which were purported to have been produced by Jeremiah Theus, an American colonial portrait painter working in Charleston, South Carolina.
Out came a procession of painters — imaginary doppelgängers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette's favorite portrait painter and a woman who made her way in a man's world — in beige jackets and gray bloomers, the legs exaggerated to hoop-skirt size, their hair jutting back in towering cones.
Eliza and Mary Davidson by Tilly Kettle, painted in India, 1784 (detail) Tilly Kettle (1735–1786) was a portrait painter and the first prominent English portrait painter to operate in India.
Marcella Comès Winslow (born Marcella Rodange Comès; September 3, 1905 – July 6, 2000) was an American photographer and portrait painter. She was the official portrait painter of the United States Poet Laureate.
He became known mostly as a portrait painter at Bologna.
John Trotter (died 1792) was an Irish artist and portrait painter.
Sampson Strong (c.1550–1611) was a Dutch portrait painter. He was a resident portrait painter at Oxford University and painted founder's portraits for All Souls, New and Christ Church colleges. He was followed by Richard Greenway.
Nathan Cooper Branwhite (c. 1775 - 18 March 1857) was an English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver who was a member of the Bristol School of artists. He was Bristol's leading miniature portrait painter in the 1820s.
Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 185123 December 1918) was a Dutch portrait painter.
Her sister Florence, (1850–1936) was a portrait painter of some note.
Gerhard Bockman (1686–1773) was a Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver.
Samuel Laurence (also spelled Lawrence; 1812–1884) was a British portrait painter.
Thomas Murray or Murrey (1663 – 1734) was a prominent Scottish portrait- painter.
His younger brother, Thomas Wyatt (1799?-1859), was also a portrait painter.
He was the son of Richard van Bleeck, also a portrait painter.
Robert Pérez Palou (born March 21, 1948) is a Spanish portrait painter.
Philip Steegman (1903–1952) was a portrait painter, sculptor, writer and illustrator.
James Saxon (1772 - in or after 1819) was an English portrait painter.
Gustaf Lundberg, self-portrait (copy by Jacob Björck) Gustaf Lundberg ( 17 August 1695 - 18 March 1786) was a Swedish rococo pastelist and portrait painter. He trained and worked in Paris and later was appointed court portrait painter in Stockholm.
Héléna Arsène Darmesteter, born Héléna Hartog (1854 – 1923) was a British portrait painter.
François Tortebat (1616—June 4, 1690) was a French portrait painter and engraver.
Clarence Mattei (November 13, 1883 - April 2, 1945) was an American portrait painter.
Thomas Fairland (1804 – October 1852) was an English lithographer, engraver and portrait painter.
James Green (1771–1834) was an English artist, known as a portrait-painter.
Cecil Mary Leslie (1900–1980) was an engraver, portrait painter, sculptor and illustrator.
Vincent Michael Brown (3 December 1971) is an English artist and portrait painter.
Olivia Mary Bryden (1883–1951) was a British portrait painter and decorative artist.
Thomas Hardy (1756/57 – 1804) was a portrait painter born in Derbyshire, England.
Self portrait (c. 1854) Nicholas Joseph Crowley (1819–1857) was an Irish genre and portrait painter. He was highly esteemed as a portrait painter, and was especially good in painting portrait groups. Born in Ireland, Crowley originally lived in Belfast.
Benjamin Calau (1724–1785) was a German portrait painter, who used an encaustic technique.
Edmund Nelson (24 January 1910 – 22 January 2007) was a British traditional portrait painter.
Upon his return to England, however, he became best known as a portrait painter.
Mary's Procession Albert Gräfle (1809–1889) was a German historical, genre, and portrait painter.
She was a portrait painter and court painter to Queen Louise Marie of Belgium.
George Perfect Harding (1781 – 23 December 1853) was an English portrait painter and copyist.
John Oliphant (d.1905) was a Scottish portrait painter, working in the 19th century.
David Winder (1824–16 April 1912) was a British portrait painter from Lancashire, England.
Thomas Henry Illidge (26 September 1799 – 13 May 1851) was an English portrait painter.
His grandson, James Ben Ali Haggin III, was a portrait painter and stage designer.
John Greenwood Sr. (1727–1792) was an early American portrait painter, engraver and auctioneer.
Leonard Monro Boden (31 May 1911 – 15 November 1999) was a British portrait painter.
Marianne Trotter was born Marianne Hunter possibly in 1752. She was the daughter of the prominent portrait painter, Robert Hunter. She married the portrait painter, John Trotter, in December 1774. The couple had two daughters who were also artists, Eliza H. and Mary.
Andrew MacCormac (23 December 1826 – 13 August 1918) was a portrait painter in South Australia.
Albin Roberts Burt (1 December 178316 March 1842) was an English engraver and portrait-painter.
William Brown Cooper (1811–1900) was an American portrait painter from the state of Tennessee.
John Graham-Gilbert (1794 – 4 June 1866) was a Scottish portrait painter and art collector.
Johann Georg Ziesenis (1716, Copenhagen – 4 March 1776, Hannover) was a German – Danish portrait painter.
Hugh Barron Hugh Barron (c. 1746 – 1791) was an English portrait painter and amateur musician.
William Steene (August 18, 1887 - March 24, 1965) was an American portrait painter and muralist.
Joseph Blackburn was an English portrait painter who worked mainly in Bermuda and colonial America.
Double Portrait Hans Schöpfer the Elder (c. 1505 - 1569, Munich) was a German portrait painter.
One of Gustav Magnus's five brothers, Eduard Magnus (1799–1872), was a notable portrait painter.
George Fuller (January 17, 1822 – March 21, 1884) was an American figure and portrait painter.
David Griffiths self-portrait David Griffiths (born 16 February 1939), is a Welsh portrait painter.
Diogenes) by Henry Keyworth Raine Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1934) was an English portrait painter.
Lawrence Mynott (born 1 March 1954) is an English book illustrator, designer and portrait painter.
Later he returned to Birmingham, where he found success as a portrait painter. The Birmingham painters William Roden Jr (professional portrait painter, working c. 1866-82), W. Frederick Roden (portrait and figure painter, working c. 1876 – 1889) and Mary Roden (flower painter, working c.
William Grant Stevenson, (7 March 1849 – 6 May 1919) was a Scottish sculptor and portrait painter.
Thomas Mogford (1 May 1809 – 13 June 1868) was an English portrait painter and landscape painter.
James Gandy (1619–1689) was an English portrait-painter, one of the earliest native English painters.
Kathleen Shackleton MBE (5 February 1884 – 10 July 1961) was an Irish portrait painter and journalist.
Richard Woodman (July 1, 1784 – December 15, 1859) was an English engraver and miniature portrait painter.
Self portrait () Andrew Geddes (5 April 17835 May 1844) was a Scottish portrait painter and etcher.
Giulio Anivitti (1850-1881) was an Italian born artist, art teacher, portrait painter and gallery curator.
Hubert Andrew Freeth (29 December 1912 – 26 March 1986) was a British portrait painter and etcher.
Margaret Clarke RHA (née Crilley; 1 August 1884 – 31 October 1961) was an Irish portrait painter.
Sergei Pavlenko (born 1953) is a portrait painter of Russian origin and now based in Britain.
Juliet Kathleen Pannett (née Somers; 15 July 1911 – 22 August 2005) was an English portrait painter.
Duchess Helene in Bavaria, 1859 Erich Correns (1821–1877) was a German portrait painter and lithographer.
Rev. Richard Davies (1735) by Fellowes James Fellowes (fl. 1710–1730) was a British portrait-painter.
Black, Mary Ammi Phillips: Portrait Painter 1788-1865. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York: 1981. preface.
Sarah Jane Blakeslee (January 13, 1912 – January 12, 2005) was an American landscape and portrait painter.
Hermann Schmiechen (22 July 1855 c. 1923 or 1925) was a German portrait painter and Theosophist.
Lilla Mary Vanston (16 May 1870 – 23 March 1959) was an Irish sculptor and portrait painter.
Jean Tabaud (5 July 1914 – 3 December 1996) was a French portrait painter and war artist.
Abraham Wivell (1786 - 29 March 1849) was a British portrait painter, writer and pioneer of fire protection, credited with inventing the first effective fire escape system. After working as a hairdresser, Wivell established himself as a society portrait painter before concentrating his efforts on fire safety measures.
Thomas Wyatt (c.1799 – 1859) was an English portrait-painter, born at Thickbroom circa 1799. He studied in the school of the Royal Academy, and accompanied his brother Henry to Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, practising as a portrait-painter without much success. In Manchester he tried photography.
Frederic Porter Vinton (January 29, 1846 – May 19, 1911), sometimes spelled "Frederick", was an American portrait painter.
Self-portrait Jan Jansz. de Stomme (1615, Franeker - 1658, Groningen), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Frances Cranmer Greenman (June 28, 1890 – May 24, 1981) was an American portrait painter, critic and columnist.
Jean-Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 - 19 December 1745) was a French subject and portrait painter.
Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht (1613, Dordrecht - 1691, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Antonio Frixione (January 8, 1843 – April 14, 1914) was an Italian landscape and portrait painter and printmaker.
Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger (4 March 1775 - 17 February 1837) was an Austrian portrait painter.
He was also noted as a portrait painter, with many of his best featuring women and children.
Sir (Herbert) James Gunn (30 June 1893– 30 December 1964) was a Scottish landscape and portrait painter.
Giuseppe Amisani (7 December 1881 – 8 September 1941) was an Italian portrait painter of the Belle Époque.
Samuel Stillman Osgood Samuel Stillman Osgood (June 9, 1808 - 1885) was a 19th-century American portrait painter.
Self-portrait, 1761 Joachim Martin Falbe (11 June 1709 – 22 March 1782) was a German portrait painter.
Frank Duveneck (né Decker) (October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter.
Christopher William Hunnemann or Christopher Wilhelm Hanneman (May 1755 - 21 November 1793) was a British portrait painter.
Archibald Skirving (1749 – 19 May 1819) was a Scottish portrait painter. He was born at Athelstaneford near Haddington.
Joseph Clover (1779–1854) was an English portrait painter and a member of the Norwich School of painters.
Francis Edgar Dodd (29 November 1874 – 7 March 1949) was a British portrait painter, landscape artist and printmaker.
Arnold Henry Mason (20 March 1885 - 17 November 1963) was a British portrait painter of the twentieth century.
August Fredrik Ahlstedt (24 April 1839 Turku – 19 August 1901 Parainen) was a Finnish landscape and portrait painter.
James Herring (born in London, 12 January 1794; died in Paris, October 1867) was an American portrait painter.
Wybrand Simonsz. de Geest (16 August 1592 – c. 1661) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter from Friesland.
In 1822, Cole started working as a portrait painter and later on, gradually shifted his focus to landscape.
In May 1901 Henry Ulke (January 29, 1821 – February 17, 1910) was an American photographer and portrait painter.
Mary Grace (died 1799/1800) was a self-taught professional portrait painter and copyist in the 18th century.
Edwin Longsden Long (12 July 1829 - 15 May 1891) was a British genre, history, biblical and portrait painter.
Simón Bolívar, one of Pedro José Figueroa's portraits Pedro José Figueroa (1770–1838) was a Colombian portrait painter.
Menachem Birnbaum (born 1893 in Vienna, died probably 1944), was an Austrian Jewish book illustrator and portrait painter.
Dora Koch-Stetter (4 May 1881 – 16 January 1968) was a German landscape artist, portrait-painter and etcher.
Self-portrait, now in the Nationalmuseum Olof Arenius (16 December 1701 – 5 May 1766) was a Swedish portrait painter.
Edward Chatfield (1802 – 22 January 1839, in London) was an English portrait painter who also painted some historical subjects.
Jean Joseph Eleonora Antoine Ansiaux (1764–1840) was a Belgian-born historical and portrait painter who worked in France.
He is sometimes confused with Rolland Lefèbvre, a portrait painter who died in London in 1677.See :Commons:Category:Rolland Lefebvre.
Hedvig Eleonora Hamilton (December 9, 1870 – December 11, 1949) was a Swedish portrait painter working in watercolour and oils.
Fredric Westin (22 September 1782, in Stockholm - 13 May 1862, in Stockholm) was a Swedish history and portrait painter.
William Cuming (1769–1852) was an Irish portrait painter, a president of the Royal Hibernian Academy. E. D. Leahy.
Fritz Lindström August Fredrik (Fritz) Lindström (5 July 1874 - 4 January 1962) was a Swedish landscape and portrait painter.
Jacoba Johanna (Coba) Ritsema (26 June 1876, Haarlem - 13 December 1961, Amsterdam), was a portrait painter from the Netherlands.
Anna Rosina de Gasc (born: Anna Rosina Lisiewska (10 July 1713 - 26 March 1783) was a German portrait painter.
James Ben Ali Haggin III (20 April 1882 – 2 September 1951) was an American portrait painter and stage designer.
Jan became a portrait painter. Gaspard entered the Antwerp Guild in 1679 as a portrait painter but did not leave any known work. The family lived in the Lange Nieuwstraat in Antwerp. He had a large output but got into debt, supposedly due to his unruly character and frequent involvement in brawls.
Alfred Jonniaux (22 November 18821974) was a Belgian portrait painter who worked in London and the United States of America.
Carl Ludwig Boeckmann (January 29, 1867 – September 23, 1923) was a Norwegian- American artist best known as a portrait painter.
Sara Leighton, (born 1937) is a famous English society portrait painter, author, actress and personality, also noted for her beauty.
Augustus Henry Fox (9 January 1822 – 1895) was an English portrait painter who exhibited three works at the Royal Academy.
Sarah Sophia Beale (5 November 1837 – 1920) was a British portrait painter and author who wrote about art and architecture.
Juana Romani, née Carolina Carlesimo (30 April 1867 – 1923/24) was an Italian- born French portrait painter and artists' model.
Portrait of Emperor Dom Pedro II Delfim Joaquim Maria Martins da Câmara (1834, Magéc. 1916?) was a Brazilian portrait painter.
Samuel Lane (1780–1859)Samuel Lane (1780-1859), Portrait painter. National Portrait Gallery, 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2013. Archived here.
Edith Hipkins (1854–1945) was a British portrait painter who exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1883 and 1911.
Joannes Corvus (fl. 1512 – 1544), or Johannes Corvus, was a Flemish portrait painter who was active in the 16th century.
Self-portrait (1847) Erik Johan Löfgren (15 May 1825, Turku - 10 December 1884, Turku) was a Finnish-Swedish portrait painter.
Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck (between 1600 and 1603 – 30 June 1662 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter from Haarlem.
William Tate (1747 – 2 June 1806) was an English portrait painter who was a student of Joseph Wright of Derby.
Dimitrios Geraniotis (, 1871 – 23 May 1966) was a Greek portrait painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Portrait by Joachim von Sandrart for his Teutsche Academie Matthäus Merian (1621 - 1687), was a Swiss engraver and portrait painter.
Leopold III. of Anhalt-Dessau, portrayed by Lisiewsky. Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski (3 June 1725 in Berlin – 11 June 1794 in Ludwigslust) was an 18th-century German portrait painter. Lisiewski belonged to a family of painters, founded by his father, Georg Lisiewski, a native of Poland who was an active portrait painter in Berlin.
In 1807, at St George's, Hanover Square, Hakewill married Maria Catherine, daughter of W. Browne of Green Street, Grosvenor Square, herself a well-known portrait- painter, and a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, who died in 1842. He left four sons, Arthur William, Henry James, Frederick Charles, a portrait- painter, and Richard Whitworth.
Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn (21 July 1845, Düsseldorf – 29 August 1908, Düsseldorf) was a German portrait painter in the Academic style.
National Portrait Gallery "The Relief of Lucknow" Thomas Jones Barker (1815 – 27 March 1882) was an English historical and portrait painter.
Horatio (also, incorrectly Horace) Beevor Love (1800–1838) was an English portrait painter who exhibited with the Norwich School of painters.
Nicholas Egon FRSA FKC, (15 November 1921 – 25 April 2017) was a Czech who became a leading portrait painter in England.
Mikhail Ivanovich Terebenyov (; 6 September 1795 – 25 December 1864) was a Russian portrait painter, academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
The artist's son from his first marriage, Arthur Stockdale Cope RA (1857–1940), became a well-known and successful portrait painter.
Salome Hans Hassenteufel (27 January 1887, Hamburg – 15 August 1943, Munich) was a German portrait painter who specialized in female nudes.
Still Life with Red Flowers Helene Cramer (13 December 1844 – 14 April 1916) was a German flower, landscape and portrait painter.
There are also works by Adolfo Müller-Ury, the American portrait painter, including portraits of Popes Benedict XV and Pius XII.
Grietje Adriaensdr Groote (1588-1623), 1622 Jacques Waben (c. 1590, Hoorn - c. 1634, Hoorn), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Richard Buckner (born Woolwich, London, 25 October 1812; died 12 August 1883), was an English portrait painter. He did not marry.
John Hayls, also Hailes (1600–1679), was an English Baroque-era portrait painter, principally known for his portrait of Samuel Pepys.
John Prescott Knight (1803–1881) was an English portrait painter. He was secretary of the Royal Academy from 1848 until 1873.
Joseph Steward (July 6, 1753, Upton, MA – April 15, 1822, Hartford, CT) was an American minister, portrait painter and museum curator.
Wiles resided at 101 West 55th Street in Manhattan. He had a son, Irving Ramsey Wiles, who became a portrait painter.
Self portrait, now at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Jean Augustin Daiwaille (6 August 1786 – 11 April 1850) was a Dutch portrait painter.
Tintoretto's daughter Marietta Robusti was herself a portrait painter. Some believe she was illegitimate and conceived before his marriage to Faustina.
Walter Ernest Webster (17 November 187730 April 1959) was a British figure and portrait painter. He also worked as an illustrator.
He was married in 1792 to Siri Olsdatter Bierke (1767-1837). Their son, Peter (1794–1858), also became a portrait painter.
Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn (1572(?) - buried 21 June 1657) was a successful portrait painter to the Dutch court in The Hague.
Patrick Grant, 1713 - 1824, 1822, National Gallery of Scotland. Colvin Smith RSA (1795 – 21 July 1875) was a Scottish portrait painter.
Joseph Slater (Possible self-portrait), 1808 Joseph Slater (17 June 1782 – 25 February 1837) was a British portrait painter and draughtsman.
Sir Martin Archer Shee (23 December 1769 – 13 August 1850) was an Irish portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.
Richard van Bleeck in the RKD He became a portrait painter and painted the portrait of the engraver Coenraet Roepel, before moving to London in 1733, where he stayed. He was the father of Pieter van Bleeck, who was born in the Hague, possibly moved with him to London and also became a portrait painter there.
John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury."While his art matched to the spirit of the age, Sargent came into his own in the 1890s as the leading portrait painter of his generation". Ormond, p. 34, 1998.
Heinrich Wilhelm Zimmerman, portrait painter, was born at Danzig in 1805. In 1828 he went to Vienna, and thence, in 1835, to Paris, where he placed himself under Hippolyte Delaroche. While in Paris he painted his Sabbath Morning in Styria, a large work with twenty-six figures. On his return to Danzig he practised chiefly as a portrait painter.
William Henry Furness Jr. (1827 – 1867) was an American portrait painter. He was born in Philadelphia to Annis P. Jenks and William Henry Furness. He began his career as a portrait painter in Philadelphia but soon moved to Boston, where he found greater success. Among others, he painted portraits of Lucretia Mott and Senator Charles Sumner.
Antonio Alice (23 February 1886 - 24 August 1943) was an Argentine portrait painter. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1904.
Portrait of King Maximilian I (1806) , Archbishop of Munich Moritz Kellerhoven (1758 - 15 December 1830) was a German portrait painter and etcher.
William Valentine - Self Portrait, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management William Valentine was a portrait painter and daguerreotypist in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Self Portrait of the Artist (1801) William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769-1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lynn Green Root (18 March 1954 - March 6, 2001) was an American portrait painter, muralist, and illustrator from the state of Mississippi.
The painting's name and the number of men recall The Last Supper. Hirsch also worked as a commercial artist and portrait painter.
Portrait of a Woman Portrait of a Man Theodor Poeckh (20 April 1839, Braunschweig5 January 1921, Karlsruhe) was a German portrait painter.
He then lived as a portrait painter in Austria. After World War II, he lived in Austria until his death in 1997.
Adriaen Backer (ca 1635, Amsterdam — buried 23 May 1684, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, active in Amsterdam and Haarlem.
Filippo Castaldi (circa 1710 - 1785) was an Italian portrait painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Southern Italy and Poland.
Self-portrait (c.1850) Gaudenz Taverna (12 October 1814, Chur - 22 October 1878, Solothurn) was a Swiss portrait painter and graphic artist.
George Clint (12 April 1770 – 10 May 1854) was an English portrait painter and engraver, especially notable for his many theatrical subjects.
Vladimir Putin and Alexandr Shilov in 2012 Alexander Maxovich Shilov (; born 6 October 1943) is a prominent Soviet and Russian portrait painter.
He was also a successful portrait painter and many of his paintings of wealthy patrons remain in private hands.Wissman 1996, p. 103.
Alain J. Picard (born April 30, 1974) is an American figurative, landscape, and portrait painter and writer. He resides in Southbury, Connecticut.
Portrait of the painter Hans Hansen by Christian Horneman (1804) Hans Hansen (22 February 1769 – 11 February 1828) was a Danish portrait painter.
Giovanni Casini (1689–1748) was known as il Varlunga (based on his native town in Tuscany). He was a portrait painter and sculptor.
Pierre Rabon (18 October 1619 – 18 January 1684) was a French portrait painter, who was active during the reign of Louis XIV.Benezit 2006.
John Lindsay of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir was the laird of Menmuir and James Irvine was a Scottish portrait-painter born here in 1822.
Jacobus de Baen (1673, The Hague - 1700, Vienna), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter who was the son of Jan de Baen.
Lady Janet Stewart Jamesone's pupil, John Michael Wright, also went on to be a highly important portrait painter in seventeenth century British art.
Stepan Fyodorovich Alexandrovsky (Russian: Степан Фёдорович Александровский; (25 December 1842, Riga - 1 February 1906, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian portrait painter and watercolorist.
His younger brother, William Tannock, also practised as a portrait-painter, and exhibited works between 1820 and 1830, including of Reverend George Smith.
William Clarke Wontner (17 January 1857 Stockwell, Surrey – 23 September 1930 Worcester), was an English portrait painter steeped in Academic Classicism and Romantic.
Hendrik Maarten Krabbé, or Heinrich Martin Krabbé (4 May 1868, London - 22 December 1931, Amsterdam) was a Dutch genre artist and portrait painter.
Paul Desmond Fitzgerald AM (1 August 1922 – 24 June 2017) was an Australian portrait painter who painted a vast array of distinguished persons.
He left on 26 April 1661. He was active in Spain as a designer of cartoons for tapestries and as a portrait painter.
George Walton, ca. 1734 - 1739, now at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 - c. 1754) was an English portrait painter.
Privately - he and his wife Joanna had three children: daughter Iwona Konarzewska – a portrait painter and two sons: Ludwik (an entrepreneur) and Łukasz.
Frances Catharine Dodgson, née Spooner, (15 December 1883- 30 April 1954) was a British artist, known for her skill as a portrait painter.
Jakob BjörckAlternate spelling "Björk" appears in some sources. (1727 or 1728 - February 20th 1793 in Stockholm) was a Swedish portrait painter and copyist.
Kandrat Ilich Karsalin, or Kondraty Ilyich Korsalin (Belarusian: Кандрат Ільіч Карсалін; 21 March 1809, Slutsk - c.1883, Slutsk?) was a Belarusian portrait painter.
Grave of George Paul Chalmers, Dean Cemetery George Paul Chalmers (1833 – 20 February 1878) was a Scottish landscape, marine, interior and portrait painter.
John Hoppner (4 April 175823 January 1810) was an English portrait painter, much influenced by Reynolds, who achieved fame as a brilliant colourist.
Platon Semyonovich Tyurin (Russian: Платон Семёнович Тюрин; 1816—1882) was a Russian portrait painter and muralist. Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
She was principally a portrait painter. Considered a successful artist, her pictures are in Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Dresden, and Naples.
He wrote a popular nightclub column for The New Yorker under the pseudonym of "Top Hat", while also working as a portrait painter. His art career was again interrupted, this time by World War II, in which he served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Air Force; he was the Air Force's official portrait painter and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Henry H. Arnold.Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff of the United States Air Force pg. 233 He is described as "an old-school portrait painter... [who] never owned a camera in his life".
Upon returning to Geneva, he set up as a portrait painter and gained a considerable reputation as such, but decided that he preferred to paint genre scenes. In 1824, he married the painter, Jeanne Pernette Jourdan. In 1831, they had a son, Louis-Frédéric, who became a portrait painter. Being financially independent, he did not exhibit at the Salon until 1827.
Early in his career he was primarily a portrait painter and a copyist of 17th-century Dutch masters. He was also known as a painter of theatre sets. He initially worked in Alkmaar but later settled in Amsterdam. From about 1722 he focused mainly on "topographical" drawings, to be used as illustrations for atlases, although he also remained active as a portrait painter.
He was the second of four children born to , a church and portrait painter, and his wife Josefa-Klara. In 1839, they moved from Brig to Sion and his mother died in 1842. He received his first drawing lessons from his father. From 1851 to 1853, he studied with his uncle, Heinrich Kaiser, who was also a church and portrait painter.
William Oliver Stone (September 26, 1830 – September 15, 1875) was an American portrait painter. Stone was born in Derby, Connecticut, to a prominent family. He studied under Nathaniel Jocelyn in New Haven from 1848, until Jocelyn's studio suffered a catastrophic fire in 1849. Stone moved to New York in 1851, where he opened his own studio, and became a successful portrait painter.
August Schiøtt (1862) The Reventlow Sisters, Malvina and Hilda Heinrich August Georg Schiøtt (17 December 1823 – 25 June 1895) was a Danish portrait painter.
Jenő Gyárfás (6 April 1857, in Sepsiszentgyörgy – 3 December 1925, in Sepsiszentgyörgy, renamed Sfântu Gheorghe) was a Hungarian portrait painter, graphic artist and writer.
Thomas Anthony Devas (8 January 1911 – 21 December 1958) was a British portrait painter who was associated with members of the Euston Road School.
He married the portrait painter Elena Gaussen in 1966. The marriage lasted until shortly before his death at home from cancer in January 2001.
361 While in Venice he was offered, but did not accept, the opportunity to become the court portrait painter to the Duke of Milan.
They were the parents of the more famous portrait painter Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 – 1766), their second son. She died in Paris in 1703.
Woldemar Hau (Russian: Владимир Иванович Гау; 16 February 1816 - 23 March 1895) was a Baltic German portrait painter who worked in the Biedermeier style.
Alessandro Aretusi was an Italian portrait painter of the 17th century from Modena, active in Florence painting for the court of the Grand Dukes.
Cameo of George Willison 1792 George Willison (1741–1797) was a Scottish portrait-painter. He is best known for his works done in India.
In 1892, he returned to Chicago, where he died on June 24, 1894. Healy's autobiography, Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter, was published in 1894.
Hermann Fidel Winterhalter (23 September 1808 – 24 February 1891) was a German painter, younger brother of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–73).
Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne, OC, O.Ont, RCA, OSA, SSC, CPA, AOCA (January 9, 1912 - July 5, 1998) was a Canadian portrait painter and sculptor.
Johann Caspar Füssli; portrait by Anton Graff (1765) Johann Caspar Füssli (3 January 1706 - 6 May 1782) was a Swiss portrait painter and writer.
Davit Beck in Het Gulden Cabinet p 161 David Beck (or Beek; May 25, 1621December 20, 1656), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Pierre Petit Gabriel-Joseph-Marie-Augustin Ferrier (29 September 1847 in Nîmes – 6 June 1914 in Paris) was a French portrait painter and orientalist.
Annie Dixon (1817 - 1901) was a 19th-century English miniature portrait painter. From 1859, she was commissioned for numerous royal portraits by Queen Victoria.
Self-portrait (date unknown) George Demetrescu Mirea (1852, in Câmpulung – 12 December 1934, in Bucharest) was a Romanian portrait painter, muralist and art teacher.
In England he painted history and sporting (i.e. hunting) scenes. He was also a portrait painter working on commissions particularly from the Midlands gentry.
Fanny Rush is a London-based portrait painter, best known for her portrait of US Ambassador Robert Tuttle for the American Embassy, London 2015.
Self portrait (1814) William Armfield Hobday (1771 - 17 February 1831) was an English portrait painter and miniaturist whose clientele included royalty and the Rothschild family.
Self-portrait (1849) Family Group Frederick Randolph Spencer (7 June 1806, Lenox, New York - 3 April 1875, Wampsville, New York) was an American portrait painter.
He was for a time the preeminent portrait painter in Berlin. Eduard Magnus was the elder brother of the physicist and chemist Heinrich Gustav Magnus.
John Chambers (9 January 1852 - 10 July 1928) was a landscape, seascape and portrait painter in oil, tempera and watercolour, and an etcher and illustrator.
Eduard von Engerth (1887). Lithograph by Josef Anton Bauer (1820-1904) Edouard Ritter von Engerth (13 May 1818 – 1897) was an Austrian historical portrait painter.
Adolfo Müller-Ury, KSG (March 29, 1862 – July 6, 1947) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter and impressionistic painter of roses and still life.
James Millar (c. 1735 – 5 December 1805) was an English portrait painter. Born in Birmingham, Millar is recorded in the town's Poor Law levy books in 1763 but was to become the leading Birmingham portrait painter of the last quarter of the 18th century. Subjects of his portraits include John Baskerville, Francis Eginton, John Freeth and the wife of Lunar Society of Birmingham member Thomas Day.
H.E. Fox Dead Was Portrait Painter and Member of St. Paul's Church The funeral took place yesterday of Mr. Henry Edward Fox of (30) Cornwall street, who was for the past 35 years a member of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church. Mr Fox was a portrait painter. He was 82 years of age. He was educated in England at St. Edmund's College and in French universities.
Thompson's first show as a portrait painter was at the Knoedler's galleries. Thompson worked as a portrait painter for years in Washington D.C. and later in New York though she also had interests in other arts.Writing: Photography: Circa 1898 to 1900 she undertook studies while in France and showed her work while there. On return to the States, Thompson moved to New York circa 1902.
He returned to New York in 1829. Four years later, he advertised himself as an art teacher and portrait painter. His first known work, a portrait of an unidentified man, dates from that year. Although it has not been firmly established, he may have been acquainted with, and possibly took some lessons from Ammi Phillips, an itinerant portrait painter who was from the same part of Connecticut.
1896), known as Louie. She had an intense family bond with her brothers, but mainly with her younger brother and fourth child, Henry Raeburn Dobson (1901–1985), for whom she cared lifelong. He was named after the eighteenth- century Scottish portrait painter, Sir Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), whom his father admired hugely. Henry Raeburn Dobson became a leading society portrait painter in Edinburgh and Brussels.
Berckenhagen, p. 36 Graff made portraits of nearly 1,000 of his contemporaries and was the leading portrait painter in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th century. Graff was also the main portrait painter of German poets between the Enlightenment and the early Romantic periods. Many of them were also his friends, like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe whom he met in Dresden in 1768.
David Jagger, RP, ROI (born 1891, Kilnhurst, near Rotherham, Yorkshire – died 1958 London) was an acclaimed English portrait painter. He was a prolific portrait painter, renowned for his commissioned portraits of London's high society and British aristocracy, notable portraits include Robert Baden-Powell (1929), Queen Mary (1930 and 1932), King George VI (1937), Winston Churchill (1939), Vivien Leigh (1941) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1958).
For the 1853 National Academy exhibition, Pauling departed from portraiture by exhibiting a landscape. Entitled Canterbury Cathedral, it may have been done or based on drawings done during his time in England in the 1840s. However, his continuing specialty as a portrait painter was confirmed by entries in New York City directories during these years, when he was consistently identified as Richard A. Pauling, portrait painter.
Kirill Gorbunov (Russian: Кирилл Антонович Горбунов; 1822 (1815?), Vladikino, Penza Oblast — 8 November 1893, Tsarskoye Selo)RusArtNet: Brief biography was a Russian portrait painter and lithographer.
Gerasimos Pitsamanos or Pitzamanos (; 6 March 1787, Argostoli - 5 December 1825, Corfu) was a Greek architect and portrait painter. Most of his known works are watercolors.
Nathaniel Rogers (August 1, 1787 – December 6, 1844) was an American painter from Long Island known as the preeminent miniature portrait painter in New York City.
Lily Williams ARHA (20 October 1874 – 16 January 1940) was an Irish portrait painter. Aside from her portraiture, she is known for her Irish stamp designs.
Lev Stepanovich Igorev (Russian: Лев Степанович Игорев; 10 February 1821, Komarovka, Saratov Governorate - 29 December 1893, Saratov) was a Russian portrait painter in the Academic style.
Grytė Pintukaitė (born 16 February 1977) is a Lithuanian portrait painter, member of the Lithuanian Artists' Association, and member of the Association LATGA - Lithuanian Copyright Society.
Simon Agopian or Simon Hagopian at times Simon Agopyan (; Western Armenian Սիմոն Յակոբեան, 1857 - 16 May 1921) was a prominent Ottoman Armenian landscape and portrait painter.
Frederick William Beechey by George Duncan Beechey Duleep Singh (1852) by George Duncan Beechey George Duncan Beechey (1798 – 6 December 1852) was an English portrait painter.
Snellman was known as a portrait painter. He also painted landscapes; one of his renowned painting is Laatokan maisema, 1921.Facta 2001, vol. 15, page 72.
Josefine Swoboda (29 January 1861 in Vienna – 27 October 1924 in Vienna) was an Austrian portrait painter. She was one of the most active Vienna portraitists.
Sergey Konstantinovich Zaryanko (Russian: Сергей Константинович Зарянко; 6 October 1818, Lyady – 1 January 1870, Moscow) was a Russian portrait painter and art teacher of Belarusian ancestry.
Lady Godiva (1850; Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry. Marshall Claxton (12 May 1811 – 28 July 1881) was an English subject, genre, landscape and portrait painter.
Portrait of Henry Isaac Barbey, by Funk, 1903Portrait of Mary Lorillard Barbey, by Funk, 1904 Wilhelm Heinrich Funk (1866–1949) was a German-American portrait painter.
Chester Harding (September 1, 1792 – April 1, 1866) was an American portrait painter known for his paintings of prominent figures in the United States and England.
He gained a high reputation as a portrait painter, and left several manuscripts on perspective, poetry, and the fine arts. He died in Paris in 1803.
Ernesto Serra (24 March 1860 – 17 May 1915) was an Italian genre, landscape and portrait painter from Varallo Sesia, Province of Vercelli in the Piemonte Region.
Florence Pash Humphrey Holland (1862-1951) was a British portrait painter. She is known for running an art school with Walter Sickert in the mid-1890s.
His career began as a realistic portrait painter and he often returned to that subject matter, reinterpreting the process each time in light of his stylistic investigations.
Portrait by Boaden of the Rev. Chauncy Hare Townshend in the Victoria and Albert Museum John Boaden (1792/93 – 4 April 1839) was an English portrait painter.
Henry Marvell Carr, , (16 August 1894 - 16 March 1970) was a successful British landscape and portrait painter who served as a war artist during World War II.
Andrew Thomas Festing MBE PPRP (born 30 November 1941) is a well known portrait painter, and fellow and former president of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
George Gower, self-portrait, 1579, private collection. George Gower (c.1540-1596) was an English portrait painter who became Serjeant Painter to Queen Elizabeth I in 1581.
Portrait of Arnoldus Boonen (upper left) in Jan van Gool's "Nieuw Schouburg", 1750 Arnold van Boonen (16 December 1669 – 2 October 1729) was a Dutch portrait painter.
Sir Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley (31 March 1880 – 6 May 1952) was an English portrait painter and royal portraitist in the early part of the 20th century.
Self-portrait (1853?) Evgraf Fedorovich Krendovsky (Ukrainian: Євграф Федорович Крендовський, Russian: Евграф Фёдорович Крендовский; 1810, Kremenchuk — 1870s, unknown) was a Ukrainian portrait, genre and interior portrait painter.
Prince Frederick Charles John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Johann Ernst Heinsius (21 May 1731, Ilmenau - 18 October 1794, Erfurt) was a German portrait painter and miniaturist.
Self-portrait (detail) King Gustav IV Adolf and Queen Frederica Jonas Forsslund (1754, Fors Parish, Jämtland - 9 March 1809, Stockholm) was a Swedish portrait painter and sculptor.
Self-portrait Portrait of Arvid Horn Lorens Pasch the Elder, sometimes spelled Lorentz or Lorenz (March 1702, Stockholm - 27 April 1766, Stockholm) was a Swedish portrait painter.
Nighttime Interior Industrialist Abraham Pelt and his family Johan Hörner (28 January 1711, Edebo, in Roslagen - 4 March 1763, Copenhagen) was a Swedish- born Danish portrait painter.
Portrait of the Cricketer, Nannultera John Michael Crossland (29 September 1799, York - 1858, Encounter Bay) was an English portrait painter who spent his last years in Australia.
George Farmer, drawn by Charles Grignion the Younger, National Portrait Gallery, 1778 Charles Grignion the Younger (1754–1804) was a British history and portrait painter and engraver.
Henry Richard Graves (1818–1882) was an English portrait painter. Portrait of Lawrence Challoner Garratt (1874), by Henry Richard Graves Graves was the second son of Thomas Graves, 2nd Baron Graves, and worked as a clerk for the India Board in London. From 1847 he was a portrait painter in London, exhibiting 71 works at the Royal Academy. Graves married Henrietta Wellesley in 1843 and had a large family.
William Aikman emerged as the leading Scottish portrait-painter of the next generation. He, like most Scottish painters of note before the late eighteenth century, migrated to London. John Alexander and William Mossman painted many of the figures of early- Enlightenment Edinburgh. Allan Ramsay established himself as a leading portrait painter to the Scottish nobility and he undertook portraits of many of the major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Richard Stone (born 5 June 1951) is a British painter, specialising in portraits. In 1973, at the age of 22, he became the youngest commissioned royal portrait painter in almost 200 years. Stone claims to have secured the commission by cold-calling Clarence House and saying "I could be a latter-day Rembrandt".Roya Nikkhah (10 February 2013) "Royal family's favourite portrait painter reveals secrets of the royal sittings", The Telegraph.
On leaving her Grace, he entered the service of the Russian court, and afterwards went to Berlin, where he found full employment as a portrait painter. Unhappily, his improvident habits continued, and he finally moved to London, where he died in great poverty in 1795. As a portrait painter, he achieved a deserved success, and some of his portraits have been engraved. He also painted a few historical subjects.
Cathleen Mann was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 31 December 1896 to the Scottish portrait painter Harrington Mann, the second of his three daughters. Her mother was the portraitist and interior director Florence Sabine Pasley. Harrington Mann gave Cathleen painting lessions in his London studio, as did the portrait painter Ethel Walker. Walker continued to tutor Mann even while Cathleen was studying at Slade School of Fine Art in London.
Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes (24 August 1931 – 5 September 1975) was an English portrait painter whose much publicised elopement with an heiress in 1957 created an international scandal.
Self-portrait (1827) Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig Krevel, known as Louis Krevel (19 September 1801, Braunschweig - 14 May 1876, Trier) was a German portrait painter of the Biedermeier period.
Portrait of a woman, 1637 Pieter Dubordieu (1609 in Indre-et-Loire – 1678 in Amsterdam) was a French Baroque portrait painter in the manner of Michiel Jansz Mierevelt.
Uno Troili, from the Svenskt Porträttgalleri XX Portrait of André Oscar Wallenberg Gustaf Uno Troili (16 January 1815 – 31 August 1875) was a Swedish portrait painter and musician.
Portrait of Empress Anna Ioannovna, 1730. Now at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Louis Caravaque (Marseilles, 1684–1754, St. Petersburg) was a French portrait painter who worked in Russia.
Henry Garber Hanks was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 12, 1826. His father Jarvis Frary Hanks was a local portrait painter; his mother was Charlotte Garber Hanks.
Hammie freelanced as a portrait painter for two years before returning to New England to study at the University of Connecticut, where he received his MFA in 2008.
Stephen Slaughter (baptised 1697, died 1765) was an English portrait painter. He spent periods of his career in Dublin, where he introduced the English style of portrait painting.
His playwriting credits include Bill and Mary, based on imaginary conversations between the poet Mary Gilmore and the portrait painter William Dobell while she was sitting for him.
Adolphe Demange (10 September 1857 – 1927) was a French painter best known for his portraits in oil. He was an official portrait painter during the French Third Republic.
Thomas Parkinson ( born 10 December 1744, Oxford, died c. 1789) was a British portrait-painter. He became a student in the schools of the Royal Academy in 1772.
Daniel Maclise (25 January 180625 April 1870) was an Irish historian painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England.
The landscape and portrait painter Derek Hill lived and worked in Churchill until 1954. He presented his house and his art collection to the Irish state in 1981.
Józef Pitschmann; portrait by Jan Feliks Piwarski. Józef Franciszek Jan Pitschmann, or Franz Joseph Pitschmann (1758, Triest - 1 September 1834, Krzemieniec) was an Austrian-born Polish portrait painter.
Anthonie Palamedesz - A Merry Company Anthonie Palamedes, also Anthonie or Antonie Palamedesz., (1601 in Delft - c. 27 November 1673 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Leon Gordon (1889–1943) was an American landscape and portrait painter, illustrator, and sculptor. He lived and worked in California, New York (state), Florida, and the Russian Federation.
August Grahl. Portrait by Vincenzo Camuccini Hans Christian Andersen (1846) August Grahl (26 May 1791, Göhren-Lebbin - 13 June 1868, Dresden) was a German portrait painter and miniaturist.
Tibout Regters upper right in Jan van Gool's Nieuw Schouburg Tibout Regters (24 December 1710 - 26 January 1768) was an 18th-century portrait painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Gertrude des Clayes (1879 - 23 August 1949) was a Scottish-born artist who lived in England and Quebec, Canada. Des Clayes was best known as a portrait painter.
Portrait of Machteld van der Graeff, by Jacob Willemsz Delff the Younger, 1641 Jacob Willemsz Delff the Younger (1619, Delft - 1661, Delft), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Self-portrait with Billowing Hair (1791) Kunigunde Sophie Ludovike Simanowiz, née Reichenbach (21. February 1759, Schorndorf - 3 September 1827, Ludwigsburg) was a German portrait painter in the Classical style.
Portrait of the artist, Gerrit van der Pals (1742-1839) Taco Scheltema, or Take Pieters Scheltema (16 August 1766, Harlingen - 7 September 1837, Arnhem) was a Dutch portrait painter.
Arthur Onslow - Speaker of the House of Commons by Hysing Hans Huyssing or Hans Hysing (1678-1752 or 1753)National Portrait Gallery, London was a Swedish- born portrait-painter.
Juan Ramírez was a Spanish portrait painter, who lived about the middle of the 16th century. A great number of his portraits exist at Seville and in its neighbourhood.
Benjamin West Clinedinst (October 14, 1859 – September 12, 1931) was an American illustrator and portrait painter. His sympathetic collaboration with the various authors gave his illustrations a special charm.
Self-portrait, around 1770. It depicts en early example of the 18th century prototypes of the top hat. Peter (Pierre-Etienne) Falconet (1741–1791) was a French portrait painter.
Corbet's portrait painted by Martin Archer Shee in 1823 Philip Corbet (1802, Shrewsbury - 18 July 1877, Bitterne, Hampshire), was a 19th-century portrait painter from Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England.
Carl Marcus Tuscher (1 June 1705 in Nuremberg - 6 January 1751 in Copenhagen) was a German-born Danish polymath: portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator of the Baroque period.
Francisco Vera Cabeza de Vaca (1637–1700) was a Spanish portrait painter, and pupil of J. Martinez, born at Calatayud. He was a page to Don John of Austria.
Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisová) (1848-1926), was a Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces.
He ran this studio for sixty years, soon becoming the pre-eminent portrait painter in Rhode Island. In 1880, Lincoln was elected first president of the Providence Art Club.
Patricia Clare Angadi (née Fell-Clark, 23 September 1914 – 26 June 2001) was a British portrait painter and novelist, perhaps best remembered for introducing the Beatles to Ravi Shankar.
Susan W Thomson, Manchester's Victorian Art Scene And Its Unrecognised Artists, Chapter 2, Charles Allen Duval 1808–1872 Portrait Painter And Photographer,Manchester Art Press, 2007, p.p. 13–29.
Helen Hooker or Helen Hooker O'Malley Roelefs (1 January 1905 – 2 April 1993) was an American sculptor and portrait painter who spent a considerable part of career in Ireland.
Oliver Frazer (1808 – April 9, 1864) was an American portrait painter. He was trained by Matthew Harris Jouett before going to Europe, and he became a portrait painter in his home state of Kentucky. He did portraits of many notable Kentuckians like James G. Birney, Edward Morton Le Grand, Colonel William Robertson McKee, and Richard Menefee. His portrait of Henry Clay is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Moving to Glasgow, he established himself as a fashionable portrait painter. In 1829 he was admitted as a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. He does not appear as an independent property owner until 1840 when he is listed as a portrait painter living at 126 West Regent Street in Glasgow.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1840-41 On the death of Sir George Harvey in 1876 he was elected President of the Royal Scottish Academy.
David Allan, 1781) Anne Forbes (1745-1834) was a Scottish portrait painter, educated in Rome, who worked in London and later in Edinburgh, where she was Portrait Painter to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Although her career in London was cut short by illness, she was one of the first Scottish women artists to make a career from painting, and according to Colin Russell "her importance remains in her struggle against gender prejudice".
Nasmyth was born in Edinburgh on 9 September 1758. Endnote: For an account of the Nasmyth family see James Nasmyth’s Autobiography (1883) He studied at the Royal High School and the Trustees’ Academy and was apprenticed to a coachbuilder. Aged sixteen, he was taken to London by portrait painter Allan Ramsay where he worked on subordinate parts of Ramsay's works. Nasmyth returned to Edinburgh in 1778, where he worked as a portrait painter.
From 1836 he returned to Koblenz and worked primarily as a portrait painter. From 1840 to 1844 the artist lived and worked as a portrait painter in the Netherlands (The Hague, Middelburg). In December 1844 he moved to his native town Koblenz, where he died in 1845. Several works by the artist have been sold at auctions, including 'Portrait of Prince Maximilianowitsch Romanowsky' sold at Van Ham Fine Art Auctions 'Fine Art ' in 2011.
Duke of Cadaval (1728, attributed) Pastorale (c.1730) Pierre-Antoine Quillard, (c.1700, in Paris – 25 November 1733, Lisbon) was a French portrait painter and engraver who worked in Portugal.
Oil on canvas, 121.2 x 75.2 cm., collection of the Australian War Memorial James Peter Quinn (4 December 1869 – 18 February 1951) was an Australian portrait painter born in Melbourne.
Portrait of a man Cornelis van der Voort or van der Voorde (1576 – buried on 2 November 1624) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter from the early 17th century.
Ludvig Grundtvig: self-portrait Ludvig Grundtvig (12 May 1836 – 28 November 1901) was a Danish photographer and portrait painter. He based many of his later paintings on his own photographs.
"A Portrait" "Life-size Aquarelle Portrait of Mrs. James A. Stillman" "Life- size Aquarelle Portrait of Mrs. James J. Clarkson" Elizabeth Gowdy Baker (1860 — 1927) was an American portrait painter.
Self-portrait of Nathaniel Dance-Holland, circa 1773. Sir Nathaniel Dance- Holland, 1st Baronet (8 May 1735 - 15 October 1811) was a notable English portrait painter and later a politician.
Maria Theresa by Andreas Møller c. 1727 Andreas Møller (; 30 November 1684 – c. 1762) was a Danish portrait painter and pioneer of miniature painting who worked at many European courts.
Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816April 19, 1906) was an American artist who belonged to the art movement known as the Hudson River School and later became a prominent portrait painter.
Abraham Delanoy, Jr. (sometimes given as De Lanoy) (1742 – 1795) was a portrait painter active in the colony of New York. He was a pupil of Benjamin West in London.
Portrait of Friedrich Ludwig Schröder. Lithography, ca. 1810, by Aldenrath and Gröger. Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath (17 February 1775, Lübeck – 25 February 1844, Hamburg) was a portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer.
Portrait of George Meikle Kemp, 1840. Now at the National Gallery of Scotland. The surgeon Thomas Turner by William Bonnar William Bonnar RSA (1800 - 1853) was a Scottish portrait painter.
Marcel Baschet (1918) Marcel-André Baschet (5 August 1862 – 28 December 1941) was a French portrait painter, notable for his numerous portraits of the Presidents of the French Third Republic.
Self-portrait Portrait of the architect, Hans Linstow Carl Peter Lehmann (10 October 1794, Copenhagen - 3 September 1876, Sigtuna) was a Danish-Swedish portrait painter who also worked in Norway.
Léon Cogniet (29 August 1794 – 20 November 1880) was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students.
John Quincy Adams; photograph by Edith Barakovich (c. 1930) John Quincy Adams (21 December 1874, Vienna 15 March 1933, Vienna) was an Austrian genre and portrait painter of American ancestry.
10 Known to family and friends as 'Toussa', on leaving school in 1903 aged 16 she won a scholarship to the Slade School where she became an accomplished portrait painter.
Self-portrait (1810) Portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen (c.1810) Rudolph Friedrich Carl Suhrlandt (19 December 1781, in Ludwigslust – 2 February 1862, in Schwerin) was a German portrait painter and lithographer.
Bea Orpen HRHA (7 March 1913 – 12 July 1980) was an Irish landscape and portrait painter and teacher. She aided in the establishment of the Drogheda Municipal Gallery of Art.
Molly Cramer (25 June 1852 – 18 January 1936) was a German flower, landscape and portrait painter. Trained in the old Dutch tradition, she turned to Impressionism in her later years.
Self-portrait (1782) Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, known as the Leipziger Tischbein (9 March 1750, Maastricht - 21 June 1812, Heidelberg) was a German portrait painter from the Tischbein family of artists.
1735, Louvre). Soon figures populated his scenes as well, supposedly in response to a portrait painter who challenged him to take up the genre.Rosenberg, p. 71. Woman Sealing a Letter (ca.
Portrait of Jacob Carel Martens by Johannes Vollevens II, 1734 Johannes Vollevens II (1685, in The Hague - 1759, in The Hague), was an 18th-century portrait painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Portrait of Francisco Antonio Caro. Posthumous portrait of Simón Bolívar Ricardo Acevedo Bernal (4 May 1867 in Bogotá - 7 April 1930 in Rome) was a Colombian portrait painter, composer and photographer.
Andrei Nikolayevich Mironov (; born 20 April 1975) is a Russian artist. He is known mainly as a portrait painter, though he also works a lot in the genre of religious painting.
Self-portrait of George Jamesone (c.1642), National Galleries of Scotland George Jamesone (or Jameson) (c. 1587 – 1644) was a Scottish painter who is regarded as Scotland's first eminent portrait-painter.
Giacomo Vighi (circa 1510-1570) was an Italian painter; he was active mainly in the court of the House of Savoy as a portrait painter. Charles Emanuel and his Court dwarf.
The Young Mechanic Portrait of Ohio Governor John Brough Allen Smith, Jr. (1810, Rhode Island - 1890, Cleveland, Ohio) was an American portrait painter. He also created some landscapes and genre scenes.
Bertha Wegmann (1847–1926) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry.Dansk Biografisk Lexikon She was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Self-portrait (date unknown) Panos Terlemezian (Armenian:Փանոս Թերլեմեզյան; 3 March 1865, Van - 30 April 1941, Yerevan) was an Armenian landscape and portrait painter; known for his support of Armenian nationalist causes.
Michael Noakes (28 October 1933 – 30 May 2018)Profile , debretts.com; accessed 9 April 2014.Michael Noakes, painter – obituary The Daily Telegraph, 4 June 2018. was an English artist and portrait painter.
Stephen William Shaw (December 15, 1817 – February 12, 1900) was a California '49er and portrait painter who helped discover and name Humboldt Bay and introduced viticulture to Sonoma County by 1864.
Self portrait, 1810s Robert Home (1752–1834) was a British oil portrait painter who travelled to the Indian subcontinent in 1791. During his travels he also painted historic scenes and landscapes.
Thomas E. Stephens taken in 1960 Thomas Edgar Stephens (November 18, 1884 – January 4, 1966)U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 was a Welsh- American artist and portrait painter.
David Martin (1 April 1737 – 30 December 1797) was a Scottish painter and engraver. Born in Fife, he studied in Italy and England, before gaining a reputation as a portrait painter.
Janko Mihailović Moler (in Cyrillic Serbian: Јанко Михаиловић Молер; Negrišori, Ottoman Empire, 1792 - Negrišori, Principality of Serbia, 1853) was a Serbian priest and artist. He was an icon and portrait painter.
From 1819 he worked as a portrait painter, teacher, and painter of signs and architectural ornaments. He filled a void left by portrait painter Rober Field who had practiced in Halifax from 1808 to 1816. Valentine studied painting in England in 1836, after which he work visibly improved. In 1839 he travelled to Paris where he learned the Daguerreotype process, an early form of photography, of which he was a pioneer in Canada as early as 1842.
Elizabeth Cornwallis, Mrs Edward Allen (d. 1708), as Diana the Huntress Jacob Huysmans was principally a portrait painter. Upon his arrival in England he did, however, rely on his skills as a history painter creating small pastiches of religious and mythological scenes by Anthony van Dyck. Even after having established himself as a portrait painter to the elite, he still painted history subjects and is known to have created religious compositions for his patron Queen Catherine of Braganza.
Although sometimes described as a landscape and portrait painter, he is best known as a portrait painter in oils and pencil portraits on paper. His works can be seen in the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy Galleries in London, and the National Library of Australia."Portrait of Basil Burdett". National Library of Australia Most of his finished portraits are signed, often with "Arnold Mason" followed by the last two digits of the year date.
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings,Champlin, Perkins, 1885 Among his pupils were several orientalists such as Ludwig Deutsch, Paul Joanowitch, Jean Discart and Charles Wilda. His sisters were the painters Marie Müller (1847-1935) and Berta Müller (1848–1925), both well known in Austria for their portrait paintings. The third sister, Josefine, married the Austrian portrait painter Eduard Swoboda (1814-1902), he was the father of the painter Rudolf Swoboda and the portrait painter Josefine Swoboda.
Self-Portrait William Owen (1769-1825) was an English portrait painter known for his portraits of society figures such as Pitt the Younger and George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV).
John Collingham Moore (1829 – 12 July 1880) was a British artist during the Victorian era. He painted landscapes in Italy before becoming known as a portrait painter upon his return to England.
The Golfers, by Charles Lees, 1847 The grave of Charles Lees, Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh Charles Lees (1800–20 February1880) was a Scottish portrait painter who also specialised in sporting and recreational subjects.
Portrait of Saint Teresa Eduardo Balaca y Orejas-Canseco (c.1840-1914) was a Spanish portrait painter, decorative artist and art teacher. His brother was the well-known battle painter, Ricardo Balaca.
Backer never married, never bought a house, and might have lived with his brother or nephew Adriaen Backer, who also became a portrait painter. He died in Amsterdam, in his early forties.
Féréol Bonnemaison, Young Woman Overtaken by a Storm, ca. 1799, oil on canvas, 100 × 80.5 cm. Brooklyn Museum Féréol Bonnemaison (1766 - 1827) was a French portrait painter, lithographer, restorer, and art dealer.
Sarah Goodridge was a miniature portrait painter, who studied with noted American painter Gilbert Stuart. In 1825, he commissioned a portrait from her. This miniature is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Bust of Bernardo López, by Josep Piquer i Duart (1860s?) Bernardo López Piquer (20 August 1799/1800, Valencia – 1 August 1874, Madrid) was a Spanish portrait painter; noted especially for his pastels.
Francis Dennis Ramsay (15 March 1925 – 8 February 2009), known as Dennis Ramsay, was a Scottish portrait painter, trained in London and Paris, who worked mainly in Australia in the classical tradition.
Self-portrait (1831) King Karl XIV Johan Carl Wilhelm Nordgren (11 May 1804, Stockholm - 9 January 1857, Stockholm) was a Swedish portrait painter and professional trumpeter, for the Life Guards of Horse.
A letter from the Front/Girl on couch (1915) Agnes Noyes Goodsir (18 June 1864 – 11 August 1939) was an Australian portrait painter who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.
Portrait of Zeng Jing Zeng Jing (, courtesy name Bochen 波臣); ca. 1564 - 1647 was a Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He was best known as a portrait painter.
John Banvard (November 15, 1815 – May 16, 1891) was a panorama and portrait painter known for his panoramic views of the Mississippi River Valley. He was a pioneer in moving panoramic paintings.
Caroline Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
It was at this time that he also established his reputation as a portrait painter. In 1870, illness forced him to retire and he painted little, although he lived for seventeen more years.
Arabella Dorman (born 1975 in London)Imperial War Museum: 'Dorman, Arabella (Oral history)' is a British war artist and portrait painter. She was chosen as one of the BBC's "100 Women" in 2014.
Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt: Geldorp, Gortzius. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 531–533 Geldorp was a successful portrait painter working for the aristocracy and other prominent patrons.
Miniature on Ivory Marie Courtois (c. 1655 – 13 October 1703) was a French miniature painter. She was a pupil of Le Brun. In 1675 she married Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter.
Theodore Criley (1880 - October 5, 1930) was an American hotel manager and artist. He joined the art colony in Carmel-by-the-Sea, where he was a watercolorist, portrait painter, and wood engraver.
His younger brother James was also an artist. Dring married the artist Grace Rothwell and the couple lived at Compton, near Winchester. Their daughter, Melissa Dring is a portrait painter and forensic artist.
Caroline Bardua was primarily a portrait painter. The subjects of her portraits include Caspar David Friedrich, Julius Eduard Hitzig, Niccolo Paganini, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, his wife Christiane von Goethe, and Johanna Schopenhauer.
Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 7 December 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.
Karl Wolfe (January 25, 1903 - November 19, 1984) was an American portrait painter and stained glass, mosaic and terracotta artist from the state of Mississippi. He did over 1,000 paintings, including 800 portraits.
Elmira Hüseynova (12 February 1933 – 23 January 1995) was an Azerbaijani sculptor and portrait painter, who has exhibits in various locations throughout the world and was honored as an Honored Artist of Azerbaijan.
George Keith Ralph, 1780 portrait of William Macarmick Portrait of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831) by George Keith Ralph. George Keith Ralph (1752–in or after 1811) was a British portrait-painter.
Self portraint of George Watson Scottish painter George Watson's grave, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh George Watson (1767 – 24 August 1837) was a Scottish portrait painter and the first president of the Royal Scottish Academy.
Flora Marguerite Lion (3 December 1878 - 15 May 1958) was an English portrait painter. Lion had a long and successful career and was known for her portraits of society figures, landscapes and murals.
Maria Callani, Hebe and the eagle, (1803), oil on canvas Maria Callani (15 August 1778 – 9 February 1803) was an Italian portrait painter, active in the 18th century in Milan and Parma, Italy.
Gaetano Gabbiani was an Italian painter, active in 18th century Florence. the nephew of Antonio Domenico Gabbiani, studied under his uncle, and became a meritorious portrait painter in pastel. He died c. 1750.
He became later the acting head of the Art School. The Grand Duke also bestowed on him the Order of the White Falcon. During this period he was active as a portrait painter.
Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt (20 October 1640 – 7 November 1691) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter who had been a pupil of Gerard Dou and is known as one of Leiden's fijnschilders..
Born in Paris, the son of a restorer, Mathey learned his art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris in painters Léon Cogniet's, Isidore Pils's and Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle's workshops. He began to exhibit at the Salon de Paris in 1868, and became a valued and recognized portrait painter. He has several times portrayed artists from his entourage in their studios. Especially a portrait painter, Mathey did not, however, refrain from landscape, seascapes, lived scenes or decoration.
Self-portrait, aged 17, entitled, Uffizi Self-portrait Having shown an early interest in art, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable London portrait painter Thomas Hudson, who had been born in Devon. Hudson had a collection of Old Master drawings, including some by Guercino, of which Reynolds made copies. Although apprenticed to Hudson for four years, Reynolds remained with him only until summer 1743. Having left Hudson, Reynolds worked for some time as a portrait-painter in Plymouth Dock (now Devonport).
They had four children: William Henry Furness, Jr., a portrait painter; Horace Howard Furness, a Shakespeare scholar; Frank Furness, one of Philadelphia's most prominent architects; and Annis Lee Furness Wister, an author and translator.
'Portrait of Niels Peter Holbech (1830) portrait by Wilhelm Bendz Portrait of a Young Woman in a Blue Dress (1835) Niels Peter Holbech (14 September 1804 - 11 January 1889) was a Danish portrait painter.
James John Hill (1811 – 27 January 1882), known also by his alias J. J. Hill, was an English landscape and portrait painter, known for his many rustic paintings and portraits of Lady Burdett-Coutts.
Eavesdropping at the Wall Mary Stuart's Escape from Loch Leven Castle Lambert Clemens Jakob Bewer (30 May 1820, Aachen – 2 September 1884, Bonn) was a German history and portrait painter, in the Romantic style.
Edmond Xavier Kapp (5 November 1890 – 29 October 1978) was a British portrait painter, draughtsman and caricaturist who during his career depicted many of the most famous politicians, artists and musicians of the time.
Frans van Dorne was mainly a portrait painter although he also painted a number of religious compositions. His portraits show the influence of the French Classicism that he had studied under David in France.
Emilius Ditlev Bærentzen, usually known as Emil Bærentzen, (30 October 1799 – 14 February 1868) was a Danish portrait painter and lithographer, active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting. He founded Em. Bærentzen & Co..
Ezra Ames (May 5, 1768 – February 23, 1836) was a popular portrait painter in Albany, New York during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. More than 700 portraits have been attributed to him.
Vera Dorothea Stanley Alder (29 October 1898 - 26 May 1984) was an English portrait painter and mystic. She wrote several books and pamphlets on self- help and spirituality. She founded the World Guardian Fellowship.
José Olaya (1828) Isabel Riquelme (c.1821) José Gil de Castro y Morales (1 September 1785 - c.1840/41) was an Afro-Peruvian portrait painter, cartographer and soldier who spent many years in Chile.
Viola, Herman J. The Indian Legacy of Charles Bird King. 1st ed. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976. When King was fifteen, he went to New York to study under the portrait painter Edward Savage.
Portrait of Juliette Récamier Portrait of a Lady (believed to be Madame Marbon) Firmin Massot (5 May 1766, in Geneva, Republic of Geneva – 16 May 1849, in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Swiss portrait painter.
Martini was born in Oderzo, Veneto and received his early training in drawing and painting from his father, who was a portrait painter and a professor of drawing at the Istituto Technico in Treviso.
Alexander Struys in his study (c.1894) Birds of Prey (1876) Alexander Theodore Honoré Struys (24 January 1852, Berchem – 25 March 1941, Uccle) was a Belgian genre and portrait painter in the Realistic style.
Isaac Augustus Wetherby (1819-1904) or I.A. Wetherbee was an American painter and photographer. He worked in Boston, Massachusetts,"I.A. Wetherbee, portrait painter, 17-1/2 Tremont Row." Boston Directory, 1849 and in Iowa.
Jacques-Émile Blanche; portrait by Lucien Simon, 1903. Jacques-Émile Blanche (; 1 January 1861 – 30 September 1942) was a French artist, largely self- taught, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris.
Paul Dubois (1905) Paul Dubois (18 July 1829 – 23 May 1905) was a French sculptor and painter from Nogent-sur-Seine. His works were mainly sculptures and statues, and he was also a portrait painter.
Charles Elder (1821 – 11 December 1851) was an English historical and portrait painter. He died aged 30, at Gower Street, London, leaving a widow and three children.The gentleman's magazine (1852), Volume 37. W. Pickering (London).
Thomas Benjamin Kennington (7 April 1856 – 10 December 1916) was an English genre, social realist and portrait painter. He was a founder member of the New English Art Club (NEAC) and the Imperial Arts League.
John Kynnersley Kirby (1894–1962) was an English portrait painter. He was born in the district of Basford, Nottingham. Nothing is known of his early life. He studied art at the Slade School in London.
Edyth Starkie (27 November 1867 – March 1941) was an established Irish portrait painter and sculptor who was married to Arthur Rackham. She was born on the west coast of Ireland at Westcliff House, County Galway.
John Moale and Her Granddaughter, Ellin North Moale (illustrated at left).Colwill, Stiles Tuttle, Leroy Graham, Mary Ellen Hayward & Carolyn J. Weekley. Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter. Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. 1988.
Anna Louise Adolphine Eduardine Gerresheim (8 March 1852 – 1 December 1921) was a German landscape artist, portrait painter and etcher. She was among the founders of the artist's colony in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea.
Tai-Shan Schierenberg (born 1962) is a British portrait painter, based in London. He was the joint winner of the 1989 BP Portrait Award and is Head of Painting at The Art Academy in London.
The artist, John St Helier Lander, took pride in the fact that all five of these portraits of the King had been "unveiled by Royal Princes, an honour no portrait painter has ever had before".
Aphia Salisbury Rich (1793-1868) and Baby Edward Pierrepont Lacey (1832-1888) and his Dog "Gun" Milton William Hopkins (1 August 1789 - 24 April 1844) was an American portrait painter in the folk art tradition.
Nathaniel Smibert (January 20, 1734 – November 8, 1756), was an American colonial artist in Boston, Province of Massachusetts, active in the mid-18th century. He is considered to be the first portrait painter in America.
Leonard Marion Bahr (May 12, 1905 – July 25, 1990) was an American portrait painter, muralist, illustrator and educator. He worked for many years as a painting professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
Leonardo Barbieri (1818-1896) was an Italian portrait painter and daguerrotypist who was an expatriate in the Western Hemisphere, including Argentina, Bolivia, California, and Peru, in the 1840s-1860s. He did many portraits of Californios.
Warner Hassells (fl. 1680–1710), was a portrait painter. Hassells resided in London but was probably a native of Germany. He belonged to the school of Sir Godfrey Kneller, who painted his portrait in 1700.
Portrait of an Elderly Chinese Man Anton Mikhailovich Legashov, also Legashev or Legashyov (Russian: Антон Михайлович Легашов, or Легашёв; 1798 in Lipovka, Luninsky District - 1865 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian landscape and portrait painter.
Smibert began drawing while apprenticed as a painter and plasterer in Edinburgh. On moving to London in 1709Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's first portrait painter, Yale University Press, 1995. he worked as a coach painter and copyist. 1713-1716, he studied under Godfrey Kneller at the Great Queen Street Academy, then returned to Edinburgh, seeking work as portraitist. Smibert travelled to Italy from 1719 to 1722 to copy old masters and then settled in London where he worked as a portrait painter from 1722-1728.
England was born in London and was one of the six children of Edwin Arthur Ward, a portrait painter, and Katherine House. England studied at the Westminster School of Art and at the Royal College of Art before studying with the society portrait painter Sir James Jebusa Shannon. Based in London, England worked in a variety of fields. She painted portraits and figure subjects, worked as an interior designer, illustrated books and magazines and also designed dresses and costumes for theatre and film productions.
Rafał Marceli Ludwik Fortunat Józef Malczewski (24 October 1892 - 15 February 1965) was a Polish landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman, author and columnist. He was a noted Tatra mountaineer, skier and populariser of the Tatra Mountains.
Tessa Georgina Kennedy (born ) is a British interior designer, whose clients include multi-national corporations, royalty, celebrities and many European hotels, restaurants and clubs. Her elopement with society portrait painter Dominick Elwes made headlines in 1957.
His second wife was Eleanor Rulapaugh, known professionally as Claire De Lisle, a portrait painter and socialite.Biographical information for this entry is taken from John Loughery, Alias S.S. Van Dine: The Man Who Created Philo Vance.
Joseph Anton von Gegenbaur (Photograph by Theodor Widmayer) Madonna and Child, St.Martinus Parish Church, Wangen Josef Anton von Gegenbaur (6 March 1800, Wangen, Württemberg – 31 January 1876, Rome) was an accomplished German historical and portrait painter.
After this Bułhak studied photography in Dresden, Germany, where he received some practical tutoring from the German portrait-painter Hugo Erfurth. He also visited various Dresden societies, where he became acquainted with the symbolists and impressionists.
Aurel Băeșu (26 May 1896 – 24 August 1928) was a Romanian Impressionist landscape and portrait painter. Many of his works show the influence of Nicolae Grigorescu; an influence that was common among painters of his generation.
Stephen Catterson Smith the Elder, portrayed by his son Stephen Catterson Smith the Younger. Stephen Catterson Smith (12 March 1806 – 30 May 1872) was an English-Irish portrait-painter and president of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
28, archive.org., page 11. Bell studied under Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris, and was in Rome for over a year from 1825. He was portrait painter to Maria II of Portugal, and assistant to David Wilkie.
Portrait of Louis-François Roubiliac, by Adrien Carpentiers, 1762. Adrien Carpentiers, also known as Carpentière or Charpentière (fl. 1739, d.1778) was a portrait painter, possibly from the Low Countries, active in England from about 1739.
In 1827 he first showed work at the Royal Hibernian Academy. He went to London in 1834, to work as a portrait painter, returning to Dublin in 1844. Bridgford died 21 November 1878 in Dublin, Ireland.
Andrew Law (1873–1967) was a Scottish artist and portrait painter. Law rarely exhibited outside of the west of Scotland, but, during a long career based on private commissions, he produced a significant body of work.
Saint Luke painting the Virgin Pierre II Mignard (February 20, 1640 – 1725) was a French architect and painter. He was the son of painter Nicolas Mignard and the younger brother of Paul Mignard, a portrait painter.
He advertised his services in Columbus as a portrait painter "from Life or from Photographs; Old Paintings cleaned, repaired and varnished".Haverstock et al., p. 295 He exhibited at the Boston Athenæum in 1858 and 1874.
Aniela Pawlikowska known as Lela Pawlikowska, (11 July 1901, Lwów - 23 December 1980, London) was a Polish artist, illustrator, and society portrait painter who came to prominence in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and '60s.
Alexander Petrovich Sokolov (Russian: Александр Петрович Соколов; 10 November 1829, Saint Petersburg - 2 December 1913, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian portrait painter in the Academic style. His brothers, Pyotr and Pavel were also well-known artists.
His nephew was Hugh Birley (1817–1883), a businessman and Conservative politician, and his great-grandson was Oswald Birley (1880–1952), the portrait painter and royal portraitist prominent in the early part of the 20th century.
He also began to illustrate works of literature by, among others, Gogol and Ivan Franko. he returned to Kolomyia on several occasions between 1909 and 1913. After that, he resumed his work as a portrait painter.
Theodore Sanchez de Pina Ramos (17 October 1928 - 11 April 2018) was a Spanish portrait painter who became a naturalised British subject and painted Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and the Duke of Edinburgh.
George Romney ( – 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson.Rowley Cleve. George Romney.
Wedderburn's first cousin Catherine Read, a portrait painter, took in his sisters after the execution of the 5th baronet.Miss Katherine Read, Court Paintress, A. Francis Steuart, The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 2, No. 5 (Oct., 1904), pp.
Self-portrait c. 1783 Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot Cage Johann Christian Fiedler (31 October 1697, Pirna - 5 September 1765, Darmstadt) was a German portrait painter. Some sources give his year of death as 1768.
Frank Hyde (1849–1937) was a British portrait and figure painter. He was a war artist and portrait painter, best known for his works of Capri. He also created comic characters for greeting cards for Raphael Tuck.
Alfred T. Ordway as President of the Boston Art Club Alfred T. Ordway (March 9, 1821 – November 17, 1897) was an American landscape and portrait painter, and one of the founding fathers of the Boston Art Club.
His children also pursued artistic careers: Thomas Waldo Story (1854–1915) became a sculptor; Julian Russell Story (1857–1919) was a successful portrait painter; and Edith Marion (1844–1907), the Marchesa Peruzzi de' Medici, became a writer.
250px František Roman Dragoun (1916–2005) was a Czech portrait painter from Písek. He painted more than five thousand paintings and drawings and was also a poet. His son, Roman Dragoun, is a notable progressive rock musician.
"Artist Dies in Elkridge Fire: Florence Bahr's Home Destroyed in Two Alarm Blaze." The Baltimore Sun. January 13, 1998. She met Leonard Marion Bahr, a portrait painter, who was her teacher at the Maryland Institute in 1930.
Nicola Green (born 1972) is a British portrait painter. Among her subjects have been the Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, and Elle Macpherson. In 2005, Green married David Lammy, a Labour Member of Parliament. They have three children.
Aside from acting, Kosleck was an accomplished painter who supported himself through his work as a portrait artist while waiting for a movie role. An impressionist-style portrait-painter, he painted both Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich.
Franz Kessler's diving harness Franz Kessler (c. 1580–1650) was a portrait painter,Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (General German Biography): Kessler, Franz. scholar, inventor and alchemist living in the Holy Roman Empire during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Giovanni Battista Primi (died 1657) was an Italian marine landscape and portrait painter. He was a pupil of Agostino Tassi and a native of Rome. He resided a long time at Genoa, where he died of plague.
John Norris (c. 1735) George Knapton (1698–1778) was an English portrait painter and the first portraitist for the Society of Dilettanti in the 1740s. He became Surveyor and Keeper of the King's Pictures from 1765–78.
Marion H. Beckett, Still Life, ca. 1920 A member of Alfred Stieglitz’s artistic circle in New York City, Beckett was known primarily as a portrait painter. Her Portrait of Mrs. Charles H. Beckett and Portrait of Mrs.
James Gabriel Huquier (1725–1805) was a portrait-painter and engraver. He was the son of the roccoco engraver Gabriel Huquier and his wife Marie-Ann (Desvignes). One of Huquier's subjects was Chevalier d'Eon, an early transvestite.
Matthew Harris Jouett, self-portrait Matthew Harris Jouett (Mercer County, Kentucky, 22 April 1788 – Lexington, Kentucky, 10 August 1827) was a noted American portrait painter, famous for painting portraits including Thomas Jefferson, George Rogers Clark and Lafayette.
Royal patronage resumed in around 1813, when Beechey was appointed portrait painter to Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, and culminated with his appointment in 1830 as principal portrait painter to King William IV. In 1836, Beechey retired to Hampstead and on 9–11 June that year, the contents of his studio along with his collection were sold at Christie's. Although capable of impetuousness and irascibility, Beechey was known for his generosity to students. In particular, he took a close interest in the career of the young John Constable.
Self Portrait, or The Portrait Painter (c. 1698). Oil on canvas, 77.2 × 63.5 cm. In the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland. The vault of Sir John Medina, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh Sir John Baptist Medina or John Baptiste de Medina (1659 - 5 October 1710)Getty Name List – and variants, sometimes spelled "Baptiste", and "de Medina", but always "John" was an artist of Flemish-Spanish origin who worked in England and Scotland, mostly as a portrait painter, though he was also the first illustrator of Paradise Lost by John Milton in 1688.
The Text, p.142, col 1. J. Johnson, A. Greutzner, Dictionary of British Art: British Artists 1880–1940, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1999R, 149, col. 3. was himself a Scottish genre and portrait painter from Dalry.
Many of Gregório Lopes' works can be seen in the National Museum of Ancient Art, in Lisbon. His son, Cristóvão Lopes (1516-1594), was also an artist and worked as a portrait painter for the Portuguese royal family.
Balaca was born in Madrid. His father was the portrait painter and miniaturist, José Balaca. He grew up in Lisbon, where his father had gone into exile for political reasons. By 1852, the family had returned to Madrid.
The leading portrait painter of this period was Joaquín Guttiérrez. He depicted members of the aristocracy in frozen forms, surrounded by richly embellished furniture and decoration, and usually printed the subject's name and family title beneath their image.
Emma De Vigne (30 January 1850 - 3 June 1898) was a Belgian still life and portrait painter, who came from a family of artists from Ghent. Her paintings were exhibited in Europe, as well as in South America.
Tubes of various colors. The paint tube was invented in 1841 by portrait painter John Goffe Rand, superseding pig bladders and glass syringesCallen, Anthea. The Art of Impressionsm: How Impressionism Changed the Art World. Yale University Press. 2000.
He married Claire van der Smissen, with whom he had one daughter and three sons, two of whom became painters: Alfred Verwee became an internationally renowned animal painter and Louis-Charles Verwee was a genre and portrait painter.
His elder brother George (1791–1862), a portrait-painter, was also a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, and his younger brother David (died 1874) practised as a landscape-painter. He died in London on 29 August 1847.
Francisco de Aguirre (active 1646) was a Spanish painter, active in Toledo during the Baroque period. He was a pupil of Eugenio Caxes, and known chiefly as a portrait painter and a restorer of pictures in the cathedral.
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. Her work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
His main income was as a portrait painter and he included among his subjects certain Lord Mayors of London and Belfast. He became interested in wild flowers, archaeology and geology,Clements, P. 2011. Burren Country. The Collins Press.
After a year of formal training, Thomas returned to Newburyport to open his own studio, where he remained as a portrait painter for the next decade. On December 17, 1838 he married Catherine, daughter of Nathan Follansbee of Newburyport.
George Petrie, by Bernard Mulrenin Bernard Mulrenin (1803–1868) was an Irish painter. He was an acclaimed portrait painter of early 19th century Ireland. Two of his most popular portraits were of artist George Petrie and politician Daniel O'Connell.
Vanitas, Kröller-Müller Museum Bartholomäus Bruyn (1493–1555), usually called Barthel Bruyn or Barthel Bruyn the Elder, was a German Renaissance painter active in Cologne. He painted altarpieces and portraits, and was Cologne's foremost portrait painter of his day.
Queen Victoria when Princess by William Corden the Elder William Corden the Elder (21 January 1795 – 18 June 1867) was an English portrait painter and miniaturist known for his commissions from the Royal Family in the mid nineteenth century.
In Johannesburg, Molloy ran an art school. She disregarded the country's apartheid laws by teaching black students at her studio. During the 1940s Molloy's reputation as a portrait painter grew. The Molloys returned to England in the mid-1960s.
Following the death of her father, Edgerly needed to find work to help support her impoverished family. Inspired by a magazine article about American miniature portrait painter Amalia Küssner Coudert, Edgerly began teaching herself to paint miniatures on ivory.
Subsequently in London, he was a successful portrait-painter, especially of children. Tidey died at 30 Percy Street, London, on 21 July 1872. His remaining drawings and sketches were sold by Messrs. Christie, Manson, & Woods on 28 March 1873.
A Brush with Fame is a light hearted ITV daytime television show, featuring a nationwide search to find Britain's best amateur portrait painter. It was presented by Carol Smillie, and the last episode was broadcast on 11 November 2005.
Anthony Maxtone Graham by Daniel A. Wehrschmidt. Oil on canvas, 1904. Daniel Albert Wehrschmidt (1861-1932) was an American artist from Ohio who made a career for himself in England as a portrait painter, lithographer and engraver.Daniel A. Wehrschmidt.
Jay Meuser (September 28, 1911 — August 19, 1963) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Meuser's style was versatile and his works prolific. In his lifetime he worked as an illustrator, portrait painter and cartoonist for several newspaper editorial pages.
Rob Longley, an art teacher at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, was also a student of hers. Nelson Shanks, noted portrait painter was her student. Susan Goetz, and Maryanna Goetz also studied with her. Both are noted painters.
Rincklake's final self-portrait Marienfeld Abbey in summer 2005 Johann Christoph Rincklake (19 October 1764 in Harsewinkel - 19 June 1813 in Münster) was a German portrait painter of the Romantic era, with a high standing in international art history.
His father was the famous portrait painter, Pyotr Sokolov. Alexander Brullov and Karl Brullov were his uncles.Biographical notes @ RusArtNet. He left the gymnasium in 1847, before completing his studies, to enter the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Mathias Stoltenberg (21 July 1799 - 2 November 1871) was a Norwegian painter. He earned his living mostly as a travelling portrait painter and furniture restorer. His paintings were later rediscovered and presented at the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania.
Cassian Elwes is a son of Dominic Elwes, a portrait painter, and Tessa Kennedy, an interior designer. He is the elder brother of actor Cary Elwes and artist Damian Elwes. He is the stepson of Elliott Kastner, an American film producer.
Charles I at his trial (c. 1650) Edward Bower (fl. 1635 – 1667)Portraits by Edward Bower (National Portrait Gallery) was an English portrait painter. During the Civil War he worked mostly for Parliamentarian patrons, and painted Charles I at his trial.
Edmund Nelson was educated at Goldsmiths College in London. He married fellow art student, Ruth Swanson, in 1939. During World War II he served in the RAF in Egypt."Edmund Nelson: Uncompromising portrait painter" (Obituary), The Independent, 13 February 2007.
Portrait of a Young Girl, 1825, by Mary Jane Simes. Watercolor on ivory. Subject is believed to be a member of the Peale family. Mary Jane Simes was an American portrait painter who worked in both oils and painted miniatures.
George Dury (1817–1894) was a Bavarian portrait painter. He emigrated to the United States in 1849, and set up as an art teacher in Nashville, Tennessee. His work can be seen at the White House and the Tennessee State Museum.
George Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 – June 24, 1894) was an American portrait painter. He was one of the most prolific and popular painters of his day, and his sitters included many of the eminent personages of his time.
He exhibited in New York in 1915 and 1916 and in Philadelphia and Washington DC. Primarily an allegorical and figurative composition muralist and portrait painter, his creative strokes adorn the ceilings and walls of numerous US National Historic Landmark buildings.
He was the son of Congressman John M. Wiley, and the grandson of John J. Cooper, who served as Indiana State Treasurer. John Cooper Wiley was married to Irena Monique Baruch (1906-1972), a well-known sculptor and portrait painter.
Church of the Holy Trinity at Tattershall website Properly it is the Church of St Martin Without, Stamford Baron. Burials include Dutch portrait painter William Wissing (1687), in the churchyard, and Daniel Lambert (1809), in the detached part of the churchyard.
Godfried Schalcken or Gottfried Schalken (1643 – 16 November 1706) was a Dutch genre and portrait painter. He was noted for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight, and painted in the exquisite and highly polished manner of the Leiden fijnschilders.
John Ennis born 1953 is an American painter. Ennis is a portrait painter and former book-cover illustrator; his paintings currently hang in over 100 fine art collections worldwide. He has over a thousand published book cover illustrations to his credit.
Frith started his career as a portrait painter and first exhibited at the British Institution in 1838. In the 1840s he often based works on the literary output of writers such as Charles Dickens, whose portrait he painted, and Laurence Sterne.
Demange studied under the pastel artist Charles Louis Gratia (1815–1911). On 12 September 1888 he married Marie Célestine Merel (born 1862). Their daughter Suzanne was born in 1897. Demange became an official portrait painter during the French Third Republic.
His father was the portrait painter, Vicente López Portaña. His brother, Luis, also became a painter. Later, they would work together at Orihuela Cathedral. He and his brother enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1825.
Bella and Hanna. The Eldest Daughters of M. L. Nathanson is a painting by the Danish painter, C. W. Eckersberg. It was painted in 1820. A busy portrait painter, Eckersberg received a commission from to paint two large family portraits.
Like other artists of his kind, Allworthy also painted portraits. Allworthy began to progressively focus more on portraits, so much so, in 1960 a critic referred to him as "a distinguished portrait painter." Weigle, Edith. Chicago Daily Tribune, 27 March 1960.
Louise Durman, "Nostalgia Up for Sale: Knaffl Gallery Artifacts Reflect Knox History," Knoxville News Sentinel, 20 January 1994. It finally closed in 1987. A grandson of Knaffl, Edward Hurst, Jr., was a noted portrait painter in the 1960s and 1970s.
Henry Robert Morland A Woman doing Laundry Henry Robert Morland (1716/1719 – 30 November 1797) was an English portrait painter, best remembered for a portrait of King George III, and for being the father of the animal painter George Morland.
Cosmo Alexander (1724 – 25 August 1772) was a Scottish portrait painter. A supporter of James Edward Stuart's claim to the English and Scottish thrones, Alexander spent much of his life overseas following the defeat of the Jacobite cause in 1745.
Girl at a mirror, 1632 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). Moreelse was born and lived most of his life in Utrecht. He was a pupil of the Delft portrait painter Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, who had himself been a pupil of Anthonie van Blocklandt.
Barnett Samuel MarksPublished in Rees, T. Mardy Welsh painters, engravers, sculptors (1527-1911) Carnavon 1912 Barnett Samuel Marks (Cardiff 1827–London 1916) R.C.A. (Royal Cambrian Academician) was a Welsh-Jewish portrait painter who was also noted for his social realism paintings.
The son was the more significant artist, known for mezzotints. The portrait painter Jonathan Richardson (1665–1745) executed many drawings in pencil, examples of which can be seen in the British Museum. The Scot David Paton was working in 1670.
Chambrun : "Vous parlez encore pour ne rien dire !" Jean COCTEAU / Journal (1942–1945) / Gallimard 1989 daughter of the Duke and the Duchess of Rohan and widow of prince Lucien Murat. She was a writer, galleriste and landscape and portrait painter.
Portrait of Themistoklis Trikoupis (1807-1890), a hero of the Greek Revolution. Portrait of Kalidona Trikoupis, Themistoklis' wife. Spyridon Prosalentis (; Corfu, 1830 – Athens, 1895) was a Greek portrait painter of the Heptanese School. His first name is sometimes seen as Spyros.
Verkolje was very successful and enjoyed the patronage of important patrons in Delft as well as the court in the Hague.Vermeer and The Delft School, p. 29 As a portrait painter his only competitor in Delft was Cornelis de Man.Bakker, Piet.
Bernardo Regoliron was an Italian portrait painter, practising in the second half of the 18th century, was a pupil of P. P. Cristofani. At Vienna there are portraits by him of the Emperor Joseph II and of his brother Leopold.
Mary Beale (; 26 March 1633 8 October 1699) was a British portrait painter. Along with Joan Carlile (c. 1606 – 1679) and Susan Penelope Rosse (c. 1655 – 1700), she was part of a small band of female professional artists working in London.
She became a semi-professional portrait painter in the 1650s and 1660s, working from her home, first in Covent Garden and later in Fleet Street in London. When living in Convent Garden, Beale was a near neighbor to artist Joan Carlile.
He was also in demand as a portrait painter. Since 1952 the "Pieter Dierckx Price for Painting" is issued biannually at the drawing academy in Temse. In 1986 the town of Temse honoured Pieter Dierckx by naming a street after him.
He then worked primarily as a portrait painter, notably of Mata Hari and Jo Bonger (Theo van Gogh's widow). He continued to record life at Hirsch & Cie. His favourite models at this time were the Wehmann twins, Ippy and Gertie.
Mason Chamberlin (1727–1787) was an English portrait painter, who was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. He was a student of Francis Hayman. He is perhaps best remembered for his portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
Queen Katharina of Württemberg (1819) Reporting to King William I (1847), a group portrait. All the participants are identified on the painting's page at Wikimedia Commons. Franz Seraph Stirnbrand (c.1788/94 - 2 August 1882, Stuttgart) was a German portrait painter.
Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd RE (Fellow, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers; 26 October 1891 – 21 November 1966) was a British artist. He was a member of the Royal Academy and well known as a portrait painter in the 1920s and 1930s.
Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (2 June 1880-13 November 1952) was a British artist. He was a member of the Royal Academy, was a renowned portrait painter and served as a war artist in both World War One and World War Two.
By 1795, Roberts had an appointment as portrait painter to the Duke of Clarence. He exhibited again annually at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1799. The National Portrait Gallery, London holds 52 portraits by Roberts or copied from his work.
In the year 1569 Frans Pourbus was registered as a master of the Guild of Saint Luke in Bruges as well as the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp. In 1572 Pourbus took on Rochtus Gabrelius da Bresson as a pupil and in 1575 Peeter Cobbe became his pupil. In 1572 Pourbus was contacted by the prominent portrait painter Anthonis Mor for assistance in finding apprentices in Antwerp. This may have resulted in closer contacts between the artists and an opportunity for Pourbus to become familiar with the work of Mor, then the leading portrait painter in the Low Countries.
He was also a sensitive portrait painter, and played a leading part in French painting of the 1630s. Danaë In addition to his religious, literary and mythological subjects, Blanchard was also a sensitive portrait painter, and in his short career played a leading part in the development of French painting in general during the 1630s. Perrault called him the ‘Titian of France’, and Félibien stated that he reintroduced le bon gout to French painting. Blanchard oscillated throughout his career between two distinct tendencies—the cool and polished handling of the Bolognese painters and the more warmly sensuous and warm colourism of the Venetians.
Comès was the official portrait painter of the United States Poet Laureate. As official portrait painter, she painted portraits of Allen Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, Karl Shapiro, and Léonie Adams. She also painted portraits of Robert Lowell, Ezra Pound, Saint-John Perse, Caroline Gordon, Walter de la Mare, John Rothenstein, Denis Devlin, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Katherine Anne Porter, Anne Goodwin Winslow, Mark Van Doren, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Walter Jackson Bate, and John Huston Finley. She served as president of the Washington, D.C. chapter of Artists Equity Association and was vice president for the organizations' national association.
Portrait of an almoner with his wife and children as an allegory of charity Pieter Thijs was in demand as a portrait painter. He gained in particular a reputation for large family portraits, a genre made popular by his teacher Anthony van Dyck.Pieter Thijs at the Netherlands Institute for Art History His portraits followed the style of van Dyck in the eloquence of the hands and the meticulous execution of the reflections on the shimmering fabric. Though a popular portrait painter, the early Flemish biographer Cornelis de Bie stated that his likenesses were criticized for not being like their subjects.
Montgomery continued to do commercial illustration for many years, and worked in many genres, but gained most of his recognition as a portrait painter and a muralist. Montgomery was a prolific portrait painter and often used his family as models. He was hired to paint numerous corporation chairpersons and executives, or those being recognized by companies, such as G.E. vacuum tube pioneer Saul Dushman. Vacuum Science & Technology: Pioneers of the 20th Century He was commissioned by Sears Roebuck to paint a series of portraits of its founders and officers, and many of his portraits still are displayed in the Sears Tower in Chicago.
Phillips' work influenced the style of his younger contemporary, Erastus Salisbury Field, who worked as an itinerant portrait painter in the region just east of Phillips. The Museum of American Folk Art showed its first major exhibition devoted to the work of a single folk portraitist to "Ammi Phillips, Portrait Painter 1788–1865," on exhibit from October 16 to December 2, 1968. Phillips work was displayed alongside the American modernist painter Mark Rothko in a 2008 exhibition "Seduction of Light" at the American Folk Art Museum, drawing attention to parallels of style and technique in the work of two American masters.
Inspiration A bulletin from the French Army, announcing victory in the Battle of Malakoff Louis-Aimé Grosclaude (26 September 1784, Le Locle - 11 December 1869, Paris) was a Swiss painter who began as a portrait painter, then specialized in genre and historical scenes.
Self portrait Salomon Adler (before 3 March 1630 - 1709 in Milan) was a German painter of the Baroque period, active in Milan and Bergamo as a portrait painter. He was the mentor of Fra' Galgario. Born in Danzig (Gdańsk), died in Milan.
Bartolommeo Tricomi (first half of 17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Messina. He was a pupil of Antonio Barbalonga, and was the teacher of Andrea Suppa. Tricomi is known as an excellent portrait painter.
Jakab Marastoni; lithograph from a self-portrait (date unknown) Greek Woman (1845) Jakab Marastoni, originally Jacopo Antonio Marastoni (24 March 1804, Venice, Archduchy of Austria–11 July 1860, Pest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire) was an Italian-born Hungarian portrait painter and lithographer.
See: François Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries. The Reign of Louis XIV, vol. II, Oxford (Cassirer) 1981, Lepautre family tree in the endpapers. With her, he had another son, Jean (1671-1745), who was to become a portrait painter.
Cornelis Jacobsz Delff (Gouda c. 1571-15 August 1643, Delft), was a pupil of his father and of Cornelis van Haarlem, and distinguished himself by very fine pictures of still life. Rochus Delff was a portrait painter, and a pupil of his father.
He best known as a portrait painter, usually in full-length or three quarters view; his portraits are mainly of aristocracy dressed in full regalia or shown amid items of their property in the manner of Anthony van Dyck. He died at Genoa.
As a portrait painter in the grand manner, Sargent had unmatched success; he portrayed subjects who were at once ennobled and often possessed of nervous energy. Sargent was referred to as "the Van Dyck of our times."Ormond, pp. 28–35, 1998.
Cecil Calvert (C. C.) Beall (1892–1970) was an American commercial illustrator and portrait painter. He did watercolor art and drawings for magazines and comic books. Beall designed posters for the United States government for war loan drives during World War II.
Princess Adélaïde of Orléans, 1838 Auguste de Creuse, a French portrait painter, who was born at Montrond (Doubs) in 1806, and died in Paris in 1839. He was a pupil of Gros, and painted many of the historical portraits which are at Versailles.
Portrait of Charles Perrault by Philippe Lallemand (1672) Philippe Lallemand (or Lallemant or Lalemen; 1636 – 22 March 1716) was a French portrait painter of the lesser rank, born at Reims."Lallemant, Philippe", vol. 8, p. 333, in Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2006.
For the Danish wrestler, see Ejnar Hansen. Ejnar Hansen (1884 - September 26, 1965) was a Danish-born American portrait painter and art educator. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Laguna Art Museum.
Self-Portrait, oil on fabric of between 1816 and 1820, in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, Virginia Charles Peale Polk (March 17, 1767 – May 6, 1822) was an American portrait painter and the nephew of artist Charles Willson Peale.
Susanne von Nathusius, c.1910 Portrait of her brother, Major General Wilhelm Engelhard von Nathusius Susanne Philippine von Nathusius (2 May 1850 in Königsborn – 30 December 1929 in Nietleben, near Halle) was a German portrait painter who worked in Halle and Paris.
Often identified as Hippolyte Sebron (but seriously disputed). Photograph by Louis Daguerre Hippolyte Victor Valentin Sebron (21 August 1801, Caudebec-en- Caux - 1 September 1879, Paris) was a French landscape, cityscape and portrait painter. He was also a photographer and worked in pastels.
A Girl with a Dove (Dziewczyna z gołąbkiem), (Allegory of lost innocence), 1790 Portrait of Ignacy Potocki, 1784 Anna Rajecka (c.1762, Warsaw – 1832, Paris), was a Polish portrait painter and pastellist. She was also known as Madame Gault de Saint-Germain.
Biography @ LACMA. In 1835, he joined his parents in Detroit. Three years later, he was in Cincinnati, then returned to New York for a short time, finally settling in Cleveland sometime around 1842. He soon established himself as a popular portrait painter.
Marie Antoinette: the color of flesh (2007)Gross, Joel. Marie Antoinette: the color of flesh. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2007. by Joel Gross depicts the times of the young French queen while exploited by her portrait-painter, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun.
Young Girl with a White Rabbit Vermont Lawyer Horace Bundy (22 July 1814, Hardwick, Vermont - 15 June 1883, Concord, New Hampshire) was an itinerant American portrait painter. He is generally classified as a folk artist, due to his lack of formal instruction.
Luvena Vysekal (1873 - January 11, 1954) was an American portrait painter. She was trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, where her future husband was one of her professors. She later opened a studio on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California.
She was born Esther Frances Alexander in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was the portrait painter Francis Alexander and her mother Lucia Grey Alexander (née Swett) was a philanthropist from a wealthy Massachusetts family. When she was 16, the family moved to Florence, Italy.
During the 1920s and '30s he was on staff at the Mail & Empire and Star Weekly newspapers in Toronto as an illustrator. He married portrait painter Marjorie Thompson in 1928. Later, in 1940, he joined the Telegram and worked there until his death.
Eventually he settled as a portrait-painter in Lichfield, and died there on 7 July 1859. His works are best known in the Midland counties, and especially at Birmingham, where he held the post of secretary to the Midland Society of Artists.
Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (, ; 31 December 1751 - 11 February 1830) was an Austrian-Italian historical and portrait painter. He settled in the Russian Empire after the third and final partition of Poland, enticed by an extremely generous offer from the Tsar.
His father Arthur Conrad, a portrait painter whose work hangs in the U.S. Senate reception room, worked with Everett Warner during World War II in designing camouflage for the US Navy. His brother Tony Conrad was a video artist, filmmaker and musician.
He also was a portrait painter to the rich bourgeoisie. He had many pupils including Jan Carel van Bremt, Grée Melsen, Jacques (Jacob) de Langhe, Jacques de l'Ange (who may be identical to Jacques de Langhe), Carel van Savoyen and Franciscus van Verbist.
Frances Sally Day (1816 – 1892) was an English miniature portrait painter and photographer who lived in London. Her paintings were displayed annually for twenty years at the Royal Academy of Arts' annual exhibitions. She was the first woman known to photograph Queen Victoria.
Family Group with Cat Noah North (June 27, 1809, Alexander, New York – June 15, 1880, Attica, New York)Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary by Jeffrey Weidman @ Google Books. was an itinerant American portrait painter in the folk art tradition.
In 1900, Hayden married a portrait painter and, later, interior designer, William Blackstone Bennett, in Winthrop, Massachusetts. A stepdaughter, Jennie "Minnie" May Bennett, was from William Blackstone Bennett's prior marriage. The couple had no children. William died of pneumonia on April 11, 1909.
Joseph Henderson (1832-1908) was a Scottish landscape painter, genre painter, portrait painter and marine painter. His genre was particularly painting working men such as shepherds, crofters, pedlars, cobblers, fishermen and farm labourers. However he also painted Scottish country and coastal scenery.
Franz Cižek (c. 1910) Franz Cižek (12 June 1865 – 17 December 1946) was an Austrian genre and portrait painter, who was a teacher and reformer of art education. He began the Child Art Movement in Vienna, opening the Juvenile Art Class in 1897.
They too settled in London after the war. Lela was a sought-after portrait painter and produced a portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, as a child. Beata collapsed on a bus in Putney High Street and died in 1980 in London.
Barbieri was born in 1818 in the Duchy of Savoy, Italy. He was educated in Lyon, and he emigrated to the Americas in 1844. Barbieri became a portrait painter in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1844. He subsequently taught drawing in La Paz, Bolivia.
Portrait of Justus von Liebig Banknote after the above portrait Wilhelm Trautschold (1815–1877) was a German portrait painter. Trautschold was born in Berlin on 2 June 1815. He was trained at the and in Düsseldorf. He lived in London from 1860.
42 The portrait painter Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863–1937), was born in Sleaford. Richard Banister, the oculist, practised for 14 years in Sleaford, where he trained in couching cataracts.E. Savage- Smith "Banister, Richard (c.1570–1626)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004.
Jens Juel (12 May 1745 – 27 December 1802) was a Danish painter, primarily known for his many portraits, of which the largest collection is on display at Frederiksborg Castle. He is regarded as the leading Danish portrait painter of the 18th century.
Dario Varotari the Younger (active 1660) was an Italian painter, engraver, and poet of the Baroque. He was born in Padua, the son of the painter Alessandro Varotari, and grandson of Dario Varotari the Elder. He was popular as a portrait painter.
Abbott, known for her book illustrations, was also a landscape and portrait painter and scenic designer,Elenore Plaisted Abbott. The Artists Post 1911, Rose Valley Museum and Historical Society. Retrieved March 5, 2014. including work for Hedgerow Theatre's production of The Emperor Jones.
Self-portrait in Winter Garments (1911) Jindřich Prucha (29 September 1886, Uherské Hradiště - 1 September 1914, in the Battle of Komarów) was a Czech landscape and portrait painter in the Fauvist and Expressionist styles. He was also an amateur violinist and sportsman.
Jozef Božetech Klemens (c.1875) Jozef Božetech Klemens (8 March 1817 – 17 January 1883) was a Slovak portrait painter, sculptor, photographer, inventor and naturalist. He chose his middle name, after an 11th Century painter and sculptor who was the last abbot of Sázava Monastery.
The public quickly became aware of Egeli's talents, especially in portraiture. The list of commissions from the Washington area began to grow.Bjorn Egeli, portrait painter-notables, illustrator.Ruel Pardee Tolman Egeli at first used a room in the basement of the Corcoran as a studio.
Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati (September 18, 1902 - February 19, 1993) was an American portrait painter who was located in the Boston area. His art was rooted in the Renaissance tradition. His artwork included landscapes, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, pastel and oil portraits.
The only honorary citizen of Rahden is Professor (d. 1950 Rahden). He was born in 1867 in the Great Village and was a prominent portrait painter, poet and the composer of the "New Westphalia March." A street in downtown Rahden is named after him.
He was named a Commander in the Order of the Dannebrog and later was awarded the Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn. He received early recognition as a portrait painter but he also showed great interest in painting animal motifs, gradually also turning to genre works and history painting.
Charles J. Bensco (c. 1894 - November 4, 1960) was a Hungarian-born American portrait painter and muralist based in Los Angeles, California from 1929 to 1949 and Phoenix, Arizona from 1949 to 1960. He painted the portraits of many Hollywood celebrities and prominent Arizonians.
38, 1906, p290). Until about 1890, he was known mainly as a portrait painter, but then moved to Haslemere in Surrey, started to teach art and switched to watercolour painting.Holland, Clive. Walter Tyndale: The man and his art (The Studio, volume 38, 1906, p288 ff).
Portrait of the artist and his family, ca. 1590, now at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Jacob Willemszoon Delff the Elder, (c. 1550 in Gouda5 May 1601 in Delft)Delff, Jacob Willemsz. (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History] was a portrait painter active in Delft.
Francis Grant, self-portrait, c. 1845 Portrait of Queen Victoria, 1843 Sir Francis Grant (18 January 1803 – 5 October 1878) was a Scottish portrait painter who painted Queen Victoria and many distinguished British aristocratic and political figures. He served as President of the Royal Academy.
Among Cockin's friends was the Rev. Thomas Wilson of Clitheroe, and Peter Romney, brother of George, was a correspondent in the later 1760s.Heather Birchall, Henry Pickering fl 1740-70: An 18th-century portrait painter, The British Art Journal Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2003), pp.
Putto with Lyre Mitjens was born in Brussels. He was the first known member of a family of painters named Mijtens or Mytens. He was the uncle of Isaac Mijtens (ca. 1602–1666), a portrait painter in The Hague and Daniel Mijtens (ca. 1590-ca.
Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1716 by Charles Jervas currently on display at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Charles Jervas (also Jarvis; c. 1675 – 2 November 1739) was an Irish portrait painter, translator, and art collector of the early 18th century.
Thomas Kappel. After arriving in Copenhagen, he was soon used as a portrait painter. From 1779 to 1782 he went abroad to develop his skills, visiting the Netherlands, Antwerp and Paris where he copied old masters. In 1792 he traveled to Norway to paint prospects.
Pocahontas (c.1850) Junius Brutus Booth (c. 1830) Robert Matthew Sully (17 July 1803, Petersburg, Virginia - 28 October 1855, Buffalo, New York)Biographical data @ RootsWeb was an American portrait painter who worked mostly in Virginia. He is best remembered for his depictions of Native Americans.
1740 - 10 February 1808) was an Irish portrait-painter. He spent considerable periods in London and Rome before returning to Dublin in the early 1790s. Until the mid-1770s he worked mostly in pastel. His style influenced the English painter Lewis Vaslet (1742–1808).
Charles Beaubrun: Portrait of Anna of Austria (1601-1666) wife of Louis XIII, 2nd quarter 17th century, oil on canvas, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon Charles Beaubrun (Charles Bobrun) (1604-1692) was a French portrait painter active in Paris between 1630 and 1670.
Bass Otis self-portrait, 1860 Bass Otis (July 17, 1784 - November 3, 1861), was an early American artist, inventor, and portrait painter. He painted hundreds of portraits including many of the best known Americans of his day, and produced the first American lithograph in 1819.
School Street, Boston, 1850s, National Gallery of Art J.J. Hawes was born in Wayland, Massachusetts in 1808. He began his career as a portrait painter. He then studied photography in Boston with Francis Fauvel-Gouraud.Oldest Photographer Dead. New York Times, Aug 10, 1901, p.7.
He was born in Rome, the son of portrait painter Hans Hansen. The family soon relocated to Vienna, where Constanze Mozart, the widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, became godmother at his christening. Within his first year, the family moved to Copenhagen, where he was raised.
Oscar Friström Carl Magnus Oscar Friström (1856 – 26 June 1918), generally known as Oscar Fristrom, was a portrait painter and art teacher born in Sweden, who had a substantial career in Queensland and South Australia, and was best known for his depictions of Aboriginal Australians.
6 cents stamp for the child, 1929. Tile with geometric motif, 1953. Harm Henrick Kamerlingh Onnes (15 February 1893 – 20 May 1985 in Leiden) was a Dutch portrait painter and ceramist,Mienke Simon Thomas (2008). Goed in vorm: honderd jaar ontwerpen in Nederland, p.
Alfred Mann (April 28, 1917 – September 21, 2006), was a writer in musical theory and Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. His parents were the portrait painter Wilhelm Mann and the well- known harpsichordist and musicologist Edith Weiss-Mann.
MacDonald, Scottish Art, p. 49. The Flemish-Spanish painter John Baptist Medina (1659–1710) came to Scotland in 1693 and became the leading Scottish portrait painter of his generation.M. Lynch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), , p. 136.
Queen Louise in a riding habit (c.1810) Italian Brigand Friedrich Wilhelm Ternite (5 September 1786, Neustrelitz - 22 October 1871, Potsdam) was a German portrait painter, miniaturist and lithographer. In Berlin, he served as a court painter and inspector of the Royal Art Gallery.
He dedicated a set of six, dated 1717 and 1718, to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Joseph Strutt wrote that they did Alexander no kind of credit, and termed them slight, loose, and incorrect etchings. The portrait painter Cosmo Alexander was his son.
Illustration for the Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann Wilhelm Ludwig Ferdinand Stumpf (30 March 1873, in Weimar – 27 August 1926Thieme-Becker, Vol.32 (1938), S. 247, incorrectly gives his year of death as 1928., in Oberstaufen) was a German landscape/portrait painter and illustrator.
Portrait of the Artist's Father Portrait of the Poet, Novalis Johann Franz Peter Paul Gareis (28 June 1775, Ostritz - 31 May 1803, Rome) was a German portrait painter and illustrator.Wolf Stadler, Lexikon der Kunst 5. Gal – Herr. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, , pg.12.
In 1967, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to the arts as a landscape and portrait painter". In 1972 he had a book published, Great Art to the Grotesque. Kenneth Forbes died in Toronto on February 25, 1980.
Stichbury is most renowned for his intricate yet flat portraits of models and modern beauties sourced from contemporary media images. Stichbury often paints a generalised stereotype of a societal group, as opposed to the specific character study a traditional portrait painter seeks to achieve.
He became a citizen of the city of Speyer. In 1546 he was appointed official court painter for Frederick II, Elector Palatine. After the death of Frederick in 1556, Besser continued as court painter to Otto Henry, Elector Palatine. Besser was primarily a portrait painter.
In 1844, on the death of Henry Perronet Briggs, R.A., Illidge purchased the lease of the deceased artist's house in Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, where he commenced practice as a popular and fashionable portrait-painter. Illidge died unexpectedly of fever on 13 May 1851.
Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, ca. 1786. Edward Francis Cunningham (c. 1742-1795), sometimes called Kelso or Francesco Calza or Calze, was a Scottish portrait painter. He came from a good Scotch family, and is said to have been born at Kelso about 1742.
Amherst Villiers Amherst Villiers (1900-1991) was an English automotive, aeronautical and astronautic engineer and portrait painter. He designed a land speed record-breaking car for Malcolm Campbell, and developed the supercharged "Blower Bentley", driven by Henry Birkin and (in fiction) by James Bond.
Zoé Goyet (died 8 July 1869) was a French portrait painter, pastel artist, and teacher. Her works were exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1834 to 1841. She was the wife of painter Eugène Goyet and daughter-in-law of painter Jean- Baptiste Goyet.
He then returned to Weimar and became a portrait painter. He was also a Professor at the Fürstlichen freien Zeichenschule. In 1805, he drew a portrait of Friedrich Schiller on his deathbed. From 1806 to 1810, he was studying again; this time in Rome.
Born in Manchester, he was son of John Saxon there. He entered Manchester grammar school in January 1783. In 1797 he was in practice as a portrait-painter at 4 York Street, Manchester; shortly afterwards he moved to London. He visited Scotland in 1805.
The Leeds Picture, 1908 Georg Sauter was secondly married to Valda Broad (died Dec. 1937) since 1926. The son Rudolf Sauter (1895-1971) was also a portrait painter, draftsman and graphic artist. Among other things, he illustrated the works of his uncle John Galsworthy.
Richard Hurlstone or Richard Hurleston (1740s – 1780s) was a British portrait painter known for being a pupil of Joseph Wright of Derby. He went to Italy with Wright and his wife. He returned and died young after being hit by lightning on Salisbury Plain.
Hopkin's aunt Anne Phyllis Beechey who was also known as Lady Beechey was a miniaturist. Her grandfather Sir William Beechey was also a portrait painter and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts.Philip Shackleton. "BEECHEY, FRANCES ANNE," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol.
Lady Emer beside a tree, Device of Dun Emer Press, designed by Elinor Monsell about 1903 Elinor Mary Darwin (1879-1954) was an Irish born illustrator, engraver and portrait painter. Her illustrations were included in several of her husband, Bernard Darwin's books for children.
Jooris van der Straeten was originally from Ghent, which explains his alias of Joris van Gent (Joris of Ghent). It is believed he was a pupil of the prominent history and portrait painter Frans Floris in Antwerp.Abraham de Rijcke in: Karel van Mander, Schilder-boeck, 1604, It is possible that he also trained under the prominent portrait painter Antonis Mor and travelled with him to the Iberian peninsula. He likely accompanied the future Spanish King Philip II when the travelled to England to marry the English Queen Mary I of England in 1554 as evidenced by the portrait he made of the future king with the order of the Garter.
"Miss Polly" had been a portrait painter, specialising in miniatures, prior to her marriage, and in turn, Charles Willson Peale painted her portrait in 1786. Rebecca's uncle was Dr. Benjamin Rush, signatory to the 1776 Declaration of Independence. Another uncle was Dr. James Rench of Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware, a member of the Delaware Assembly and Lieutenant Colonel of the Sussex Co. Militia, who was charged with treason during the Revolutionary War. Rebecca's uncle by marriage, husband of Sarah Rench, was the colonial portrait painter, James Claypoole, Jr. Rebecca's maternal grandfather, Captain Walter Rench, ship master, was lost at sea some fourteen years before her birth.
The Eden Project designed by Nicholas Grimshaw Grimshaw was born in Hove, East Sussex 9 October 1939. His father was an engineer, and his mother a portrait painter and he inherited an interest in engineering and art. One of his great-grandfathers was a civil engineer who built dams in Egypt, and another was a physician who campaigned for the installation of Dublin's drainage and sanitation system after showing a link between waterborne diseases and streams joining River Liffey. His father died when he was two and a half, and he grew up with his mother, grandmother who was also a portrait painter, and two sisters in Guildford.
Nicolaes Maes (January 1634December 1693 (buried 24 December 1693)) was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious compositions and the occasional still life. A pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam, he returned to work in his native city Dordrecht for 20 years. In the latter part of his career he returned to Amsterdam where he became the leading portrait painter of his time.Nicolaes Maes, Portrait of a man at the Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid Maes contributed to the development of genre painting in the Netherlands and was the most prominent portrait painter working in Amsterdam in the final three decades of the 17th century.
His son, William Smellie Watson RSA (1796–1874), was born in Edinburgh, and, like his father and his cousin, Sir John Watson Gordon became a portrait-painter. He was a pupil of his father's, studied at the Trustees' Academy, and from 1815, for five years, in the schools of the London Royal Academy, and worked for a year with Sir David Wilkie while that artist was painting "The Penny Wedding" and other pictures. Returning to Edinburgh, he made a good connection as a portrait-painter, became one of the founders of the Scottish Academy, and for nearly 50years exhibited with unfailing regularity. He solely confined himself to portraiture.
There, he became professor at the academy and the royal portrait painter. After resigning from the academy, he became a highly sought portrait painter in Sweden, but performed ever greater tasks, partly in genre pictures and later in historical compositions, or rather what we call "the historical genre", preserving even in his old age his freshness in painting. One of his earlier works, En Væverske med sit Barn, exhibited in Copenhagen in 1858, was given the honorable mention at the Salon de Paris, where he studied under the guidance of Thomas Couture between the years 1854-1855. From 1860 to 1863 he lived in the city of Algiers.
Sante Vandi (1653–1716) was an Italian portrait painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani. He is also known as Santino da' Ritratti. In early life he painted at Bologna, but was afterwards employed at Mantua, and other cities in Central Italy.
Giuseppe Troni (Portuguese: José Troni; Turin, 1739 – Lisbon, 1810) was an Italian court painter. He was initially a pupil of his father, Alessandro Trono, but completed his studies in Rome. He was portrait painter to the court of Naples, and later to the court in Turin.
For a period, he attempted to make a career as an artist. He set up as a portrait-painter in 1868. He had some success, despite limited artistic training, but his disorderly lifestyle and reputation for missing appointments undermined his career. He also painted narrative works.
A widowed queen urges her son, Emilien, to marry, but he does not. She dies. One day, he sees a portrait of the Princess Emilienne and falls in love. The portrait painter tells him that the princess is kept confined in a tower by a fairy.
Jane Beetham Read ( – 16 January 1857) was an English portrait painter who began by working in her mother, Isabella Beetham's studio painting silhouette portraits in the 1790s. She studied under John Opie and exhibited her works at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1794 and 1797.
This copperplate engraving by Alexander Bannerman, printed in Walpole's Anecdotes, is the only known portrait of the portrait painter Boit. Charles Boit (10 August 1662, in Stockholm – 6 February 1727, in Paris) was a Swedish painter in vitreous enamels who mostly worked in England, Austria and France.
Adriaan Van Ostade Although Adriaen and his brother Isaack were born in Haarlem, they adopted the name "van Ostade" as painters. According to the RKD, he became a pupil in 1627 of the portrait painter Frans Hals, at that time the master of Jan Miense Molenaer.
After 1939, Veselova participated in art exhibitions. She painted portraits, genre paintings, landscapes and still lifes. A talented portrait painter and graphic artist, Veselova gravitated to the genre of portrait with a developed plot. Her style is distinguished soft plastic, restrained decorative color, and exquisite tonal relationships.
Fotografer i Næstved. From Næstved Museum. Retrieved 8 February 2010. In 1867, he joined with his brother Niels Christian Hansen (a portrait painter) and Albert Schou (a businessman) to create the famous studio that (with the addition of Clemens Weller) would be known as Hansen, Schou & Weller.
Self-portrait Arthur Ambrose McEvoy (12 August 1877 – 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour.
Jacob Ennis (1728-1770) was an Irish historical and portrait painter. He studied at Dublin under Robert West, and afterwards in Italy, and subsequently became a master in the Dublin Art School. He died, through a fall from his horse, in the county of Wicklow, in 1770.
Self-portrait, c. 1791 George Washington, c. 1796 Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia Congress Voting Independence (1784–1801) National Gallery of Art The Washington Family (1789–96) Edward Savage (November 26, 1761, Princeton, Massachusetts – July 6, 1817, Princeton, Massachusetts)www.mountvernon.org was an American portrait painter and engraver.
Woman Baking Bread, 1854. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. After his first painting, a portrait, was accepted at the Salon of 1840, Millet returned to Cherbourg to begin a career as a portrait painter. However, the following year he married Pauline-Virginie Ono, and they moved to Paris.
He was named a deputy professor in 1908 and a full professor the year after. Opposition to the Academy's traditional teaching methods eventually led him to resign. For many years following that, he was a successful portrait painter. He is buried at the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
George III. National Portrait Gallery in London. George Carter (1737–1794) was an English artist who described himself as a "historical portrait painter". He visited Italy in the company of John Singleton Copley, who had a significant influence on his work, and spent some time in India.
Selfportrait Bernhard Vogel Ján Kupecký or Jan Kupecký (in German: Johann Kupetzky, in Hungarian: Kupecky János, or Kupeczky János, 1667 – July 16, 1740) was a Czech portrait painter during the baroque. He was active in Hungary, Vienna and Nürnberg. Bernhard Vogel produced many engravings after Kupecký's paintings.
Monchablon by an unknown artist (c.1900) Terror (Portrait of Cain) Xavier- Alphonse Monchablon (12 June 1835, in Avillers - 30 January 1907, in Paris) was a French history and portrait painter in the Academic style. He was distantly related to the more popular painter, Jan Monchablon.
Anton Paulsen (born ca. 1690 in Stockholm, died ca. 1750) was a Swedish baroque portrait painter who was active in Germany and Denmark during the first half of the 18th century. He stayed for extended periods in Altona, Hamburg and Leipzig, and several signed paintings survive.
In 1955, the Evie Hone stained glass windows were presented by the McGuire family in memory of Brigid Patricia McGuire, wife of Senator Edward McGuire and mother of the portrait painter Edward McGuire (1932-1986). This window was one of the last produced by Evie Hone.
Elizabeth I, the "Pelican" portrait, c. 1572 Hilliard emerged from his apprenticeship at a time when a new royal portrait painter was "desperately needed".Strong (1987), pp.79–83 Two panel portraits long attributed to him, the "Phoenix" and "Pelican" portraits, are dated c. 1572–76.
His grandchildren included: James Roosevelt Fitch (1840–1878), Montgomery Roosevelt Schuyler (1845–1924), who married Leila Roosevelt, Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt (1858–1920), a noted portrait painter, and Nicholas Latrobe Roosevelt (1847–1892), the father of Henry Latrobe Roosevelt (1879–1936), the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Steven Stern) In 1901 Braun trained under the American painter William Merritt Chase (1849–1916). He established himself as a figure and portrait painter in New York City, but in 1909 he left for California. Maurice Braun died in San Diego, California, on November 7, 1941.
Collen was born in the Marylebone district of London on 17 June 1843, the son of Henry Collen, a miniature portrait painter and early photographer to the court. He married, in 1873, Blanche Rigby, daughter of Charles Rigby, JP, and they had three sons and a daughter.
Instead, it provided the opportunity to reveal the character of an individual through the modeling of solid anatomical form.Goodrich, Vol. II, pp. 57–58. This meant that, notwithstanding his youthful optimism, Eakins would never be a commercially successful portrait painter, as few paid commissions came his way.
Self-portrait, dressed as a hunter (1907) Scene with Dogs Andrés Parladé y Heredia, after 1903, the third (1 June 1859, Málaga - 4 April 1933, Seville) was a Spanish genre and portrait painter who is best remembered for his hunting-related scenes, many of which feature dogs.
He also studied with Léon Cogniet, a historical and portrait painter whose pupils included Léon Bonnat, and Constant Troyon, who painted landscapes and animals.Evariste Luminais (French, 1821-1896): Merovingians Attacking a Wild Dog, ca. 1875-85, Dahesh Museum of Art, retrieved 19 July 2014. He married twice.
Portrait of Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Georg Lisiewski or Jerzy Lisiewski (1674 - 6 January 1750), was a Baroque portrait painter at the court of King Frederick William I of Prussia. Lisiewski, of Polish descent, became head of a notable family of painters spanning three generations.
Lancelot Volders was a specialist portrait painter but also created history paintings and genre scenes. The last works of Lancelot Volders are dated by Rudi Ekkart to 1713.Rudolf Ekkart "Schilders aan het hof". In Groenveld, S.; Huizinga, J.J.; Kuiper, Y.B. Nassau uit de schaduw van Oranje.
Alexander Seik was born in Mirotice near Písek, Czech Republic. Like many other early photographers, he started out as a portrait painter. On 1 June 1855, he opened a studio in Mladá Vožice, thus becoming one of the original Czech photographers. In 1855, he moved to Tábor.
Joos de Beer, in Abraham Bloemaert biography by Van Mander Few works can definitely be attributed to him. One of these is "Joseph interpreting Pharaoh's dream", now in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. He was also the teacher of the Delft portrait painter Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt.
Katharina Pepijn was known in her time as a history and portrait painter. Currently only two works are attributed to Katharina Pepijn. Both works are portraits of abbots of St. Michael's Abbey near Antwerp. Both works are oil on canvas paintings and were executed in the 1650s.
Robert Strange, c. 1750 Portrait of Levett Hanson by Webster, c. 1790 Joseph Samuel Webster (died 6 July 1796)Samuel Redgrave, A Dictionary of Artists of the English School (George Bell, 1878), p. 462 was an English portrait painter who worked in miniatures, oils, pastels, and crayons.
His father was the famous portrait painter, Pyotr Sokolov. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts with Karl Bryullov and was awarded the title of "Free Artist". In 1864, his painting of the Holy Family earned him the title of "Academician".Biographical notes @ Vita Nova.
Gluckstein was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague founded the J. Lyons and Co. coffee house and catering empire in London. His mother, Francesca Halle, was an American opera singer, and his elder sister Hannah was a portrait painter.
Portrait of Alexander Mornauer, circa 1464–1488. National Gallery, London. The Master of the Mornauer Portrait was a 15th-century German portrait painter active in Bavaria or Tyrol about 1460–1488. His notname is based on the Portrait of Alexander Mornauer now in the National Gallery, London.
Self-portrait (1822) Seydewitz family portrait (c. 1818-1828) Carl Christian von Seydewitz (3 November 1777 – 10 October 1857) was a Danish portrait painter and army officer. He was not a member of the nobility but, from 1770 to 1860, officers were allowed to use "von" with their surnames.
Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi (26 August 1697 - 3 December 1737) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Tagliasacchi was born at Borgo San Donnino. For some time he painted historical scenes in the manner of his teacher Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. He was also an excellent portrait painter.
His father, , was a well-known Presbyterian minister and educator. he attended the public schools in Debrecen and was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1827.Brief biography @ Képzőművészet Magyarországon. He returned to Szentes in 1830 and attempted to make a living as a portrait painter.
336 It is not clear whether he remained in his hometown during his whole career. He died in Mechelen. He had a brother or relative called Jacob van der Gracht who trained with him, became a portrait painter and printmaker and died in The Hague in 1651 or 1652.
Marie Elisabeth Wiegmann (7 November 1820 – 4 December 1893) née Hancke, was a German genre and portrait painter who worked in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands. She studied under artists Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Hermann Stilke. She was a celebrated painter throughout her more than 50-year career.
Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne engraved by François Aubertin, painted by Jean- Baptiste Isabey, (Musée de la Révolution française). Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne, Bon Adrien Jeannot Moncey, Duke of Conegliano, Marshal of France, Oil on canvas. 1806 Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne (1769 –1860), was a French historical and portrait painter.
Martin Kober (also Chober, Cober, Coeber, Khober, Koeber, Koebner, ) (ca. 1550 – before 1598) was a portrait painter and court painter to different Central European monarchs - King Stephen Báthory, Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Queen Anna Jagiellon and King Sigismund III Vasa, active mainly in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
A portrait engraved by Van den Bergh is printed in the May 1794 issue of the Protestant Dissenters' Magazine. Another was engraved in 1707 by John Faber (1660–1721) after John Wollaston (c. 1672–1749), portrait painter. A print by J Lawrence is located at the British Museum.
Portrait of Magdalene von Olthof as a Sacrificial Priestess (1762/64) Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg. (1772) Georg David Matthieu (20 November 1737, Berlin - 3 November 1778, Ludwigslust) was a German engraver and portrait painter in the Rococo style who worked as court painter for the Duke of Mecklenburg.
356 In 1889 Feydeau married Marie-Anne, the daughter of Carolus-Duran, a prosperous portrait painter. The couple had four children, born between 1890 and 1903. The marriage was ideal to Feydeau in several ways. It was a genuine love-match (though it later went awry);Gidel, pp.
Carowsky was born in Gothenburg into a family of artists. Her mother was Maria Carowsky and Michael Carowsky, and her grandfather was Johan Ross the Elder. Carowsky became a well known portrait painter in Gothenburg. She married in 1787 to Engelbert Jörlin, the principal at Gothenburg elementary school.
Hughes was the eldest daughter of the portrait painter Edward Hughes (1832-1908). After studying photography at the London Polytechnic she opened a studio in 1891 next to her father's in Gower Street, London which she operated until December 1910."Alice Hughes", National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
He painted the frescos in the chapel of St. Jost and St. Wendelin in Rüediswil (Lucerne, Switzerland) in 1936. Besides the frescoes, he worked as portrait painter. His talent to express the essence and the character of people gained the highest recognition. He died in Ruswil (Lucern) in 1938.
Trau, schau, wem! (Take Care in Whom You Trust!), Op. 463, is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II. The composition was dedicated to the portrait painter Franz von Lenbach. It was based on melodies from Strauss's operetta Waldmeister – the work is therefore also known as "Waldmeister Walzer".
David Lenz (born 1962 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American portrait painter. Since 1990 Lenz has painted portraits of Americans. Lenz won the grand prize in the 2006 inaugural Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition organized by the National Portrait Gallery. Lenz's winning entry was entitled Sam and the Perfect World.
He was father of Karol (1831-1886) – rector of Lviv Polytechnic, Marceli (1837-1862) – portrait painter from Lvov, and Rafał (1838-1901) – violinist and conductor, and three daughters: Franciszka, Fryderyka and Joanna. Jan was grandfather of Karol Zyndram Maszkowski (1868-1938) Karol Zyndram Maszkowski in Polski Słownik Biograficzny .
Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties.
Francis Parsons (fl. 1763–1783, died 1804) was an English portrait painter. He was a student at the drawing academy in St. Martin's Lane. In 1763 he exhibited at the Society of Artists' exhibition in Spring Gardens portraits of an Indian chief and of Miss Davies the actress.
John de Critz was a portrait painter who was a prominent member of the Flemish émigré family de Critz.Susan E. James, The Feminine Dynamic in English Art, 1485-1603: Women as Consumers, Patrons and Painters, Routledge, 2017, p. 234 He was also the uncle by marriage of Hester Tradescant.
Muter was a popular portrait painter in Paris. She also contributed illustrations to the French magazine . Muter was one of the first members of the group of artists known as the School of Paris. In the decade after leaving Warsaw, Muter and her family travelled all over Western Europe.
Trump, in a detail from William Hogarth's Painter and his Pug, 1745 Trump (c. 1730 – c. 1745) was a pug owned by English painter William Hogarth. The artist included the dog in several works, including his 1745 self-portrait Painter and his Pug, held by the Tate Gallery.
Anwen Keeling (born in 1976) is an Australian portrait painter. Working primarily with oil paints, her artworks have often focused on introspective women in private settings. She has „always been influenced by Caravaggio.“ Anwen Keeling's statement at Liverpool St. Gallery website Her artworks prominently contain areas of deep shadows.
Self-portrait Édouard De Bièfve (Brussels, 14 December 1808 – Brussels, 7 February 1882) was a Belgian history and portrait painter. He was one of the leading representatives of the romantic movement in Belgium and his work had an important influence on the development of history painting in Germany.
Sir John Watson Gordon by Patric Park, 1852 Portrait of Thomas de Quincey, c. 1845 Roderick Gray, Factor to the Merchant Maiden Hospital, by John Watson Gordon, 1852 Sir John Watson Gordon (1788 – 1 June 1864) was a Scottish portrait painter and president of the Royal Scottish Academy.
In 1602 he married Sara, daughter of the well-known portrait painter Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c. 1520 - c. 1590) and his wife Susannah de Critz. Susannah was the daughter of Troilus de Critz, a goldsmith from Antwerp, and close relative of John de Critz, the Queen's Serjeant-Painter.
Welsh engravers National Library of Wales A popular portrait painter, several of his portraits are now held at the National Museum of Wales, including oils of preacher Christmas Evans, Thomas Charles, John Cox, and poet John Jones. The Museum also houses several mezzotints and lithograph portraits by him.
Bryan Lewis Saunders (born 1969, in Washington, D.C.) is an endurance artist, a performance artist, videographer, performance poet, and self-portrait painter known for his disturbing spoken word rants, tragic art performances and stand-up tragedy.Palais de Tokyo. "Bryan Lewis Saunders." From Yodeling To Quantum Physics… (Vol.1).
He was born in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and became a portrait painter, but is also known for genre works.Thomas Hicks in the RKD He is known for his portrait of Abraham Lincoln that was engraved by Leopold Grozelier. Charles Henry Yewell studied with him for a time.
Verner Moore White (October 5, 1863 - August 30, 1923), born Thomas Verner Moore White but informally known as Verner White, was an American landscape and portrait painter. White painted works for many of the business and political leaders of his time including commissions for three United States Presidents.
Johannes Browallius by Margareta Capsia, Helsinki University Museum, 1750 Margareta Capsia (1682 – June 20, 1759) was a Swedish/Finnish artist, the first professional native female artist in Finland, which during her lifetime was a part of Sweden. She mainly painted altarpieces, but was also active as a portrait painter.
His print sales declined, and after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 the American market disappeared completely. Gray moved with his family to London in 1931, and planned to reinvent himself as a portrait painter, since his war commissions had always been praised for the accuracy of their depictions.
He was the son of a London stationer; his mother's family were owners of Twyford House, a large manor in Winchester, England.A sermon of Rev Dr Jonathan Shipley. Wmcarey.edu. Retrieved 10 July 2012. His brother, the portrait painter William Shipley (1714–1803), later originated the Society of Arts.
A 1737 engraving in mezzo-tint by John Faber Junior based on a portrait by Michael Dahl dating from 1723. An engraving based on Howard's "masterpiece" of Arcangelo Corelli. Hugh Howard (7 February 1675 - 17 March 1737) was a portrait-painter and collector of works of art from Dublin.
Under his birth name, he was the author of the adventures of Daye Smith, a portrait painter and amateur sleuth. He also used this name for his fantasy short stories and a short series of spy novels centred on the duo of Amanda Curzon and her sidekick Oscar Sallis.
Her father, Carl Henrik Rydberg (1820-1902) was a writer and journalist. Her mother, Emma (1820-1899), was the granddaughter of portrait painter and sculptor Jonas Forsslund.Personakt Gerda Rydberg, gift Tirén. She studied at the Technical School in Stockholm and at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
Moreelse was born in Utrecht, Holland. His father, Paulus Moreelse, was at that time a famous portrait painter. Little is known about his life. Johan Moreelse studied in Utrecht, in the studio of his father, and then in Rome (1627), where he was appointed into a papal knight order.
Dowling was born in England the youngest son of Rev. Henry Dowling and his wife Elizabeth, née Darke. He was brought to Launceston, Tasmania with his parents in 1839 in the Janet. He received lessons from Thomas Bock and Frederick Strange, and in 1850 advertised as a portrait painter.
Anna Tonelli, portrait of Charlotte Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, (circa 1790) Anna Tonelli, née Anna Nistri (c.1763 – 1846) was an Italian portrait painter, active in the late 18th century and early 19th century primarily in Florence and London. She often worked on miniature painting, watercolors, and pastels.
Glasgow Green by John Knox c.1810 He was born the son of John Knox in 1778. His family moved to Glasgow in 1799. He is thought to be the "John Knox Jr, portrait painter" mentioned in the 1810 Glasgow Post Office Directory living at 34 Miller Street.
He studied in London at Hubert-François Gravelot's school in Covent Garden. He also engraved the earliest record of a cricket match, published in the General Advertiser in 1748. In 1754, his nephew Charles Grignion the Younger was born. His nephew, in turn, became a history and portrait painter.
Zhang Zhenshi (; 1914–1992) was a Chinese portrait painter and fine art educator. He is known for his portraits of the Chinese leader Mao Zedong, one of which has become the most reproduced image of Mao of all time. The paintings are among the most famous portraits in China.
Bonheur was born in 1796. He was a landscape and portrait painter. He was also follower of Saint-Simonianism He left his wife, Sophie, and his four children to join a Saint-Simonian community. When Sophie died of tuberculosis, he took over the responsibility for his previously-abandoned children.
Dal was born in Trondheim. He was especially active as a landscape painter and portrait painter. He received a number of grants and awards, and made a number of international trips to develop as an artist. He worked slowly and methodically, and has therefore left a limited artistic production.
Weggeland was born in the city of Kristiansand, Norway. At age sixteen, he began studying with a portrait painter in Christiania and at age 20 he went to Copenhagen, where he eventually studied at the Danish Royal Academy of Art. Untitled Danquart Anthon Weggeland painting • Oil on canvas • 23.5 " x 17" After two years in Copenhagen, Weggeland returned to Christiania, where he worked as a portrait painter and did some work for theatres. In 1854, he was introduced to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and one of his main teachers was a missionary who had also attended the Royal Academy of Art, C. C. A. Christensen.
It was sold to J. Lewis, a wealthy South African diamond merchant, who acquired a second plot of land to the south of the main house on which was built garaging and a hard tennis court (1). The house was then sold to August Ries. who lived in it for many years until it was sold in 1921 to portrait painter Philip de Laszlo (1). de Laszlo was born in Budapest in 1869 and studied at the National Academy of Art, followed by art studies in Munich and Paris (2). He became a portrait painter, and won a Grand Gold Medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1900 for his portrait of Pope Leo XIII (2).
He made his living as a portrait painter, land speculator and in other trades, travelling frequently between Kingston and Albany and residing at various times in each city. His paintings were completed between 1730 and 1745 and were all unsigned, though some bore an inscription. Analysis of these inscriptions, together with other sources, enabled Mary Black in 1969 to identify Vanderlyn as the "Gansevoort Limner," an otherwise unidentified portrait painter of this era, though the attribution remains controversial. There are works by Vanderlyn in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Newark Museum of Art, the New-York Historical Society, the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Chrysler Museum of Art.
Lt. Col. Simon Edmund Vincent Paul Elwes, (29 June 1902 – 6 August 1975) was a British war artist and society portrait painter whose patrons included presidents, kings, queens, statesmen, sportsmen, prominent social figures and many members of the British Royal Family. He was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Ernest L. Ipsen (September 5, 1869 - November 2, 1951) was an American portrait painter. Ipsen was born in Malden, Massachusetts, the son of Danish parents. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1884-1887\. While there, he trained under the painter Frederick Porter Vinton.
Inveresk Lodge was built in 1683, and between 1774 and 1911 it was the home of the Wedderburn family. The portrait painter Archibald Skirving died at the Lodge in 1819. John Brunton, a Quaker, bought Inveresk Lodge in 1911. His Brunton Wireworks provided the cable for the Forth Road Bridge.
Richard Cosway (5 November 1742 - 4 July 1821) was a leading English portrait painter of the Regency era, noted for his miniatures. He was a contemporary of John Smart, George Engleheart, William Wood, and Richard Crosse. His wife was the Italian-born painter Maria Cosway, a close friend of Thomas Jefferson.
After the war Dessau, and his wife whom he had married in 1935, moved out of London and settled in the country, where he pursued a career as a successful portrait painter. He was also an accomplished, and largely self-taught, pianist and, less successfully, an inventor of household gadgets.
From 1785 to 1787, he travelled to India, producing many miniatures and sketches. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1791. In 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King. Most of his many portraits of the Royal Family are still in the Royal Collection.
Cornelis de Bie, Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, 1662, pp. 351–352 According to the Dutch biographer Arnold Houbraken he was a good portrait painter whose works hung in various guild halls in Brussels.Peeter Meert in Arnold Houbraken, Schouburg, Volume 2, page 50 Peter Capuyns was his pupil.
In 1874, after completing his art studies in London, Adams returned to the United States with the intention of earning a living as a portrait painter. Initially, he moved into his parents' home in Seymour, Indiana, and opened a portrait studio.Newton, Eckert, Eckert, and Gerdts, p. 90.Krause, p. 15.
He served in the army again during the Second World War and also worked as an unofficial war artist. He achieved a reputation as a portrait painter, showing pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts and holding many exhibitions, but never attained the leading position he had had in New Zealand.
An article from 1890 recognised him as a "portrait painter of some merit". He also painted landscapes and is considered Philadelphia's first African-American photographer. Notable works include portraits of abolitionists including William Lloyd Garrison and James Forten in 1834. His commercial business consisted of sign painting and interior decoration.
Statue of Hans Canon by Rudolf Weyr in the Stadtpark, Vienna (1905) Hans Canon was the pseudonym of Johann Baptist Strašiřipka (also rendered as Johann Baptist Straschiripka or Hans Purschka-Straschiripka Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon, Wien Geschichte Wiki (15 March 1829, Vienna 12 September 1885, Vienna) an Austrian history and portrait painter.
Ernest Flagg married Margaret E. Bonnell on June 27, 1899 in New York City. They had one daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, who became a well- respected small-scale portrait painter and is known professionally as Betsy Flagg Melcher.Betsey Flagg Melcher Luce Foundation Center for American Art. In 1912, Mr. and Mrs.
Wood was a prolific landscape painter well known for his island lifestyle. His work was spontaneous and colourful in response to his tropical surroundings and is found in many public and private collections in Australia and overseas. He was also a noted portrait painter. He exhibited regularly in Adelaide and Sydney.
Wolfe was born on January 25, 1903 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. He grew up in Columbia, Mississippi, and he graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Wolfe was a portrait painter, stained glass, mosaic and terracotta artist in Jackson, Mississippi for five decades. He did over 1,000 paintings, including 800 portraits.
Robert Walker self-portrait. Robert Walker (1599–1658) was an English portrait painter, notable for his portraits of the "Lord Protector" Oliver Cromwell and other distinguished parliamentarians of the period. He was influenced by Van Dyck, and many of his paintings can now be found at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Advertisement for E.T. Billings, Montgomery, Alabama, 1851 Edwin Tryon Billings (1824-1893) or E.T. Billings was a portrait painter in 19th-century United States. He lived in Montgomery, Alabama; Worcester, Massachusetts; and in Boston. Among his numerous portrait subjects were Daniel Webster, William Lloyd Garrison and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Burge's paternal grandfather was Henry Williams (missionary) who translated the Treaty of Waitangi into Māori language. Burge's maternal grandfather was William Beetham the portrait painter. Burge's paternal grandmother was Marianne Williams the pioneering educator in New Zealand. Maude Burge (née Williams) married her husband George Aylesford Burge in New Zealand, 1909.
Athmallik is the birthplace of the internationally renowned Swedish artist Pradyumna Mahandia. Mahanndia was the portrait painter of Indira Gandhi before he went away to Sweden on a bi-cycle to meet his lady love Lotta. Sanjay Leela Bhansali is a making a film on Mahandia's early life in Athmallik.
Portrait of the Arlaud Family Marc-Louis Arlaud (26 September 1772, Orbe - 1 May 1845, Lausanne) was a Swiss portrait painter. He was the first Director of the Vaudoise Cantonal School of Design and the first Conservator of what is now known as the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne.
Portrait of Louis-Félix Amiel by Eugène Devéria (1837) Portrait of Philip II of France, now at the Palace of Versailles. Louis Félix Amiel, a French portrait painter, was born at Castelnaudary (Aude) in 1802. He was a pupil of Baron Gros, and died at Joinville-le-Pont in 1864.
Eyre Massey by Robert Hunter Robert Hunter (fl. 1748–1780) was a portrait- painter and a native of Ulster. He studied under the elder Pope, and had a considerable practice in Dublin in the middle of the eighteenth century. He modelled his tone of colouring on the painting of old masters.
Schneider was a habile portrait painter too. Schneider made several trips to the valley of Setesdal and was touched by cultural traditions in the valley. He proved himself an accomplished painter of folk life and customs, leaving a rich sketchbook. His main contribution to art was his drawings for P. Chr.
Portrait of Encarnación Ezcurra; possibly done with Carlos Morel. (c.1835) Portrait of Juan Manuel de Rosas. (c. 1850) Fernando García del Molino (23 March 1813, Santiago - 1899, Buenos Aires) was a Chilean-born Argentine portrait painter, miniaturist and lithographer. Many of his portraits were done from photographs or daguerrotypes.
Jules Lunteschütz (1822, in Besançon — 20 March 1893, in Frankfurt am Main), also known as Isaac Lunteschütz, was a French-German portrait painter. He is primarily known for his portraits of his friend, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Lunteschütz's portrait of the painter Gustave Courbet hangs in the Städel in Frankfurt am Main.
Lwoff-Parlaghy with dog, from a 1908 publication. Princess Elisabeth Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy (15 April 1863 - 28 August 1923) was a Hungarian-born portrait painter who worked in Germany and the United States. She is known to have painted about 120 portraits of prominent Americans and Europeans between 1884 and 1923.
Portrait of Zachary Taylor by Joseph Henry Bush. Joseph Henry Bush (1794/1800 – January 11, 1865) was an American portrait painter. Born in Kentucky, he was trained by Thomas Sully in Philadelphia, and he opened his first studio in Frankfort, followed by Lexington and Louisville. He also lived in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was born in London to French parents, but became a portrait painter and worked in the Hague as curator of the painting cabinet of William III of England from 1640 to 1669.Abraham Ragueneau in the RKD He also worked in Leiden, Den Bosch, and Zierikzee. He died after 1681.
Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter.
The son of a shoemaker, he was born in Kilmarnock. He was apprenticed to his father but became a house-painter. A painter of portraits as a hobby, Tannock had some instruction from Alexander Nasmyth. After that he practised successfully as a portrait painter in Glasgow and Greenock, also producing miniatures.
The well was a source a mineral water with red ferrous sediment. It has been used by generations of Aberdonians such as the eminent seventeenth century portrait painter George Jamesone, known as the Scottish van Dyck. Jamesone suffered from "calculus" or bladder stones.See, Bulloch, John, and Andrew G. A. Thomson. 1885.
Kelly was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the son of Irish landscape and portrait painter, Robert George Kelly. He left school in 1876 to take up work in a firm of cotton traders, but was also received an art education from his father, exhibiting under the name R. G. Kelly Jnr.
More certainly, Brontë worked as a portrait painter in Bradford in 1838 and 1839. Though certain of his paintings, for example that of his landlady Mrs. Kirby and a portrait of Emily show talent for comedic and serious styles, other portraits lack life. He returned to Haworth in debt in 1839.
His father was a curate and pastor in Bern. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under Feodor Dietz and Ludwig von Löfftz. Later, he worked in Berlin as a portrait painter, where he had many notable people as subjects. Then, he studied etching and engraving with Peter Halm.
Shaw-Lawrence was born in London in July 1921. Her work is figurative and expresses itself mainly through oil paintings. Her other favourite mediums are black and white or coloured ink drawings. She is also a book illustrator, "widely known as a portrait painter",Bodley Gallery New York catalogue. (1963).
Cariani was a devout Catholic, while Goth was raised as a Christian Scientist.Newton and Weiss, Skirting the Issue, pp. 54–55.Letsinger-Miller, p. 113. Goth returned to Indianapolis in 1919 to begin her career as a portrait painter; Cariani left the Art League in 1917 to enlist in the military.
Very little is known about the life of Gysbrecht Thys. He was born in Antwerp. It is believed he was a cousin of the more famous history and portrait painter Pieter Thijs. He was registered as a pupil at the local Guild of Saint Luke in the guild year 1629-1630.
His pictures often have a religious subject. His style helped found the Flemish traditions of genre painting.Kemperdick, 98 Van Hemessen was also a portrait painter. His Mannerist style is characterised by muscular and palpably three-dimensional figures, a densely packed foreground of abruptly cropped forms, and vigorous, even flamboyant gestures.
1810 – 25 September 1851) and Hannah Dalwood, née Trevett ( – 27 August 1878), a newborn brother Theophilus (died 1847) and sisters Sarah Ann (later Lethaby), Elizabeth Jane (later Baum? Bunney?), Achsah Mary Dalwood (married Ralph Drummond), in September 1840 aboard Lysander. Youngest son Thomas Caleb (died 1909) was a prolific portrait painter.
John Ward (1798–1849)Harbron, Dudley. John Ward, Painter (1798–1849), Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, October 1941, p. 130. was an English painter from Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. He has been described as "the leading marine artist and ship portrait painter in Hull during the first half of the 19th century".
He married firstly a Miss Porter: they had two daughters, one of whom, Matilda, (who became Mrs Hemming) was a portrait painter. He married secondly Rebecca Delvalle (1761–1848) a mineralogist: they had a son Joseph Wilson Lowry and a daughter Delvalle Lowry, who married John Varley the landscape painter.
Hans Krell (c. 1490–1565 or 1586), also Krehl ou Kreil, was a German painterBiographical sketch in Helen A Dickinson German Masters of Art p. 96 of the Renaissance, mainly known as a portrait painter. He is thought to have been born in Crailsheim or Ansbach, and died in Leipzig.
In the 1850 census, Phillips is recorded for the first time under the profession of portrait painter, now living in North East, New York. In 1855 he was recorded as "artist", and was living in New Mariborough, Massachusetts. In 1860 and 1865 he was living in Curtisville (now Interlaken), Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Declaration of love He was a scion of a family of painters. His father was the portrait painter François de Troy (1645–1730). His father was his first teacher. After he failed to win the Prix de Rome, he went at his father's expense to Italy from 1699 to 1706.
Self-Portrait, 1845 Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (1801–1888) was a French neoclassical portrait painter working in New Orleans in the 1840s and 1850s.Gerdts, William H., Art Across America, River Cross Press (Abbeville Press), Vol II, p. 94, 1990. (flyleaf). Amans was born in Maastricht, a French city at the time.
At the end of 1839 Wornum settled in London as a portrait-painter. Thomas Sibson came to study with him. He was honourably mentioned in the Westminster Hall cartoon competition of 1840. In 1848 Wornum was appointed lecturer on art to the government schools of design, and lectured around England.
Self-portrait by E.A. Greenwood, 1800-1810 (Worcester Art Museum) Portrait of Charles Jones, 1815 (Addison Gallery of American Art) Ethan Allen Greenwood (1779–1856) was an American lawyer, portrait painter, and entrepreneurial museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 19th century. He established the New England Museum in 1818.
Bathing Woman (Hébe) by Demeter Laccataris, private collection, 1830 Demeter Laccataris (1798 - 24 December 1864) was an Austrian portrait painter of Greek origin. Born in Vienna, he studied at Debrecen and Vienna. He was based at Pest from around 1835 and painted portraits and altarpieces. He painted signboards as well.
184 Her son Philip, who had become a portrait painter, died in 1926. Her daughter Margaret married John William Mackail (1850–1945), the friend and biographer of Morris, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1911–1916, and died in 1953. Their children were the novelists Angela Thirkell and Denis Mackail.
John Souch's painting of Sir Thomas Aston at the deathbed of his wife. John Souch (1593/4 – 1645) was an English portrait painter. He flourished in the early seventeenth century in the North West of England, and perhaps epitomises the role of art in English local life at that time.
Born in Ballarat, Victoria, Longstaff was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat, studying art at the Ballarat School of Mines and privately before joining the military and serving in the Boer War as a member of the South African Light Horse. He was the cousin of portrait painter Sir John Longstaff.
Hans von Aachen was born in Cologne. His surname is derived from the birthplace of his father, Aachen in Germany. Bacchus, Ceres and Amor (Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus), c. 1600 Hans von Aachen began painting in Germany as a pupil of the portrait painter Georg Jerrigh, who had trained in Antwerp.
Morten Thrane Brünnich (30 September 1737 – 19 September 1827) was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist. Brünnich was born in Copenhagen, the son of a portrait painter. He studied oriental languages and theology, but soon became interested in natural history. He contributed his observations of insects to Erik Pontoppidan's Danske Atlas (1763–81).
The son of the royal portrait painter Michael Noakes and the writer and academic Vivien Noakes. he legally adopted the surname Rattigan in 2015. A friend of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, his phone was allegedly hacked on numerous occasions by Glenn Mulcaire at the time of the McCartneys' divorce in 2006.
By the mid-1720s she had also studied with Joseph Goupy. During that time she advanced from pastels to oil painting. According to Neil Jeffares and the British Museum, she may have had lessons from Charles Jervas, the King's portrait painter. Lady Boyle was a talented caricaturist and made good, though rapid, portraits.
Self-caricature (late 1840s) Emmanuil Aleksandrovich Dmitriev-Mamonov (Russian: Эммануи́л Алекса́ндрович Дми́триев-Мамо́нов; 19 January 1824 in Moscow - 30 December 1883 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian portrait painter and graphic artist. He also worked as a book designer and caricaturist and was a respected art historian who supported the Slavophile movement.
The awards he received during his military career include the Order of Saint Vladimir, Order of Saint Anna, the Medal "For the Capture of Paris" and the order Pour le Mérite. His wife, Sofia, was maid of honor to Maria Feodorovna. His son, Emmanuil, was a portrait painter, art historian and noted Slavophile.
Predeceased by his wife, he died at St. Kilda, Victoria on 25 October 1913 and was survived by two daughters, one of whom, Alice, was a well-known portrait painter. In 1882, the Victorian government botanist, Ferdinand von Mueller named a newly described plant from Western Australia, Eremophila pantonii in his honour.
According to the RKD, he was a pupil of Nicolaes Maes in Dordrecht who moved to The Hague in 1664, where he studied with Jan de Baen.Johannes Vollevens in the RKD Ten years later he joined the Confrerie Pictura in 1674. His son Johannes Vollevens II also became a respected portrait painter.
Hunter and Huntsman, 1785, Indianapolis Museum of Art George Garrard (31 May 1760 – 8 October 1826) was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter, modeller, sculptor, engraver and printmaker. He played a major role in lobbying Parliament to introduce legislation to protect the copyright of works by modellers of animal and human figures.
She had to return home in 1864 due to lack of funds. During this period, she painted numerous portraits of her family and landscape views. She later moved to Innsbruck and was able to support herself as a portrait painter. In 1867, against her parents' wishes, she married a ceramicist named Engelbert Stainer.
Wilson was twice married: first, on 3 October 1838, in Edinburgh, to Louisa Orr, daughter of Surgeon John Orr, E.I.C., with issue one son and two daughters; and, secondly, on 16 August 1848, also in Edinburgh, to Johanna Catherine, daughter of William John Thomson the portrait-painter, issue a son and a daughter.
The Marlborough family by John Closterman. On the Duke's left are Elizabeth, Mary, the Duchess, Henrietta, Anne and John. John Closterman (also spelled Cloosterman, Klosterman; 1660 – 24 May 1711 (buried)) was a Westphalian portrait painter of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His subjects were mostly European noblemen and their families.
Self-portrait in Rococo costume (c. 1780) Charles Frederick, Grand Duke and Elector of Baden Wendelin Moosbrugger, or Mosbrugger (20 October 1760 in Au, Vorarlberg - 20 August 1849 in Aarau) was an Austrian portrait painter and miniaturist. He came from a family that had a widespread reputation as builders, plasterers and painters.
Lander took pride in the fact that five of these portraits of the King had been "unveiled by Royal Princes, an honour no portrait painter has ever had before". He was a good friend of the Jersey artist Edmund Blampied with whom he collaborated in 1937 on a portrait of King George VI.
She married the portrait painter John Trotter. His portraits were excellent likenesses, if not of the first rank in painting. He had an extensive practice until the arrival of Robert Home in 1783, who attracted Hunter's prime business. Hunter contributed frequently to the Dublin Society of Artists after helping to found it.
Osbert Burr Loomis Osbert Burr Loomis (July 30, 1813–April 30, 1886) was an American portrait painter. He is a founder of the Loomis Chaffee School. Loomis, the fourth son of James and Abigail S. (Chaffee) Loomis, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, July 30, 1813. He graduated from Yale College in 1835.
Portrait of Shakespeare. Pieter Borsseler or Pieter Borselaer (1633/1634 Middelburg - in or after 1687, Middelburg) was a Dutch portrait painter who was prominent in England during the second half of the 17th century. Borsseler was born in Middelburg. He was a student of Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert in Antwerp between 1651 and 1654.
Samuel Marsden Brookes (1880s) Still-life with Lingcod, Red Vermilion and Salmon Samuel Marsden Brookes (8 March 1816, Newington Green, Middlesex – 31 January 1892, San Francisco) was an English-born American painter. He specialized in still lifes of fish and game, but began as a portrait painter and also produced some landscapes.
Grigory Ostrovsky, Portrait of Elizaveta Petrovna Cherevina, 1773 Grigory Ostrovsky, Portrait of an Unknown Woman,later studies suggested that this woman is Elena Vasilievna Lermontova who lived at Surovtsevo estate, near Neronovo. 1777 Grigory Silovich Ostrovsky (1756–1814) was a Russian portrait painter active during the 18th century in the Kostroma Governorate.
Cesare Corte (1554–1613) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He was the pupil of his father, the Venetian painter and later alchemist Valerio Corte. He trained under Luca Cambiaso. According to Baldinucci, he was often in demand as a portrait painter.
Portrait of Lucy Lewis Marks (1752-1837), mother of Meriwether Lewis Skating Scene John Toole, originally O'Toole (26 November 1815, Dublin - 11 March 1860, Charlottesville, Virginia) was an Irish-born American artist who worked as an itinerant portrait painter. He also created a few landscapes, to advertise his skills to potential customers.
Girl Reading Letter An original or, more likely, a copy of Chalon's portrait of Queen VictoriaWhere Are the Chalon PaintingsThe Modern, Illustrated History of the New Zealand Chalons Alfred Edward Chalon (15 February 1780 – 3 October 1860) was a Swiss portrait painter. He lived in London where he was noticed by Queen Victoria.
Portrait of Count , a member of the Sénat conservateur and envoyé extraordinaire to Metz (1813) Portrait of General Nicolas Dahlmann (date unknown) Albert Jacob Frans Gregorius, or Albert Jacques François Grégorius (26 October 1774, Bruges - 25 February 1853, Bruges) was a Flemish-Belgian portrait painter and Director of the art academy in Bruges.
Guillaume Voiriot, Self-portrait, ca. 1749 Portrait of M. Gilbert de Voisins, Councillor of State in Ordinary, 1761 Guillaume Voiriot (20 November 1712 - 9 December 1799Catherine Voiriot, "Guillaume Voiriot (1712 - 1799)", Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français 2004 issue (2005) 111-57, p. 113 .) was a French portrait painter.
With James Danielli he proposed a model for cell membrane structure which became known as the Davson-Danielli or "protein sandwich" model. In 1931 he married the society portrait painter Marjorie Heath with whom he had one daughter. He was a cousin of the renowned journalist and broadcaster, Alistair Cooke.Maurice, D. M. (1996).
Frans van Mieris, the elder (16 April 163512 March 1681), was a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, his sons Jan (1660–1690) and Willem (1662–1747) and his grandson Frans van Mieris the Younger (1689–1763) were also accomplished genre painters.
She married Rev. Robert Foster Wheeler. One of their daughters, Laura Wheeler Waring, became a portrait painter known for her work during the Harlem Renaissance. She was among the first African-American artists to have works exhibited by the Harmon Foundation, and was commissioned by them to do portraits of prominent African Americans.
He painted many notable people including the President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera. The portrait painter Reginald Gray was born in Blackrock in 1930. He lived for twenty-seven years at 10 Avoca Place and was a near neighbour of the artist Seán O'Sullivan. He lived most of his life in France.
He came to America at the age of 15. He taught himself English by reading books supplied by a helpful --and perceptive-- librarian, and went on to become a self-taught musician, portrait painter, writer, editor, political organizer, and standup-comedian who warmed up crowds for Eugene Debs and other socialist luminaries.
It was there he began taking art lessons from the portrait painter, Samuel Waugh. Through him, he met Thomas Eakins, and began taking lessons from him as well. Upon Eakins' recommendation, he went to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérôme. He also studied with Adolphe Yvon.
Turin, 1893, page 21-25. Biscarra is further recognized as an excellent portrait painter, and many of his portraits are of the members of the royal households of Sardinia and Savoy. Biscarra is known to have painted two self-portraits. One is on display in the Galleria D'Arte Moderna in Milan (image above).
Tilda Thamar (born Matilde Sofía Margarita Abrecht; 7 December 1921 – 12 April 1989) was an Argentine actor. She was born in Entre Rios Province, Argentina, in 1921.BFI - Film & TV Database She was married to Spanish portrait painter Alejo Vidal-Quadras and divorced in 1971. Thamar and Vidal-Quadras lived in Paris, France.
Another son, Ranald Alexander Noel Paton (born 8 June 1864), also a portrait painter, who married Winifred Jane Wallace. His daughter, Hamilton Lora (1868–1921), is buried 10m to his east with her husband, Robert Scott Moncrieff (1862–1923). Hamilton and Robert's daughter Madeline Scott Moncrieff married James Gordon McIntyre, Lord Sorn.
76 Many of George's Hawaii drawings were later printed by the lithographic firm of Britton & Rey in San Francisco. George's brothers Charles Burgess and Edward Burgess lived in Honolulu for various periods of time. Charles was a photographer and portrait painter; Edward ran a coffee shop and sold his brothers’ artwork.Severson, 2002, p.
Key at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (c. 1544, Antwerp - after 1589, Antwerp), was a Flemish painter of portraits and religious paintings, a draughtsman and a printmaker. He worked for a while in the Antwerp workshop of the prominent history and portrait painter Willem Key and later took over the workshop.Adriaen Thomasz.
His painting was essentially realistic, sometimes bordering on the grotesque. His Spisehuset (1935) depicts the loneliness of a poor city dweller while other works cover the disadvantaged and homeless inhabitants of Christianshavn. For a time he also worked as a portrait painter. His favourite subjects included the allotments and harbour districts of Copenhagen.
In 1785, American portrait painter Gilbert Stuart painted a portrait of Barrington's uncle, Admiral Samuel Barrington, in London. Stuart later painted a portrait of the 4th Viscount –1794. Lord Barrington died, without issue, on 8 December 1813 in at Valenciennes, France. He was succeeded in the Viscountcy by his younger brother, George.
John Deffett Francis (1815-1901) was a Welsh portrait painter and art collector. He is particularly well known for his portraits of figures such as Queen Victoria and the British prime minister Sir Robert Peel, and the bequests of his personal library and art collection to Swansea Library and the British Museum.
Effie Gray, by Thomas Richmond.Thomas Richmond (1802-1874) was a British portrait painter, known for his idealised pictures in the so-called keepsake style. He was the son of Thomas Richmond (1771–1837), the miniature painter, and the brother of George Richmond. Richmond initially practiced in Sheffield, and later moved to London.
After the founding of the Academy, Jaquin's artistic career took off again and he re-established himself as a portrait painter to the world of merchants and the middle classes of Leuven. One of his pupils at the Academy was Henri van der Haert. He died on 1 November 1826 in Leuven.
François Xavier Joseph was mainly a portrait painter but he also created still life paintings and landscapes. He produced accurately observed depictions of birds. In his portraits, Jacquin aimed to render a realistic portrait of the sitter. He painted the clothes, furniture and architecture in his portraits with great attention to detail.
Broadcasting House was designed by Val Myer and M. T. Tudsbery George Valentine S. Myer (1883, Hereford – 1959, London) was an English architect and portrait painter appointed by the British Broadcasting Corporation to design one of the first purpose built broadcast buildings in the world, Broadcasting House, Langham Place, London completed in 1932.
However, it did help to begin his career as a permanent portrait artist in Erie. To make a living, Billings often had to also accept jobs that were not strictly portraiture, such as sign painting, furniture decorating, and other more craft-oriented tasks. However, unlike James Bowman a few decades earlier, Billings was successfully able to maintain a career as a portrait painter permanently located in Erie (though he did spend a few months at a time in larger cities when his business in Erie began to slow). With the development of the daguerreotype in the 1840s, the role of the portrait painter declined in general, because it was now much easier and much cheaper to have one's likeness presented in a visual format.
In 1885 he moved to Portugal: due to some appreciated works, he was decorated by the government with the honour of Knight of the Order of Christ. He returned in Portugal the following year, and he painted the portraits of the members of the Royal family and of Luciano de Castro, who had just become President of the Council of Ministers. Then he moved back to Crema, where he remained for the rest of his life, set up the only personal exposition in his career, and became, with Eugenio Giuseppe Conti, Crema's most appreciated portrait painter of the nineteenth century. Bacchetta was influenced by the style introduced in Crema some decades earlier by Pietro Racchetti, considered the town's first specialized portrait painter.
Shell advert - René Vincent, 1926 Vincent was born in 1879 in Bordeaux, France, the son of, novelist Charles Vincent. His older brother was Henri Vincent-Anglade (1876-1956), a portrait painter. Vincent studied at the art school, Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. This is when he started to illustrate books to earn money.
Henry Bryan Ziegler (1798–1874) was a British artist, known as a landscape and portrait painter. Hampton Court Palace by Henry Bryan Ziegler Ziegler studied under John Varley and at the Royal Academy schools. He made a reputation as drawing master to members of the royal family. In later life he mainly painted watercolour portraits.
Attiret was born in Dole, France. He studied art in Rome and made himself a name as a portrait painter. While a Jesuit novice, he did paintings in the Cathedral of Avignon and the Sodality Chapel. He went to China in 1737 and was given the title Painter to the Emperor by the Qianlong Emperor.
Esther "Hetty" Benbridge (née Sage) was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied with painter Charles Willson Peale. Peale's influence can be seen in the long oval faces of her portrait subjects. She married fellow portrait painter Henry Benbridge in early 1772 and they had one son, also named Henry, who was born on December 13, 1772.
Selfportrait of Jan Pieter Veth Jan Pieter Veth (18 May 1864, Dordrecht – 1 July 1925, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, poet, art critic and university lecturer. He is especially noted as a portrait painter. Amongst his sitters were Max Liebermann, Lambertus Zijl, Frank van der Goes, Antoon Derkinderen and other contemporaries including various fellow painters.
Hans Hysing was born in Stockholm,Sweden. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith, before studying portrait painting under David von Krafft. He went to England in 1700 as assistant to fellow Swedish portrait-painter Michael Dahl, with whom he lived for many years. He succeeded after Dahl's death to his practice and adopted his manner.
Collections highlights include the print oeuvre of English print maker and portrait painter Gerald Brockhurst. Other artist highlights from this collection include William Blake, Eugène Delacroix, Albrecht Dürer, William Hogarth, John Sloan, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The Tagore Collection was donated by Dr. Abanindranath Tagore in 1989. It contains calligraphy, rubbings, and scrolls.
Charles Lees achieved initial renown as a portrait painter, his accomplishments leading to his election to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1830. He later served as the Academy's Treasurer. Lees is perhaps best known for his work specialising in sporting and recreational subjects, particularly golfing and curling, to which he turned from the 1840s.
Henry Collen: self-portrait, miniature painting, 1825. (Courtesy of A.H. Stanton.) Henry Collen (9 October 1797, Middlesex – 8 May 1879, Brighton) was an English miniature portrait painter to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and the Duchess of Kent. Later in life he turned to photography and was the first professional calotypist in London.
In 1783 he became an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. As the successor to his nephew Georg David Matthieu, he was a portrait painter for the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court at Ludwigslust palace. He worked there for 18 years - until his death. His daughter is the artist Friederike Julie Lisiewski.
Roberts exhibited with Wyndham Lewis's Group X, and Osbert Sitwell was an early patron. Alongside his dramatic Cubist work, Roberts was a talented portrait painter. He honed his skills with portraits of Sarah – she would be his model and muse for the next 60 years.Michael Parkin, 'Obituary: Sarah Roberts', The Independent, 5 December 1992.
Field married Phebe Gilmur in Ware, Massachusetts, in 1831. They had one daughter, born in 1832. Field made a good living as a limner or itinerant portrait painter in the 1830s, traveling in western Massachusetts and the Connecticut Valley. He was known for his ability to capture "a good likeness" in a single sitting.
In 1721, he moved to Prince George's County, Maryland and became a portrait painter. That same year, he received the first recorded public art commission in the American colonies; he painted The Last Supper. He also painted a Crucifixion. Some time around 1735, Hesselius returned to Philadelphia where he spent the rest of his life.
Portrait of Catherine Gordon, Lord Byron's mother, by Stewardson Thomas Stewardson (August 1781 – 1859) was a British portrait painter. Stewardson was born at Kendal in August 1781, the son of John and Anne Stewardson, who were from a Quaker family at Ullsmoor, near Shap in Westmoreland. He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
In 1901 she began to take classes at the University of Nebraska. In 1903 Bryan dropped out of the University of Nebraska to marry William H. Leavitt, a well-known Newport, Rhode Island portrait painter. The couple met when he was painting Bryan's father's portrait."The Leavitt-Bryan Wedding," The New York Times, Sept.
Portrait of Ottho Ottho from the 1717 edition of 'Les Hommes Illustres' Van Hulle has been described as a painter of portraits and history paintings. However, only portrait paintings are currently attributed to him. His portrait paintings include single portraits, family portraits, bust portraits and equestrian portraits. He was a portrait painter to the elite.
While in Detroit, Duncanson worked primarily as a portrait painter and was well received by the local press. In 1846, the Detroit Daily Advertiser praised Duncanson for his skill and color usage, adding, “Mr. Duncanson deserves, and we trust will receive the patronage of all lovers of the fine arts.”"Lifting the Veil" 1995.
Niels Christian Hansen (a portrait painter), his brother Georg Emil Hansen and the lieutenant-turned- businessman Albert Schou founded the studio on 1 December 1867. It was originally called "Hansen & Schou". In 1869, Clemens Weller, a native of Germany, joined the firm. He was originally a bookbinder, but had learned photography from Georg Hansen.
Mattison showed an interest in art from an early age. He had unwavering confidence in his decision to pursue a career in art, promising childhood friend, Robert Cooke, that he would paint his portrait one day when he was "a famous portrait painter."Howe, Jane M. "25th Anniversary Set for Donald Mattison." The Indianapolis Star.
Alexei Maximov Alexei Maximov (born 1952) is a Soviet-born enamellist, portrait painter of European royals, and oil painter who currently resides in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is known for using traditional methods of enamel art production, without the aid of contemporary digital set ovens, and is considered a modern master of the artform.
There she met William Gladstone, Palmerston and Henry Weigall. Weigall was a popular portrait painter. They married and they would have seven children including only one daughter, the cricketer Gerry Weigall and Sir Archibald Weigall in 1874 who was later governor of Australia. They bought Southwood House in Ramsgate as the family home in 1880.
Jean-Marc Nattier (17 March 1685 - 7 November 1766) was a French painter. He was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642-1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655-1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire.
Johann Zoffany was a German-born painter who had become a successful portrait painter in London. Among his principal patrons were the royal family. Queen Charlotte had sent Zoffany to Florence where he had agreed to paint the Tribuna of the Uffizi. The agreed price was high and he was paid £300 a year.
In 1843, he opened a studio in New York City, where he advertised as a portrait painter, though few of the works from this period have been identified. In 1847 he moved to Weehawken, marrying Margaret Agnes O'Sullivan the following year. He and his wife briefly moved back to New York City around 1850.
Workshop of Palissy, rusticware platter, 1575–1600 Palissy returned to Saintonge where he married and had children. Other than what he tells us in his autobiography, namely that he worked as a portrait-painter, glass-painter and land-surveyor, we have little record of how he lived during the first years of his married life.
Riley by Egbert van Heemskerk the Younger (after John Riley) Portrait of Bridget Holmes by Riley, 1686 John Riley, or Ryley, (1646 – March 1691) was an English portrait painter. He painted portraits of Charles II and James II, and was court painter to William III and Mary II. One of his pupils was Jonathan Richardson.
Born in Paris, France.Anonymous 1996. A prominent member of Parisian society, in 1767 he married Anne-Louise d'Egremont. The couple became friends of the royal portrait painter, Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun who painted the portrait of their daughter, Alexandrine-Emilie Brongniart that now hangs in the National Gallery in London, Mademoiselle Brongniart 1788.
The Peninsula Children's Theatre offered plays and other productions for young audiences in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also served on the board of the Hillbarn Theatre. An artist, MacDonald also worked as a portrait painter on commission. MacDonald died of natural causes in her sleep at her caretaker's home in San Mateo, California.
In 1829, she took up residence in Edinburgh to resume her career as a portrait painter. ‘If she could not have love and marriage, perhaps she might have fame instead’. Her first patron was Charles Kilpatrick Sharpe. She focussed at this time on painting women and children, especially the then-fashionable art of miniatures.
57653 (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie), artist record. Moreelse was a well known portrait painter who received commissions from right across the Dutch Republic. His earliest known work dates to 1606. Other than portraits, he also painted a few history paintings in the Mannerist style and in the 1620s produced pastoral scenes of herders and shepherds.
In 1874 he escaped a death sentence by fleeing to London. While he was well known for his caricatures in France, he gained a reputation in England as a fashion designer, society portrait painter and theatre costume designer. He has work in the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Self-portrait (date unknown) Jan Rustem (; 1762 - 21 June 1835) was a painter of Armenian ethnicity who lived and worked in the territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Primarily a portrait painter, he was commissioned to execute portraits of notable personalities of his epoch. For many years he was a professor at the Vilnius University.
"Bucks County Artists" James A. Michener Art Museum. Accessed April 2, 2008. In 1916, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician. After a successful career as a portrait painter, he began working as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair in 1931 and for The New Yorker the following year.
The mission of the Apostles Abbey of Santa Giustina Giovanni Battista Bissoni (1576–1636) was an Italian painter. He was born in Padua. He was first a pupil of Francesco Apollodoro, called Il Porcia, a portrait painter, and afterwards of Dario Varotari the Elder. Bissoni painted for the churches and convents at Padua and Ravenna.
Daguerreotype of John Greenleaf Cloudman c. 1850 John Greenleaf Cloudman (sometimes referred to as Cloutman) was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, one of seven children, on December 17, 1813 to David P. Cloudman and Susan D. Cloudman (1792–1858). He died in Bethel, Maine on October 11, 1892. He was a landscape and portrait painter.
He studied in Sweden, London and Italy before basing himself in Edinburgh. There he established himself as a leading portrait painter to the Scottish nobility, before moving to London in 1757."Allan Ramsey", Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 7 May 2012. He made occasional return visits to Edinburgh to undertake commissions for the nobility and gentry.
Putti with symbols of the Passion Sallaert was a versatile artist who worked in various genres and media. He painted religious as well a mythological subjects and was also a portrait painter. He was a regular contributor of designs for local publications and produced many monotypes. He further designed cartoons for the local weaving workshops.
When Cummings was 11, she received a scholarship to attend Elam School of Fine Arts. She was one of the youngest students to study at the school, and while there studied under C.F. Goldie, a renowned portrait painter. She was considered the only student able to reproduce the colour of Maori skin as Goldie painted.
He also received art instruction from his uncle, C. W. Kuyke, a portrait painter in Arnhem. In 1847 Augustine, Agatha, son William, along with his four brothers and two sisters sailed from Rotterdam for America. Two sisters died en route and were buried at sea. The remaining family members arrived in New York in September.
Collins was born at Gosport in Hampshire, on 30 January 1755. He studied enamel-painting with Jeremias Meyer. In 1777, he exhibited some portraits at the Royal Academy. He shared with Richard Cosway and Samuel Shelley the fashionable sitters of the day, and in 1789, was appointed principal portrait-painter in enamel to George III.
His body was temporarily buried in England, and after World War II was exhumed and reburied in Philadelphia, at the Church of St. James the Less. His wife Muriel, who survived him by 16 years, was buried beside him. Sydney designed their gravestone. In addition to being an architect, Sydney was a portrait painter.
Upon the recommendation of the portrait painter, Frederick Styles Agate, he became a full-time student. Following his graduation, he found employment as an apprentice at Harper & Brothers publishing, in Manhattan. In 1851, he paid a visit to London to see the Great Exhibition. He later described what he saw there as his "revelation".
John Fulton "Jack" Folinsbee (March 14, 1892 - May 10, 1972) was an American landscape, marine and portrait painter, and a member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of New Hope and Lambertville, New Jersey, particularly the factories, quarries, and canals along the Delaware River.
Stoltenberg's portrait of Hans Michelsen Stoltenberg studied carpentry in Copenhagen, where he also took lessons in portrait painting with Christian August Lorentzen. Back in Norway he earned his living as a travelling portrait painter and carpenter. After his father died in 1830, the family home in Tønsberg dissolved. Stoltenberg's travels covered large parts of Norway.
Burnand was an accomplished draftsman and often-painted large multi figured compositions in the style of Max Beckmann. He was also an accomplished portrait painter. The artist painted almost exclusively on canvas, and signed his work with his initials. He lived at Bordon, Hampshire after the war and later moved to Little Baddow, Essex.
Valentine Vivian was born on 17 March 1886 in Kensington, London. He was the youngest of nine children of Tom Comely Vivian, portrait painter, and Elizabeth Baly Farquhar, miniature painter. His brother Sir Sylvanus Percival Vivian (1880-1958) was former Registrar General of England from 1921 to 1945.Who Was Who 1951–1960 p.
Charlotte Jones (1768 – 21 September 1847) was a British miniature portrait painter. She was appointed "Miniature Painter to the Princess Charlotte of Wales" from 1808 until the premature death of her patron on 6 November 1817, shortly after failing to deliver a royal heir. Jones' most memorable creation was a triptych that recorded the Princess's life.
The MacDonald boys playing golf by 18th-century portrait painter Jeremiah Davison The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to golf: Golf - precision club and ball sport, in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest strokes.
Victor Eisenmenger (29 January 1864 – 11 December 1932) was an Austrian medical doctor. The son of portrait painter and professor August Eisenmenger, he attended the University of Vienna and became the personal physician of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Eisenmenger's syndrome – a phenomenon in which longstanding heart defects affect the blood flow to a person's lungs – is named in his honor.
William Salter (1804 – 22 December 1875) was an English portrait painter of the 19th century. His best known work was a painting of 83 people at a banquet in 1836 organised by the Duke of Wellington to celebrate their victory at the Battle of Waterloo. The painting is called The Waterloo Banquet 1836 and today is at Apsley House.
The Shepherdess, etching, 1916 Otto Richard Bossert (1874–1919), also known as O. R. Bossert, was a German portrait painter, art teacher and graphic artist. Among his works are portrait etchings of historical figures and color woodcuts. His early works were influenced by Max Klinger. Bossert was born in Heidelberg and studied in Karlsruhe, before settling in Leipzig.
Among the paint works, Pourbus painted the Annunciation currently displayed at Museum Gouda. He also realised the drawings for the stained glass windows.de Fauw, in: de Beyer & de Fauw (2018), page 69, §2. Pourbus gradually became a popular portrait painter among the upper class, such as wine merchant Jan van Eyewerve and his wife Jacquemyne Buuck.
Macleod was born in London. His father was of a Scottish Highlands family and his mother Cornish/German. The family emigrated to Australia in 1854 or 1855, drawn by the potential for riches from the Victorian goldrush, but Macleod's father died a year later. His mother moved to Sydney and was remarried to James Anderson, a portrait painter.
His artworks show the influence of portrait painters from Venice (Nicolò Renieri and Tiberio Tinelli). In the years from 1679 to 1691 he was demonstrably in Milan. He was much appreciated as a portrait painter. He was the teacher of Fra' Galgario (Vittore Ghislandi), who went to Milan to study his works being portrayed several times.
Raphael worked in several media and in both figurative and abstract styles. As a portrait painter she gained recognition at the highest level and is featured on The National Portrait Gallery's website. Charles Saumarez Smith, director of the National Portrait Gallery, called her "one of the finest figurative artists of the generation". She was an accomplished, assured draftsman.
Although originally a portrait painter, when the number of portrait commissions declined owing to the spread of photography, he started to specialise in painting horses. He provided illustrations for the Suffolk Horse Society's Stud Book. In 1875 he became the first chairperson of the Ipswich Fine Art Club of which he remained a member until 1889.
He collaborated in the early 1840s with Henry Collen, portrait painter to Queen Victoria. Herschel originally discovered the platinum process on the basis of the light sensitivity of platinum salts, later developed by William Willis. Herschel coined the term photography in 1839. Herschel was also the first to apply the terms negative and positive to photography.
Raphael Kirchner (1876 – 2 August 1917) was an Austrian artist, principally a portrait painter and illustrator best known for Art Nouveau and early pin-up work, especially in picture postcard format. His work served as an early inspiration to Peruvian painter Alberto Vargas, who had a career in the United States for the film and men's magazine industry.
In 1850, he became a member of the Royal Academy and was offered a professorship in 1853. Instead, he accepted an invitation from friends to come to London, where he lived until 1867, working primarily as a portrait painter. He also portrayed Royal ceremonies at court and produced scenes from the plays of Shakespeare.Gunnar Carlquist, Svensk uppslagsbok, Vol.
William Sadler II was the son of the portrait painter and engraver William Sadler. Two of his sons became painters, the eldest being William Sadler III. (The numbers after each name are merely used to distinguish one from another). Sadler lived at a number of different addresses before settling in Manders' Building, Ranelagh, where he died in December 1839.
Leandro studied with his brothers in their father's workshop. After Francesco opened a workshop in Venice before 1575, Leandro took over the studio in Bassano del Grappa. Leandro followed in the tradition of his father's religious works, but also became independently well known as a portrait painter. By around 1575, Leandro had become an important assistant to his father.
His father, Johann Conrad (1712–1778), was the carpenter for the convent in Haina. He began his artistic studies with his uncle, Johann Jacob Tischbein in Hamburg. From 1772 to 1773, he travelled in Holland, studying the Old Masters. After 1777, he established himself as a portrait painter in Berlin and became a member of the Masonic Lodge.
Lees was born in 1800 in Cupar, Fife, Scotland.Charles Lees He began his career in art training under the eminent Edinburgh portrait painter Sir Henry Raeburn. He went to Rome for six months, and on return spent the majority of his working life in Edinburgh, having his studio at 19 Scotland Street. Lees also taught drawing.
In addition to his academic career, Keller was a prolific portrait painter. He was known as the "unofficial portraitist of the Yale faculty," completing over 160 portrait commissions for the university, including faculty, corporation board members, and two presidents. With one of his portrait subjects, Thomas G. Bergin, Keller worked in collaboration by illustrating the book, On Sepulchers.Foscolo, Ugo.
This could be explained by many being housewives and not expected to work in that period, as the next highest proportion of employment is domestic work. The writer, poet and miniature portrait painter Mary Matilda Betham was born in Stonham Aspal in 1776 and raised there. She was the daughter of William Betham, the headmaster of the endowed school.
On the Heath (1907) Henry Edgar Crocket (1870–1926) was a landscape, figure and portrait painter. He was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society where he exhibited 49 pictures. He also exhibited 14 paintings at the Royal Academy as well as a few others at various art institutions. He shared a studio with Fred Appleyard.
By the 1840s, Henry Collen was established as a portrait painter of some note. It is also at this time that his photographic work became known. In March 1840 Collen became interested in experimenting with electrotyping daguerreotype plates for printing purposes. By spring he was experimenting extensively with the calotype processes, the lenses, the paper, etc.
The Isaac A. Wetherby House is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. This house was built in two parts. The original two story frame section was built in 1854 by Patrick Doyle, an Irish immigrant and teamster. with A single story frame addition was built by portrait painter and photographer Isaac Augustus Wetherby in 1860.
Robert Gilmor, Jr. (Sarah Reeve Ladson), 1823, Oil on canvas Sully's records say that he produced 2,631 paintings from 1801, most of which are currently in the United States. His style resembles that of Thomas Lawrence.(cf. Rilla Evelyn Jackman “AMERICAN ARTS” 1928 pg. 61) Though best known as a portrait painter, Sully also made historical pieces and landscapes.
Wes(ley) Walters (1928-2014) was an Australian artist and winner of the Archibald Prize. Walters was born in Mildura, Victoria, in 1928. He was a realist portrait painter and abstract artist who painted nearly 200 portraits of leading Australians, especially academics, businessmen, artists, and musicians. He was awarded the Minnie Crouch Prize in 1953 and 1956.
Self-portrait (1789), collection Groeningemuseum Portrait of Sylvie de la Rue Franciscus Joseph Octave van der Donckt (30 June 1757, Aalst - 16 August 1813, Bruges) was a Flemish portrait painter, miniaturist and pastellist. He is also referred to as Jozef Angelus Van der Donckt, as well as several other variations, too numerous to list.Biographical notes @ the RKD.
She was the daughter of portrait painter Gustav Graef and Franziska Liebreich (1824-1893), a lithographer. She studied with her father and, in 1892, married the painter Reinhold Lepsius. She and her husband were held in equal regard and were very popular with the business community and the wealthy. Her brother was the art historian Botho Graef.
In the 1900s. developed front portraits at the time Sychkov was a very popular portrait painter in St. Petersburg. Customers are attracted by his ability to paint quickly and accurately grasping the features of appearance. Among his "models" were bankers, government officials and society ladies. An excellent example of the front of the portrait is "Portrait In Black" (1904).
Olivier was born in Colchester, the second of eight children of Anne Elizabeth Hardcastle Arnould and the Reverend Henry Arnold Olivier, a stern Anglican. His brothers included Henry (1850–1935), who had a military career ending as a colonel,Holden, p.11 Herbert, a successful portrait painter, and Gerard (1869–1939), a clergyman (the father of Laurence).Darlington, p.
Portrait by John Bettes the Younger, alleged to be that of Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos, 1579. John Bettes the Younger (died 1616) was an English portrait painter. His father, the painter John Bettes the Elder died in, or before 1570. Like Isaac Oliver and Rowland Lockey, Bettes the Younger is believed to have studied under Nicholas Hilliard.
Judith Chazin-Bennahum, The Lure of Perfection: fashion and Ballet, 1780-1830, (New York: Routledge), 2005. The portrait painter Mme Vigée-Lebrun said, "her dancing was but a sketch; she made only petits pas, simple steps, but with movements so graceful that the public preferred her to every other dancer."Quoted by Goncourt 1893, p.2 note 1.
Loomis soon became the most esteemed portrait painter in Havana, and besides painted a number of altarpieces for churches and chapels. On his return from Cuba he settled in New York City, where his residence continued—varied by foreign travel—until his death there, April 30, 1886, in his 73rd year. His wife survived him without children.
Robert McGregor RSA (1847–1922) was a Scottish landscape painter, genre painter, portrait painter and marine painter. His genre was particularly painting working men such as fishermen, shepherds, crofters, pedlars, and farm labourers. However he also painted Scottish, French and Dutch country and coastal scenery. He usually signed his work in the right hand bottom corner.
That included Elizabeth and Mary from the scene of the Visitation and Saint Joseph, Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, and Zechariah. He also produced some works for the Holy Cross Church, Warsaw and St. Martin's Church, Warsaw. His son Jan Bogumil Plersch was a portrait painter and decorator at the court of King Stanisław August Poniatowski.
Sir Anthonis Mor, also known as Anthonis Mor van Dashorst and Antonio Moro (c. 1517 - 1577), was a Netherlandish portrait painter, much in demand by the courts of Europe. He has also been referred to as Antoon, Anthonius, Anthonis or Mor van Dashorst, and as Antonio Moro, Anthony More, etc., but signed most of his portraits as Anthonis Mor.
A Conversation of Virtuosis...at the Kings Arms (1735). National Portrait Gallery, London Gawen Hamilton (1698 – 1737),Noted in Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: colonial America's first portrait painter p.44, and note 38. easily confused with the later, more prominent artist Gavin Hamilton, was a Scottish painter working in London, a member of the Rose and Crown Club.
Self-portrait of Henry Benbridge Henry Benbridge (October 1743 Hildeburn, Charles R., ed.. Baptisms and Burials From the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1709-1760. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1877-1893. – February 1812) was an early American portrait painter. He was born in Philadelphia, the only child of James and Mary (Clark) Benbridge.
William Hogarth's portrait of Thomas Coram. The Foundling Hospital grew to become a very fashionable charity, and it was supported by many noted figures of the day in high society and the arts. Its benefactors included a number of renowned artists, thanks to one of its most influential governors, the portrait painter and cartoonist William Hogarth.
Self-portrait of Oliver Ingraham Lay, 1882 Oliver Ingraham Lay (1845-1890), was an American portrait painter. Original art education in the United States. He traveled to Europe in 1860 he returned to the United States and began his professional career as an artist. There was a regular exhibitor Century Association and the National Academy of Design.
James Bowman was an American itinerant artist and portrait painter. He was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. Sometime between 1813 and 1815, James Bowman went to Chillicothe, Ohio, to learn to be a carpenter. There he met the itinerant painter Mr. J. T. Turner who taught him the rudiments of portrait painting (such as mixing paints).
He subsequently filled various leadership positions in the guild. In 1717 he was one of the four artists who contributed funds to the creation of a drawing academy in Bruges. Portrait of Laurentius van de Velde, Headman of the Guild of St. George in Bruges Jan Baptist became a successful history and portrait painter. He married Anna-Pieternelle Timmermans.
He was very popular as a portrait painter during the reign of Charles XIV, but was not universally appreciated. The well known author and art critic Lorenzo Hammarsköld felt that he had no talent. Many years later, Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander said that his portraits looked like wax figures., Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i 19de århundradet, vol.
At that time, women were not permitted to attend The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, so she continued her studies with Herman Siegumfeldt (1833-1912) until 1877. She settled on a career as a portrait painter and had her first exhibition in 1878. Soon, she became quite popular and received numerous commissions from the local gentry.
In the prefaces to the speeches, he began to show a skill he would later develop to perfection, the art of the pithy character sketch. He was able to find more work as a portrait painter as well.Wardle, pp. 100–102. In May 1808, Hazlitt married Sarah Stoddart,Writing the Self: The journal of Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 1774-1843.
Tatham married, in 1801, Harriet Williams, the daughter of a famous button-maker in St. Martin's Lane. By her he had four sons and six daughters. His eldest son Frederick Tatham, sculptor and afterwards portrait-painter, exhibited forty-eight pictures in the Royal Academy between 1825 and 1854. He was the close friend of William Blake and his wife.
She was employed as a decorator of the Gothenburg Cathedral from the 1750s to the 1770s. She is known as the artist behind the pulpit in the Lerum Church from 1752. She played a great role as the teacher of several art students in her studio. Her daughter Christina Elisabeth Carowsky (1745–1797) was a portrait painter.
Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe (23 August 1871 – 17 October 1953) was a British portrait painter, miniaturist, illustrator and modeller. He was born at Landour, India. In 1881 he was living with his widowed mother in Walcot, Somerset. He studied at the South Kensington, St John's Wood (where he met Byam Shaw, also born in India) and Royal Academy Schools.
Graff was the favourite portrait painter of the German, Russian, Polish and Baltic nobility. Among others he portrayed Stanislaw Kostka Potocki.Portrait of Stanislaw Kostka Potocki at the Wilanów Palace Museum His most important clients included Catherine the Great of Russia and Frederick the Great of Prussia. His portrait of Frederick the Great is regarded as his masterpiece.
Carpenter was born in Bruton Street, London on 2 March 1792. He was the son of James Carpenter, a bookseller in Old Bond Street. In 1817 Carpenter married Margaret Sarah Geddes who was a noted portrait-painter, as Margaret Sarah Carpenter. He tried painting and publishing but eventually found employment as the Keeper of Prints at the British Museum.
William F. Cogswell (July 15, 1819 – December 24, 1903SNAC) was a portrait painter who was born in Fabius, New York. In the 1830s, while working in a color factory in Buffalo, New York, he taught himself to paint. During the 1840s, he worked in New York City as a professional portrait artist.New York Historical Society, 1957.
Tali Lennox (born Tali Lennox Fruchtmann; 9 February 1993) is a British model, artist, and actress, who used to work for Topshop and Burberry. As of 2014 she reduced her modelling focus and became a portrait painter. She is the daughter of Scottish singer Annie Lennox and Israeli record producer Uri Fruchtmann, and sister of Lola Lennox.
The elevation of the Cross, Unionskirche Michael Angelo ImmenraetName variations: Michael Angelo Immenraedt, Michelangelo Immenraed, Michael Angelo Emmelraet, Michael Angelo Emmenraet (18 October 1621, Antwerp - 1683, Utrecht), was a Flemish history and portrait painter who is mainly remembered for the lavish Baroque painting series of Biblical scenes which he produced for the Unionskirche, Idstein in Germany.
Jane White Cooke (January 10, 1913 – May 8, 2011) was an American portrait painter. Cooke was born Frances Jane White in Montclair, New Jersey on January 10, 1913. A war widow, in 1946 she remarried to journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke. She was interested in art from an early age, and as an adult created hundreds of paintings.
Through his son Horace, he was the paternal grandfather of William P. G. Harding (1864–1930), the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Chester Harding (1866–1936), the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1917 to 1921 who, late in life, also became a noted portrait painter.
O'Neil was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Barbara Blackman O'Neil and David O'Neil, a "lumber baron" and poet. Her mother was a socialite and suffragist. She spent her childhood mostly in Europe and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.Barbara O'Neil Playbill Bio accessed 1-5-2016 Her maternal grandmother was Carrie Horton Blackman, a successful portrait painter.
Yeo married Diane Helen Pickard on 30 March 1970 in Greenwich. They have a son, the portrait painter Jonathan Yeo, and a daughter. Yeo also has at least two more daughters from outside his marriage. He fathered his first daughter in 1967 when he was still a student at Cambridge University and put her up for adoption.
The Goupil, Tooths and Lefevre galleries were among the commercial concerns that showed her work. Originally Engelbach was a portrait painter but later became a specialist flower painter who also painted landscapes. Her painting Roses, from the 1930s, is held in the Tate collection. A memorial exhibition for Engelbach was held at the Leicester Galleries in 1951.
James Madison, 1809-1817 David Edwin (1776–1841) was an English-American engraver. He was born in Bath, England. He was the son of John Edwin, a comic actor, and was apprenticed to an engraver, but he ran away to sea and reached America in 1797. There he was employed by Edward Savage, the portrait painter.
Brosnan was portrait painter by training. During the Great Depression, she worked as a window dresser, and when the need arose for a more glamorous mannequin, she created one. She and sculptor Kay Sullivan founded Mary Brosnan Inc., in 1941, providing American-made mannequins to stores during World War II, when European mannequins were difficult to import.
Benjamin Donald McCready (born August 14, 1951) is an American portrait painter. Ben McCready was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has painted more than 600 commissioned portraits. Notable portrait clients include President Gerald R. Ford, President Ronald W. Reagan, President George H. W. Bush, President James Earl Carter, Robert Redford, George Clooney, Mr. and Mrs.
He was born in Rimini to a family originally from Longiano. He studied in Bologna under Guido Federico Lucchini, a portrait painter. Gaining a stipend from Rimini, between 1935 and 1939, he studied initially in Rome and Florence, and made a first career as a manuscript illuminator. He then pegan painting oil canvases in an impressionist style.
Bampfylde Moore Carew (1693-1759), 1750, National Portrait Gallery, London Phelps was a portrait painter. He studied under Thomas Hudson and Sir Joshua Reynolds. Phelps worked in Somerset painting portraits, restoring old master paintings, and working as an interior decorator. Correspondence by Richard Phelps is held at Penn Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas François-Joseph Navez was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, he spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822. Between 1835 and 1862 he was the director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He was a very successful portrait painter. He also painted many mythological and historic subjects.
Jacqueline studied at the École des Beaux-arts under Alexandre Cabanel.Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs : portraits et biographies suivis d'une notice sur les Salons français depuis 1673, les Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, la Propriété artistique, etc. (1897) (p. 110) She was friends with portrait painter Fanny Caillé who reproduced one of her most famous paintings, At the spring .
Self-portrait at Montorsoli, (1892), Florence, Uffizi Gallery, Vasari Corridor Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 - 11 July 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.
Wellington Jarard Reynolds ( b. April 9, 1865 in New Lenox, Illinois, d. 1949) was a well-known Chicago portrait painter and art instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. Educated in Chicago, Munich, and Paris, he was awarded medals for his work at the Paris Salon as well as in juried exhibitions in the United States.
Self-portrait, ca. 1830 George Richmond (28 March 1809 - 19 March 1896) was an English painter and portraitist. In his youth he was a member of The Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake. Later in life he established a career as a portrait painter, which included painting the portraits of the British gentry, nobility and royalty.
The Museo del Prado, however, has two of Velázquez's portraits of the king (nos. 1070 and 1071) in which the severity of the Seville period has disappeared and the tones are more delicate. The modeling is firm, recalling that of Antonio Mor, the Dutch portrait painter of Philip II, who exercised a considerable influence on the Spanish school.
From 1837 to 1846, he was an itinerant portrait painter, based in Rochester, New York. He was married in 1839, to Lydia Douglass-Houghton; daughter of Judge Jacob Houghton (1777-1861), originally of Boston,McClurg mansion and Museum and Lydia Douglass (1780-1871). Her brother, Douglass Houghton, would become the first State Geologist of Michigan. They had 3 children.
Karl Anton Hickel (1745 – 30 October 1798) was an 18th-century painter. Hickel was born in Český Krumlov, Bohemia, and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna, Austria in 1758. After graduation, he worked as a painter under his brother, Joseph Hickel, who was also a painter. Beginning in 1779, he served as a traveling portrait painter.
He was one of ten children born to Martin Görbitz (1738-1796) and Lucia Pytter (1762-1825). His father was a successful merchant in Bergen, Norway. In 1798, he was sent to Copenhagen to develop his artistic talents at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1802, he returned to Bergen, where until 1805 he worked as a portrait painter.
It was adapted into a series of silent animated shorts in 1915 and 1916 by Gaumont Company Production. The strip was also collected in volumes between 1920 and 1921. The comic ended after 25 years with a farewell strip on April 16, 1938. Momand then made a living as a portrait painter; he died on December 5, 1987, at the age of 100.
Once free, he was able to establish himself as an enameller in London, aided by his countryman, the popular Swedish-born portrait painter Michael Dahl, to whom he probably owed a large part of his immediate and considerable success as a painter of miniature portraits.Lundberg, p. 34 Boit was appointed court enameller to William III in March 1696.Lundberg, p.
In Kneller's studio, Dahl both studied and made a living and there he became acquainted with Henry Tilson. Tilson was from a highly respected family and had earlier studied under the Court portrait painter Sir Peter Lely. He was considered one of the most promising painters of Lely's pupils. Dahl and Tilson started to plan a journey around Europe to expand their studies.
James Steuart of Coltness, attributed to David Scougall David Scougall or Scougal (c.1610–c.1680) was a Scottish portrait painter. He is the earliest clearly recorded member of a family of artists, including his son John and grandson George (the latter two often referred to as the "elder" and "younger" Scougall). Other relatives included Patrick Scougal, Bishop of Aberdeen.
Gortzius Geldorp was born in Leuven. The early Flemish biographer Karel van Mander reported that Geldorp first learned to paint from Frans Francken I and later from Frans Pourbus the Elder. Frans Pourbus the Elder was a prominent portrait painter in Flanders. Frans Francken I and Frans Pourbus the Elder were both pupils of Frans Floris, the leading Renaissance painter in Antwerp.
He came from a family of illustrious painters. His father was the portrait painter, José Madrazo. His brothers were the painters Federico de Madrazo and Luis de Madrazo. In what may have been an effort to stand out, he chose architecture over painting; becoming an apprentice at the Palacio Real de Madrid; under the direction of Domingo Lafuente, the official Palace Architect.
She remained in Sweden until 1863, at which time she moved to Germany to study painting, first in Dresden and then in Munich where she met the Danish portrait painter Bertha Wegmann. The two became life-long friends, living together, sharing a studio, and travelling to Italy and Paris, where they lived a number of years before returning to Munich.
In 1830, he began his studies in Rome. He settled in Pest in 1836, having come by way of Vienna and Pressburg.Brief biography @ Képzőművészet Magyarországon He soon became a much sought-after portrait painter. In 1846, he created the Első Magyar Festészeti Akadémiát (First Hungarian Academy of Painting) which, as the name suggests, was the first school in Hungary devoted exclusively to painting.
He was chiefly engaged as a portrait painter, but also painted The Beheading of St. John the Baptist and The Return from Babylon. He wrote a work on The Arts of Design, and the Lombardian Artists from 1777 to 1862 published in Milan in 1862. He was secretary of the Brera Academy at Milan from 1860 until his death in that city.
As his reputation grew, Lucas increasingly mixed in society circles. He became firm friends with the famous society portrait painter John Singer Sargent who was his almost exact contemporary. A portrait of Lucas executed by John Singer Sargent is displayed in Tate Britain. Towards the 1890s John Seymour Lucas executed a number of major works for prestigious public buildings or royal clients.
Works include a glass casting by Michael Janis of the Washington Glass School; paintings by Felrath Hines (former chief conservator of the Hirshhorn Museum), Sylvia Snowden, and Mark Cameron Boyd; photographs by Alexandra Silverthorne, Harlee Little, and Max Hirshfeld; and sculpture by Jae Ko. The portrait of John A. Wilson on display at the main entrance is by renowned portrait painter Simmie Knox.
Criley grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and he attended the Chicago Fine Arts Institute. He began his career as the manager of the Coates House Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri and the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Criley moved to California in 1919, where he joined the art colony in Carmel-by-the-Sea. He became a watercolorist, portrait painter, and wood engraver.
Lodowick Carlell's family tree from his biography by Charles Gray (1905) In 1626 he married Joan Palmer, the daughter of William Palmer, an official in the Royal Parks. A portrait painter, she was one of the first women to practise painting professionally. The couple had accommodation at Petersham Lodge. They moved to Covent Garden in 1654 but returned to Petersham two years later.
In the spring of 1865, the family moved to Boston so that Primus could study art and find work as an artist. He first studied art with Edward Mitchell Bannister, a prominent African-American portrait painter and landscape artist. Primus stayed with Bannister only three months, as he felt the older artist was not interested in promoting the younger artist's work.
Elizabeth Reynolds (1825) Elizabeth Walker (1800–1876) was a British engraver and portrait-painter. She was born Elizabeth Reynolds in London, daughter of engraver Samuel William Reynolds. In 1829, she married Scottish engraver William Walker (1791–1867). She studied engraving under Thomas Goff Lupton, but after a while, decided to devote herself to miniatures (studying under George Clint) rather than engraving.
Brief biography: @ the Communauté d'Agglomération de Niort. Four years later, he was sent to the Villa Medici in Rome, as a pensioner of King Louis XVI, under the sponsorship of Joseph-Marie Vien. He soon obtained a prize at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna for his painting of Erato. Upon returning to France, he became a portrait painter for the aristocracy.
In 1810 following the death of John Hoppner (1758–1810), Owen was appointed portrait painter to the Prince of Wales, later George IV (1762–1830). Unfortunately the prince never gave a sitting and instead Owen had to rely on a number of head sketches by his predecessor Hoppner to create a likeness. In 1813 Owen was offered a knighthood however he declined.
He also created decorative paintings for Nikolaus's new palace at Esterháza. By 1772 he had moved to Rome, where he had been sent to study by Prince Esterházy (he did not return to the Esterházy court, however). He continued to work as a portrait painter, later moving to Florence. He executed a self-portrait which hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
The greatest English enamel portrait painter was Henry Bone (1755–1839). A great collection of his small enamel reproductions of celebrated paintings is in the British Royal Collection.Enamel stayed a consistent and robust alternative to portrait art miniatures during the 18th and 19th centuries. Mica: Mica is a very thin mineral that can be shaved to transparent pieces also known as talc.
In the 1830s Charles Lees, portrait painter is listed as living at 9 Elder Street in Edinburgh's New Town. He died in Edinburgh on 20 February 1880 and was buried with his wife Elizabeth Christie of Baberton, and their children, in Warriston Cemetery. The grave stands on the north side of the main east-west path in the upper section.
Self-portrait at the age of 62Rienk Jelgerhuis (13 April 1729 – 17 April 1806) was a Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman. data Jelgerhuis was born in Leeuwarden. He mainly made his fame as a travelling portrait-painter and has no fewer than 7,763 portraits standing to his credit. He taught his son, Johannes Jelgerhuis, who became an accomplished painter, illustrator and actor.
Abraham de Rijcke was born in Antwerp as the eldest son of Bernaert de Rijckere and Maria Boots. His father was a painter from Kortrijk who was active in Antwerp as a history and portrait painter. Abraham trained with his father along with his younger brother Daniel. He became the guardian of his younger siblings on the death of his father in 1590.
So all the farmer's work was familiar to him: to mow, make hay, bind the sheaves, thresh, winnow, spread manure, plow, sow, etc. All these motifs would return in his later art. In 1833 his father sent him to Cherbourg to study with a portrait painter named Bon Du Mouchel. By 1835 he was studying with Théophile Langlois de Chèvreville,McPherson, H. (2003).
He trained as a painter between 1705 and 1711 with David Hoyer (1667-1720), the court painter in Leipzig. After that, he settled in Hamburg, where he worked as a portrait painter for the Holstein. In 1719, he was called to Denmark to work for the Danish Royal Family. When Christian VI ascended the throne in 1730, Wahl was appointed as court painter.
An already successful artist, he quickly established himself as the leading rococo painter in Sweden. Thanks to his friendship with Carl Gustaf Tessin, he was soon introduced at the Royal Court of Sweden. Lundberg's light and elegant style was a break from the Baroque style of portraiture that had previously predominated. In 1750, he was appointed court portrait painter (hovkonterfejare).
Benjamin Burnell (1769–1828) was a British portrait painter. His works include portraits of Sir Jacob Astley (sometime between 1780 and 1817), Harvey Christian Combe (1800) and Henry Villiers Parker, Viscount Boringdon (1813). The National Portrait Gallery also contains his chalk drawings of William Holwell Carr (1798) and Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (1817), whilst others are in private collections.
Guy-Victor Duperré. Eugène Louis Charpentier, who was born in Paris in 1811, studied under Gérard and Cogniet, and became celebrated as a painter of historical pictures. These were frequently battle-scenes, some of which are at Versailles. He was also a portrait painter, and one of his most successful works was a likeness of Georges Sand, painted in 1839.
Michael Bell (born April 10, 1971), is an American portrait painter, muralist, screenwriter and author . He has painted portraits of John GottiNeedham, C., "Victoria's Secret: She Can Paint" New York Newsday, July 17, 2003.Michaels, M., "Michael Bell More Than An Artist to the Stars" Starpulse Magazine, April 24, 2014. and actors from Mafia dramas The Sopranos, Goodfellas and A Bronx Tale.
Eduard Clemens Fechner (21 August 1799 – 7 February 1861) was a German portrait painter and an etcher. Fechner was born at Gross Särchen, near Bad Muskau, and studied in 1814 at Dresden under Grassi and Retsch. In 1820 he went to Munich, where he improved his style under Stieler. He worked some time for the Duke of Leuchtenberg, and visited Paris in 1826.
He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers. He created cover designs for the Radio Times, most famously, in 1936, one depicting a laughing cat. He was also an accomplished portrait painter, numbering royalty, politicians, actors and many others amongst his sitters. He worked in his large studio at 10 Holland Park, London, the former home and studio of Sir Bernard Partridge.
The portrait is stored in the Frick Collection. It is one of Rembrandt's earliest commissioned pieces and helped launch his career as a portrait painter. Ruts was not a particularly successful merchant, and filed for bankruptcy shortly before he died. The portrait may have been commissioned by his daughter Susanna who together with her husband was quite successful in this line of work.
His wife also died several years after they were married. When William died in 1822 Grantley Hall was inherited by his nephew Fletcher Norton (1798–1875). Lord Fletcher Norton, 3rd Lord Grantley was born in 1798.The Peerage website. Online reference In 1825 he married Charlotte Earle Beechey who was the daughter of Sir William Beechey, the famous portrait painter.
Jacob Holm by Johan Frederik Møller, 1834 Johan Frederik Møller, also J. F. Møller, (20 August 1797 - 14 October 1871) was a Danish painter and photographer. Møller was born in Helsingør. He was trained clerk at the District office in Aarhus, and in 1824 trained as a portrait painter at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Møller primarily painted portraits.
Portrait of a young girl with a coral necklace. Oil on canvas. Epaulettes, was based on the official portrait of King Leopold I by De Winne. Liévin De Winne (Ghent, 24 January 1821 - Brussels, 13 May 1880) was a Belgian portrait painter who painted the official portrait of Leopold I on which the first postage stamp of Belgium was based.
He then worked under Antony van Dyck, before moving to the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens. While in Ruben's workshop van Egmont assisted with the Life of Marie de Medici. In 1628 he became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke. Later that year he moved to Paris where he became a portrait painter for the House of Orleans.
Edith Ann Hamlin (1902–1992) was an American landscape and portrait painter, and muralist. She is known for her social realism murals created while working with the Public Works of Art Project, Federal Art Project and the Section of Painting and Sculpture during the Great Depression era in the United States and for her decorative style paintings of the American desert.
He was a pupil and friend of Jan Toorop. In 1911 he won the silver medal at the Prix de Rome, and went to France and Italy for studies. Lourijsen was an active portrait painter and draftsman and also served from 1912 onwards as a lecturer at the Ignatiuscollege in Amsterdam. He married Henriëtte Straatemeier in 1914 in the village of Domburg.
He went back to Lima in 1906 and opened his own studio. Two years later, he briefly revisited Spain, then worked as an art critic and portrait painter. He also became artistic director for the magazines Prisma, La Ilustración Peruana and Variedades, where he published color reproductions of his major works.Brief biography and works @ "Una Lima Que Se Fue..." (The Lima That Was).
On 8 April 1857, Henry James Richter died at his home at 101 Lisson Grove, London. He was 85. At the time of his death, he was translating a metaphysical work by J. S. Beck, a former student of Kant. His daughter Henrietta Sophia Richter (1813–1896) was a successful amateur portrait painter, who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1842 to 1849.
Art and Politics in Early Modern Germany by Pia Cuneo @ Google Books He was employed by William IV, Duke of Bavaria, and painted a series of portraits of Ladies of the Court for Archduchess Anna, the wife of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria. His son, also named Hans, is known to have been a portrait painter in Munich until at least 1610.
After a year there he, Ignatius and spent two years travelling in Italy, then a year in Switzerland. After detours to Paris and London, he returned to Estonia in 1821. He worked primarily as a portrait painter, both there and in Livonia; primarily Riga. From 1824 to 1830, he was a drawing teacher at the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg.
Kapiton Stepanovich Pavlov (1791 – 1 January 1852) was a Russian portrait painter. A native of Reval (now Tallinn), he was the son of a government official. He graduated from the Academy in St. Petersburg in 1815, after which he went to Ukraine; there, he spent thirty years painting. From 1820 until 1829 he taught painting at the gymnasium in Nezhin.
Vighi was born likely in Argenta, near Ferrara. He is said to have painted a loggetta in the tower of Santa Caterina in the Castello di Ferrara, depicting the then princes and princesses of the House of Este. In Turin, he became the official portrait painter of the Royal family. He traveled to France, Spain, Bohemia, and Saxony in this role.
In 1884 Perry began her formal artistic training with the portrait painter Alfred Quinton Collins. Collins had studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under the guidance of Léon Bonnat. Perry's The Beginner, c. 1885–86, represents the first work she completed under formal guidance. The Beginner echoes Collins’ influences with the sitter's serious gaze, dark background, and emphasis on dramatic lighting.
Portrait of Balthasar III Moretus Jacob van Reesbroeck or Jacob van Rysbroeckalso known as 'Jacobus van Reesbroucq', he signed 'I. V. Reesbroeck ft.'Jacob van Reesbroeck at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (c. 6 December 1620 – 27 February 1704) was a Flemish portrait painter and engraver from Antwerp whose patrons included prominent local families as well as foreign aristocrats and monarchs.
Wouter Crabeth was born in Gouda in 1594, the son of the writer and politician Pieter Woutersz. Crabeth. He was named after his grandfather Wouter Crabeth I, who was a celebrated master glassmaker. Crabeth took an apprenticeship under Cornelis Ketel, who was a well known portrait painter in Amsterdam. It is possible that Crabeth was also a student of Abraham Bloemaert in Utrecht.
In 1790 he removed to Bath, where he practised for many years with success as a portrait-painter. A portrait of Judith, countess of Radnor (at Longford Castle), painted in 1821, is a very good example of his work. He is mentioned by Madame d'Arblay in her Journal as painting a portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales. Sanders died at Clifton in 1825.
When Ingres accepted the commission, he was living in Florence. Although he had experienced success as a portrait painter, his ambition was to establish a reputation in the more prestigious genre of history painting. He went to work with his usual diligence, and spent four years bringing the large canvas to completion. He travelled to Paris with it in October 1824.
Short biography of Oleszkiewicz @ WIEM. He soon became a much sought- after portrait painter, but he also created historical, religious and allegorical works. In regards to the latter, he was a prominent Freemason, eventually becoming part of the upper hierarchy at the lodges in Saint Petersburg and Vilnius, until they were outlawed in 1822. His interests extended to theosophy, mysticism and the paranormal.
Cornelis de Neve was a specialist portrait painter. His first dated works are from 1627. Only a limited number of works are attributed to the artist. As he was part of the circle of portrait painters of the de Critz family, it has been difficult to attribute particular works to de Neve or a member of the de Critz family.
On December 29, 1906 he received the award of the Ginsberg Foundation of the Berlin Academy. By 1917, he had his residence in Berlin, in 1918 he came to Gehlsdorf, a small village near Rostock (today a city district),Rostocker Adressbuch (address book) 1949/50: Artists und Portrait-painter: Wallat, Paul, Rostock-Gehlsdorf, Kaulbachstrasse 3. after 1949 he went to Sønderborg in Denmark.
Dirk Cornelis de Hooch (1613-1651) was a 17th-century Dutch portrait painter, who lived and worked in The Hague (the Netherlands). Born in 1613 at The Hague, he was a son of a Dutch bailiff, Cornelis de Hooch and his wife Jannetje Dirx van Doverschey. He was Gerrit de Hooch's uncle. He painted portraits and was a pupil of painter Pieter Quast.
He is married to British-born writer Katrina Best (née Barton) with whom he has a son and daughter. He is the nephew of Bloomsbury Group sculptor/natural historian Alan Best and great- great nephew of British printmaker Frank Morley-Fletcher. He is a cousin of British portrait painter Glyn Philpot, actors Ronald Colman, Pamela Brown, and British diplomat David Gore-Booth.
They had six children: Grietje (1629), Eglon(~1635), Cornelia (1642), Elisabeth (1645), Pieter (1648), and Alida (1650). Five of the children were baptized in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, not far from where he lived. His son Eglon later became a portrait painter himself. Van Der Neer was barely able to support his family by selling his landscapes, which were not highly valued.
Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel is a 1903 oil on canvas portrait painting by American portrait painter John Singer Sargent of Gretchen Osgood Warren, an American actress, singer, and poet, and her daughter Rachel Warren. The painting measures at and is exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The museum acquired it on 13 May 1964.
Alexis Simon Belle (12 January 1674 – 21 November 1734) was a French portrait painter, known for his portraits of the French and Jacobite nobility. As a portrait artist, Belle's style followed that of his master François de Troy, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and Nicolas de Largillière. He was the master of the painter Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot Aved (1702–1766).Alexis Simon Belle at getty.
The key Enlightenment figure David Hume, painted by his friend Allan Ramsay (1766) John Alexander was born in Aberdeen and was a great grandson of portrait painter George Jamesone. He studied in London and Rome, returning to Scotland about 1720.Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, p. 330. His younger contemporary William Mossman (1700–1771) was also from Aberdeen and studied in Rome.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Bohnen attended the University of Minnesota, where he was a cheerleader. He was the son of Arthur Bohnen, a portrait painter. The family was financially hard-pressed during his youth. After graduating in 1923 with a B.A., Roman served his acting apprenticeship in theater companies in St. Paul and Chicago, eventually spending five years with the Goodman Theatre.
Garbo began working as a portrait painter in 1941 and also worked as a writer and lecturer. In 1941, he joined the military with the coming of World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces where he achieved the rank of lieutenant. Garbo married Rhoda Locke on April 15, 1942. The couple's son and only child is named Mickey.
His wife was the Lady Frainy Bomanji (14 September 1893 – 1986) also known as Lady Harrogate and his adopted daughter Mehroo, a niece of Lady Bomanji (died 12 July 2012). Lady Bomanji founded The Friends Of The Festival and was its president (1971-1973). Notable portrait painter Trevor Stubley's portrait of Lady Bomanji is held by Sheffield City Art Gallery..
Johann Zoffany was a German-born painter who had become a successful portrait painter in London. Among his principal patrons were the royal family. Queen Charlotte had sent Zoffany to Florence where he had agreed to paint the Tribuna of the Uffizi.Tribuna of the Uffizi, Royal Collection, accessed April 2010 Zoffany stayed seven years and the resulting painting was not well received.
Subsequently, she starred in The Mother and the Whore in 1973, directed by Jean Eustache. A longtime photographer, she began working for Cahiers du Cinéma in 1986 as a portrait painter, and photography became her main activity. In 2008, she began studying the works of her father, Romain Weingarten, poet and playwright. Wiengarten was married to Benjamin Baltimore from 1968 to 1978.
This membership brought van Rysselberghe in contact with other radical artists, such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who had exhibited in Les XX in 1884. His influence as a portrait painter can be seen in van Rysselberghe's portrait of Octave Maus as a dandy (1885). Van Rysselberghe would paint several portraits of Octave Maus and his wife between 1883 and 1890.
Self portrait (c. 1852) William Davis (1812–1873) was an Irish artist, and part of a group of Liverpool based artists who were influenced by the Pre- Raphaelite style of painting. He was born in Dublin, received his artistic education there and begun his career as a portrait painter. He moved to Liverpool in 1842 and began to exhibit in the Liverpool Academy.
Van der Vaart was born in Haarlem, where he trained with Thomas Wijck. Van der Vaart is documented from 1674 onwards in London. Here he worked in the workshop of another Dutch immigrant, Willem Wissing, who was a pupil and former collaborator of the court portrait painter Sir Peter Lely. Van der Vaart painted draperies and landscapes in the portraits of Wissing.
Battle between Turkish and Christian horsemen He was born into an artistic family in Antwerp. His father Emanuel Adriaenssen was a prominent lutenist and composer. His older brother Alexander Adriaenssen was a successful painter specializing in still lifes and his younger brother Niclaes Adriaenssen was a portrait painter. He later became the father-in-law of the painter Jan de Momper.

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