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1884 in art

Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter, especially of oriental themes (born 1853)

Albert Eide Parr

He was born in Bergen, was married to painter Ella Hage Hanssen, and the couple emigrated to the United States in 1926.

Andrew Lawrenceson Smith

Andrew Lawrenceson Smith also known as Anders Lauritzen Smith (born in Braco ca. 1620, dead ca. 1694 in Stavanger) was a Scottish craftsman, woodcutter and painter.

Angelica Schuyler Church

She also befriended and sponsored emigre American painter John Trumbull, who went on to create some of the most famous paintings of the Revolutionary War era.

Antonio Begarelli

He was born at Modena, and is said to have been instructed by Giovanni dell'Abbate, the father of the painter Niccolò.

Ca' Rezzonico

In the 1880s, it became the home of the painter Robert Barrett Browning, whose father Robert Browning, the poet, died in his apartment on the mezzanine floor in 1889.

Cambrian Pottery

Through its history, the Cambrian employed some notable artists, such as Thomas Baxter, Thomas Pardoe, William Pollard, Thomas Rothwell (1740-1807) and William Weston Young.

Castet-Arrouy

The chancel was painted with murals by the painter Paul Noël Lasseran in 1901.

Cockx

Jan Cockx (1891–1976), Belgian painter perhaps best known for landscapes, still life and harbor scenes

Conchoid of Dürer

It was first described by the German painter and mathematician Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) in his book Underweysung der Messung (S. 38), calling it Ein muschellini.

David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Debacq

Charles-Alexandre Debacq (1804-1863), a French historical and portrait painter.

Division of Dobell

The division was created in 1984 and is named for Sir William Dobell, the painter.

Ehrensvärd

Carl August Ehrensvärd (1745–1800), Swedish naval officer, painter, author, and neo-classical architect

Eishun

Baiōken Eishun, 18th century ukiyo-e painter and print artist

Elizabeth McDonald

Elizabeth McDonald (born 1985, Plano, Texas, United States) is an American painter.

Emsley

Paul Emsley (born 1947), South African painter now resident in Bradford-upon-Avon, Wiltshire, England

Eugen Napoleon Neureuther

As a painter, he may be judged by "The Pastor's Daughter of Taubenhain," in the Pinakothek, Munich, and six canvases in the Schack Gallery at Munich.

Foros Timis Ston Greco

The title is an allusion to the man who inspired the composition, Dominikos Theotokópoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, 1541–1614), the Cretan-born painter and sculptor better known as El Greco.

Franz Anatol Wyss

Franz Anatol Wyss (born Fulenbach, May 1, 1940) is a Swiss painter.

George Bernard O'Neill

O' Neill's artistic manner was similar to that of Thomas Webster and Frederick Daniel Hardy.

George Keate

There are portraits of the mother by Angelica Kauffman and John Russell, R.A. She died 8 January 1850, and was buried in her husband's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery.

Gérard de Cortanze

He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).

Gibbes Museum of Art

The museum's collections include the work of numerous artists with connections to Charleston; among them are Henrietta Johnston, Mary Roberts, Charles Fraser, and Jeremiah Theus.

Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis

Ambrogio, who was born in Preda, gained a reputation as a portraitist, including as a painter of miniatures, for the court of Ludovico Sforza.

Harriet Mellon

She was widely celebrated for her beauty, and was painted by George Romney and Sir Thomas Lawrence.

IJzertoren

The museum houses the large painting The Golden Canvass of Flanders (“Het Gulden Doek van Vlaanderen”) by Dutch-born Belgian painter Henry Luyten.

Indi Script Records

Indi Script Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Mateus Kotok, a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and painter born in Ogden, Utah, in 1971.

Jacob Backer

Jacob de Backer (c. 1555–c. 1585), Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman

Jane Porter

Jane and Anna Maria Porter, who both lived in London and Surrey later on, were sisters of Sir Robert Ker Porter, the historical painter.

Johann Franz Ermels

Johann Franz Ermels (1641-1693), a German painter and engraver, a pupil of Holtzman, was born in Reilkirch.

Johannes Zick

Johannes (Johann) Zick (January 10, 1702 – March 4, 1762) was a German painter of frescoes in southern Germany and active during the Baroque period.

John Kane

The next year, however, Kane found a champion in painter–juror Andrew Dasburg, who persuaded the jury to accept Kane’s Scene in the Scottish Highlands (Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh).

John Keyse Sherwin

Sherwin was sent to study in London, first under John Astley, and then for three years under Francesco Bartolozzi – for whom he is believed to have executed a large portion of the plate of Clytie, after Annibale Carracci, published as the work of his master.

John Runciman

Born in Edinburgh, he was the younger brother of the better-known painter Alexander Runciman.

John Wieners

At the Guggenheim Museum in 1999, Wieners gave one of his last public readings, celebrating an exhibit by the painter Francesco Clemente.

Ljubomir Ivanović

Studied painting and drawing in the Serbian painter's and draughtsman's school of Kyril Kutlik, and later Beta Vukanović.

Max Cullen

He began his career as a painter and sculptor after training at Sydney's National Art School in 1956 and later studied at the Julian Ashton Art School with Brett Whiteley in 1959.

Nirakazhcha

Nirakazhcha tells the story of an Italian painter who visits Kerala to recreate the magnificent Raja Ravi Varma paintings.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Piers Wardle

Wardle was perhaps the first British painter to experiment artistically with the ideas of Benoit Mandelbrot and other 'chaos' mathematicians, exploring in his work how 'the complexity associated with natural and organic forms can be generated, in appearance at least, by simple rules' (from Piers Wardle's catalogue for an exhibition held at the Pomeroy Purdy Gallery in April 1989).

Pietro Pezzati

Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati (1902 - 1993), American portrait painter

Porter College

The provosts of the college have included the writer James B. Hall, the painter and psychologist Pavel Machotka, filmmaker Eli Hollander and composer David Cope.

Qibao

The town was also once the residence of the famous painter Zhang Chongren, a friend of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, on whom the character Chang Chong-Chen from "The Adventures of Tintin" was based.

Savonnerie manufactory

The children were taught the art of design as well, a painter from the Académie coming once a month to inspect their projects.

Schloss Esterházy

The unique frescoes of the hall originate from that 17th century and are attributed to the painter Carpoforo Tencalla.

Sophia Elisabet Brenner

In 1680, she married the miniaturist painter Elias Brenner and became the first Swedish salon hostess; in her salon, there gathered the Swedish elite such as Aurora Königsmarck, the painter Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, the poet Johan Runius and Urban Hjärne (who brought to an end the legal persecution of witches).

Von der Decken

Leopold von der Decken (1895–1947), changed his name to John Decker, painter in Los Angeles, grandson of Georg von der Decken

Weinfeld

Yocheved Weinfeld (born 1947), a Poland-born Israeli female painter

Werner Heldt

Werner Heldt (1904–54) was a German painter.


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