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Category Archives: Artists A-Z
Edith Boyd | The Green Parasol and Nasturtiums
Australian artist, dramatist, and painter, Edith Susan Gerard Anderson (later, Edith Susan Boyd) was born on 16 February, 1880, in Brisbane, Queensland. She was the daughter of John Gerard Anderson, the head of the Department of Public Instruction, and Edith … Continue reading
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Tagged Belle Époque era, Impressionist Art
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Penleigh Boyd | From Penleigh House
British born Australian landscape artist, Theodore Penleigh Boyd was born on 15 August, 1890, at Penleigh House, Westbury, Wiltshire in England. Penleigh Boyd was a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty and he received his artistic training from his artist … Continue reading
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Meet Minnie | The Mother of the Boyd Dynasty
Australian artist Emma Minnie Boyd was born Emma Minnie à Beckett, on 23 November, 1858. She is part of the artistic Boyd dynasty, which began with Emma and her husband Arthur Merric and their art work, which influenced their children … Continue reading
Arthur Merric | The Father of the Boyd Dynasty
Australia’s famous Boyd family of artists began with distinguised watercolourist, Arthur Merric Boyd I (or Senior), one of twelve children, born on 19 March 1862 in Opoho, Dunedin, New Zealand; son of Captain John Theodore Thomas Boyd (1825–1891), formerly of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Merric Boyd, Australian artists, Boyd family
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Time to Escape to the Country
[The Pet Lamb wood on panel] German painter Adolf Eberle was born in Munich, on 11 January, 1843. His father, Robert Eberle, was also a painter. Adolf Eberle studied under Karl von Piloty at the Academy of Fine Arts, in … Continue reading
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Maurice Utrillo | The Master of Art in Montmartre
French artist Maurice Utrillo was born Maurice Valadon, on Christmas night, 25 December, 1883, at 3 Rue la Poteau, next door to the Church of Notre-Dame de Cligancourt. in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France. Utrillo was the illegitimate son … Continue reading
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Abel’s Able Artwork
Biblis changee en souce (Ovid Metamorphoses IX) French painter Alexandre-Denis-Abel de Pujol or Abel de Pujol was born on 30 January, 1785 in Valenciennes, France. The illegitimate son and only child of the nobleman Alexandre-Denis-Joseph Mortry de Pujol, Baron de … Continue reading
I Don’t Work, I Don’t Do Anything, But I Am Indispensable
“I Don’t Work, I Don’t Do Anything, But I am Indispensable“, is how Russian art critic, patron, and ballet impresario, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, described himself. Sergei Diaghilev was born on 19 March, 1872, in Selishchi. His mother died soon after … Continue reading
So Tell me, Did she read the name I carved with many vows?
Victorian English artist William Maw Egley was born in London, in 1826. He was the son of miniaturist artist William Egley, who was young Egley’s first tutor. Egley’s early works were illustrations of literary subjects typical of the period, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Pre-Raphaelites, The Clique
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Rayonism + Designs for the Ballets Russes | The Work of Mikhail Larionov
Avant-garde Russian painter Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was born at Tiraspol, near Odessa, in the Russian Empire on June 3, 1881. In 1898, Larionov entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan and Valentin Serov. However, he … Continue reading
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Tagged Ballets Russes, Near-abstract Art, Rayonism, Russian art
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Yasemeen, “I Wontner Now”
Yasemeen from Arabian Nights (1919) English portrait painter William Clarke Wontner was born in Stockwell, Surrey, on 17 January 1857. Wontner received his earliest art education from his father, William Hoff Wontner, an architect, designer and renderer. Under his father’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Classicism, Arabian Nights, Greco-Roman art style, Romanticism
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A Trail Through Antiquity With Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Dutch-born painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, was born Lourens Alma Tadema, on 8 January, 1836, in Dronryp, in the northern province of Friesland, in the Netherlands. At the age of two, the Tadema family moved to the nearby city of Leeuwarden, … Continue reading
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Young Advice for Young Illustrators
Sea-landscape and figure illustrator Cliff Young was born in New Waterford, Ohio in 1905 and died in 1985. He studied at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Grand Central School of Art with Harvey Dunn; the Art Institute of Chicago with … Continue reading
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Here’s a Foray of Doré | From Greek Mythology to Arthurian Legends
French artist, print-maker, illustrator and sculptor Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was born in Strasbourg, France, on 6 January, 1832. At the age of 12, Gustave Doré began carving in cement. Three years later, at the age of 15, Doré … Continue reading
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