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French printer, lithographer and art critic. [+]
Painter, engraver, illustrator [+]
He was active in Paris, ca. 1800 [+]
French engraver and painter, of which the Prado Museum has only one engraving. [+]
Engraver, elder brother of Nicolas de Larmessin II. His father was a libraire; he himself was apprenticed to Jean Mathieu in 1647. Married 1654 the daughter of the print publisher Pierre Bertrand of t [+]
Miniaturist, painter and portrait draftsman, active in Paris between 1781 - 1798 ( (E. Bénézit, Dictionaire, 1976, v. 4, p. 461; y http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/ [+]
Musician and engraver, inventor of the fissionotrazo. His studio in Paris was established at Cloitre St Honoré Rue St Honoré en face l'oratoire nº. 45 (in 1805, in no. 152)His solo work is documented [+]
Draftsman, miniaturist, draftsman, painter and engraver who used the fisionotrazo. From 1787 to 1789 he worked in collaboration with Gilles Louis Chrétien (1754-1811). (E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire, 1976, [+]
He was born into a family of artists and his father, David Teniers "the Elder", was his first master; indeed, he is referred to by scholars as "David Teniers II". He joined the Guild of St Luke in 163 [+]
No other 17th-century European painter combined artistic talent, social and economic success and a high cultural level like Rubens. Though primarily a painter, he also made numerous designs for prints [+]
After studying with his father, painter Antoine Ranc, he moved to Paris in 1697 to complete his training with Hyacinthe Rigaud, and then continued as Rigaud's collaborator. He entered the Royal Academ [+]
Poussin is the most important 17th-century French painter and the absolute master of classicism. He trained in the region where he was born with an artist of the final stage of Mannerism and later in [+]
Murillo was apparently a calm and sweet natured man, a fact which might explain some aspects of his personal artistic expression. Born into a family of many siblings, he was orphaned as a child and ta [+]
As the founder of a line of outstanding 19th-century Spanish artists, José de Madrazo y Agudo is one of the great names in Spanish neoclassicism. His work, his preeminent position in Spanish society a [+]
The artist trained in his place of birth (initially as a patissier, it seems). Around 1617 he went to Rome and shortly afterwards left for Naples, where he studied under Goffredo Wals for two years or [+]
The artist was born in a small town in the Duchy of Lorraine, an independent territory in the Germanic Holy Roman Empire, a century and a half before it became part of France. A baker's son, he is doc [+]
The son of the painter René-Antoine Houasse, a disciple of Le Brun, he learned from his father and at the Paris Academy, where he received a full training. He must have spent time in Italy between 169 [+]
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal has passed into posterity as one of 19th-century Spain’s greatest masters. The stature of his art is accompanied by the memory of an enormous international success equaled onl [+]