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Painter, engraver, illustrator [+]
He was active in Paris, ca. 1800 [+]
French engraver and painter, of which the Prado Museum has only one engraving. [+]
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 [+]
He was born to a family of Italian artists. His father, Fabricio, was one of the painters who came to Spain to work at El Escorial and later married a Spanish woman. His grandfather, Giovanni Battista [+]
The son of José Camarón Bonanat and brother of Manuel -both painters- he studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia and later obtained a pension to continue his studies in rome. When [+]
He was from a family of artists of Aragonese origin and the son of baroque sculptor Nicolás Camarón. He studied with his father, and also in Valencia. He garnered some success and was appointed Academ [+]
He must have been quite young when he arrived in Madrid and became a disciple of Carreño, as he is mentioned as a "master painter" living in Carreño's house in 1666. Among his very few known works are [+]
Initially a pupil of his father and subsequently of François Lemoine, Boucher also worked in the studio of the engraver Jean-François Cars and later for Jean de Jullienne, engraving a great many of Wa [+]