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Biography. Born on 28 October 1832 in Hulerød near Hornbæk in northern Zealand, Caroline Hammer was the daughter of the district commissioner and naval hero Frederik Abel Hammer (1791–1877) and Elisabeth Kirstine Lemvigh (1794–1849). She was the second-last child in a family of nine. After the death of her mother in 1849, the family moved ...
Thomas Eakins. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins ( / ˈeɪkɪnz /; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, [ 1] sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists. [ 2][ 3] For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health ...
She started doing family photographs and child portraits for a pastime. Then she continued her self-taught art with portraits and landscapes, nevertheless Lotte found herself particularly engrossed through the years, for portraying the physical development of her son with a collection of naturist photographs. Lotte Herrlich's intense interest ...
Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. [ 1] A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical. [ 1] Frequently, portraits are commissioned for special occasions, such as weddings, school events, or ...
Erika Velez, Psy.D., a licensed child and teen psychologist and parenting coach in Miami, says kids often cite the more mundane details of family trips, like sharing meals or morning cuddles in a ...
Robert Cornelius (/ k ɔːr ˈ n iː l i ə s /; March 1, 1809 [1] – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography.His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States, and a very important achievement for self-portraiture.
40.5 cm × 32.5 cm (15.9 in × 12.8 in) Location. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Vincent van Gogh enjoyed making Paintings of Children. He once said that it's the only thing that "excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else." Painting children, in particular represented rebirth and the infinite.
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery Hermitage Museum, Russia. Lucas Cranach the Younger (German: Lucas Cranach der Jüngere [ˈluːkas ˈkʁaːnax deːɐ̯ ˈjʏŋəʁə]; October 4, 1515 – January 25, 1586) was a German Renaissance painter and portraitist, the son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and brother of Hans Cranach.