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Camille Pissarro is a pivotal character in the historical fiction novels, The Dream Collector, Books I & II by R.w. Meek, depicting his major role among the Impressionists and his open-mindedness toward the Post-Impressionist art of George Seurat, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh.
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (/ k ə ˈ s æ t /; May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) [1] was an American painter and printmaker. [2] She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), and lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists.
Edgar Degas (UK: / ˈ d eɪ ɡ ɑː /, US: / d eɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː, d ə ˈ ɡ ɑː /; [1] [2] born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
Hidari Jingorō (左甚五郎, fl. 1596–1644), Japanese artist, possibly fictitious; Kaii Higashiyama (東山魁夷, 1908–1999), Japanese artist and writer; Amelia Robertson Hill (1821–1904), Scottish artist and sculptor; David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), Scottish painter and illustrator; Derek Hill (1916–2000), English/Irish painter
Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. [3] He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet (1800–1871) and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet (1805–1857), both of them second-generation Parisians.
Dorothea Braby (1909–1987), English artist and illustrator; John Brack (1920–1999), Australian painter; Robert Brackman (1898–1980), American artist and teacher; Marie Bracquemond (1841–1916), French impressionist painter; Dorothy Bradford (1918–2008), English painter and print-maker; Dorothy Elizabeth Bradford (1897–1986), English ...
Mabel Lee Hankey (1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory; Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer; J M Balliol Salmon (1868–1953) – British painter; Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954 ...