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Olivier was born in Battle, East Sussex, England, where his father Henry Arnould Olivier was a clergyman.His brothers were Henry (1850–1935), who had a military career, ending as a colonel; [1] Sydney (the father of Noël and Daphne), who became Governor of Jamaica and later Secretary of State for India; and Gerard (1869–1939), a clergyman (the father of Laurence Olivier). [2]
Léon Printemps was born in Paris to a family which originally hailed from Lille. From an early age he was attracted to painting. His uncle, the sculptor Jules Printemps, a student of François Jouffroy at the École nationale des Beaux-Arts, supported his vocation and prepared him for the entrance examination to this school.
Alain J. Picard (born April 30, 1974) is an American figurative, landscape, and portrait pastel painter, art instructor, and writer.He resides in Southbury, Connecticut. [1] [2] He has lectured and demonstrated for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Arts Club in New York City, Vose Galleries in Boston, MA, the International Association of Pastel Societies Convention in Albuquerque ...
Valerius de Saedeleer or Valerius De Saedeleer [1] [2] (4 August 1867 – 16 September 1941) was a Belgian landscape painter, whose works are informed by a Symbolist and mystic-religious sensitivity and the traditions of 16th-century Flemish landscape painting. He was one of the main figures in the so-called first School of Latem which in the ...
Bryan Organ (born 31 August 1935 [1] in Leicester) [2] is a British artist considered one of the leading and most innovative English portrait painters of the 20th century. His paintings have included portraits of prominent public figures and of members of the British royal family. [3]
After Borglum's death, he and others founded the Silvermine Guild of Artists. [4] At the time of his death, he was known as the dean of the group. [3] [6] His works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [10] the Phoenix Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, [11] the Akron Art Museum, [12] and the East Hampton Historical Society. [13]
Lake Avernus I (c. 1765). Richard Wilson RA (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was an influential Welsh landscape painter, who worked in Britain and Italy.With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake [1] [2] and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to ...
The theory of 'En plein air' painting is credited to Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819), first expounded in a treatise entitled Reflections and Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (1800), [2] where he developed the concept of landscape portraiture by which the artist paints directly onto canvas in situ within the ...