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Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. [1] He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. [2] He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W ...
The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...
Samuel Scott (1702–1770) – British landscape painter; James Seymour (c.1702–1752) – English painter especially of equestrian art; William Hoare (c.1707–1792) – English painter especially of pastels; Francis Hayman (1708–1776) – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy
In the Iron Age, a new art style arrived as Celtic culture and spread across the British isles. Though metalwork, especially gold ornaments, was still important, stone and most likely wood were also used. [16] This style continued into the Roman period, beginning in the 1st century BC, and found a renaissance in the Medieval period.
Porter, who began his career as a figure painter, eventually devoted himself to portraiture entirely. [4] He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1878, and a full academician in 1880. [5] [6] Porter opened his studio, at 3 Washington Square North, [3] in New York in 1880. [1] Today, he is best known for his ...
The following year, the first provincial exhibition of works by NSA members was opened by the Mayor on 10 February at the Museum and Art Gallery, Burton on Trent. [9] In April, a second such exhibition was opened in Worthing ; it was greeted with lukewarm praise in the local press. [ 10 ]
Melinda Camber Porter (18 September 1953 – 9 October 2008) [1] was a British artist, author, poet, journalist and filmmaker, a modernist who worked in oils, watercolor and ink. She was known for combining the mediums of film, painting and writing.
Self portrait of Robert Ker Porter. Sir Robert Ker Porter, KCH (1777–1842) was a Scottish artist, author, diplomat and traveller. Known today for his accounts of his travels in Russia, Spain, Portugal and Persia, he was one of the earliest panorama painters in Britain, was appointed historical painter to Tsar Alexander I of Russia and served as British consul in Venezuela.