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George Augustus Baker (March 19, 1821 – April 2, 1880) was an American portrait painter.. George Augustus Baker was born on March 19, 1821 in New York City. His artistic education was begun by his father George Augustus Baker, Sr. (1760-1847), an artist of merit, and his first professional years were devoted to the then popular miniatures on ivory; but he soon became a portrait painter of ...
Augusta Savage (born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. [2] She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts. [3]
George Augustus Williams was born on 4 May 1814 in London. He was the third son of the painter Edward Williams (1781–1855) and Ann Hildebrandt (c.1780–1851), and a member of the Williams family of painters, who were related to such famous artists as James Ward, R.A. and George Morland. His father was a well-known landscape artist, who ...
George Augustus Mortimer Leigh Holmes (c. 1826 – 30 March 1911), known as George Augustus Holmes, was an English artist. Holmes worked in oils, and his subjects are mostly scenes of everyday rural life. [ 1 ]
Augustus Goodyear Heaton (April 28, 1844 – October 11, 1930) [1] [2] was an American artist, author [3] and leading numismatist.He is best known for his painting The Recall of Columbus and among coin collectors for writing A Treatise on Coinage of the United States Branch Mints, which introduced numismatists to mint marks.
Born in Tenby, at 11, 12 or 13 The Esplanade, now known as The Belgrave Hotel, Pembrokeshire, John was the younger son and third of four children. [2] His father was Edwin William John, a Welsh solicitor; his mother, Augusta Smith (1848–1884), from a long line of Sussex master plumbers, [3] died when he was six, but not before inculcating a love of drawing in both Augustus and his older ...
The List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...
George Augustus Wallis (Merton, Surrey, 1761 - Florence, 1847) was an English painter, active in Italy. [ 1 ] Wallis began his career as a protégé of George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick , a serious patron of the arts who supported the artist financially from at least 1787. [ 2 ]