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Ilse Bing (1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. [49] Gerda Taro (1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War, becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline. [50]
Organ Player and Singing Girl: 1898 Eugène Atget: Paris, France Gelatin silver print [s 2] Portrait of Emil Racoviță: 1899 Louis Boutan: Banyuls-sur-Mer, France Glass plate First underwater portrait, and the first taken by a camera designed for underwater photography. [28] [s 4]
Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane, Set 72157624352814990, ID 4731908937, Original title Portrait of a young woman, ca. 1856-1900. File usage The following page uses this file:
The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine. Doyle was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of supernatural phenomena.
Charles Bird King (1785–1862), portrait painter; James Frothingham (1786–1864), painter; John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821), America's first genre painter; Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864), painter; Sarah Goodridge (1788–1853), painter of miniatures; Matthew Harris Jouett (1788–1827), portrait artist; William Edward West (1788–1859 ...
An iconic Gibson Girl portrait by its creator, Charles Dana Gibson, circa 1891. The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. [1]
Gallery of Beauties The Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1]
Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (Dutch: Kinderen op hun mooist: het kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700), was an exhibition held jointly by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, over several months in 2000–2001. [1]