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[18] [nb 4] Known as "the Lady Landseer" for her animal paintings, [19] she was a watercolourist, [3] [8] painter in oils, [20] and illustrator. [21] Her professional signature was FCF or Frances Fairman, but in newspapers she was usually named as Frances C. Fairman. She had membership of the Society of Lady Artists. [20]
His paternal grandfather was Paul Philip Barraud [3] an eminent chronometer maker in Cornhill, and his maternal grandfather, Thomas Hull, a miniature painter. The family was of French Huguenot origin that had come over to England at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His elder brother William Barraud became a notable animal ...
An animalier (/ ˌ æ n ɪ m ə ˈ l ɪər, ˈ æ n ɪ m ə l ɪər /, UK also / ˌ æ n ɪ ˈ m æ l i eɪ /) is an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of animals. "Animal painter" is the more general term for earlier artists.
An animal painter is an artist who specialises in (or is known for their skill in) the portrayal of animals. The OED dates the first express use of the term "animal painter" to the mid-18th century: by English physician , naturalist and writer John Berkenhout (1726–1791). [ 2 ]
Weekes was born in Pimlico, London, England [3] to a prominent artistic family: the youngest of five children, [4] [5] his father, Henry Weekes, Sr. (1807–1877), was a sculptor and Royal Academician; [6] his brother, Henry, Jr. (fl. 1850–1884), was also a genre painter known for his animal studies; [4] [7] and his brother, Frederick (1833–1920), was an artist and expert on medieval ...
Pieter Boel after Erasmus Quellinus. Pieter Boel or Peeter Boel [1] (baptized on 10 October 1622 – 3 September 1674) was a Flemish painter, printmaker and tapestry designer. He specialised in lavish still lifes and animal paintings.
Born in Clapham to parents James and Emma, [4] Brightwell studied at Lambeth School of Art in London and visited the Zoological Gardens. [5] He became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1906 as well as a member of the Marine Biological Association in 1922 and was commissioned by both and other institutions to make scientific drawings of various creatures including extinct animals.
Jacques-Laurent Agasse (April 24, 1767 – December 27, 1849) was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland. Born at Geneva , Agasse studied in the public art school of that city. Before he turned twenty he went to Paris to study in veterinary school to make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of horses and other animals.