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Paul Emmert (1826–1867), Swiss/American artist and print-maker; Lydia Field Emmet (1866–1952), American portrait painter; Rosalie Emslie (1891–1977), English landscape and portrait painter; Cornelis Engebrechtsz (1462–1527), Dutch painter; Florence Engelbach (1872–1951), English portrait and landscape painter
Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue, often dominated compositions by artists associated with the style. [1]
In 1872, he began his mostly self-taught career as a portrait artist in Buffalo, New York. [4] He created 47 landscape paintings during an 1873 expedition to Colorado which were chosen to be part of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. [4] [5] He spent 1878 and 1879 painting in Pont-Aven, Brittany, alongside Barbizon School painters. [4]
Earl probably trained his son, painter Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, [3] and was an influence on his nephew Augustus Earle who is reputed to have been the first European artist to have visited all five continents. Ralph's brother James Earl (1761–1796) was also a portrait painter. [4] He died in Bolton, Connecticut, on August 16, 1801, at age 50.
Self-portrait of John Linnell (c.1860) John Linnell (16 June 1792 – 20 January 1882) was an English engraver, and portrait and landscape painter. He was a naturalist and a rival to the artist John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer.
Ambrose McEvoy; a caricature portrait (1919), by Francis Derwent Wood, on Chelsea Arts Club letterhead paper . McEvoy was born and baptised in Crudwell, Wiltshire, in 1877, the son of Charles Ambrose McEvoy, a Scottish engineer, and his wife Mary Jane, although his parents’ address was given as 3 Carlisle Street, Soho Square, London. [1]
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [1] [2] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.
In his times, Pliny complained of the declining state of Roman portrait art, "The painting of portraits which used to transmit through the ages the accurate likenesses of people, has entirely gone out…Indolence has destroyed the arts." [22] [23] These full-face portraits from Roman Egypt are fortunate exceptions. They present a somewhat ...