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The Staithes group or Staithes School was an art colony of 19th-century painters based in the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes. [ 1 ] Inspired by French Impressionists such as Monet , Cézanne and Renoir , the group of about 25 artists worked together in plein air , in oil or watercolour .
An art commune is a communal living situation colony where collective art is produced as a function of the group's activities. Contemporary art communes are scattered around the world, yet frequently aloof to widespread attention due to displeasure or discomfort with mainstream society.
The Kirkcudbright Artists’ Colony was an artists’ community that existed approximately between 1880 and 1980 in Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway. [1] The town attracted many of the country’s leading artists such as E A Hornel, William Mouncey, William Stewart MacGeorge, Charles Oppenheimer, Jessie M King, E A Taylor and S J Peploe.
February 16 – Edme Quenedey des Ricets, French miniature painter and engraver (born 1756) February 23 – Jan Piotr Norblin, French-born Polish painter and engraver (born 1740) February 28 – Gaspare Landi, Italian Neoclassical painter (born 1756) [5] April 10 – Johann Jakob Biedermann, Swiss painter and etcher (born 1763) May 11 ...
This is a list of women artists who were born in England or whose works are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
11 February – Henry Willis, organ builder (born 1821) [21] 21 February – Henry Peach Robinson, photographer (born 1830) 6 March – John Jabez Edwin Mayall, photographer (born 1813; 31 March – Sir John Stainer, composer and organist (born 1840) [22] 3 April – Richard D'Oyly Carte, theatrical impresario (born 1844) [23] 13 April – Sir ...
This is a list of notable people from Watford, a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of central London. People on this list may have been born in Watford or resided there for a significant period of time.
This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, the Borough of Woking in England, who have a Wikipedia page. Woking is a town and borough in Surrey , around 23 mi (37 km) southwest of central London.