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William Oliver Williams (1823–1901) [1] was an English figurative and genre artist based in London who specialised in paintings of young women. [2] [3] He used the professional name William Oliver. [1] He has sometimes been mistakenly referred to as 'William Oliver the Younger' or 'William Oliver II'. [4]
García II (1041/April 1043 [1] – 22 March 1090), King of Galicia, [a] was the youngest of the three sons and heirs of Ferdinand I, King of Castile and León, and Sancha of León, whose Leonese inheritance included the lands García would be given.
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild.
William Oliver died in 1853 and his widow remarried in, or around, 1856 a John Sedgewick but continued to exhibit works as Oliver until her death at Great Berkhamsted in 1885. [2] [1] Her later works included Rhine landscapes and scenes of Venice. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds examples of her work. [4]
Joan-Josep Tharrats (1918–2001), abstract artist and member of Dau al Set; Joan Brossa (1919–1998), poet, playwright, graphic designer and visual artist; Joan Colom (1921–2017), photographer; Manuel Carnicer i Fajó (1922–1998), hyperrealist colour pencil artist; Albert Ràfols-Casamada (1923–2009), artist
Oliver's friend and artist, Mary Kochtitzky, painted Oliver's design, and her husband, now a former state senator, drafted the legislative bill. On March 17, 1909, Oliver's nephew, Senator Arthur L. Oliver, introduced the bill to the Missouri Senate. The bill passed twenty four to one, but failed to pass in the House of Representatives. [2]
His father, who died in Chichester, Sussex, in 1756, is revealed in letters to his son in America as a man of some property. [ 5 ] He was well trained as a portrait painter, and had influential connections, and between 1720 and 1726 he produced portrait plates of Queen Anne , George I , the Earl of Derby , Lord Wilmington , Lord Carteret , Lord ...
William Oliver (artist, born 1823) (1823–1901), English figurative and genre painter William Oliver (songwriter) (1800–1848), Newcastle upon Tyne–born songwriter W. H. Oliver (William Hosking Oliver, 1925–2015), New Zealand writer and poet