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Thomas Sully (June 19, 1783 – November 5, 1872) was an English-American portrait painter. He was born in England, became a naturalized American citizen in 1809, and lived most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including in the Thomas Sully Residence.
April 12 – Johann Melchior Kambly, Swiss sculptor who took part in the development of the architectural style of Frederician Rococo (born 1718) April 14 – Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver (born 1707) [4] May 26 – Anna Maria Hilfeling, Swedish portrait miniaturist artist (born 1713)
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (6 September 1761 – 1 November 1818) was a French Neoclassical painter. She was born in Lyon on 6 September 1761. Capet came from a modest background and her previous background and artistic training is unknown, but in 1781 she became the pupil of the French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard in Paris.
Thomas Gainsborough, The Morning Walk (portrait of Mr and Mrs William Hallett), 1785 Fashion in the twenty years between 1775 and 1795 in Western culture became simpler and less elaborate. These changes were a result of emerging modern ideals of selfhood, [ 1 ] the declining fashionability of highly elaborate Rococo styles, and the widespread ...
Anna Rosina was born into a family of painters of Polish noble origin in Berlin. [1] Her mother was Maria Elizabeth Kahl from Pomerania.Her father, Georg Lisiewski (1674–1751), taught painting to Rosina and her siblings Anna Dorothea (1721–1782) and Christoph Friedrich (1725–1794).
John Singleton Copley / ˈ k ɑː p l i / RA (July 3, 1738 [1] – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was believed to be born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish.
J. B. Perronneau, old fashioned silhoutte style by Carlos Fuentes y Espinosa. Perronneau produced a varied body of work in which he insists on the psychology of his characters and transmits a little of the spirit of the Enlightenment, as evidenced by the expressiveness of the faces he depicts, the liveliness of the looks, the half-smiles we can ...
Portrait by William Brockedon (1833) James Baillie Fraser (11 June 1783 – 23 January 1856) was a Scottish travel writer, and artist who illustrated and wrote about Asia Minor, Iran, Kurdistan [1] and India. Some of his watercolours made in the picturesque style represent early views of India and Persia. He was a brother of William Fraser. [2]