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George Augustus Baker (March 19, 1821 – April 2, 1880) was an American portrait painter.. George Augustus Baker was born on March 19, 1821 in New York City. His artistic education was begun by his father George Augustus Baker, Sr. (1760-1847), an artist of merit, and his first professional years were devoted to the then popular miniatures on ivory; but he soon became a portrait painter of ...
George Augustus Williams was born on 4 May 1814 in London. He was the third son of the painter Edward Williams (1781–1855) and Ann Hildebrandt (c.1780–1851), and a member of the Williams family of painters, who were related to such famous artists as James Ward, R.A. and George Morland.
George Augustus Mortimer Leigh Holmes (c. 1826 – 30 March 1911), known as George Augustus Holmes, was an English artist. Holmes worked in oils, and his subjects are mostly scenes of everyday rural life. [ 1 ]
They exhibited prolifically with the Royal Academy, the British Institution, the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists, and many other Victorian art venues of the time. [7] Old Williams' sons follow. Edward Charles Williams (1807–1881) Henry John Boddington (1811–1865) George Augustus Williams (1814–1901) Arthur Gilbert ...
George Augustus Wallis (Merton, Surrey, 1761 - Florence, 1847) was an English painter, active in Italy. [ 1 ] Wallis began his career as a protégé of George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick , a serious patron of the arts who supported the artist financially from at least 1787. [ 2 ]
Augustus Goodyear Heaton (April 28, 1844 – October 11, 1930) [1] [2] was an American artist, author [3] and leading numismatist. He is best known for his painting The Recall of Columbus and among coin collectors for writing A Treatise on Coinage of the United States Branch Mints , which introduced numismatists to mint marks .
George Augustus Henry Fairfield Sala (24 November 1828 – 8 December 1895) was an author and journalist who wrote extensively for the Illustrated London News as G. A. S. and was most famous for his articles and leaders for The Daily Telegraph.
He was born George Walter Williams on 29 November 1834 in London, being the son of the well-known Victorian landscape painter George Augustus Williams and his wife Caroline Smith. Some sources attribute to him a twin brother named George. However, as his baptismal record proves, George and Walter are the same person. [1]