Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, Limited, 1927 - Engravers |
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Page 291 - Canterbury at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. He exhibited at the Academy in 1794 and 1808. There is a water-colour view, ' Near Dover,' by him, dated 1803, in the South Kensington Museum.
Page 183 - Yarrow," engraved from pictures painted by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Noel Patera for the Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, and issued to that association's subscribers.
Page 13 - Augsburg, who lived at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries, and by whom are the following plates : The Resurrection.
Page 112 - Ireland about 1675, and was for a short time a pupil of Sir Godfrey Kneller. According to Horace Walpole, "Norris, frame-maker and keeper of the pictures to King William and Queen Anne, was his first patron, and permitted him to copy what he pleased in the royal collection." He died in London in 1739. The National Portrait Gallery has paintings by him of Caroline, Queen Consort of George II., formerly in the British Museum, Catharine Hyde, Duchess of Queensberry ('Prior's Kitty, ever young.'), Pope...
Page 91 - Gallery, and others arc in the Dijon Museum and the Schleissheim Gallery. HUYSMANS. MICHIEL, a Flemish painter, was one of the pupils of Jan van Hemishem. He was admitted as a master into the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp in 1535. HUYSSING, HANS, was a Swedish painter who came from Stockholm to London in 1700, and painted the three eldest Princesses in their attire on the day of the Coronation of George II. He worked up to 1740, and died in England. HUYSUM JACOB VAN, the youngest son of Justus van...
Page 375 - Paris in 1698, under the title of ' Histoire des Arts qui ont rapport au dessin, divisée en trois livres,' etc. He exhibited at the Salon of 1699. For the church of Notre Dame at Paris he executed a picture of the ' Parliament sitting in Judgment ;' for the church of St Sulpice a
Page 324 - Schwalbach, &c., which he afterwards published at Frankfort, and which are the best of his works. They are etched from his own designs, in a slight free style, and finished with the graver, and give a perfect idea of the places they represent, though without much taste in the execution. He has the credit of having been the instructor of the estimable Hollar — Strutt.
Page 318 - DI GIOVANNI DE», called PADOVANO, or JUSTUS OF PADUA, was born at Florence in the earlier half of the 14th century. He was a follower of Giotto, and studied the works which that master had executed in Padua, of which city Giusto was made a citizen in 1375. He is supposed to have executed several frescoes in Padua, but those in the baptistery of the cathedral, and in the chapel of St. Luke, in the church of Sant...
Page 87 - The Stream from Llyn Idwal,' hung on the line at the Royal Academy in 1856, a study of rocky foreground quite exceptional in its patient and successful observation of natural form and colour, was essentially PreRaphaelite. Ruskin characterized it as the best landscape he had seen in the Exhibition for'many a day — uniting most subtle finish and watchfulness of nature with real and rare power of composition ; with much more in the same strain.
Page 134 - KILLIGREW was daughter of Dr Henry Killigrew, master of the Savoy, and one of the prebendaries of Westminster, and brother of Thomas Killigrew, renowned, in the court of Charles II., for wit and repartee. The family, says Mr...