Alexander Theobald Van Laer (1857-1920) was an American painter, born at Auburn, New York.
He studied at the Art Students League of New York Related Paintings of Alexander Theobald Van Laer :. | Pippo Spano | Girl at the Fountain | Diana and her Companions ae | The Houses of Parliament | flaskplockerskan | Related Artists:
Menard, Emile-ReneFrench, 1862-1930
Richard Wrightpainted The Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1760
jean HuberSwiss Painter (b. 1721, Geneve, d. 1786, Bellevue) ,
Geneva1721-1786
Geneva1721-1786,Silhouettist, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. His paternal ancestors were patrician Genevese merchant bankers. As a young man he soldiered at Kassel in Germany and in Italy, where he fought for Savoy in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48). In 1752 he was elected to Geneva's Council of Two Hundred and served his native city as a magistrate. He had no formal artistic training, but from his youth he clipped out of paper or cards freehand profiles of a kind that later came to be called silhouettes.