1530-1597
Flemish Lucas Van Valkenborch Galleries Related Paintings of Lucas Van Valkenborch :. | Grafin Lichtenau | The Blessing Christ | The Judgment of Solomon | Lukas als Maler | The Customs Post | Related Artists:
William HavellEnglish Painter, 1782-1857
Aleksey KorinKorin Alexey (1865-1923) -
brief biography
Alexey Korin was born in 1865.
The main themes of his painting were Russian lanscapes, genre-scenes, portraits, interiors.
Studied at the Moscvow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1884-1889. Gradueted from this school with big silver medal.
Was the member and took part at the exhebitions of the The Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (the Itinerants group) since 1891.
Teached at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture since 1894.
Took part at the World Art Exhibition in Paris in 1900.
Some of the paintings of Alexey Korin were bought by Pavel Tretyakov for his collection.
Thomas Buchanan ReadAmerican Painter, 1822-1872,was an American poet and portrait painter born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Read wrote a prose romance, The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, and several books of poetry, including The New Pastoral, The House by the Sea, Sylvia, and A Summer Story. Some of the shorter pieces included in these, e.g., "Sheridan's Ride," "Drifting,""The Angler", "The Oath," and "The Closing Scene," have great merit. Read was briefly associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His greatest artistic popularity took place in Florence. Among portraits he painted were Abraham Lincoln, Henry Longfellow, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and William Henry Harrison. Read died from injuries sustained in a carriage accident, which weakened him and led him to contract pneumonia while on shipboard returning to America.