Italian
1708-1787
Pompeo Batoni Location
Italian painter and draughtsman. In his day he was the most celebrated painter in Rome and one of the most famous in Europe. For nearly half a century he recorded the visits to Rome of international travellers on the GRAND TOUR in portraits that remain among the most memorable artistic accomplishments of the period. He was equally gifted as a history painter, and his religious and mythological paintings were sought after by the greatest princes of Europe. Related Paintings of Pompeo Batoni :. | Susanna and the old | Notre Dame, and the Son in St. John's Nepomuk | Diana and Cupid | Cleopatra and Mark Antony dying | Angels coming out in the desert in front of the Hagar | Related Artists:
Pieter ClaeszDutch 1597-1660 Pieter Claesz Locations
Dutch painter of German birth. He apparently spent his entire career in Haarlem, where he specialized in still-life paintings. Well over 100 works survive, dating from 1621 to 1660. Most of his pictures are dated and monogrammed PC. Since those initials were shared by the Antwerp still-life painter CLARA PEETERS, several attributions are disputed.
Cecelia Beaux1824-1900
William Holbrook Beard Gallery
Beard was born in Painesville, Ohio. He studied abroad, and in 1861 moved to New York City, where in 1862 he became a member of the National Academy of Design.
He was a prolific worker and a man of much inventiveness and originality, though of modest artistic endowment. His humorous treatment of bears, cats, dogs, horses and monkeys, generally with some human occupation and expression, usually satirical, gave him a great vogue at one time, and his pictures were largely reproduced.
His brother, James Henry Beard (1814-1893), was also a painter.
richard wagnerBorn: 22 May 1813
Birthplace: Leipzig, Germany
Died: 13 February 1883
Best Known As: German composer of Der Ring des Nibelungen