Robert S.Duncanson
American artist .
1821-1872
A self-taught mulatto artist and a landscape painter of the Hudson River school tradition, Duncanson was the first Afro-American artist to receive international recognition. Born into a family of painters and handymen, Duncanson first worked as a house-painter and glazier in Monroe, MI. By 1841 he was in Cincinnati, OH, where he learnt to paint by executing portraits and copying prints. Throughout the 1840s he travelled as an itinerant artist between Cincinnati, Monroe and Detroit. Related Paintings of Robert S.Duncanson :. | View of Cincinnati | Ellen s Isle | Recollections of Italy | The Land of the Lotus Eaters | Dream of Arcadia | Related Artists: Merian, Matthaus the YoungerSwiss, 1621-1687 Francesco ZugnoFrancesco Zugno (c. 1708-1787) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. He was born in Brescia. Among his masterworks is a series of wall frescoes of figures in quadratura balconiesepart genre, part courtly conceit. He was strongly influenced by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his works. Harold HerbertAustralian, 1892-1945
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