Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1490, Pieve di Cadore, d.
1576, Venezia). Related Paintings of TIZIANO Vecellio :. | Holy Family and Donor t | Assumption of the Virgin (detail) t | Bacchus and Ariadne ar | Portrait of Pope Paul III atr | L'homme au gant | Related Artists:
Thomas Le Clear1818-1882
Thomas Le Clear Gallery
Luis Melendez1716-80
He assisted his father, artist Francisco Melendez, until 1737, when he began studying with Lewis-Michel Vanloo, the court painter to Philip V of France. Although accepted (1745) into the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he was expelled after his father denounced the academy in a dispute over a royal competition. After traveling throughout Italy, he returned to work for his father as an illustrator of choirbooks.
Francis GrantScottish Painter, 1803-1878
Scottish portrait painter. He was self-taught in painting, for which he abandoned a career in law. He began as a painter of hunting scenes (The Melton Hunt and The Cottesmore Hunt) but gained success as a fashionable portrait painter. Among his sitters were Scott, Macaulay, Disraeli, Palmerston, and Landseer. Sir Francis was president (1866 C 78) of the Royal Academy.