unknow artist Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 583
ID: 47837
unknow artist
Related Paintings of unknow artist :. | View of the Ghats at Benares | Detail of an allegorical painting of the Duchess of Savoy with her son the future Vittorio Amedeo II | Adoration of the Shepherds and Adoration of the Magi | Jupiter and antiope | Marie Therese of Savoy, Countess of Artois pointing to a portrait of her mother and overlooked by abust of her husband | Related Artists: BOLTRAFFIO, Giovanni Antonio Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1466-1516
Italian painter and draughtsman. A pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, he was active mainly in Milan and was particularly noted as a portrait painter. Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902) was a Polish Academic painter. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the New Testament.
Siemiradzki was born to a Polish szlachta family of a military physician in the village of Novobelgorod (now Pechenegi) near Kharkov, Ukraine. He studied at Kharkov Gymnasium where he learned painting under a scion of Karl Briullov, D. I. Besperchy. He entered the Physics-Mathematics School of Kharkov University but continued his painting lessons from Bespechy.
After graduating from the University with the degree of Kandidat he abandoned his scientific career and moved to Saint Petersburg to study painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the years 1864-1870. Upon his graduation he was awarded a gold medal. In 1870-1871 he studied under Karl von Piloty in Munich on a grant from the Academy. Johann Gottfried Auerbach Johann Gottfried Auerbach (October 28, 1697 -August 5, 1753), was an Austrian painter and etcher.
Auerbach painted primarily portraits and battle genre works. Some of his works can be found at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.