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John Linnell was an English engraver, and portrait and landscape painter. He was a naturalist and a rival to the artist John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer. He also associated with the amateur artist Edward Thomas Daniell, and with William Blake, to whom he introduced the painter and writer Samuel Palmer and others of the Ancients.
Henry Ryland was a British painter, book illustrator, decorator and designer. He exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, and from 1890 at the Royal Academy. He also was a regular exhibiter at the New Gallery and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (formerly the New Society of Painters in Water Colours). He became a full member of the latter institution. Although he did paint in oils, he specialized in highly finished watercolour paintings containing images of young women in classical draperies on marble terraces. His watercolours were widely reproduced as prints. Ryland also designed stained glass and his woodcuts were used in a number of magazines, including the English Illustrated Magazine in the 1880s and 1890s.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a renowned German painter and lithographer, celebrated for his masterful portraits of the nineteenth-century European aristocracy. Born in 1805 in a small village in the Black Forest, Winterhalter rose from humble beginnings to become the favored portraitist at royal courts across Europe, including those of Britain, France, and Russia.
Winterhalter's artistry is especially noted for its blend of realism and idealization, which made his portraits highly sought after by the elites of the time. His work is characterized by a delicate yet expressive handling of detail and a sophisticated use of color to enhance the opulence of his subjects' attire and surroundings. One of his most famous works, "The Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting," epitomizes his style and skill in capturing the elegance and grace of the imperial courts.
His works are held in esteemed public collections worldwide, including the National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum, which preserve and display several of his important portraits. Winterhalter's legacy endures, and his paintings continue to be celebrated for their historical significance and artistic merit.
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Glyn Warren Philpot was a British painter and sculptor, best known for his portraits of contemporary figures such as Siegfried Sassoon and Vladimir Rosing.