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Hans Hartung was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the Legion d'honneur.
Claude Vignon was a French Baroque painter, illustrator, and etcher and a member of the Guild of Artists of Paris.
Vignon was a versatile artist and worked in many different genres: he painted portraits, domestic scenes, and religious works. During a trip to Italy he studied, among other things, the work of Caravaggio, but in his art he mixed a variety of techniques and styles, from Mannerism to Venetian, Dutch and German art. His works are brightly colored, the lighting is gorgeous, and the characters are expressive.
Claude Vignon was also one of the most distinguished engravers and illustrators in 17th-century France.
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
John Hill was a British botanist, pharmacologist and physician, geologist, writer and journalist.
Hill edited the monthly British Magazine for several years, and also wrote a daily society gossip column in The London Advertiser and Literary Gazette. His satirical, often on the edge of propriety articles were often the cause of scandals. Hill also wrote novels, plays, and scientific works on geology, medicine, philosophy, and botany.
In 1759, the first of the 26 volumes of his Plant System was published. This voluminous work contained descriptions of 26,000 different plants and 1,600 illustrations. For this long work, Hill received the Order of Vasa from the Swedish king and began calling himself Sir.
Matthew Smith was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape.
