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Georges William Thornley was a French painter and printmaker. He also was a talented watercolorist, engraver, and lithographer.
Hermann Grobe was a German maritime painter.
He studied at the Munich and Düsseldorf Art Academies. His favorite subject for Grobe was the sea and everything connected with it. He painted a lot of pictures with ships on the pier and everyday scenes on the shore, sailors on the shore and fishing boats.
Edward William Elgar (Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet) was a British composer of the Romantic period.
The son of an organist, Elgar was a fine violinist, played the bassoon, and worked as a Kapellmeister and church organist. Then in Malvern, Worcestershire, he began composing music himself. He composed several major choral works, notably the oratorio The Light of Life (Lux Christi (1896,), and in 1898-99 he wrote the popular Enigma Variations for orchestra. Another major work followed in 1900, the oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, which is considered his masterpiece.
From 1905 to 1908 Elgar was the first Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham. During World War I, he periodically wrote patriotic works. His marches, introductions, symphonies, and concertos for strings are well known. Elgar's vibrant works contributed to the revival of English music in the 20th century during the transition from late Romanticism.
Edward Henry Potthast was an US-American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.
Edward Henry Potthast was an US-American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.
Edward Henry Potthast was an US-American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.