Engravers 19th century
Jenny Fikentscher (born Nottebohm) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the Art Nouveau movement. She studied at the School of Women Painters in Karlsruhe and later became part of the Grötzingen artist colony. Fikentscher married animal painter Otto Fikentscher and raised five children in an unconventional artistic household. She was known for her botanical motifs and lithographs, often featuring local plants. Fikentscher also created collectible images for the Stollwerck chocolate company.
Louise Abbéma was a French painter, sculptor, and designer, celebrated for her work during the Belle Époque. Born in Étampes in 1853 into an affluent Parisian family, she became well known for her portraits, particularly of the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt, and for decorative panels commissioned for various public buildings in Paris and the Palace of the Governor in Dakar, Senegal.
Abbéma's art often depicted the upper echelons of French society and reflected the Impressionist style through her light and rapid brushstrokes. She was also notable for her involvement in the women's movement, where she contributed to the emerging image of the 'New Woman' by portraying androgynous figures and themes of intellectualism and freedom.
Among her many honors, Abbéma was awarded the Palme Academiques in 1887, nominated as the Official Painter of the Third Republic, and in 1906, she became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Her works, such as "Lunch in the Greenhouse" and "Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt," have seen a resurgence in popularity as the contribution of women to historical art gains more recognition.
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Jean-Victor Vincent Adam was a French painter and lithographer.
Adam came from a dynasty of artists and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He painted views of various cities, including Russian Kazan and Yekaterinburg, as well as battle scenes from Napoleon's military campaigns. Collections of images of French military costumes prepared by Adam were published. His genre paintings with hunting scenes and animals are also known.
Jean-François Albanis Beaumont was a French landscape painter, engineer, traveler and geographer.
He studied engineering in Paris and worked on architectural structures at Chambérly. Beaumont later accompanied the Duke of Gloucester, William Frederick of Hanover on a grand tour of Germany, Italy, France, and Switzerland, making notes and detailed pictorial sketches of views along the way. In 1800 he published the illustrated books Journey to the Lepontine Alps from France to Italy and Description of the Grecian and Cottian Alps (1802 and 1806).
William Alexander was a British painter, illustrator and printmaker.
He studied painting at the Royal Academy and became a very famous artist. In 1792-1794 he accompanied the official embassy to Peking of Lord George Macartney on behalf of the British government, where he documented the visit and made many drawings of the Chinese court. These depict various mandarins, merchants, members of the royal family and members of Chinese society. In 1805, William Alexander published Costume of China, an album illustrated with 48 color prints, which was a success with the public.
Henry Thomas Alcken was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831.
Samuel Alken the Elder was a British painter, printmaker and illustrator.
Samuel Alken studied at the Royal Academy School in London. In 1779 he published A New Book of Ornaments Designed and Engraved by Samuel Alken, and later established himself as one of the most distinguished engravers in the new technique of aquatint. Alken produced magnificent compositions of the British countryside, including moonlit night scenes. His works include engravings by George Morland, Richard Wilson, Thomas Rowlandson, and Francis Wheatley. In 1796 his plates of sixteen views of the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland, after drawings by John Ames and John Smith, were published, and in 1798 a set of aquatint views of North Wales after drawings by the Rev. Brian Broughton.
His sons, Samuel Alken the Younger (1784-1824), Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) and Samuel Henry Alken (1810-1894) also became artists.
Samuel Amsler is a Swiss engraver. He studied his art under Johan Heinrich Lips and Karl Ernst Hess, at Munich, and from 1816 pursued it in Italy, and chiefly at Rome, till in 1829 he succeeded his former master Hess as professor of engraving in the Munich academy. The works he designed and engraved are remarkable for the grace of the figures, and for the wonderful skill with which he retains and expresses the characteristics of the original paintings and statues. He was a passionate admirer of Raphael, and had great success in reproducing his works.
Maurice Paul Jean Asselin was a French painter, watercolourist, printmaker, lithographer, engraver and illustrator, associated with the School of Paris. He is best known for still lifes and nudes. Other recurring themes in his work are motherhood, and the landscapes and seascapes of Brittany. He also worked as a book illustrator, particularly in the 1920s. His personal style was characterised by subdued colours, sensitive brushwork and a strong sense of composition and design.
He was awarded the rank of Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 1939.
John Augustus Atkinson was a British watercolorist, illustrator and engraver.
In 1784, the young Atkinson traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, to stay with his uncle James Walker, who worked as an engraver at the court of Empress Catherine the Great. The aspiring artist learned from the work of the great Russian painters whose paintings he saw in the art galleries of St. Petersburg. Catherine and her son Paul I, noticing his talent, commissioned Atkinson to paint pictures on historical subjects.
In 1801 Atkinson returned to England and a year later published an album entitled "Pictorial representation of Russian manners, customs and amusements" on 100 plates drawn and engraved by himself. This work was a great success in Europe. Later, during the Napoleonic Wars, Atkinson created many battle scenes, including the Battle of Waterloo and naval battles. In 1808 he was elected to the Society of Watercolor Painters.
Charles Aubry was a French painter, illustrator and caricaturist who worked in Saumur from 1810-1840.
From 1817. Aubry made drawings and illustrations of military costume. He was soon recognized as one of the best lithographers and draughtsmen of military scenes, showing a particular talent for depicting cavalry. Charles Aubry's colored lithographs were published in a publication on the uniforms of the Swiss Royal Guard (Collection des Uniforms de l'Armee Francaise, 1823), as well as caricatures in the Comic Album de Pathologie (1823).
In 1822 Charles Aubry was appointed professor of art at l'Ecole Militaire de Saumur.
Carl Daniel David Friedrich Bach was a German artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Baroque period. He is known as a painter, graphic artist and printmaker.
Bach worked in the historical genre, was a portraitist, animalist, created canvases on allegorical subjects in the spirit of his era. In his works he combined elements of baroque and classicism. The artist often worked in the etching needle technique.
Albert Baertsoen was a Belgian painter, pastellist and graphic artist. His debut as a painter came in 1887, when he participated in an exhibition in Brussels held by the secessionist group l'Essor. He continued his studies in Paris, at the art school of Alfred Philippe Roll, and exhibited at the Salon in 1889. In 1894, he helped found the "Cercle des Beaux-Arts d'Ostende". From 1896 to 1901, he continued to exhibit throughout Europe, winning several Gold Medals. In 1913, he served as a member of the art jury for the Ghent World's Fair. During World War I, he lived in London, returning to Ghent in 1919. That same year, he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Henri Charles Antoine Baron was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator.
Henri studied painting with Jean Gigoux (1806-1894) and traveled with him in Italy. The Baron returned with a large number of sketches, which became a constant source of inspiration for many of his later works. He first successfully exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1840. Baron was subsequently honored with several gold medals for his work at this Salon.
Henri Baron was the author of historical scenes of social life, oriental and allegorical compositions. He painted charming Italian genre scenes and depicted Parisian social life. The artist was also recognized as a skilled watercolorist, exhibiting his watercolors continuously at the Society of French Watercolorists since 1879. Baron also illustrated works by Balzac, Boccaccio, J. J. Rousseau, Perrault's fairy tales and many others.
In addition, in collaboration with his friend F.-L. France and Célestin Nantey (1813-73), he published a three-volume edition of Ancient and Modern Painters (1848-62), a collection of lithographs based on the works of modern artists.
Jacques Barraband was a French zoological and botanical illustrator, renowned for his lifelike renderings of tropical birds. His pictures were based on mounted specimens and his illustration was considered the most accurate ones made during the early 1800s.
Ethel Barringer was a South Australian artist who excelled in various media, but was particularly known for her etchings. She was educated at the Advanced School for Girls under Miss Rees George, and was a student of Hans Heysen and Mary Packer Harris at the SA School of Arts and Crafts. She studied in London for several years and took courses in enamelling, jewellery designing, life work, and etching at the St John's Wood Art School and the Sir John Cass Technical School. On her return to Adelaide she set up a studio of her own in Flinders Street, but gave it up when she gained an appointment as assistant teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts on North Terrace.
Constantin Ludwig Bauer was a German painter. Numerous landscape watercolors come from Bauer. Bauer studied from 1869 to 1873 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He learned figure painting from Alexander Wagner and copperplate engraving from Johann Leonhard Raab. In 1878 Bauer moved to Obermais (South Tyrol). There he devoted himself to landscape painting.
Thomas Mann Baynes was a British painter and draughtsman and lithographer.
Thomas Mann Baynes was born into the family of the famous watercolorist James Baynes. He traveled extensively throughout Ireland during his career, creating romantic and pastoral views of the countryside that were popular in the 19th century. Many of these were later engraved and published. Baynes also created many architectural landscapes with monumental buildings, such as views of the Thames in London and the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway. Today, these engravings are of great historical value.
Carl Emil Rudolf Ludwig Becker was a German marine artist.
He was awarded gold medals at the International Art Exhibition of 1894, in Vienna, and the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung of 1896. Three years later, he was one of the co-founders of the Düsseldorfer Künstler-Vereinigung (artists' association). After the turn of the century, marine painting was heavily promoted by Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was attempting to make Germany a major sea power. As a result, the demand for Becker's paintings increased farther inland.
Peter Becker is a German landscape painter, engraver, and lithographer. In his many landscape works he romanticizes the German forest and enlivens it with historical characters. He also painted genre scenes and depicted city streets.
Siegfried Berndt, born 1880 in Germany and passing away in 1946, was a distinguished painter and printmaker whose artistic contributions are often overlooked in art history. After studying at the Dresden Art Academy, Berndt received a travel scholarship that profoundly influenced his art, taking him to cities like Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, London, and Scotland. These travels exposed him to diverse artistic movements, enriching his work with elements of Impressionism, Expressionism, and New Objectivity.
Berndt was especially skilled in the traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking technique, which he employed to explore various artistic styles. This unique approach resulted in color woodcuts with a distinct personality, appealing to a wide range of collectors. His woodblock prints are particularly noted for their innovative use of this traditional technique, blending it with Western artistic movements.
Despite the challenges posed by the two World Wars, Berndt's work found its way into public collections and was recognized for its artistic merit. However, much of his pictorial work was lost due to the turmoil of war. Some of his expressive pastel works, often repeated with small variations, as well as oil paintings, have been documented.
Berndt's art remains relevant for collectors, auctioneers, and experts in art and antiques, particularly for those interested in the intersection of Eastern and Western printmaking techniques. His work, although not as widely known, represents a unique blend of styles and techniques that contribute to the rich tapestry of early 20th-century art.
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Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour was a French artist. He was a painter, illustrator, and engraver who specialized in military scenes, battlefields, and portraits of soldiers. He is considered one of the most important French artists of the 19th century.
Berne-Bellecour began his career as an illustrator for French newspapers and magazines. He later became a painter, and in 1863 he exhibited his first painting at the Salon in Paris. In 1873, he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Berne-Bellecour was known for his highly detailed and realistic paintings of military life. He often depicted battle scenes with soldiers in uniform, and his attention to detail was highly admired. He was also known for his portraits of military leaders, including Napoleon III and Marshal MacMahon.
Berne-Bellecour continued to paint and exhibit his work throughout his life.
Thomas Bewick was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's books. He gradually turned to illustrating, writing and publishing his own books, gaining an adult audience for the fine illustrations in A History of Quadrupeds.
Edmond Bille was a Swiss artist. Bille engaged in intense and varied activity as painter, engraver, stained glass artist, journalist, writer, and politician. He is the creator of the stained glass windows around the altar of the Cathedral of Lausanne, capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud.
Valentijn Bing was a Dutch painter, illustrator and lithographer.
Bing painted genre scenes and cityscapes, portraits, as well as paintings on religious themes. He is best known for his sketchbooks depicting the costumes and customs of the Netherlands, which are pictorial descriptions of local dress and events such as carnival, ice skating, cheese making, and weddings. This work was published in 1857 in collaboration with the lithographer Jan Braet von Überfeldt (1807-1894).
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".
Bernardo Blanco y Pérez was a Spanish lithographer, painter and illustrator.
He studied at the Royal Academy of San Fernando, mainly drawing and lithography, and taught. Bernardo Blanco was one of the artists whose work was included in a series of lithographs on the Spanish-Moroccan War (1859-1860).
David Bles was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, at the age of thirteen Bles was talented enough to be accepted at the Hague Academy. He attended classes from 1834 to 1837 and from 1838 to 1841. He became a pupil of the painter Cornelis Kruseman and his nephew Jan Adam Kruseman. Bles then travelled to France to study with Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury in Paris. He remained in Paris until 1843 after which he settled in The Hague, though he was a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam between 1845 and 1899. He painted scenes from the history of Dutch painting and is best known for portraits and genre paintings.
Johann Ludwig Bleuler, sometimes called Louis Bleuler, was a Swiss landscape painter, engraver and publisher.
He studied painting under his father, the painter Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Elder (1758-1823), and his older brother, the painter Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Younger (1787-1857). He traveled extensively in the picturesque Rhine region, painting landscapes and making sketches, and made study trips to Brussels, Amsterdam, and Paris.
In 1824 Bleuler founded his own publishing company in Schaffhausen and from 1827 he worked on a series of engravings of landscapes of the Rhine from its source in the glaciers of the Alps, eventually publishing a complete set of engravings by about 1843. All of the aquatints were hand-colored using the gouache technique, giving them the appearance of the work of old masters.
Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Elder was a Swiss landscape painter and engraver.
Bleuler the Elder first trained as a porcelain painter at the Kilchberg-Schooren porcelain manufactory near Zurich. In the early 1780s he settled in Feuertalen and became the founder of the dynasty of artists that is known as the "Bleulerische Malschule". His two sons, Johann Heinrich Bleuler the Younger (1787-1857) and Johann Ludwig Bleuler (1792-1850), also became artists and continued their father's work. And in total, there were up to 25 artists in the dynasty, including godchildren and other relatives.
Bleuler the Elder created mainly landscapes of the Rhine, painted in gouache and watercolor, panoramic views of Swiss cities. He also worked as an art teacher.
Rudolf Bodmer was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and engraver.
Rudolf was the older brother of the famous painter Johann Carl Bodmer (1809-1893), with whom he started his own business around 1825. They produced graphic prints especially for the Zurich publisher F. S. Füssli. Rudolf Bodmer became a skilled printmaker and produced a large number of aquatints of landscape and architectural views, particularly of castles and palaces in the Middle Rhine for a wide variety of publishers.
Pierre Bonnard was a distinguished French painter and printmaker, recognized as one of the foremost colorists of modern art. Born on October 3, 1867, in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, Bonnard initially pursued law studies before embracing his true calling in art. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian, where his journey as an artist began in earnest.
Bonnard's art is characterized by its vibrant use of color and the portrayal of intimate, sunlit domestic interiors and gardens. His works often include scenes populated with friends and family, creating a narrative that is both personal and relatable. His distinctive style was influenced by Japanese prints, evident in his use of bold patterns and flat color planes. This influence earned him the nickname "Le Nabi très japonard" among his peers in the Les Nabis group, an avant-garde artists' group he joined in his twenties.
His early work, such as "Woman in Checkered Dress" (1890), showcases the influence of Japanese prints. Bonnard's talent was evident from the beginning of his career, with Claude Roger-Marx noting in 1893 his ability to capture fleeting poses and expressions. His work evolved over time, moving towards a style that resonated with the Intimists' focus on personal and intimate spaces.
Bonnard's wife, Marthe, was a recurring subject in his paintings, often depicted in everyday scenarios. Their relationship, spanning several decades, was a significant influence on his work. His paintings, such as "Dining Room on the Garden" and "Landscape at Le Cannet," demonstrate his mastery in capturing light and color, creating a sense of warmth and intimacy.
Bonnard's work remains influential and celebrated, with his paintings held in esteemed collections worldwide. His ability to transform everyday scenes into vibrant, color-filled canvases has made him a beloved figure in the world of modern art.
Art collectors and experts in the field will find Bonnard's work a study in the transformative power of color and composition. For those interested in staying updated on sales and auction events related to Pierre Bonnard's works, signing up for updates would provide valuable insights into this remarkable artist's enduring legacy.
Louis-Marin Bonnet (French: Louis-Marin Bonnet) is a French draftsman and engraver, an outstanding master of metal engraving using the “pencil style” technique. Since 1757, Louis-Marais Bonnet was a student of Jean-Charles Francois, then of Gilles Demarteau. He became famous for his color engravings reproducing drawings by A. Watteau, F. Boucher, Sh.-A. Van Loo, J.-B. Yue. Bonnet reproduced mainly complex pastel drawings, using up to eighty boards per engraving. He used opaque paints that gave a matte tone and tinted paper. He reproduced the spaces by printing with white from a separate board. Bonnet even imitated the golden frames bordering the original drawings. This technique is called “pastel style”. In 1769, Bonnet described his technique in detail in the book Pastel in Engraving, Invented and Executed by Louis Bonnet. In 1765-1767, the French master worked in St. Petersburg, where he completed several engraving portraits in the “pencil style” of Catherine II and the heir Pavel Petrovich based on drawings by Jean-Louis de Velli, then returned to Paris and opened his own workshop.
Arthur Merric Boyd was an Australian painter. He and his wife Emma Minnie (née à Beckett) established a lifestyle of being artists which many generations followed to create the popular image of the Boyd family. Boyd travelled and painted a good deal on the continent of Europe, and returned to Australia about the end of 1893, where he lived mostly in Sandringham and other suburbs of Melbourne for the rest of his life. He occasionally sent good work to the exhibitions of the Victorian Artists' Society, but never mixed much in the artistic life of his time.
Félix Bracquemond was a French painter, etcher, and printmaker. He played a key role in the revival of printmaking, encouraging artists such as Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro to use this technique.
Unusually for a prominent artist of this period, he also designed pottery for a number of French factories, in an innovative style that marks the beginning of Japonisme in France.
Osip Emmanuilovich Braz (Russian: Осип Эммануилович Браз) was a Russian-Jewish realist painter, celebrated for his adeptness in portraying the subtleties of human character and the serene beauty of landscapes. Born in Odessa in 1873, Braz embarked on his artistic journey at the Odessa Art School, later honing his craft in Munich under the guidance of Sandor Kholloshi and in St. Petersburg at the Academy of Arts, where he studied under the legendary Ilya Repin. His early works, marked by a series of compelling portraits, including those of eminent Russian cultural figures like Anton Chekhov, garnered him significant acclaim. Braz's portrait of Chekhov, commissioned by Pavel Tretyakov for the State Tretyakov Gallery, is particularly noted for being the only complete lifetime portrait of the writer.
Braz's contributions to art were not confined to portraiture alone; he also produced exquisite still lifes and landscapes, capturing the essence of his subjects with a delicacy and depth that reflected his mastery over the medium. His landscapes of France, Crimea, and Finland, inspired by his travels, exhibit a remarkable sense of place and mood, blending realism with an impressionistic sensitivity to light and color.
Throughout his career, Braz was deeply involved in the art community, participating in the World of Art exhibitions and influencing the artistic dialogue of his time. Despite facing adversity, including imprisonment and the confiscation of his art collections by Soviet authorities, Braz's legacy as a painter and collector endures. His works continue to be celebrated for their technical prowess and emotional depth, held in high esteem by collectors and experts alike.
For collectors and experts in art and antiques, Osip Emmanuilovich Braz's oeuvre offers a window into the soul of Russian realism and the broader currents of European art at the turn of the century. His life's work underscores the enduring power of art to capture the human condition and the natural world in all their complexity and beauty. Sign up for updates to stay informed about new product sales and auction events related to Osip Emmanuilovich Braz and delve deeper into the legacy of this remarkable artist.
Rodolphe Bresdin was a French draughtsman and engraver.
His fantastic works, full of strange details, particularly attracted Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Robert de Montesquiou and André Breton. Odilon Redon was his pupil. Bresdin influenced contemporary artists like Jacques Moreau, George Rubel, Jean-Pierre Velly, and Philippe Mohlitz. Bresdin's life story and his art are both extraordinary and fascinating. He was one of the finest and most original exponents of the art of print-making in the nineteenth century and his name ranks alongside those of Whistler, Doré and Meryon in achievement and influence.
Jean Brindesi was an Italian-born Turkish watercolorist.
Brindesi lived in Constantinople during the reign of the Abdülmekids (1831-1861) and worked mainly as a watercolorist but also did lithography. In Paris in 1855, the first album of lithographs based on his drawings was published, featuring Turkish statesmen and military figures and their costumes. And in the second, entitled "Souvenirs of Constantinople" (1855-60), Jean Brindesi conveys the atmosphere of everyday life in Istanbul. The drawings in the second album are remarkable in that these genre scenes are depicted by a local artist who knew the intricacies of these subjects.
The originals of these works are kept in the Topkapi Palace Museum and Istanbul University.
Vincent Brooks, full name Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks, was a British etcher, lithographer and publisher.
Brooks began working for Day & Son, and in 1862 founded his own firm called Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons. He worked for the Arundel Society from 1856 to 1897. Brooks was for many years London's leading lithographer, with many important commissions printed in his publishing house.
Karel Brož (Russian: Карл Осипович Брож) was a Czech and Russian artist, renowned for his detailed illustrations and watercolors. Born on November 25, 1836, in Prague, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and later moved to Russia, where he became a prominent illustrator for various publications, including "Vsemirnaya Illustratsiya."
Brož's work is characterized by its meticulous attention to detail and vibrant depictions of historical and everyday scenes. His illustrations, particularly for Russian periodicals, captured the essence of 19th-century life and remain highly regarded in art circles.
Collectors value Brož's pieces for their historical significance and artistic quality. His illustrations have been featured in numerous exhibitions and are part of prestigious collections. For those interested in historical illustrations, Karel Brož’s work offers a unique glimpse into the past.
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Anton Burger was a German painter, draftsman and etcher. He was a prolific and versatile painter, producing works in almost every genre. His paintings sold very well and, in the area around Kronberg, it was considered a sign of good taste to have a "Burger" in one's home. In 1861, he and Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (an old friend from his days at the Städelschule) founded the Kronberg Artists' Colony, where he remained until his death. He was highly regarded and came to be known as the "King of Kronberg".
Georg Conrad Ludwig Burger was a German historical painter, illustrator, and medallist. He studied at the Berlin Art Academy, at the same time working at book illustrating; he was also a pupil of Thomas Couture in Paris. Among his best drawings are the illustrations for the works of La Fontaine and a collection of 20 plates known as Die Kanone. After 1869, he devoted himself to decorative painting, his most important work in this line being the walls and ceilings in the Berlin City Hall (1870) and the colossal figures symbolizing the warlike virtues at the School of Cadets at Lichterfelde (1878).
Louis Gustave Cambier is a Belgian painter-painter and sculptor, member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.
Cambier studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and was a co-founder of the Brussels artists' group Le Labeur. During the First World War, he worked as a professor of sculpture at the Académie de Nice and one of his students was Henri Matisse.
Cambier painted landscapes, still lifes and genre scenes, as well as portraits of famous contemporaries, including, for example, a portrait of Winston Churchill.
Juan Carrafa was a Spanish cartographer and engraver who worked in Madrid in the 19th century.
He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Among others, Juan Carrafa is known for a large work of more than one hundred engravings depicting the Spanish costume of various regions of Spain, which he produced from drawings by the artist José Ribelles (1778-1835). The prints depict a variety of professions, including bullfighters, gypsies, sailors, merchants, fishermen, students, porters, etc. The selection was published in Real Calcografía from 1825.
Antoine-Laurent Castellan was a French painter, engraver and architect.
Castellan traveled to Turkey, Greece, Italy and Switzerland. He was the official artist of the mission of Engineer Ferrego to the court of Sultan Selim III, spending several months in Constantinople in 1797. Castellan was a prolific draughtsman, making notes of everything he saw in Constantinople, and also engaged in portrait painting of socialites, which he captured in numerous works he published on his return to France. His best-known work is The Manners, Customs and Costumes of the Otomans and a Brief Account of their History, published in 1812.
Charles Joshua Chaplin was a French painter and printmaker.
He studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and initially painted realistic landscapes. Later, however, Chaplin became known for his elegant neo-Roco portraits of young women. These sensual images of women and young girls posing erotically in misty surroundings and often dressed in transparent clothing attracted the interest of high society and the aristocracy of the time.
In the mid-19th century, Chaplin's works were a great success, he was often exhibited in the salons in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Arts in Great Britain and was one of the most popular painters of the Second Empire.