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Deborah Hall, 1766, oil on canvas, in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. William Williams (1727 – 27 April 1791) [1] was a British painter and writer who wrote the novel The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, Seaman, which is considered by some to be the first American novel.
"Nightshift" is a 1985 song by the Commodores and the title track from their album of the same name. The song was written by lead singer Walter Orange in collaboration with Dennis Lambert and Franne Golde as a tribute to soul/R&B singers Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye , both of whom died in 1984.
Livingston was born on October 13, 1748, in Poughkeepsie, New York, to Dr. Henry Gilbert Livingston Sr. (1714–1799) and Susannah Storm Conklin (1724–1793). [1] His siblings included Gilbert Livingston, Reverend John Henry Livingston, Cornelia Livingston Van Kleeck, Catherine Elizabeth Livingston Mifflin, Joanna Livingston Schenck, Susan Livingston Duyckinck, Alida Livingston Woolsey ...
William Roderick James (June 6, 1892 – September 3, 1942) [1] was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing Smoky the Cowhorse , for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal , [ 2 ] and numerous "cowboy" stories for adults and children.
William Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, near Ripon in the then West Riding of Yorkshire on 9 January 1819. He had originally intended to be an auctioneer. [5] His mother was Jane Frith, née Powell (1779–1851). Frith was encouraged to take up art by his father, a hotelier in Harrogate.
Abstract Painting in Canada. Douglas & McIntyre. ISBN 1-55365-394-7. Sharpe, William C. New York Nocturne: The City After Dark In Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008. Simpson, Marc and others. Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly ...
Trafalgar by William Haysham Overend. This painting was displayed posthumously in the Royal Academy in 1898. Overend found it difficult at first to earn his living as a painter. [7] His first successful submission to the Royal Academy was in 1872, and by 1880 he had exhibited twice with both the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists ...
William and Mabel Nicholson had four children: the celebrated painter Ben (1894–1982); (John) Anthony (1897–1918), who died of wounds in France during the First World War; Annie Mary "Nancy" (1899–1978), artist and wife of the poet Robert Graves; and the architect and designer Christopher "Kit" (1904–1948).