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Maud Briggs Knowlton (March 17, 1870 – July 15, 1956) was an American watercolorist, still-life painter, art instructor, craftsperson, printmaker, and museum administrator. She and her friend Alice Swett were the first two women artists in the Monhegan Island artists' colony. [1] She was the first director of the Currier Museum of Art.
Briggs was born at Walworth, the son of John Hobart Briggs, a post office official and Mary nee Oldham.He was a Great grandson of Vincent Perronet.His cousin was Amelia Opie (née Alderson), the wife of artist John Opie (whose portrait was later painted by Briggs).
Katharine Mary Briggs (8 November 1898 – 15 October 1980) was a British folklorist and writer, who wrote The Anatomy of Puck, the four-volume A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language, and various other books on fairies and folklore.
Mabel Lee Hankey (1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory; Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer; J M Balliol Salmon (1868–1953) – British painter; Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954 ...
Mary Griggs Burke (June 20, 1916 – December 8, 2012) was an American art collector. Over fifty years, Burke acquired the largest private collection of Japanese art outside Japan . [ 1 ] Her collection grew so large that she housed it in a separate apartment adjacent to her own on the Upper East Side of Manhattan . [ 1 ]
Snowflake Bentley is a medium-size book, measuring 10 ½ by 10 ¼ inches, and having 16 pages of illustrations. The majority of the pictures are large colorful prints, the typical art style of artist Mary Azarian, and each picture summarizes the wording for that page.
Mary Blatchley Briggs (née, Blatchley; January 1, 1846 – November 17, 1910) was an American writer and women's organizer of the long nineteenth century. She served for eleven years as assistant secretary, superintendent, and reporter for the press, and manager of county, state and inter-state fairs.
Forrester led an attack on the Manchester Art Gallery on 3 April 1913. She, Evelyn Manesta and Annie Briggs waited until the gallery was closing and then proceeded to break the glass on many of the most valuable paintings. The three attacked the glass of thirteen paintings including two by John Everett Millais and two by George Frederick Watts ...