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After the large, bravura paintings that launched his career, His settled into a steady production of landscapes of more modest dimensions, exhibiting new work at the Paris Salon virtually every year of his long career. The Mediterranean coast of France is sometimes the subject, but tranquil, sunlit rivers, especially the Yonne, predominate.
Wen Shu or Wen Chu (Chinese: 文俶; 1595-1634) was a Chinese illustrator and painter who worked under the art name Hanshan and was known for her paintings of flora and small insects during the Ming dynasty. [1] She is considered the finest flower painter of the period. [2] Her work was popular at the time, and consistently sells well at auction.
Margaret Coen (4 April 1909 – 27 August 1993) was an Australian artist, known for her watercolours, paintings of flowers, landscapes and still life works. Her paintings and personal papers are held in national collections.
He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. His work had a great influence on tropical garden design in the 20th century. Water gardens were a popular theme in his work. He was deftly able to transfer traditional artistic expressions such as graphic design, tapestry and folk art into his landscape designs. He also ...
Nicholson was born Rosa Winifred Roberts in Oxford on 21 December 1893. [1] [2] [3] She was the eldest of the three children of the Liberal Party politician Charles Henry Roberts and Lady Cecilia Maude Howard, daughter of the politician George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, and of the activist Rosalind Howard. [1]
Franz Albert Bischoff (January 14, 1864 – February 5, 1929) was an American artist known primarily for his China painting, floral paintings and California landscapes. He was born in Steinschönau, Austria (now known as Kamenický Šenov, Czech Republic). [1] He immigrated to the United States as a teenager where he became a naturalized citizen.
In mid-1786, on the recommendation of Jacquin, Bauer accompanied the Oxford Professor John Sibthorp as an artist on a field trip to Greece and Asia Minor. They returned to England in December 1787 with over 1,500 sketches of plants, animals, birds and landscapes, some of which appeared in Flora Graeca. The Latin introduction to this work states ...
When he was fifteen, he met the English-born landscape artist Robert William Wood (1889–1979) at the store. [5] Salinas went to work in Wood's studio in 1925, where he learned the basics of being a professional painter. He stretched Wood's canvasses, and learned to frame paintings, how to mix paints and how to prepare canvas under Wood's ...