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Alphonse Legros
Alphonse Legros (8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later took British citizenship. He was important as a teacher in the British etching revival. Life Legros was born in Dijon; his father was an accountant, and came from the neighbouring village of Véronnes. While young, Legros visited the farms of his relatives, and the peasants and landscapes of that part of France are the subjects of many of his works. He was sent to the art school at Dijon with a view to qualifying for a trade, and was apprenticed to Maître Nicolardo, house decorator and painter of images. In 1851, Legros left for Paris to take another situation; but passing through Lyon he worked for six months as journeyman wall-painter under the decorator Beuchot, who was painting the chapel of Cardinal Bonald in the cathedral. In Paris, Legros studied with Charles-Antoine Cambon, scene-painter and decorator of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wilkie Wynfield
David Wilkie Wynfield (1837 – 26 May 1887) was a British painter and photographer. Wynfield was distantly related to the Scottish artist David Wilkie, after whom he was named. Born in India, he was originally intended by his family for the priesthood, but instead chose art as a profession. He studied at Leigh's art school in the 1850s and his first painting was accepted for the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1859. Wynfield associated with a group of other artists who became known as the St. John's Wood Clique. Their work typically took the form of anecdotal historical narratives. Wynfield himself painted many works set in Medieval or Renaissance Europe, concentrating on romantic problems of couples. In the 1860s Wynfield became interested in photography. He developed a technique of shallow-focus portrait photography which he passed on to Julia Margaret Cameron, who later acknowledged him as the main influence on her own work, writing that "to my feeling about his be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Bonvin
François Bonvin (November 22, 1817 – December 19, 1887) was a French Realism (arts), realist painter. Early life Bonvin was born in humble circumstances in Paris, the son of a police officer and a seamstress. When he was four years old his mother died of tuberculosis and young François was left in the care of an old woman who underfed him. Soon his father married another seamstress and brought the child back into the household. Nine additional children were born (one of whom was Léon Bonvin). The family's resources were severely strained, and to make matters worse his stepmother took to abusing and undernourishing François. The young Bonvin started drawing at an early age. His potential was recognized by a friend of the family, who paid for him to attend a school for drawing instruction at age eleven. Bonvin attended the Ecole de Dessin in Paris from 1828 until 1830,Oxford Art Online. when his father apprenticed him to a Typesetting, printer. Bonvin later studied at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait De Dalou Par Alphonse Legros (gravure)
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer. History Prehistorical portraiture Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle East and demonstrate that the prehistoric population took great care in burying their ancestors below their homes. The skulls denote some of the earliest sculptural examples of portraiture in the history of art. Historical portraitur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Gaucherel
Léon Gaucherel (21 May 1816 – 7 January 1886) was a French painter and etcher. Born at Paris, Gaucherel became a pupil of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. His first engravings were to illustrate archeological publications, and next he began to produce etchings of old master and contemporary paintings. After establishing his reputation, Gaucherel took pupils in Paris, and among those he taught were Victor Gustave Lhuillier, Louis Monzies, Edmond Ramus, and Adolphe Lalauze. His work on the ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'' with his fellow printmaker Léopold Flameng helped to lift the publication's reputation. In his ''Etchings by French and English Artists'' (1874) Philip Gilbert Hamerton included work by Gaucherel and Alphonse Legros.Philip Gilbert Hamerton, ''Etchings by French and English Artists'' (London: Seeley, 1874) Gallery File:La Roche-Maurice A.jpg, La Roche-Maurice, c. 1840 File:Léon Gaucherel Eglise de Pencran.jpg, Notre-Dame de Pencran, 1844 File:Adrien Dauzats after Léon Gauch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton (10 September 1834 – 4 November 1894) was a British artist, art critic and author. He was a keen advocate of contemporary printmaking and most of his writings concern the graphic arts. He was an important theorist of the English Etching Revival. Early life Hamerton was born at Laneside, a hamlet near Shaw and Crompton, Lancashire, England. His mother died giving birth to him, and his father died ten years later. When he was about five, he was sent to live with his two aunts at an estate called the Hollins on the edge of Burnley, where he attended Burnley Grammar School. Career Hamerton's first literary attempt, a volume of poems, was unsuccessful, leading him to devote himself for a time entirely to landscape painting; he camped out in the Scottish Highlands, where he eventually rented the former island of Inistrynich in Loch Awe, upon which he settled with his wife Eugénie Gindriez, the daughter of a French republican magistrate, in 1858. Disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elinor Hallé
Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé (1856 – 18 May 1926) was a British sculptor and inventor. She is known for her work on medals and for devising the idea of creating plaster casts as splints for broken limbs during the First World War. Life Halle was born in Manchester in 1856. Her parents were Sir Charles Hallé and his first wife, Marie. Her father started the The Hallé, Hallé Orchestra. Her French mother died in 1866. Her older brother was the painter Charles Edward Hallé (born c. 1847). Hallé studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art under Alphonse Legros. She was a member of the group of medallists known as the Slade Girls. Her medal of Cardinal Newman won top prize at the 1885 International Inventions Exhibition. Hallé did the modelling for a number of important awards and this included the 1890 Royal Geographical Society Medal. During the First World War Halle volunteered with the Surgical Requisites Association. The association supplied medical dressings and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Mothersole
Jessie Mothersole (1874–1958) was an English archaeologist, artist, and author. Early life and education Mothersole was born in Essex in 1874 and trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1891/92 until 1896. During this time Mothersole was awarded prizes and certificates in drawing from life and antique drawing. From 1899 Mothersole studied with and then worked with the artist Henry Holiday as his studio assistant and was closely associated with him and his family until his death in 1927. Holiday wrote enthusiastically in his memoirs about Mothersole's talent with stained glass and decorative arts and intended to bequeath her his collections of cartoons and drawings. While at the Slade School of Fine Arts, Mothersole was also taught by Alphonse Legros and by her own account in 1892 when she went to speak to him found a discarded self-portrait which had been torn into eight pieces. Mothersole kept the pieces and later donated the drawing to the Victoria and Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Casella Sisters
Ella and Nelia Casella (1858-1946 and 1859-1950) were British artists, sculptors, and medalists, known for their collaborative work. Both sisters worked frequently in wax, creating portraits which are now held by the Victoria and Albert Museum. They worked together on a variety of illustrations and medal commissions. Career Ella (3 January 1858 – 3 September 1946) and Nelia Casella (23 July 1859 – 29 April 1950) studied at the Slade School of Art under the tutelage of Alphonse Legros. Commissions to the sisters were usually answered in correspondence by 'Miss Casella' and so it is difficult to know which sister was the correspondent. Jackson-Gwilt Medal In 1895, the Casella sisters were commissioned by the Royal Astronomical Society to create the medal for the Jackson-Gwilt Prize in Astronomy. Artwork Ella Casella * Relief of St. George and the Dragon, 1897, Victoria and Albert Museum * Woman in Renaissance Costume, 1890-1900, Victoria and Albert Museum * Stained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Poynter
Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet (20 March 183626 July 1919) was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy. Life Poynter was the son of architect Ambrose Poynter. He was born in Paris, France, though his parents returned to Britain soon after his birth. He was educated at Brighton College and Ipswich School, but left school early for reasons of ill health, spending winters in Madeira and Rome. In 1853, he met Frederick Leighton in Rome, who made a great impression on the 17-year-old Poynter. On his return to London he studied at Leigh's Academy in Newman Street and the Royal Academy Schools, before going to Paris to study in the studio of the classicist painter Charles Gleyre where James McNeill Whistler and George du Maurier were fellow-students. In 1866 Poynter married the famous beauty Agnes MacDonald, daughter of the Rev. G. B. MacDonald of Wolverhampton, and they had three children. Her sister Georgiana married t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University College, London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = £1.544 billion (2019/20) , chancellor = Anne, Princess Royal(as Chancellor of the University of London) , provost = Michael Spence , head_label = Chair of the council , head = Victor L. L. Chu , free_label = Visitor , free = Sir Geoffrey Vos , academic_staff = 9,100 (2020/21) , administrative_staff = 5,855 (2020/21) , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , coordinates = , campus = Urban , city = London, England , affiliations = , colours = Purple and blue celeste , nickname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Kensington School Of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offers postgraduate degrees in art and design to students from over 60 countries. History The RCA was founded in Somerset House in 1837 as the Government School of Design or Metropolitan School of Design. Richard Burchett became head of the school in 1852. In 1853 it was expanded and moved to Marlborough House, and then, in 1853 or 1857, to South Kensington, on the same site as the South Kensington Museum. It was renamed the Normal Training School of Art in 1857 and the National Art Training School in 1863. During the later 19th century it was primarily a teacher training college; pupils during this period included George Clausen, Christopher Dresser, Luke Fildes, Kate Greenaway and Gertrude Jekyll. In September 1896 the school receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Dijon
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon is a museum of fine arts opened in 1787 in Dijon, France. It is one of the main and oldest museums of France. It is located in the historic city centre of Dijon and housed in the former ducal palace which was the headquarters of the Burgundy State in the 15th century. When the duchy was assimilated to the Kingdom of France, the palace became the house of the King. In the 17th century it became the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy following a project by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Since 2006, the museum has been in a process of full renovation and extension. First, the work focused on one part including the renovated route “Middle-Ages – Renaissance”, inaugurated on September 7, 2013. The fully-renovated museum displaying 1500 works of art in 50 different rooms was inaugurated on May 17, 2019, in the presence of the Minister for Culture Franck Riester, the former French President François Hollande and the Mayor François Rebsamen. History o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
