Georges
Seurat was a painter, best known for his unique take on painting. This
well-established painter developed a painting style known as the pointillist
painting method otherwise known as neo-im
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Abbott
Handerson Thayer was an American naturalist and teacher who painted portraits
of mostly figures, animals and landscapes. He is also well recognized today for
his paintings of ethereal angels
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This famous
French Impressionist portrayed a very wide range of subjects- notably
landscapes, still life paintings, and other domestic scenes, as well as a very
large amount of portraits. Berthe Mo
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Alfred
Sisley was an incredibly famous expressionist painter who was born in Paris on
October the 30, 1839 from the family of a well-to-do businesswoman, and when he
was growing up he was preparing
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Chaim
Soutine was born Jewish in Germany in 1843 as the tenth of 11 children in an
extremely poor family and was beaten for drawing- which was forbidden, as he
was Jewish. Soutine offered to draw a
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Charles
Wilson Peale is best known for his portraits of the American Revolution, and
founder of the first ever major museum in the early United States, but
realistically, painting was only one face
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Henri de
Toulouse- Lautrec is an especially eccentric individual. As an aristocratic,
alcoholic dwarf with a louche, devil- may-care lifestyle, Toulouse- Lautrec
found his art style in ways that we
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William Merritt Chase was born in Indiana in 1849, and he was the oldest of six children. When he was only twelve years old, his father tried to bring him into the women's shoe business, but Chase had
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Pieter
Bruegal is considered one of the greatest Flemish painters of the 16th century,
famous for his landscapes that were vigorous, and witty, often with scenes of
peasant life that are particular
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Thomas Gainsborough is an English painter that gained his fame in the field of portraits. His career echoes the opportunities that were becoming apparent to a painter in this time period, as self-port
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When he was
24 years of age, Atkinson Grimshaw (born John Atkinson Grimshaw) decided to
follow his heart, and left his job as a clerk in order to become a painter.
Born in 1836, this English man wa
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Born in
1824, the French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme was and is still able to
captivate numerous of individuals with his works.At the age
of 18, he decided to marry Marie Goupil, the daug
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