Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, Volume 1John Denison Champlin Empire State Book Company, 1927 - Painters |
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Page 289 - And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands ? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Page 175 - July 24, 1680. Dutch school; pupil of Rembrandt, whose studio he entered about 1630, and one of his most successful imitators. Lived chiefly at Amsterdam and was made a citizen of that city.
Page 292 - And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did. and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased.
Page v - It is not only a fuller biographical dictionary than now exists of the painters of all times and schools, including prominent contemporaries, but it is as well a dictionary of works; and in a form in which the one branch of information is as immediately accessible as the other. The important paintings of all periods are treated under their own names, in separate articles, in which are given...
Page 177 - During the Franco-Prussian War her studio and residence at By, adjoining the Forest of Fontainebleau, were respected by special order of the Crown Prince of Prussia. Since 1849 she has been director of the Paris Free School of Design for Young Girls, which she founded. " Exempt " from Jury of Admission by special decree, July 27th, 1853.
Page 177 - Pupil of her father, Raymond B. Bonheur. At the age of 4 years commenced to show a passion for drawing. Began by copying in the Louvre; afterwards made studies and sketches near Paris. Her first two pictures exhibited at Bordeaux, 1841, attracted much /attention, and were followed by others which established her world-wide fame. First exhibited at the Salon in 1845. Her painting, "Bosufs Rouges du Cantal," won her her first reward, a gold medal of the third class, 1847.
Page xxx - Ottley, Henry. A biographical and critical dictionary of recent and living painters and engravers; forming a supplement to Bryan's Dictionary of painters and engravers, as edited by G.
Page v - This work founds its claim to a high place in the literature of its art upon the character and comprehensiveness of the information which, through its text and illustrations, it for the first time makes accessible ; the new simplicity of its arrangement ; and the bibliography, of a kind hitherto unattempted, through which it furnishes a key and guide to the whole literature of music.
Page 302 - ... Naples, where he spent two years as pupil of Godfrey Wals. From 1619 to April, 1625, he lived at Rome, working as apprentice and valet to Agostino Tassi, after which he returned to Lorraine by Venice and the Tyrol. At Nancy he found employment in decorating the Chapelle des Carmes, for Duke Charles III, with figures and architectural ornaments, until the middle of the year 1627, when he returned to Rome to remain for the rest of his life. Here he became intimate with Sandarrt. Peter de Laar,...
Page 339 - Line of Beauty,' and his caricature portraits, such as those of 'Lords North and Thurlow.' He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and one of the original members of the Royal Academy, founded 1768. Sandeau, Leonard Sylvain Jules, la-o-nar sel-vari zhiil sah-do, French dramatist: b.