These painters are described as living in Europe at periods between the late 15th and late 17th centuries. The greatest of them, Aldrovandus Magnus, was a serial history-painter, whose ambitions would ...

Edward Henry Corbould (1815-1905) was a British artist, historical painter, and watercolorist. Born into a family of painters, Corbould studied under a member of the Royal Academy and was later ...

The immensely talented Gottlieb was born in 1856 in the town of Drohobycz (today in Ukraine) and studied under the celebrated Polish historical painter Jan Matejko. Despite having died at only 23 – ...

Ferdinand Bauer is regarded as one of the world’s greatest natural history painters. A large collection of his work has been brought together for the first time, allowing the world to examine it close ...

Vanessa Finney explores the lives, careers and legacy of Harriet and Helena Scott, who she says are colonial Sydney’s finest natural history painters.

Text Also, this is a veduta with a very rich genre staffage. In the foreground you can see the life of the court, to which Canaletto as the royal painter belonged, so these are historical figures, ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a WPW member was selected to be part of a history-making endeavor. Women Painters of Washington applicants must go through a rigorous jurying process, Olney said, ...

Etty was the most successful history painter in Britain in the first half of the 19th century. He grounded his work in academic discipline, spending long hours painting from the live model, and in his ...

But on the other hand, without detailed, exact knowledge of the male body in movement, she would never ever become a great history painter. Even Kauffman, who was so determined to be taken ...

With these materials James Aitken (otherwise known as James Hill, James Hinde or “Jack the Painter”) intended to destroy the Royal Naval Dockyard and much of the shipping that lay at anchor in the ...