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71William Etty — (10 March,1787 ndash; 13 November, 1849) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of nudes. He was born at York. In accordance with the wishes of his father he served seven years of apprenticeship to a printer of Hull. He was, however …
72William Powell Frith — in 1852.Life and careerBorn in Aldfield, North Yorkshire, Frith was encouraged to take up art by his father, a hotelier in Harrogate. He moved to London in 1835 where he began his formal art studies at Sass’s Academy in Charlotte Street, before… …
73John Martin (painter) — John Martin (19 July 1789 ndash; 17 February, 1854) was an important and influential English painter of the nineteenth century. BeginningsMartin was born at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland. He was apprenticed by his father to a… …
74Evelyn De Morgan — (30 August, 1855 – 2 May,1919) was an English Pre Raphaelite painter. She was born Evelyn Pickering. Her parents were of upper middle class. Her father was Percival Pickering QC, the Recorder of Pontefract. Her mother was Anna Maria Wilhelmina… …
75Augustus Egg — Augustus Leopold Egg (21 May 1816 in London, England ndash; 26 March 1863) was a Victorian artist best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the break up of a middle class Victorian family. The son of a wealthy… …
76James Collinson — from 1848 to 1850.Collinson was a devout Christian who was attracted to the devotional and high church aspects of Pre Raphaelitism. A convert to Catholicism, Collinson reverted to high Anglicanism in order to marry Christina Rossetti, but his… …
77Alfred Elmore — (1815 ndash; 1881) was a Victorian history and genre painter. He was born in Cork, Ireland, the son of Dr. John Richard Elmore, a surgeon who retired from the British Army to Clonakilty. His family moved to London, where Elmore studied at the… …
78Frank Holl — (July 4, 1845 ndash; July 31, 1888), English painter, was born in London, and was educated chiefly at University College School.He was a grandson of William Holl, an engraver of note, and the son of Francis Holl, ARA, another engraver, whose… …
79Hubert von Herkomer — Sir Hubert von Herkomer (May 26 1849–March 31 1914), British painter, also a film director and composer, was born at Waal, in Bavaria. Lorenz Herkomer, his father and a wood carver of great ability, left Bavaria in 1851 with his wife and child… …
80Arthur Hughes (artist) — Arthur Hughes (27 January 1831 ndash; 23 December 1915), was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood.BiographyHughes was born in London. His best known paintings are April Love and The Long Engagement ,… …
