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  1. Berthon, Paul Paul Berthon (1872-1909) was a French artist who produced primarily posters and lithographs in the Art Nouveau style. Berthon studied as a painter in Villefranche-sur-Saône before moving to Paris. He later enrolled at the Ecole Normale d'Enseignement de Dessin and received lessons in painting from Luc-Olivier Merson and lessons in decorative arts from Eugène Grasset. Grasset had a far greater influence on him, and he may be regarded as his pupil. Berthon's work is in the style of Art ...
  2. Collier, John John Maler Collier (1850-1934) was a British painter and writer. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy starting in 1875. Collier was from a talented and successful family. His grandfather, John Collier, was a Quaker merchant who became a member ...
  3. Correa, Alvim Henrique Alvim Corrêa (1876-1910), known professionally as Alvim Correa, was a Brazilian illustrator of military and science fiction books. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, and died in Brussels. He is best known for his illustrations of a French translation of H. G. Wells's novel 'The War of the Worlds'. Corrêa went to live in Europe in 1892 at the age of 16, shortly after the proclamation of the Republic in Brazil, taken by José Mendes de Oliveira Castro, his stepfather. In 1903,...
  4. Copping, Harold Harold Copping (1863-1932) was a British artist best known as an illustrator of biblical scenes. Born in Camden Town in 1863, he was the second son of journalist Edward Copping (1829–1904) and Rose Heathilla (née Prout) (1832-1877), the daughter of John Skinner Prout, the watercolour artist. Harold Copping entered London's Royal Academy where he won a Landseer Scholarship to study in Paris. He quickly became established as a successful painter and illustrator, living in Croydon and Horn...
  5. Constable, John John Constable (1776-1837) was a British landscape painter who has left an indelible mark on the history of Western Art. Born in June 1776 in East Bergholt, Suffolk, Constable was the son of a prosperous corn merchant. His early years in the picturesque countryside of Suffolk profoundly influenced his artistic vision. Constable is best known for his idyllic and naturalistic landscapes, capturing the beauty of rural England with an unprecedented level of detail and atmospheric effect. Unlike ...
  6. Collinson, James James Collinson (1825-1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. He was born at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and was the son of a bookseller. He entered the Royal Academy Schools, where he was a fellow student of Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 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 t...
  7. Collins, Charles Allston Charles Allston Collins (1828-1873) was a British painter, writer, and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Collins was born in Hampstead, north London, the son of landscape and genre painter William Collins. His older brother was the novelist Wilkie Collins. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. Collins met John Everett Millais and became influenced by the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites, completing his painting Berengaria's Alarm in 1850. This depicted...
  8. Collings, Albert Albert Henry Collings (1868-1947) was an English artist most notable for his portraiture. Collings was born, trained, and lived all his life in London. Working in oils, water-colour and pastel, he specialised in figure subjects and portraits, for which he received a number of official commissions. He exhibited for many years at the Royal Society of British Artists, showing a total of 98 works and being elected a member in 1897. He also supported the Royal Academy (29 works, 1896–1938) and the...
  9. Collins, William Wiehe William Wiehe Collins (1862-1951) was an English architectural and landscape genre painter. Between 1884 and 1885, Collins studied at the Lambeth School of Art, following which he attended the Académie Julian in Paris between 1886 and 1887. From 1886 he exhibited at many of the London galleries including the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists (elected 1906) and the Royal Institution (elected 1898). He served in the Dardanelles and Egypt in the Navy during World War I. He travelle...
  10. Christiansen, Hans Hans Christiansen (1866-1945) was a German craftsman and painter of the Jugendstil. He was born in Flensburg, Germany, in 1866 and died in Wiesbaden in 1945. He was one of the founders of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony.
  11. Courbet, Gustave Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make ...
  12. Dadd, Richard Richard Dadd (1817-1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in Bethlem and Broadmoor hospitals. Dadd was born at Chatham, Kent, on 1 August 1817. He was educated at King's School, Rochester, where his aptitude for drawing was evident at an e...
  13. Crane, Walter Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an influential English artist and illustrator, renowned for his vast contribution to children's book illustration and also the arts and crafts movement in the late 19th century. Born in August 1845 in Liverpool, Crane was the second son of the portrait painter Thomas Crane. He displayed artistic talent from a young age and was apprenticed to the wood engraver William James Linton, which significantly shaped his career. Crane's work is characterised by its...
  14. Crosby, F. Gordon Frederick Gordon Crosby (1885-1943), known as Gordon Crosby, was an English automotive illustrator. He worked for the magazine Autocar for most of his life. His illustrations and paintings reflect the excitement and glamour surrounding the automotive industry's birth and early development. Crosby had no formal training as an artist, although he did attend life classes at art school after starting his professional career. In 1908 he started his career as a draughtsman in The Daimler Motor ...
  15. Cuneo, Cyrus Cyrus Cincinato Cuneo ROI (1879-1916), known as Ciro, was an American-born English visual artist, best known for painting. He was born into an Italian American family of artists and musicians. His parents Giovanni (John) and Annie Cuneo, his brothers Rinaldo (1877-1939) and Egisto (1890-1972), and his son Terence Cuneo (1907-1996) also became artists. The family lived on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco's Italian American neighbourhood of North Beach. Cuneo's first published drawings a...
  16. Daff, Lily Lily Attey Daff (1885-1945) was a British-born designer and artist who worked in New Zealand and published watercolour paintings and line drawings of many native New Zealand birds and flowers. Lily Daff was born in Upton, London, on 16 March 1885. She took courses in drawing and painting at the London Polytechnic but was also known to have completed at least one course at King Edward Technical College in Dunedin. After her polytechnic training, Daff worked as an illustrator for Christmas card...