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  1. Leyendecker, Joseph Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) was a prominent American illustrator and painter, renowned for his distinctive artistic style that played a crucial role in shaping early 20th-century visual culture. Born in 1874 in Germany, Leyendecker moved to the United States with his family as a child. He quickly made a name for himself in the world of commercial art, particularly for his work that graced the covers of magazines, advertisements and posters. Leyendecker's style is characterise...
  2. Liljefors, Bruno Bruno Andreas Liljefors (1860-1939) was a Swedish artist. He is perhaps best known for his nature and animal motifs, especially with dramatic situations. He was the most important and probably most influential Swedish wildlife painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He also drew some sequential picture stories, making him one of the early Swedish comic creators. Liljefors was born in Uppsala, Sweden, to Anders Liljefors and Maria Margareta Lindbäck. His brother was the com...
  3. Lindman, Carl Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856-1928) was a Swedish botanist and botanical artist, the son of Carl Christian Lindman and Sophie Fredrique Löhr. He is best known for his work 'Billeder af Nordens Flora', first published 1901-1905. His father died when Carl was a toddler, while his younger sister was born after their father's death. In 1864 his mother moved to Växjö with her two children, where Carl went to primary school. Despite his musical and artistic talents, his mother steered ...
  4. Bosch, Hieronymous Hieronymous Bosch (c.1450-1516) was a Dutch painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, generally oil on oak wood, mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives. Within his lifetime, his work was collected in the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and widely copied, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell. Little is known of Bosch's life, though there are some recor...
  5. Bock, Thomas Thomas Bock (1790-1855) was an English-Australian artist and an early adopter of photography in Australia. Born in England he was sentenced to transportation in 1823. After gaining his freedom, he set himself up as one of Australia's first professional artists and became well known for his portraits of colonists. As early as 1843 he began taking daguerreotypes in Hobart and became one of the earliest commercial photographers in Australia. Bock was born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, Eng...
  6. Boldini, Giovanni Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting. Boldini was born in Ferrara, Italy on 31 December 1842. He was the son of a painter of religious subjects, and the younger brother of architect Luigi (Louis) Boldini. In 1862, he went to Florence for six years to study and pursue painting...
  7. Bonnard, Pierre Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France. He was a transformative painter and printmaker whose influence endures in the art world today. A leading figure in the Post-Impressionist movement, Bonnard is celebrated for his vibrant colour palettes and adept manipulation of light. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he honed his artistic vision, eventually carving out a unique identity that set him apart from his contemporaries. Bonnard was a founding member ...
  8. Bonsall, Elizabeth Born in Philadelphia, Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall (1861-1956) was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins. Bonsall was the first woman to win the Toppan Prize there in 1885, and its Mary Smith Prize in 1888 and 1897. Bonsall also attended classes at the Drexel Institute in 1897, studying under Howard Pyle. She studied under Castaigne and Collin in Paris. She was a member of the Print Club, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the Plastic Club, located in Philadel...
  9. Borgoni, Mario Mario Borgoni (1869-1936) was an Italian artist who created many travel posters for ENIT, the Italian National Tourism Agency. Founded in 1919, ENIT sponsored many beautiful travel poster advertisements throughout the 20th century, all with their signature ENIT logo stamp. Borgoni created many posters for ENIT in the 1920's & 1930's that typify the traditional travel poster style of the time. Borgoni was both a painter and an illustrator who created many Italian travel posters fo...
  10. Birkenruth, Adolph Adolph Birkenruth (1858-1940) was born in 1858 in Grahamstown, South Africa. His father was a Prussian diamond broker, his mother came from Frankfurt, which is where the family moved back to in the 1860s. There Birkenruth attended the University and further studied in Paris. In the 1880s he moved to London, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy. In addition, he worked as an illustrator for several magazines, including the ‘Black & White’ weekly or the London News. At the time of his dea...
  11. Breton, Jules Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1827-1906) was a 19th-century French realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make him one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence. Breton was born on 1 May 1827 in Courrières, a small Pas-de-Calais village. His father, Marie-Louis Breton, supervised land for a wealthy landowner. His mother died when Jules was four and he ...
  12. Boucher, François François Boucher (1703-1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century. A native of Paris, Boucher was the son of a lesser known painter Nicolas Boucher, who gave him his first artistic training. At the age of seventeen, a painting by Boucher was admire...
  13. Bradley, William H. William Henry Bradley (1868-1962) was an American Art Nouveau illustrator, artist and film director. Nicknamed the "Dean of American Designers" by The Saturday Evening Post, he was the highest-paid American artist of the early 20th century. Bradley was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Aaron Bradley and Sarah Rowland. At the age of 12 he obtained a job as an apprentice for a weekly newspaper, the Iron Agitator, later known as the Iron Ore, in Ishpeming, Michigan. He had moved there wit...
  14. Brett, John John Brett ARA (1831-1902) was a British artist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, mainly notable for his highly detailed landscapes. Brett was born near Reigate on 8 December 1831, the son of an army vet. His sister Rosa Brett was also an artist and during 1850 and 1851 they shared a studio. In 1851 he began lessons in art with James Duffield Harding, a landscape painter. He also studied with Richard Redgrave. In 1853 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, but was more interested in...
  15. Bradley, Edward aka Cuthbert Bede Edward Bradley (1827-1889) was an English clergyman, illustrator and novelist. He was born in Kidderminster and educated at Durham University, from which he took his pen name, Cuthbert Bede, after two of their patron saints. For a year or so he worked in the clergy schools at Kidderminster. In 1850, he was ordained by the Bishop of Ely, Thomas Turton, and appointed to the curacy of Glatton-with-Holme in Huntingdonshire. He remained there for over four years, during which he described for the ...
  16. Boughton, George George Henry Boughton RA (1833-1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer. Boughton was born in Norwich in the UK, the son of farmer William Boughton. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York, where he started his career as a self-taught artist. By the age of 19, Boughton was recognised as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictur...