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1552–1614, Italian painter, daughter of Prospero Fontana. She was a fashionable portrait painter in Bologna and Rome noted for her sensitivity in co...
(zhäN bäpt st´ dwär´ d täy´) (KEY) , 1848–1912, French painter. He studied under J. L. E. Meissonier and served in the Franco-Russian war. F...
(shärl-fräNswä´ d b ny ´) (KEY) , 1817–78, French landscape painter. He went to Italy early in life and later studied in Paris with Paul Delaro...
(v n k) (KEY) , family of Flemish painters, the brothers Hubert van Eyck, c.1370–1426, and Jan van Eyck, c.1390–1441.
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1637–88, English poet and miniature painter. There were several editions of his Poems and Songs (1674). One of his self-portraits is in the Victoria...
(äNtwän´ t ks´) (KEY) , 1808–88, French sculptor, painter, and architect. A pupil of Ingres, he is best known as a sculptor. Among his works ar...