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(y ´hän fr ´dr kh o´v rb k) (KEY) , 1789–1869, German religious painter. Expelled from the Vienna Academy because of his opposition to its class...
(zhäN bät st´ dr ´) (KEY) , 1686–1755, French animal painter. A pupil of Largillière, he became court painter to Louis XV, recording the kingâ...
1761–1807, English portrait and historical painter. Opie showed a remarkable talent as a young man. He became the protégé of the poet John Wolcot,...
1878–1931, British portrait and genre painter, b. Ireland. He is best known for his scenes of Irish daily life, his paintings and sketches of life a...
( rkä´nyä) (KEY) or Arcagnolo (ärkä´ny l ) (KEY) , c.1308–1368, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect, whose original name was Andrea d...
(äm d ´ zäNfäN´) (KEY) , 1886–1966, French art theorist and painter. He criticized the cubists after 1912 for creating a merely decorative art...