Alfred Sisley
(b Paris, 30 Oct. 1839; d Moret-sur-Loing, nr. Fontainebleau, 29 Jan. 1899).Anglo-French Impressionist painter; although he is generally regarded as French, his parents were English and he was a ...
Claude Monet
(1840–1926)French Impressionist painter. He is regarded as the archetypal Impressionist in that his devotion to the ideals of the movement was unwavering throughout his long career, and it is fitting ...
Frédéric Bazille
(b Montpellier, 6 Dec. 1841; d Beaune-la-Rolande, 28 Nov. 1870).French painter, one of the early Impressionist group. In 1862 he became a student at Gleyre’s studio in Paris and ...
George Du Maurier
(1834–96),artist and writer. He contributed to Punch and other periodicals, and illustrated editions of Mrs Gaskell, Meredith, Hardy, and H. James. He wrote humorous verse, including ‘The History of ...
James McNeill Whistler
(1834–1903)American painter and etcher, active mainly in England, where he was one of the key artistic figures of his period. He was celebrated as a wit and a dandy as well as an artist and he loved ...
orientalism
Architecture and design drawing on Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, Ottoman and the Eastern styles, such as Chinoiserie or the Hindoo style.Conner (1979);Crinson (1996);Honour (1961);Impey (1977)
Paul Delaroche
(b Paris, 17 July 1797; d Paris, 4 Nov. 1856).French painter, one of the leading pupils of Gros. He achieved European fame with his melodramatic, Hollywoodesque history scenes, engravings of which ...
Pierre Auguste Renoir
(1841–1919)French painter and (late in his career) sculptor. He was one of the original Impressionists and is now one of the best loved, for his characteristic subjects—pretty children, flowers, ...
Sir Edward Poynter
(b Paris, 20 Mar. 1836; d London, 26 July 1919).English painter and administrator, son of the architect Ambrose Poynter, and great-grandson of the sculptor Thomas Banks. He formed his academic style ...