Biography Category
(ônôr ´ d my ´) (KEY) , 1808–79, French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor. Daumier was the greatest social satirist of his day. Son of a Marse...
1537–1619, English miniature painter, son of a goldsmith. Trained first as a jeweler, he was court painter to Elizabeth and to James I. The first tr...
1878–1955, German painter. After a stay in Paris, where he was influenced by Cézanne’s works, Hofer settled in Berlin (1913). He developed a rest...
(py r g ty r´) (KEY) , 1732?–c.1813, French metalworker. The greatest artist of ornamental bronzes of the period of Louis XVI, he produced a vast n...
(dyäs d lä p nyä´) (KEY) , 1808–76, French landscape and figure painter of the Barbizon school, b. Bordeaux, of Spanish parents. Mainly self-ta...
(zhäN bät st´ gröz) (KEY) , 1725–1805, French genre and portrait painter. He studied at the Académie Royale and won recognition in 1755 with hi...