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(mät ´äs grün´ vält) (KEY) , c.1475–1528, German painter of religious subjects. His original name was Mathis Gothart Neithart. Although he ass...
(both: gä´br l m t´sü) (KEY) , 1630?–1667, Dutch genre painter, b. Leiden. In 1657 he moved to Amsterdam, where he remained for the rest of his...
1787–1849, English painter. He studied with Sir Thomas Lawrence and later in Italy, where Venetian painting made a lasting impression on him. Etty i...
(l s´ m l n´d th) (KEY) , 1716–80, Spanish painter. He assisted his father, artist Francisco Melendez, until 1737, when he began studying with Le...
(both: kä´s m r mäly ´v ch) (KEY) , 1878–1935, Russian painter. Malevich worked first in a style related to fauvism and then as a cubist before ...
1697–1764, English painter, satirist, engraver, and art theorist, b. London. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a silver-plate engraver. He soon...