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• - Exerpt from book about the 19th Century painter and photographer.
  
• - Abstract: Born in Liverpool in 1845 to a moderately successful artist. In the 1860s Crane began to take an active interest in politics as a supporter of the Liberal Party. His reputation as an artist grew and he was recognised as a talented book illustrat
  
• - Brief biography of the Gothic Revivalist includes descriptions of his major works.
  
• - Abstract: Son of a draper from Westminster, he was born on 28th November, 1757. After marrying Catherine Boucher on 18th August 1782, Blake became a freelance engraver. The first of his illuminated works, Natural Religion, appeared in 1788. An exhibition
  
• - Brief biographical sketch of illustrator and political cartoonist of the 19th Century.
  
• - Abstract: Son of an engineer, born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1854 he worked as an artist in Ireland but in 1876 he moved to England and found work with the Illustrated London News. Over the next eight years he developed a reputation as an outstanding draugh
  
• - Illustrator of books about contemporary London costumes and daily life, he died while in jail for unpaid debts (1769-1843).
  
• - Portraitist (1727-1788) who developed the theme of group portraits set in a realistic landscape.
  
• - Brief biographical sketch of the 19th century architect.
  
• - Short biography of the astronomer, scientist and architect who designed and built St. Paul's Cathedral.
  
• - Abstract: Born in Germany in 1849 his family moved to England and in 1857 settled in Southampton. Herkomer studied at Southampton School of Art, the Munich Academy and the South Kensington Art School. He left Kensington Art School and 1867 and started a c
  
• - Abstract: Born the son of a clergyman, near Plymouth in 1723, he was sent to London to study art in 1740. After a period in Rome (1749-52), Reynolds returned to England where he established himself as one of country's leading portrait painters. When the R
  
• - Exerpt from book about the humourist and artist available from Amazon.com.
  
• - Abstract: Born at Killingbeck Hall, Seacroft, on 8th May 1781. Educated in York, he became an artist. He developed a reputation as a good artist and in 1814 and a local bookseller commissioned a series of paintings for the book Costume of Yorkshire. The b
  
• - Abstract: Son of a Latin teacher born in Smithfield, London, in 1697. By 1720 he had his own business engraving book plates and painting portraits. In 1726 he published The Punishments of Lemuel Gulliver, a satire on the prime minister, Robert Walpole. In
  
• - Brief notes on the English architect of the Picturesque movement.
  
• - Abstract: Born in London in 1792. Like his father, he became an architect and the buildings he designed included the hall and library of Lincoln's Inn, Euston Railway Station, Goldsmiths' Hall and Limerick Cathedral. Philip Hardwick died in 1870.
  
• - Abstract: Viscount Folkestone and Lord Romney, founded the Society of Arts in 1754. The main objective of the society was to promote the arts, productivity and trade. It was the first organisation ever set up in Britain to benefit art and science. By 1762
  
• - Abstract: Born in Mainburg, Bavaria on 23rd April, 1788. After studying art painting and lithography in Munich, he soon found work producing lithographs for printers. In 1816, Scarf decided to emigrate to England. In the 1840s Scharf tended to concentrat
  
• - Brief history of the 19th Century architect.
  
• - Abstract: The ninth of eleven children, was born in Australia in 1880. He became a regular contributor to the Sydney Bulletin, with conservative politicians being the main target for his satire. In 1909 Dyson moved to London and immediately found work wit
  
• - Artist who produced a series of paintings of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Includes illustration of the Liverpool Crown Street Station. (1811-1877)
  
• - Brief history of the 19th Century artist.
  
• - Brief biographical sketch of the 19th Century lithographer, caricaturist and political commentator. Grandfather to Arthur Conan Doyle.
  
• - Abstract: Born in London in 1844, he was apprenticed as a draughtsman in a marine engineering works in Greenwich at the age of 16. As a young man Sambourne had been a supporter of the Liberal Party but as he grew older he moved to the right. By the time h
  
• - Abstract: Son of a barber and wigmaker, born in London in 1775, as a child he made money by colouring engravings for his father's customers. At the age of 14 he entered the Royal Academy and exhibited his first drawing, A View of the Archbishop's Palace
  
• - Abstract: Son of a jeweller born in 1840. After a brief education at the North London Collegiate School, Walker found employment in an architect's office. In 1863 he exhibited his first oil paintings at the Royal Academy. By 1872 Walker, whose paintings s
  
• - Abstract: Born near Leeds in 1864. Orphaned at the age of nine, he endured several years of poverty moving from one job to another and ended up begging on the streets. May was a talented artist and he eventually discovered he could make a living by drawin
  
• - Abstract: Born in Yorkshire in 1684, he studied painting in Rome (1709-19) and played an important role in introducing the Palladian style of architecture into Britain. He was a versatile designer. His work included the interiors of Burlington House and C
  
• - Abstract: Born in Bishopsgate, London, in August 1823. His father, Michael Solomon, was the first Jewish person to be admitted to the freedom of the city of London. At the age of thirteen he became a student at the Sass School of Art and three years later
  
• - Abstract: Son of domestic servants born in Alfield in 1819. After brief training in art at Saint Margaret's School, Dover, he attended the Henry Sass Academy in London. In 1845 he was appointed an associate of the Royal Academy and was made a full member
  
• - Brief biographical sketch of the 18th Century architect.
  
• - Abstract: Born in Liverpool in 1843. Fildes shared his grandmother's concern for the poor and in 1869 joined the staff of the Graphic magazine, edited by the social reformer, William Luson Thomas. Fildes soon became a popular artist and by 1870 he had giv
  
• - Abstract: Son of a successful businessman, born in London in July 1756, he attended Eton and the Royal Academy. In 1777 he opened a studio in Wardour Street where he established himself as a portrait painter. He often had his work published in journals s
  
• - Abstract: Son of a customs house officer, born in Edinburgh on 5th October, 1764, he worked as an etcher in Edinburgh but at the age of twenty-one he moved to London. At first he found employment illustrating cheap books and chapbooks. In the 1790s he dev
  
• - Abstract: Born in Strasbourg in 1832, he became a book illustrator in Paris and his commissions included work by Rabelais, Balzac and Dante. In 1853 he was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. This was followed by other work for British publishers
  
• - Abstract: The first president, Joshua Reynolds, established it as a school to train artists in drawing, painting, sculpture and architecture. The Royal Academy also gave an opportunity for artists to exhibit and sell their work at an annual Summer Exhibi
  
• - Cartoonist noted for strong conservative political views. (1861-1945)
  
• - Royal painter, knighted in 1815, and past president of the Royal Academy (1769-1830).
  
• - Abstract: Born in London on 27th September, 1792 to a caricaturist who died as a result of his alcoholism in 1811. After a brief education he set himself up as a caricaturist and was soon selling his drawings to over twenty different printsellers. Like ma
  
• - Abstract: Son of a poet, was born in Edinburgh on 2nd October, 1713, at thirteen he entered Edinburgh High School where he excelled at languages. In 1729 he entered the recently established Academy of St Luke in Edinburgh followed by a period as pupil in
  
• - Brief biographical sketch of the 19th Century painter.
  
• - Biography of political cartoonist who pioneered what became known as "picture politics".
  
• - Journalist's biography and bibliography including comments on each work.
  
• - Abstract: Son of a cartoonist, born in London in in 1824 and educated at home by his father he began having work published at the age of fifteen. Doyle, like his father, was a devout Roman Catholic, and in 1850 he resigned from Punch Magazine in protest o
  
• - Brief biography of the Leeds born Victorian artist.
  
• - Lithograph artist who produced the book, Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway. Includes illustration. (1814-1896)
  
• - Exerpt from book about the caricaturist.
  
• - Brief history of the lithographer and magazine publisher.
  
• - Brief biographical sketch of the former staff cartoonist with Punch magazine. Best known for his illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872).
  
• - Brief biography of the artist's life and work. Includes his Pre-Raphaelite picture 'Work'.
  
• - Biography and bibliography of "social realist" painter including comments on each work.
  
  

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