Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1616-1680
Dutch painter and draughtsman. He was a pupil and prominent follower of Rembrandt in Amsterdam. His reputation and fame are based on his history paintings, which, though successful at the time, Related Paintings of Ferdinand bol :. | Portrait of a Young Man with a Sword | Portrait of Elisabeth Facobsdr.Bas (mk33) | Governors of the Wine Merchants Guild | Jacobs Dream | Lieutenant-Admiral-General of the United Provinces | Related Artists:
Franciscus Gysbrechts(1672 -1676 ) - Painter
Jean-Pierre-Alexandre Antignapainted The Fire in 1850-51
Francois-Auguste Biard(June 30, 1799 - June 20, 1882) was a French genre painter.
Born at Lyon, he traveled around the world, sketching on the way. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups.
His painting, Scenes on the Coast of Africa, depicted on the right, was the inspiration behind Isaac Julien's short film The Attendant (1993). Biard was a known abolitionist against the Atlantic slave trade.
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