Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter , b. ca. 1534, Hulst, d. 1598, Antwerp  Related Paintings of Gillis Mostaert :. | Still-Life with Flowers and Goblets a | portrait of maddalena | View of Het Lj on a Stormy Day | heval arrete par des esclaves | Susanna and the Elders |
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Maufra Maxime Emile Louis
Nantes 1861-Ponce-sur-Loir,Sarthe 1918
Edward Henry Fahey,RI
1844-1907
HIGHMORE, Joseph
English Painter, 1692-1780 English painter and writer. The son of a coal merchant and the nephew of Thomas Highmore (1660-1720), Serjeant-Painter to the King, he was articled to an attorney on 18 July 1707. Bored with his duties, he attended Kneller's Academy from 1713 and in 1715 abandoned law, setting up as a portrait painter in the City of London. From 1720 he attended the St Martin's Lane Academy, where he was able to study contemporary French styles in art and design, particularly that of Gravelot. He read widely and mastered Brook Taylor's system of perspective (1715). He also attended William Cheselden's anatomy lectures and contributed designs to that author's Anatomy of the Human Body (1722).