1849-1937
British
John Melhuish Strudwick Gallery Related Paintings of John Melhuish Strudwick :. | The Ramparts of God-s House | An Angel | Isabella | When Sorrow comes to Summerday Roses bloom in Vain | Circe and Scylla | Related Artists:
Nathaniel Sichelpainted Arab Women on a Rooftop in 1843-1907
Thomas Buchanan ReadAmerican Painter, 1822-1872,was an American poet and portrait painter born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Read wrote a prose romance, The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, and several books of poetry, including The New Pastoral, The House by the Sea, Sylvia, and A Summer Story. Some of the shorter pieces included in these, e.g., "Sheridan's Ride," "Drifting,""The Angler", "The Oath," and "The Closing Scene," have great merit. Read was briefly associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His greatest artistic popularity took place in Florence. Among portraits he painted were Abraham Lincoln, Henry Longfellow, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and William Henry Harrison. Read died from injuries sustained in a carriage accident, which weakened him and led him to contract pneumonia while on shipboard returning to America.
Frans van MierisDutch Baroque Era Painter, 1635-1681