French Painter, 1761-1845 Related Paintings of Louis-Leopold Boilly :. | A Game of Billiards | The Arrival of the Diligence (stagecoach) in the Courtyard of the Messageries | Portrait of maurice martin | Le Concert inprovise ou le prix de l'harmonie | The Geography Lesson | Related Artists:
John William HillEnglish Painter, 1812-1879,Painter and illustrator, son of John Hill. At the age of seven he moved to Philadelphia, PA, with his family. In 1822 he moved to New York, where he was apprenticed to his father for seven years. During this time, he worked on the aquatint plates for William Guy Wall's Hudson River Portfolio (1821-5), which influenced his early paintings.
Michael DahlSwedish Baroque Era Painter, 1659-1743,Swedish painter, active in England. He studied under Martin Hannibal (d 1741) and later with David Kl?cker Ehrenstrahl. In 1682 he travelled to London, where he became acquainted with Godfrey Kneller and Henry Tilson, and in 1685 he left for Europe with the latter, working briefly in Paris before proceeding to Venice and Rome, where they stayed for about two years. In Rome Dahl converted to Roman Catholicism and gravitated towards the circle of Christina, former Queen of Sweden, who sat for him (Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincs). He returned to England with Tilson via Frankfurt and arrived in London in 1689; he stayed in England for the remainder of his career.
George EarleEnglish , born May 25, 1803, London, Eng. -died Jan. 18, 1873, Torquay, Devonshire