Russian Impressionist Painter, 1865-1911 Related Paintings of Valentin Serov :. | Herbstabend, Domotkanowo | Compositor Alexander Serov por Valentin Serov, 1887-1888 | Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev | Bathing of a Horse | Coronation of Nicholas II of Russia | Related Artists:
Hill, John WilliamEnglish 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),
Sir George Clausen,RA1852-1944
English painter. He was the son of a Danish interior decorator and a woman of Scottish descent. At 14 he was apprenticed to the drawing office of Messrs Trollope, a London firm of decorators. While working there he attended evening classes at the National Art Training School, South Kensington, but his first important artistic contact came when he was sent to decorate a door at the home of the painter Edwin Long. With Long's encouragement, Clausen obtained a two-year scholarship to the South Kensington School of Art and then decided to further his training at the Antwerp Academy. After studying briefly under Professor Joseph Van Lerius (1823-76), he began to sketch in the fishing villages along the Dutch coast; the product of these studies
richard wagnerBorn: 22 May 1813
Birthplace: Leipzig, Germany
Died: 13 February 1883
Best Known As: German composer of Der Ring des Nibelungen