Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1627-ca.1683 Related Paintings of Willem van :. | Dutch Smalschips and a Rowing Boat | HMS St Andrew at sea in a moderate breeze, painted | Ships in a calm | The Cannon Shot | Pineapple Jardiniere | Related Artists:
Apres Beaubrunpainted Anne d'Autriche en costume royal in ca. 1650
Johann M Culverhouse1821-1895
Charles Lock EastlakeEnglish Painter, 1793-1865
English painter, museum director, collector and writer. Fourth son of an Admiralty lawyer at Plymouth, he was educated at local grammar schools and then, briefly, at Charterhouse, Surrey. Determined to become a painter, he began work in 1809 as Benjamin Robert Haydon's first pupil and as a student at the Royal Academy Schools in London. In 1815 he exhibited for the first time at the British Institution, visited Paris and studied the pictures in the Musee Napoleon. He achieved his first conspicuous success with a scene from contemporary history that he had himself witnessed,