John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 – 1893) was a Victorian-era painter. Atkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds, England his father was a policeman, and he started work as a railway clerk. His parents were opposed to his taking up art as a career. Grimshaw was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, & in his youth produced vivid, highly [...]
Emile Munier (June 2, 1840 - June 29, 1895) was a French academic artist and student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Emile Munier was born in Paris on June 2, 1840 and lived with his family at 66 rue des Fossés, St. Marcel. His father, Pierre François Munier, was an artist upholsterer at the Manufacture Nationale des [...]
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and … printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to [...]
Allpaintings has opened an Art Directory, a thematic listing of useful resources about art.
The directory is not only a listing to improve the visibility of the websites submitted, it’s also a tool for webmasters tot know how it’s performing its repercussion through the net. Also, visitors can easily refer the listings, mark it in more [...]