Barlow, Francis (d. 1704), painter and etcher, was said by George Vertue to have come from Lincolnshire and to have been apprenticed in London to the portrait painter William Shepherd. His earliest dated work is a drawing of 1648 depicting David slaying the lion (...
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Barlow, Francis (d. 1704), painter and etcher
Sheila O'Connell
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Buss, Robert William (1804–1875), painter and etcher
Robert L. Patten
Buss, Robert William (1804–1875), painter and etcher, the eldest son of William Church Buss (d. 1832) and his wife, Mary, was born at 60 Jewin Street, Cripplegate, London, on 4 August 1804. He was named after his grandfather, an excise officer who turned schoolmaster in ...
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Cameron, Sir David Young (1865–1945)
Maker: unknown photographer
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Sir David Young Cameron (1865–1945) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Cameron, Sir David Young (1865–1945), painter and etcher
W. N. Smith
Cameron, Sir David Young (1865–1945), painter and etcher, was born on 28 June 1865 at 1 Queen's Terrace, Glasgow, the fourth of the nine children and elder surviving son of the Revd Robert Cameron (1825–1898), minister of Cambridge Street United Presbyterian Church in ...
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Cameron, Katharine (1874–1965), watercolour painter and etcher
W. N. Smith
Cameron, Katharine (1874–1965), watercolour painter and etcher, was born on 26 February 1874 at 16 Sardinia Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow, the eighth of the nine children of Robert Cameron (1825–1898), minister of Cambridge Street United Presbyterian Church in Glasgow, and his wife, Margaret Johnston (...
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Cameron, Katharine (1874–1965)
Maker: unknown photographer
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Katharine Cameron (1874–1965) by unknown photographer, 1931 [detail] © reserved; collection National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Coker, Peter Godfrey (1926–2004)
Maker: Peter Godfrey Coker
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Peter Godfrey Coker (1926–2004) self-portrait, 1970 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Coker, Peter Godfrey (1926–2004), painter and etcher
Frances Spalding
Coker, Peter Godfrey (1926–2004), painter and etcher, was born at the Royal Free Hospital, St Pancras, London, on 27 July 1926, the only child of Edwin Henry Coker, gold polisher and later manager of a wholesale confectionery company, and his wife, Elsie Violet, ...
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Cotman, John Sell (1782–1842), painter and etcher
Andrew W. Moore
Cotman, John Sell (1782–1842), painter and etcher, was born on 16 May 1782 in the parish of St Mary Coslany, Norwich, the son of Edmund Cotman (1759–1843/4), hairdresser (later haberdasher) and his wife, Ann Sell (1763–1835). On 3 August 1793 he entered Norwich grammar school...
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Cotman, John Sell (1782–1842)
Maker: John Philip Davis
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John Sell Cotman (1782–1842) by John Philip Davis, 1818 V&A Images, The Victoria and Albert Museum
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Crome, John (1768–1821)
Maker: Denis Brownell Murphy
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John Crome (1768–1821) by Denis Brownell Murphy, exh. Norwich Society of Artists 1821 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Crome, John (1768–1821), painter and etcher
Andrew W. Moore
Crome, John (1768–1821), painter and etcher, was born on 22 December 1768 in Norwich, the son of John Crome, a publican and journeyman weaver, and his wife, Elizabeth. He was baptized on Christmas day in the church of St George, Tombland.
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Dodd, Francis Edgar (1874–1949), painter and etcher
Brian Reade
revised by Ian Lowe
Dodd, Francis Edgar (1874–1949), painter and etcher, was born in Upper Park Street, Holyhead, Anglesey, on 29 November 1874, the third son of the Revd Benjamin Dodd, a Wesleyan Methodist minister who had once been a blacksmith, and his wife, Jane Frances, daughter of ...
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Dodd, Francis Edgar (1874–1949)
Maker: Francis Edgar Dodd
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Francis Edgar Dodd (1874–1949) self-portrait © Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
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Dowd, James Henry (1883–1956), cartoonist, painter, and etcher
Mark Bryant
Dowd, James Henry (1883–1956), cartoonist, painter, and etcher, was born on 1 June 1883 at 9 Gloucester Crescent, Eccleshall Bierlow, Sheffield, the oldest of four sons of James Joseph Dowd (c.1854–1932), telegraph clerk, later steel manufacturer’s representative, and his wife, ...
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Dyck, Sir Anthony [formerly Antoon] Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher
Jeremy Wood
Dyck, Sir Anthony [formerly Antoon] Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher, was born on 22 March 1599 at the house Den Berendans (the Dancing Bear) in the Grote Markt in Antwerp, and baptized there the following day in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk. He was the seventh of the twelve children of ...
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Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641)
Maker: Anthony Dyck
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Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641) self-portrait, c. 1632–3 private collection; Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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Edwards, Edwin (1823–1879), etcher and painter
Anne Pimlott Baker
Edwards, Edwin (1823–1879), etcher and painter, was born on 6 January 1823 in Framlingham, Suffolk, the son of Charles Edwards of Bridgham Hall, Norfolk. He was educated at Dedham, Essex, before studying law. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1845 and built up a large and successful practice as an examining proctor in the ...
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Geddes, Andrew (1783–1844), painter and etcher
J. M. Gray
revised by Selby Whittingham
Geddes, Andrew (1783–1844), painter and etcher, was born on 5 April 1783 at St Patrick Street, Edinburgh, and baptized on 16 April at St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, the second of the six children, and only son, of David Geddes (who died at 18 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh...
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Gheeraerts, Marcus, the elder (b. c. 1520/21, d. in or after 1586), painter and etcher
Karen Hearn
Gheeraerts, Marcus, the elder (b. c. 1520/21, d. in or after 1586), painter and etcher, was born in Bruges, Flanders, the son of Egbert Gheeraerts, painter, who joined the Guild of St Luke at Bruges in 1516, at which date he was apparently childless, and ...
