Aggas, Robert (c. 1620–c. 1682), landscape and scene painter, was the son of Samuel Agas of St Andrew's parish, Holborn. The family was originally from Stoke by Nayland in Suffolk. Samuel Agas was the son of Edward Aggas, a bookseller and printer, and relative of ...
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W. C. Monkhouse
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Jason Rosenfeld
Allen, Joseph William (1803–1852), landscape painter, was born in Lambeth, London, where he was baptized on 27 November 1803, the second son of Joseph William Allen, a schoolmaster, and his wife, Isabella. He attended St Paul's School and also worked there as an assistant master. He was an usher in a school at ...
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Anderson, William (1757–1837), marine painter, was born in Scotland and brought up as a shipwright. His works, usually of small size, show a seaman's knowledge, and his drawing is correct and careful in all that concerns shipping. He painted on one occasion the interior of ...
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Angus, Margaret MacGregor [Peggy] (1904–1993), designer and artist, was born on 9 November 1904 in Coronel, Chile, the tenth surviving child of David Angus (1855–1926), railway engineer, and his wife, Mary, née Wilson (1860–1939), a former teacher. Her parents were originally from Scotland...
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Anthony, (Henry) Mark (1817–1886), landscape painter, was born on 4 August 1817 at Rusholme Lane, Manchester, of Welsh ancestry, the second son of John Anthony (1765/6–1855), merchant, and his wife, Phoebe Sowter (1787/8–1866). His elder brother, John Anthony (1814–1895)...
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Mary Nicol Armour (1902–2000) by Andy Stark © Andy Stark
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Armour [née Steel], Mary Nicol (1902–2000), still-life and landscape painter, was born at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, on 27 March 1902, the eldest of six children of William Steel, a metal dresser in the steelworks at Blantyre, and his wife, Jabina Gilbert. She won a scholarship to ...
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Anne Crookshank
Ashford, William (1746–1824), landscape painter, was born in Birmingham and baptized at St Martin's parish church on 20 May 1746, the son of Richard Ashford, but made his career in Ireland. Ashford's family must have been of reasonable social standing as when he was eighteen in 1764 he went, according to ...
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William Feaver
Ashington group (act. 1934–1983), originated in October 1934 when men, mainly coalminers, from Ashington, Northumberland, began classes in art appreciation. It was a course without precedent in a mining village 16 miles, and a world away, from the nearest art gallery. The class, organized by the ...
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Atkins, Samuel (fl. 1787–1808), marine painter, contributed annually to the Royal Academy between 1787 and 1796 (except in 1790). He was in the East Indies from 1796 to 1804, when he returned to England, and continued to exhibit until 1808. He worked in oil and watercolour, specializing in small-scale shipping scenes. The watercolour collections of the ...
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Aumonier, James (1832–1911), landscape painter, born in Camberwell on 9 April 1832, was the son of Henry Collingwood Aumonier, a jeweller, and his wife, Nancy Frances, daughter of George Stacy. The family was of French descent. A younger brother worked as an engraver and a nephew, ...
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Marshall Hall
Balmer, George (1805–1846), landscape painter, was born at North Shields, Northumberland, on 3 November 1805, and baptized on 5 January 1806 at Tynemouth, Northumberland, the second son of George Balmer (bap. 1769, d.1829), house and ship painter, and Ann Reed...
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Bampfylde, Coplestone Warre (1720–1791), landscape painter and garden designer, was born on 28 February 1720 at Hestercombe House, Kingston, Taunton, great-grandson of Sir Coplestone Bampfylde (1637/8–1692) and the eldest of nine children of John Bampfylde (1691–1750), MP for Exeter and Devon, and his second wife, ...
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Barber, Charles (bap. 1784, d. 1854), landscape painter, was baptized on 28 January 1784 at St Martin, Birmingham, one of the sons of Joseph Barber (1757–1811), landscape painter, and his wife, Elizabeth. Charles attended his father's art school, where he was a fellow pupil of the watercolour landscape painter ...
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Barber, Joseph (bap. 1758, d. 1811), landscape painter, was baprized at Newcastle upon Tyne on 28 January 1758, one of the six children of Joseph Barber (1706-1781), bookseller and copperplate printer, who resided at Amen Corner, and his wife, Eleanor née...
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Barker, Benjamin (1776–1838), landscape painter and drawing-master, was the son of Benjamin Barker (c.1720–1793), a former solicitor and minor artist, and his wife, Anne, and the younger brother of the painter Thomas Barker (1767–1847), known as Barker of Bath. In the late 1770s the family moved from ...
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Barret, George (1767–1842), landscape painter, was born in Orchard Street, Oxford Street, London, in December 1767, the third son of George Barret (1732?–1784) RA, the landscape painter, and his wife, Frances, née Percy, about four years after his father's arrival from Dublin. His eldest brother, ...
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Ernest Radford
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Barron, William Augustus (b. 1751, d. in or after 1806), landscape painter and draughtsman, was born in London on 31 October 1751, the son of John Barron, apothecary to the Westminster Dispensary, Soho, London, and the younger brother of Hugh Barron. A pupil of ...
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Sir George Howland Beaumont, seventh baronet (1753–1827) by John Hoppner, 1803–8 © The National Gallery, London
