Authors, Artists and Vagrants

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté: "The Raphael of flowers"

Royal court painter at Marie Antoinette's Versailles...

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The Barker Family: Panorama Painters

Robert Barker revolutionized the way the world saw art, allowing the viewer to step into the painting for the first time.

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George Stubbs

Equine Painter George Stubbs was a close friend of Ozias Humphry, known for his paintings of Edward Austen-Knight, as well as the Rice Portrait.

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Kate Greenaway: Regency Revivalist

The artist who brought Regency Style to the Victorian Era

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Rolinda Sharples: Painter of the Everyday

Rolinda Sharples (1793–1838), was an English painter who specialized in portraits and genre paintings in oil. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, a...

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Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. His father was a schoolteacher involved with the wool trade. At...

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Lancelot "Capability" Brown and Humphry Repton

Who were Lancelot Brown and Humphry Repton? And what did they bring to the modern Georgian garden? He talked of foregrounds, distances, and second...