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Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940)
Carlo Bugatti was born in Milan and became an artist and designer of international renown. He trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and was greatly influenced by the early exponents of the ‘New Art’ in their reaction against the heavy, ornate, classical, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo styles fashionable in the mid 19th Century. Carlo Bugatti worked in architecture, interiors, ceramics, musical instruments, paintings, silverware and textiles as well as [...] Click here to continue reading.
Karl Albert Buehr (1866-1952)
Buehr was one of seven sons born to a prosperous German family who emigrated to America and settled in Chicago in 1869. He was first exposed to his signature style of Impressionism in 1888 when he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He remained a student there until 1897 and was recognized in a Chicago Times Herald editorial of June 13, 1897 as one of the [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Henry Buck (1840 to 1888)
In the late 1870′s and until his untimely death in 1888, William Henry Buck was recognized as Louisiana’s leading landscape painter. Born in Norway, Buck settled in Boston and arrived in New Orleans around 1860. For the next twenty years Buck worked as a clerk in the cotton business, and studied under Richard Clague in his spare time. By 1880 his well-received exhibitions at Seebold’s and Wagener’s galleries [...] Click here to continue reading.
Brule Parfum
Brule parfum is a French term coming into common usage in the late nineteenth century for what had previously known as a cassolette. Cassolettes are small braziers in which aromatic materials could be burned or liquids evaporated. While made from a wide variety of materials, cassolettes were either designed as essence vessels for liquids or perfume burners for solids. Vessels made from fragile materials, like porcelain, frequently were supplied with metal liners. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Francois Brunery (1849 to 1926)
Francois Brunery was born in Turin, Northern Italy and studied in Paris under Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904). It was in the early 1890′s that he began to gain the reputation as the leading artist in cardinal genre paintings. At this time, Europe was experiencing an economic prosperity for the middle class and with it carried a lessening in regard for the church. The artist superbly paints the figures in a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Anthony Buchta (Indiana, 1896-1967)
A landscape painter, etcher and teacher, Anthony Buchta lived in Chicago where he studied at the Art Institute and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. He was also active in Indiana where he exhibited with the Hoosier Salon and painted in Brown County. Source: “Who Was Who in American Art” by Peter Falk
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The Arts & Crafts Movement
The principles of the Arts and Crafts movement were initially frontiered in England through the efforts of John Ruskin and William Morris. Ruskin was not a craftsman but an academic scholar at Oxford. He believed passionately that the Industrial Revolution would erode the English countryside by turning it into factory fields while relegating the skilled English craftsman to the status of a laborer. The battle cry of his movement, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850-1936
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was born on Dec. 10th 1850 in a log cabin near Honesdale, Pennsylvania. As a young child she drew drawings and while still in elementary school she exhibited paintings at the Wayne Country Fair, where they won ribbons. She moved to New York and trained at Cooper Institute, (which later became Cooper Union School of Design), with Victor Nehlig. She then studied four years at the National [...] Click here to continue reading.
George Elmer Browne (1871-1946)
Born in 1871 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, George Elmer Browne was a popular impressionistic painter that was active in America and abroad. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, the Cowles Art School and at the Academie Julian in Paris. While in Paris he also studied with the artist Robert-Fleury Lefebvre but did not espouse Cubism or Futurism both popular generas of that era. In 1904, the French [...] Click here to continue reading.
George Loring Brown (American, 1814 to 1889)
George Loring Brown earned the nickname “Claude” (after Claude Lorraine) for his vast landscapes and his time spent in Europe, often depicting figures in the foreground engaged in leisurely activity. In 1859, he returned to America and spent the next several years executing American landscapes.
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American expatriate artist George Loring Brown produced many picturesque views of Italy over [...] Click here to continue reading.
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