unknow artist  Related Paintings of Anonymous :. | Portrait of Mary Countess of Kenmare | Portrait of Maximilien de Robespierre | Genevieve of Brabant in the forest seclusion, | Portrait of a Painter | Natividade |
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Jacob Smits
1856-1928 German Jacob Smits Gallery
Dorfmeister, Istvan
Hungarian Painter, ca.1729-1797
Makart, Hans
Austrian Academic Painter, 1840-1884 Austrian painter. He studied (1860-65) at the Akademie in Munich under the history painter Karl Theodor von Piloty whose influence is evident in Makart's Death of Pappenheim (1861; Vienna, Hist. Mus.). Makart visited London and Paris in 1862 and Rome in 1863. The Papal Election (1863-5; Munich, Neue Pin.) reveals Makart's skill in the bold use of colour to convey drama as well as his virtuoso draughtsmanship. Two decorative triptychs, Modern Cupids (1868; Vienna, Zentsparkasse), and the Plague in Florence (1868; Schweinfurt, Samml. Schefer), brought Makart both fame and disapproval (mostly because they lacked a literary original) when exhibited in Munich in 1868. His plan for the second work