French Baroque Era Painter, 1606-1656   Related Paintings of LA HIRE, Laurent de :. | The Children of Bethel Mourned by their Mothers saf | Cornelia Refusses the Crown of the Ptolomai sg | The Militia Company of Captain Allaert Cloeck | Theseus and Aethra (detail sg | Astronomy sg |
Related Artists:
August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen
painted Zigeunerkinder in 1855
Eugene Delacroix
French Romantic Painter, 1798-1863 For 40 years Eugene Delacroix was one of the most prominent and controversial painters in France. Although the intense emotional expressiveness of his work placed the artist squarely in the midst of the general romantic outpouring of European art, he always remained an individual phenomenon and did not create a school. As a personality and as a painter, he was admired by the impressionists, postimpressionists, and symbolists who came after him. Born on April 28, 1798, at Charenton-Saint-Maurice, the son of an important public official, Delacroix grew up in comfortable upper-middle-class circumstances in spite of the troubled times. He received a good classical education at the Lycee Imperial. He entered the studio of Pierre Narcisse Guerin in 1815, where he met Theodore Gericaul
Salomon van Ruysdael
Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden - buried Nov 3, 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.