French Painter, ca.1727-1802 Related Paintings of Pierre-Jacques Volaire :. | Mares and Foals in a Landscape. | Arthur's Tomb: The Last Meeting of Launcelort and Guinevere (mk28) | Flower | Henriette d'Angleterre as Minerva holding a painting of her husband the Duke of Orleans | Portrait of a Man holding a Letter | Related Artists:
Stanley, Owen1811 - 1850,was commander of HMS Rattlesnake on a four year exploratory expedition to New Guinea, 1846?C1850. Stanley was the son of Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich. He left naval college at the age of fifteen, and served under Phillip Parker King on HMS Adventure and John Franklin in the Mediterranean. In 1836 he sailed to the Arctic as scientific officer on HMS Terror under George Back. In 1838 he was given command of HMS Britomart and sailed to Australia, returning in 1843. In December 1846 Stanley sailed from Portsmouth in charge of HMS Rattlesnake, with the purpose of surveying the seas around the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait. The ship called at Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Simon's Town and Mauritius, arriving in Sydney in July 1847.
KEUNINCK, KerstiaenFlemish painter (b. 1560, Kortrijk, d. 1632/3, Antwerpen)
Flemish painter. Although from Courtrai, from an early age he lived in Antwerp. He was listed in 1577 as one of the recipients of the Poor-box (armenbus) of the Antwerp Guild of St Luke, where he was received as master in 1580. He married in 1585. De Keuninck took on Carel de Ferrara as an apprentice in 1599. His son Kerstiaen de Keuninck the younger (d 1642-3) became a master in 1613.
Michael Conrad Hirtpainted Portrait of Anna Rosina Tanck, wife of the mayor of Lubecker in1642