Elizabeth Martha Roberts was a quietly determined Victorian artist whose life and work unfolded on the margins of London’s 19th-century art world. Though res...
Born in Sceaux, near Paris, Louis de Silvestre was an esteemed French portraitist and history painter. The son of the King’s engraver, Israël Silvestre, he t...
German artist Franz Joachim Beich was a renowned painter of landscapes and religious scenes who became the court painter to Maximilian III Joseph, the Electo...
J Eberhart was a portrait artist active in Germany between 1830 and 1857. He's known to have worked in Bavaria.
Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars and ...
Charles Gaudelet was a notable master glass-maker and occasional watercolourist.
Born in Paris, as Jean Charles Paul Gaudelet, little is known about Gaudelet...
Édouard Adam was Le Havre’s leading ship portraitist and worked at the port for over fifty years. His extensive body of work is an education on the evolving ...
Born in Antwerp, Jacob Huysmans was a distinguished Flemish portrait painter and a direct rival of Sir Peter Lely. He moved to England following the Restorat...
Frank Wasley was a masterful English painter of maritime scenes and predominantly known as a watercolourist.
Born in Peckham, London, Wasley’s early years we...
Samuel Owen was an accomplished British marine watercolourist who served in the Royal Navy.
Born in the leafy village of Hillingdon, Middlesex, Owen’s father...
