French Rococo Era Painter, 1733-1808
French painter, draughtsman, etcher and landscape designer. He was one of the most prolific and engaging landscape painters in 18th-century France. He specialized in architectural scenes in which topographical elements derived from the buildings and monuments of ancient and modern Italy and of France are combined in often fantastic settings or fictitious juxtapositions. The fluid touch and rich impasto employed in his paintings Related Paintings of ROBERT, Hubert :. | The Maison Carre at Nimes with the Amphitheater and the Magne Tower (mk05) | The Porta Octavia in Rome | The Finding of the Laokoon | Washerwomen below a Bridge | Roman Ruins | Related Artists:
geoffrey chaucerBorn: c. 1340
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 1400
Best Known As: The author of The Canterbury Tales
John Mundellpainted Punting Down the River in 19th Century
Julius von Blaas 1845-1923,was an Italian painter, the second son of Karl, born at Albano, Italy. He studied under his father, devoted himself principally to equestrian subjects, and went to Rome where he painted genre scenes from the Campagna. His "Race of Intoxicated Slavonic Peasants" (1869) is in the Imperial Museum of Vienna, as is "Antlassritt" (1899). Julius von Blaas was much employed by the Austrian court as a portrait painter and became professor in the Academy of Vienna.