1817-1886
British
Richard Dadd Location
English painter. He was the fourth of nine children of Robert Dadd, an apothecary and chemist in Chatham. His mother was Mary Ann Martin. Two of his brothers and one sister were, like Dadd himself, to die insane. Related Paintings of Richard Dadd :. | Mary Stuart at the Camp of Crookstone | Byt the Bridge at Argenteuil | Classical hunting fox, Equestrian and Beautiful Horses, 173. | Detail of Cornard Wood | St Fredianus Diverts the River Serchio | Related Artists:
Lord Frederic LeightonBritish
1830-1896
Lord Frederic Leighton Locations
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Charles Willson Peale1741-1827
Painter and museum founder. After serving as a saddler's apprentice in Annapolis, MD, from 1754 to 1761, he worked at various trades, including painting signs and portraits. In 1766 some prominent Marylanders underwrote his studies in London with Benjamin West, from whom he absorbed the fundamentals of the British portrait tradition. Peale probably attended the informal life classes offered at St Martin's Lane Academy, precursor to the Royal Academy Schools, and drew from casts in the Duke of Richmond's collection in Whitehall. He visited the studios of such important British portrait painters as Joshua Reynolds, Francis Cotes and Allan Ramsay and studied the techniques of miniature painting, sculpture and engraving. In London he executed his first major commission