Related Paintings of unknow artist :. | Castle Westerbeek at the westside of the city of The Hague | Netherlands base statement | Painting the Augustan period | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 600 | A winter landscpae with travellers gathered aroubnd a fire in a grotto,overlooding a lake,a monastery beyond |
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master of st bartholomew
active in Cologne ca 1480/1510
Nils Nilsson Skum
1872-1951
Hennessy, William John
English, 19th Century.was an Irish artist. William John Hennessy was born in Thomastown, County Kilkenny in 1839. His father, John Hennessy, was forced to leave Ireland in 1848 as a result of his involvement in the Young Ireland movement. He landed in Canada and settled in New York. William, his mother Catherine, and brother joined their father there in 1849. He gained admittance to the National Academy of Design in 1854 and exhibitioned his first works there. Hennessy developed a skill in wood engraving and was hired to illustrate the works of renowned poets, including that of Tennyson, Longfellow and Whittier. As an American he became the co-founder of the Artists?? Fund Society, and an honorary member of the American Society of Painters in Watercolours. In 1870 he moved to London where he became a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1902.