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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (Livorno, Italy 1884 - France 1920)
He was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor, known for portraits and nudes of him in a style that was characterized by elongation of faces and figures, which was not well received during his lifetime.

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2022-11-14

Edward Toledano, Single Image, 1986

Edward Toledano (1919-2009) was born in New York, USA and studied at the Sir John Cass School of Art in London. He moved to London in the mid-sixties, where he became a full-time painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.

Single Image is one of ...

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2022-08-29

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators...C is for...Miroslav Cipar, (1935-2021) a Slovakian Draughtsman, Illustrator & Graphic Designer. He was particularly known for the often abstract style of his works. He illustrated over 350 books.

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2022-07-14

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators...C is for...Miroslav Cipar, (1935-2021) a Slovakian Draughtsman, Illustrator & Graphic Designer. He was particularly known for the often abstract style of his works. He illustrated over 350 books.

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2022-07-14

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - P is for Rien Poortvliet ( 1932-1995) a Dutch draughtsman, illustrator, and painter - he was best known for his paintings of subjects in Nature...and of Gnomes....

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2021-12-31

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - P is for Rien Poortvliet ( 1932-1995) a Dutch draughtsman, illustrator, and painter - he was best known for his paintings of subjects in Nature...and of Gnomes....

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2021-12-31

A selection of poppies from our collection.


1) Unknown French draughtsman, c. 1750.
2) Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1765.
3) Kitagawa Utamaro, 1788.
4) Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918)

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2021-11-14

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, 1606 – 1680, Italian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and architect; Tobias and the Angel

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2021-10-27

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, 1606 – 1680, Italian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and architect; Landscape with a Scene in a Tent

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2021-10-27

Portrait of Guilhermina Suggia, 1920-23__ Augustus Edwin John (British painter, draughtsman, and etcher) 1878 - 1961
https://t.co/BB6HQsFftS

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2021-09-29

Johann Georg Platzer, 1704–1761, Austrian Rococo painter and draughtsman, Merry company in the park

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2021-09-29

Johann Georg Platzer, 1704–1761, Austrian Rococo painter and draughtsman, Manius Curius Dentatus and the Samnite Ambassadors

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2021-09-29

Johann Georg Platzer, 1704–1761, Austrian Rococo painter and draughtsman, Fountain scene in front of a palace

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2021-09-29

Johann Georg Platzer, 1704–1761, Austrian Rococo painter and draughtsman, Amusement after the meal

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2021-09-29

Johann Georg Platzer, 1704–1761, Austrian Rococo painter and draughtsman, Allegory of Sculpture

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2021-09-29

Otto Greiner was a German symbolist painter, printmaker and draughtsman, 1869-1916.
Prometheus, 1909

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2021-09-01

Happy Birthday to Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), who was active as a painter, sculptor, architect, draughtsman, theorist, engineer and scientist.

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2021-04-15

Born in 1948, Eric Fischl is an printmaker, draughtsman, & educator known for his depictions of American suburbia set in the 1970-80s.

📷 Credit: wikiart, "The Sheer Weight of History" by 1982.

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2021-03-10

Hendrick Avercamp painted Dutch everyday life, especially winter landscapes.

This watercolour demonstrates his skills as a draughtsman, to convey the hustle & bustle of life on the frozen river - the man carrying firewood and the the sledges 🛷 on the thick ice 🧊

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2021-01-09