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Hayman, Francis

(Encyclopedia)Hayman, Francis, 1708–76, English painter. Influenced by the French rococo style, Hayman painted conversation pieces—landscape scenes peopled by fashionable contemporaries (see portraiture). He al...

Stevens, Alfred Émile

(Encyclopedia)Stevens, Alfred Émile, 1823–1906, Belgian portrait and genre painter. He often lived in Paris and exhibited there regularly. His chief subjects, painted with admirable technique and color, were soc...

Brush, George de Forest

(Encyclopedia)Brush, George de Forest, 1855–1941, American painter, b. Shelbyville, Tenn., studied in New York City at the National Academy of Design and with Gérôme in Paris. His early, scrupulously realistic ...

Wynants, Jan

(Encyclopedia)Wynants or Wijnants, Jan both: yän vīˈnänts [key], c.1625–84, Dutch landscape painter. A follower of Ruisdael, he worked chiefly in Haarlem. The little figures in his paintings are the work of o...

Le Moyne, François

(Encyclopedia)Le Moyne, Le Moine, or Lemoine, François all: fräNswäˈ lə mwänˈ [key], 1688–1737, French painter. After a stay in Venice in 1723, he developed a colorful, sumptuous manner based on the Veneti...

Robert, Léopold

(Encyclopedia)Robert, Léopold lāôpôldˈ rōbĕrˈ [key], 1794–1835, French genre painter, b. Switzerland; pupil of J. L. David. He excelled in depicting Italian folk life in a classical style. His two best-kn...

Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint

(Encyclopedia)Charlet, Nicolas Toussaint nēkôläˈ to͞osăNˈ shärlāˈ [key], 1792–1845, French lithographer and painter. He was famous for his lithographs depicting political and social subjects. Those conc...

Chéret, Jules

(Encyclopedia)Chéret, Jules zhül shārāˈ [key], 1836–1932, French painter and draftsman, originator of the modern poster. His colorful, sophisticated designs for the theater and opera influenced Toulouse-Laut...

Cochin, Charles Nicolas

(Encyclopedia)Cochin, Charles Nicolas shärl nēkôläˈ kôshăNˈ [key], 1715–90, French engraver, designer, writer on art, and painter to the French court. His works, more than 1,500 in number, include histori...

Altichiero da Zevio

(Encyclopedia)Altichiero da Zevio ältēkyāˈrō dä tsāvˈyō [key], c.1330–c.1395, Italian painter, follower of Giotto. He worked in Verona and then Padua. His frescoes in the churches of Sant' Antonio and Sa...