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Egan, Pierce

(Encyclopedia)Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849, English sports writer. He was the author of Life in London, a lively account of the sporting gallants of the Regency. With its rough humor and colloquial style, it was popul...

White, Gilbert

(Encyclopedia)White, Gilbert, 1720–93, English naturalist. He served as curate at Selborne and nearby parishes from 1751. He recorded his detailed observations of nature in letters to other naturalists, and on th...

Alciphron

(Encyclopedia)Alciphron ălˈsĭfrŏn, –frən [key], fl. c.a.d. 200?, Greek satirist. His only extant work, in fine Attic style, consists of over 100 fictitious letters from ordinary people living in Athens in th...

Dobson, William

(Encyclopedia)Dobson, William, 1610–46, English court painter. After the death of Van Dyck, Dobson was made court painter to Charles I and did some interesting court portraits. Some of his works are close to the ...

O'Gorman, Juan

(Encyclopedia)O'Gorman, Juan, 1905–82, Mexican architect. Trained by Villagran Garcia, O'Gorman produced designs adapting the International style to Mexican requirements. O'Gorman's most notable work is the Unive...

Patroon painters

(Encyclopedia)Patroon painters, group of portraitists active in colonial New York from 1715 to 1730. Their work embodied the first clearly American style. The Patroon painters served the Dutch families of New York,...

Bomberg, David

(Encyclopedia)Bomberg, David, 1890–1957, English artist. Bomberg was apprenticed to a lithographer in 1905 and studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster School of Art. His abstract works are filled with ang...

Saint John the Divine, Cathedral of

(Encyclopedia)Saint John the Divine, Cathedral of, New York City, the world's largest Gothic cathedral. The Episcopal cathedral was begun in 1892 in the Byzantine-Romanesque style after designs by G. L. Heins and C...

Reinhardt, Django

(Encyclopedia)Reinhardt, Django (Jean Baptiste Reinhardt), 1910–53, Belgian jazz guitarist of Romani (Gypsy) descent. Reinhardt began playing the guitar professionally at 12. He was severely burned in a fire in 1...

Givenchy, Hubert de

(Encyclopedia)Givenchy, Hubert de (Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy) übĕrˈ də zhēväNshēˈ [key], 1927–2018, French fashion designer. An assistant designer to Schiaparelli, he opened his own hou...