All names in this Index are by birth-certificate, which may not be the name by which you know them.
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The Illustrious Illustrators List
broken down into sub-sections as
a) The Painters
b) The Sculptors
c) The Photographers
d) The Cartoonists
e) The Illustrators
f) The Architects
g) The Historians of Art
h) The Collectors
i) The sub-sub-sections
* The Sistine Chapel
* Vigée-Lebrun
* The Durand-Ruel discoveries
* Daddying Dada
* The Max Jacob-Pablo Picasso meet-up group
* The Terezinstadt Salon
a) The Painters
Roberta Joan Anderson (Joni Mitchell): with Charlie Mingus on Jan 5 and W.C Handy on Nov 16 and Sept 27; listed among the greats on April 22 and June 20; unable to attend Woodstock but sang it anyway on Aug 15; making Hejira on Sept 24; born Nov 7; pretending to be Van Gogh on Dec 23; counted as a modern Trobairitz on Jan 13
Claudian Stephen (Quentin was added when he was two) Bell (born into the Bloomsbury Group on Aug 19 1910; died December 16 1996): lots of websites that I will be going back to on this page: Public Statues and Sculpture Association here; Contemporary Art Society here; National Portrait Gallery here
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz: Fastidiously Accurate on Dec 8
Giotto di Bondone (born circa 1267; died January 8 1337): safe from limewash on June 24; Uffizi website here
Rosa Bonheur: maestra of the painting of animals on March 16
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Botticelli) (birthdate unknown but probably 1445; died May 17 1510); provides the picture on March 17; mentioned on Nov 1. The nickname is a type of small wine flask [Pseudonyms]. Italian Art Society here; Uffizi Gallery here
Georges Braque (born May 13 1882; died August 31 1963): mentioned on Feb 17, Sept 17 and Dec 12; his website here; the theoretician here
André Robert Breton: born Feb 18 1896; died September 28 1966): his Atelier here; Surréalisme here; poetry here
Dorothy Eugénie Brett (born November 10 1883; died August 27 1977): responsible for the portrait of DHL on March 2; pics and bio here
Brueghel: is the illustration on Dec 13 by the Elder or the Younger? And which Elder as there are at least two of each: Pieter and Jan: Pieter here, Jan here, Pieter the Younger here, Jan the Younger here
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (born July 6 1907, died July 13 1954): the tale is told on Sept 17 (and Dec 8 for Diego Rivera); plus a slightly tongue-in-cheek reference on Nov 30; for the full tragedy of her extraordinary life, read my essay “Staying For Frida” in “Travels In Unfamiliar Lands”; her website here
Alejandro (Alex) Gómez Arias: caught a bus with Frida Kahlo on Sept 17: lifelong activist and essayist of Mexican progressive politics
Paul Cézanne (born Jan 19 1839; died October 22 1906): his website here; my pictorial tribute here
Moishe (Marc) Chagall (born on July 7 1887; died March 28 1985): Hadassahed on Feb 13, provides the illustration on Feb 18, mentioned on Aug 19; his museum here; his website here
Hadassah bat Avi-Chayil (but Ester bat Avi-Chayil אֶסְתֵּ֣ר בַּת־אֲבִיחַ֣יִל according to chapter 2 verse 15 of her book: click here); Queen Esther on March 12. Other Biblical names mentioned on the same date are Ishtar and Marduk, Chaman and Yehudah, Nod and Cain; Leviticus 26 quoted re Haman; and John 18 re Annas; Ezra and Nehemiah, as well as Artaxerxes I and Xerxes I, also get mentions
Claude Lorrain (born 1600; died November 23 1682), who was really Claude Gellée (another for the Pseudonyms page), and who is remembered simply as Claude in England, but as Le Lorrain in France: the last of the Classical painters, with Poussin, on April 15. For the “Barbizon” modernist movement which followed, see Paul Durand-Ruel on Feb 5 and in the sub-sub-sections, below. For Claude try here
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (born July 5 1889; died October 11 1963): French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and ... painting Max Jacob on August 19; websites for his art and websites for his poetry; former here, latter here
John Constable (born June 11 1776; died March 31 1837): mentioned on April 15 and June 15; see my piece in "Private Collection" here; his website here; Victoria and Albert Museum here
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech: entered surreality on May 11; used even more so on March 15; his wesbite and foundation here
Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (born July 17 1797; died November 4 1856): provides the illustration, twice, on July 19; at Fontainebleau here; an English view here
Albrecht Dürer (born May 21 1471; died April 6 1528): mentioned on Aug 19 and Sept 13; Met Museum here
M.C (Maurits Cornelis) Escher (born June 18 1898; died March 27 1972): pictured on June 26; his website here
Joan Miró i Ferrà (born April 20 1893; died December 25 1983): his website here
Gentile Da Fabriano (circa1370-1427): his “The Adoration of the Magi” is the illustration on Jan 6; bio here
Fragonard: click here for its own website; whoops, sorry, that’s the parfumier. Try here for Jean-Honoré (born April 5 1732; died August 22 1806): on show at the Wallace Collection on April 16
Lucian Michael Freud (born December 8 1922; died July 20 2011): grandson of Sigmund on Dec 3; his bio here and here
Roger Eliot Fry: (born December 14 1866; died September 9 1934): try here for “Post-Impressionism” and the Omega Workshops, here for his bio; on the Bloomsbury tour on May 18
Thomas Gainsborough (born May 14 1727; died August 2 1788): his house here; at the National Gallery here
Marlis Glaser: her portrait of of Regina Jonas is on Jan 12: her website here; about her here
Vincent Willem Van Gogh: (born March 30 1853; died July 29 1890): cut off his ear on Dec 23; mentioned on March 19; younger brother Theo can be found on Feb 5; his museum here; his Stockwell Blue Plaque here
Theodorus (Theo) Van Gogh (born May 1 1857; died January 25 1891): failing to sell a single one of his older brother’s paintings on Feb 5 (the story of his more recent namesake can be read here)
Frans Hals: (born 1580; died Aug 25 1666, or it may have been the 26th): in the Wallace Collection on April 16 (click here); in Berlin here
Viktor Alexandrovitch Hartmann (born April 23 1834; died August 4 1873): exhibited musically on June 2; the man and the paintings here and here
William Hogarth (born Nov 10 1697; died October 26 1764): at the John Soane Museum here and here
Edward Hopper (born July 22 1882; died May 15 1967): his website here
David Herbert (D.H) Lawrence: Frieda Emma Johanna Maria Von Richtofen’s account of his death is on March 2; Katherine Mansfield on Jan 9; “Art for my sake” on Feb 28; “John Thomas and Lady Jane” on March 15; “Pansies” on June 19; “Plumed Serpent” on June 30; essay on Galsworthy on Aug 14; born Sept 11; Crowed and Naipauled on Aug 17; HD on Sept 10; “The Rainbow” banned on Nov 13; dead-heated with Mary Ann Evans on Nov 22; but he is on this page for his paintings, judged obscene here, on display in Santa Fe here; my pictorial tribute here
Paul Klee (born Dec 18 1879; died June 29 1940): his website here
Edward Lear (born May 12 1812; died January 29 1888): here for his landscape art (and excluded from the page of The Poets because, fun as they are, limericks don’t count): at the Tate here; his website here (and oh, alright, his Nonsense books here)
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (born Feb 4 1881; died August 17 1955): at the New York Guggenheim here; his national museum in France here
Roy Fox Lichtenstein: born Oct 27 1923; died September 29 1997): at MOMA here; his website here
Lorenzo Lippi, or sometimes Perlone Zipoli: born May 5 1606 (some archives reckon May 3) [pseudonyms]; on the same day you will also find Fra Lippo Lippi (and Robert Browning’s poem about the latter here); died April 15 1664 (some archives reckon 1665); bio here; there is also a third Lippi, a second Lorenzo Lippi, this one regarded as one of the greatest guitar-makers of all time, though I have not included him among the musical maestros because this is his only mention on the blog; his website here
Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca (known as “del Sarto”, or “tailor’s son” - see the Pseudonyms page): born July 14 1486; died January 21 1531; mentioned on June 24; at the Uffizi here; another of Robert Browning’s favourites; the poem here)
Laurence Stephen Lowry (born November 1 1887; died February 23 1976): nowhere near the volcano on July 28; compared with Grandma Moses on Dec 13; his website here
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (born Dec 31 1869; died November 3 1954): that Cubist dinner party on Aug 19 and Dec 12; his website here
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (born July 12 1884; died January 24 1920): sharing a lover (not literally!) with Osip Mandelstam on his birthday, here; painting Max Jacob on Aug 19; his wesbite here
Anna Mary Robertson Moses ("Grandma" Moses) (born Sepember 7 1860; died Dec 13 1961): bio here; paintings here
Edouard Moyse (born November 27 1827; died June 1 1908): providing the Illustration on Feb 3; more detail here
Edvard Munch (born Dec 12 1863; died January 23 1944): his website here
Georgia O’Keeffe (born Nov 15 1887; died March 6 1986): her museum in Santa Fé here
Charles Willson Peale (born April 15 1741; died February 22 1827): his mastodon can be found on Dec 24; at the Smithsonian here
Paul Jackson Pollock (born Jan 28 1912; died August 11 1956): mentioned on Oct 21; his website here
Nicolas Poussin: (born June 15 1594; died November 19 1665): see my note on Claude Lorrain, above; for Poussin here for his bio, here for his paintings – the last of the pre-Modernists on April 15
Luis Quintanilla (born June 21 1893; died October 16 1978): his portrait of Dos Passos is on Jan 14 (and a green traffic-light as well): more on his works here; his website here
Milton (Robert was his brush-name) Rauschenberg: born Oct 22 1925; died May 12 2008): his Foundation here
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (born February 25 1841; died December 3 1919): his portrait of Durand-Ruel is on Feb 5 - try here: his website here
Joshua Reynolds (born July 16 1723; died February 23 1792): painted Kitty Fisher on March 15; teacher of Thomas Stewart on May 16; at Elizabeth Montagu’s salon on Oct 2; and see under Hannah More on the serious scribes page for his sister Frances’ equal brilliance; she is also on July 23)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (born July 15 1606; died October 4 1669): provides an illustration on Jan 5; his website here
I have no idea if he is a descendant, but Michel van Rijn can be found on Oct 17, and in an essay of mine, “The Gospel of St Judas”, in “Travels In Familiar Lands”:
Bridget Louise Riley: born April 24 1931, and still alive and going strong at the time of my writing this; her website here
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (Diego Rivera) (born Dec 8 1886 ; died November 24 1957): his wesbite here; his museum in Mexico City here; Sept 17 for his twice-wife Frida Kahlo
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti can be found birthdaying on May 12 1828 (he died on April 9 1882); sister Christina Georgina Rossetti, born Dec 5, can be found among the Poets, and, as noted there, their mum was a Polidori, like Byron’s doctor and friend “Pollydolly”, John William Polidori
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (“Le Douanier”), born May 21 1844; died September 2 1910): mentioned on April 15; Musée de l’Orangerie here, Musée d’Orsay here
Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau: born April 15 1812; died December 22 1867): mentioned on Feb 5; paintings here
Peter Paul Rubens (born June 28 1577; died May 30 1640): cover-versioned by Vigée-Lebrun on April 16; his website here
Vlady Serge, Victor’s son who was an artist, on Aug 20 – but that can’t be his correct name! surely? Vladimir Victorovich Kibalchich possibly, that being his plus his dad’s birthname? And yes, but also no: Vlady Kibalchich Russakov (born June 15 1920 in Saint Petersburg; died July 21 2005 in Mexico): bio and pics here
Georges Pierre Seurat (born Dec 2 1859; died March 29 1891): Courtauld Gallery here; his website here
Luca Signorelli (born somewhere between 1441 and 1445; died October 16 1523): provides the illustrations on June 24 and Nov 1, - bio and pics here
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni: (born March 6 1475; died February 18 1564): offered to build a tomb for Dante on June 24; “can’t do fresco” on Aug 21 and Nov 1; referenced by Victor Hugo on Oct 18; mentioned May 18; his website here
James Stephanoff (circa 1787-1874): imagining Anne Boleyn on June 1 - more on him here
Henry Ossawa Tanner: painted "The Banjo Lesson" while living in France in 1893; see it here [Africa]
Joseph Mallord William Turner (born April 23 1775 in Covent Garden; died December 19 1851 in Chelsea): creating a good impression on the French artists of the mid 19th century on Feb 5; definitely a recognisable style on April 16; his gallery on Thorney Island here; his balcony and stained-glass window in Battersea here (William Blake’s wedding certificate is in the adjacent window: see P’s London); his website here; the Prize in his name here
Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) (born circa 1490; died August 27 1576): just one more painting on April 16; bio here, and many more paintings here [Pseudonyms]
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (born June 6 1599; died August 6 1660; note that he used his mother’s not his father’s surname): mentioned on April 16; Museo del Prado here
Johannes (Jan) Vermeer (born Oct 31 1632; died December 15 1675): his centre in Delft here; an idol-worshipper’s website here; Rijksmuseum here
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (born April 15 1452; died May 2 1519): “Mona Lisa” stolen on Aug 21; drawings on Nov 21; his website here
Jean-Antoine Watteau (born October 10 1684; died July 18 1721): just one more among the many at the Wallace Collection on April 16; his website here
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (born July 10 - or it may be the 11th, the archives vary – 1834; died July 17 1903): imitated on April 11; another of the Cheyne Walk crowd here; Whistler Society here; Paul Mellon centre here; his letters here; his website here
Robert Allen Zimmerman (Bob Dylan): Davey Moore on Feb 6; “John Birch” on May 19; born on May 24; dreamed he saw St Augustine on May 26; quoted on June 9; painted on July 22; with MLK on Aug 28; at Bunjies on Oct 3; sang for Rubin Carter on Nov 8; under an alias on Nov 23; produced by John Hammond Jr on Dec 15; mentioned on Feb 18, April 18, June 20 and July 10; but listed here for his pantings, very much under the influence of Edward Hopper: click here for the Halcyon Gallery; here for his website
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b) The Sculptors
Giovanni Lorenzo (Gianlorenzo) Bernini (born Dec 7 1598; died November 28 1680): Madrid museum here; Borghese museum in Rome here
Constantin Brîncuși on his Romanian birth certificate, though he is now known there as Constantin Brancuch; Constantin Brâncuși to the rest of us (born Feb 19 1876; died March 16 1957): and I am amused to note that he was born in what I presume was the home-town of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, Hobita in Romania (no, sorry, that was a Wikipedia mis-spelling, the correct name was Hobitza); the Henry Moore view of him here; his own website here (yep, it’s completely blank – maybe try here for his studio)
Antonio Canova (born November 1 1757; died October 13 1822): intimate of Pierre Jean David d’Angers on Jan 5; “the leading figure of the Neoclassical style, inspired by the sculptures of Ancient Greece and Rome” according to the website of the V&A, and they should know: click here
Pierre Jean David (David d'Angers) (born March 12 1788; died Jan 5 1856): National Gallery here
Jo Davidson (born August 30 1883 ; died January 2 1952): noted by Frieda as being among the last friends to visit DHL before he died, his fabulous bust of him can be seen, albeit only in thumbprint, here; March 2 on the blog; here and here for more
Daniel Chester French: (born April 20 1850; died October 7 1931): faking John Harvard on Nov 26 - try here (unless you are prepared to fight fiercely, do not try here)
Rowan Fergus Meredith Gillespie: his sculpture of Gerard Manley Hopkins can be seen on July 28; his sculptures of the four Irish Nobel winners can be seen here
Anna-Maria (“Marie”) Grosholtz, better known as Madame Tussauds (her husband’s name, and pronounced “Two Swords” by stupid English people), she was ”born Marie Grosholtz in Strasbourg in 1777 and was a wax sculptress. Marie learnt the craft of sculpturing with wax from the physician Dr. Philippe Curtius. He crafted wax-replications of human body parts to visualize human anatomy. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were the first wax figures crafted by Marie Grosholtz after the French Revolution.The second figure she made was Benjamin Franklin” - all this from the museum’s website
Henry Spencer Moore: at the AGO on Feb 28; (born July 30 1898; died August 31 1986): his Herts home and foundation here
Ida Rauh (Eastman - see under Pseudonyms for that) (born March 7 1877; died February 28 1970): among the last friends of DHL in Santa Fé on March 2 (click here), when she made a sculpted bust of him; her bio is well worth exploring in its own rights, civil as well as theatrical, here
François-Auguste-René Rodin (born Nov 12 1840; died November 17 1917): the Paris museum here; his equally interesting amanuensis can be found among the Poets (try René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke)
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c) The Photographers
Marc Allégret: (born December 22 1900; died November 3 1973): the photographer photographed, by Lady Ottoline Morrell, on Nov 22; bio here with an interesting Gide connection at the beginning, and an equally interesting DHL connection further on (click here for the follow-up): clearly he belongs with the film directors as much as he does here; the photographs from the Congo trip can be found here, other photos here; his papers here
Ansel Easton Adams (born Feb 20 1902; died April 22 1984): his gallery here
Damion Berger: doing photography the Helmut Newton way on Feb 20; interview here; his website here
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre: first ever photograph of the moon on Jan 2; first public showing on Jan 7; turned into colour on Aug 16, matched by Lunar Orbiter 7 on Aug 23; mentioned on Nov 20 ; but he is mostly on Feb 20, and see Aug 16 for Gabriel Lippman, and Aug 22 for Henri Cartier-Bresson; The Daguerreian Society here; the Science Museum’s collection here
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippman: gave Daguerre colour on Aug 16
John Adams Whipple (born September 10 1822; died April 10 1891): daguerrotyping the moon on Jan 2
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: Tenzinged Daguerre on Jan 2 (his house-museum here)
George Eastman (born July 12 1854; died March 14 1932): his museum here; the Kodak bio here
Alfred Eisenstaedt (born Dec 6 1898; died August 23, 1995): bio here and here
Craigie Horsfield: Among the Photographers on Feb 20; his page at the Tate here
Peter Lik: Among the Photographers on Feb 20; his website here
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (born Nov 4 1946 ; died March 9 1989): at the Tate here; his Foundation here
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar (born April 5 1820; died March 20 1910): the photographer whose studio hosted the 1874 Impressionist exhibition at 35 Boulevard des Capucines: excellent page here: on Feb 5
Helmut Neustädter (Helmut Newton) (born October 31 1920; died January 23 2004): among the great photographers on Feb 20; his website here
Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray, but it wasn’t originally a pseudonym; his family changed their name in 1912; he was known as Manny, which he then reduced to Man as a nom de camera): (born August 27 1890, in Philadelphia despite the Russian name and the lifelong French connection; died November 18 1976, in Paris): among the great Photographers on Feb 20; his website here
Alfred Stieglitz (born January 1 1864; died July 13 1946, spouse of Georgia O’Keeffe: insisting that photography is art on April 11; Art Institute of Chicago here
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d) The Cartoonists
Libby Purves, BBC presenter, not herself a cartoonist, but hosting many of us who are at Isaac Newton’s house one Friday in April 2019, though it appears on the blog under Sept 27. Those present, in the room, or by means of the Internet, or simply names that came up in the evening of cartoon-oriented conversations, included, in alphabetical order:
Khalid Wad Al Baih: Romanian born, but now Sudanese, and living in exile in Denmark; this website claims to hold his archive but is dead when you click on it; a website here that merely mentions him; another here that does even less; and at last (I hope it’s still live when you go to it), this, which isn’t actually his cartoons at all, but other peoples’ “in the style of Khalid Wad Al Baih”
Steven (“Steve”) William Maclean Bell is a British cartoonist living in exile in Britain: his website here
Eaten Fish (Ali Dorani) one of the two reasons for the evening on Sept 27: Iranian born but now living in exile in Australia; Cities of Refuge Network here; Professional Cartoonists Org here; World Expression Forum here; what was it Mandelstam said about the shoe-box: “You gave me my shoe-size in earth with bars around it. Where did it get you? Nowhere. You left me my lips, and they shape words, even in silence.”
Yaakov Farkash, or Ze’ev on his cartoons: born in Hungary on January 31 1923, he survived the Holocaust in Europe, arriving in Israel in 1947, and died October 15 2002: his obituary here; mentioned on Sept 27; his portrait of Golda Meir is on May 3
Zunar (Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque): the other main reason for the gathering: arrested for the crime of satire on Sept 27; his website here; and still more places on the Internet, fighting back against the Platonists who want to banish the Poetikos from the Republic: Cartooning for Peace here; the Committee to Protect Journalists here
plus four who weren't there, or even mentioned, that April evening, though all of them do make appearances on this blog and are therefore listed here:
Thomas Nast (born Sept 27 1840, in Germany; died December 7 1902 in Ecuador): his wesbite here
Robert LeRoy Ripley (born February 22 1890; died May 27 1949: drawing cartoons on March 3, and online here
Charles Monroe Schulz (born Nov 26 1922; died February 12 2000): "Peanuts" first published on Oct 2; his museum here; the Peanuts website here
And I would end this section with Charlie Hebdo, but it turns out that I have already done so, because Charlie Hebdo was named for Charlie Brown of "Peanuts", with his "weekly" appearances (that's "hebdomadaire" in French, but the same people also published a monthly, which included "Peanuts", called "Charlie Mensuel") giving him his surname. Previously the magazine had been named, rather too appositely as it transpired, "Hara-Kiri Hebdo", which act it committed in 1970, after mocking that other Charlie, President de Gaulle, at the time of his death: the paper was banned, and no doubt the choice of name for its replacement was a double-joke. "Je suis Charlie" can be found on Jan 14
and one who I am omitting, blanking out, deleting and reducing to the nothingness of... well, isn't that what happens to political cartoonists? ask Khalid Wad Al Baih and Ali Dorani... but no, I am not cattle-trucking this one to nothingness, rather I am transporting him by open limousine to the somethingness of including him further down the page, because he was not just a great cartoonist, who therefore belongs on this list, but one of the Terezin group: see below
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e) The Illustrators
Of whom very few get listed here, because very few have made it into the blog; but why do we not pay more attention to this as an art-form? As someone who publishes his own books, and therefore has to make a decision about what the cover should like, I am very conscious of the level of care and attention paid by publishers to getting that detail right (which makes me think that this section needs a “cover” of its own); and then, what about the stage and set designers, whoever put those pictograms around the pharaonic tombs...
Emily Allchurch: imagining the Tower of Babel on Dec 5; the work is entirely photographic collages, so I am placing her among the Illustrators rather than any of the other categories, but really it is a category unto itself: her website here
Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (born April 28 1701; died September 6 1780): teaching Marie-Marguerite Bihéron how to paint plants on her birthday; her own paintings can be found on the the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
which leads directly because alphabetically to
Marie-Marguerite Bihéron (anatomist and inventor): (born November 17 1719; died June 18 1795): with Madeleine Basseporte on April 28, and on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"; but does she go here with the painters, or with the pursuers of E,M&C2? Both is the answer, because sometimes it is very hard to tell Art from Science
William Blake: among the Bunhill dissenters on his birthday, Nov 28 1757, though he didn’t physically join them until August 12 1827; quoted on Dec 1; mentioned on April 27; his website here; and while Turner shares a window-space with him at St Mary’s Battersea (click here), he has a second stained-glass memorial, in another St Mary’s church, this one at Felpham (click here for the church, here for “why Felpham?”); the "Tate Dante" collection here; the complete archive here [also among The Poets]
Walton Corbould (born December 28 1859; died April 13 1919): illustrating John Ivimey’s “Three Blind Mice” on March 15; bio and front cover here
Georgette de Montenay (1540–1581): creating emblematic art on the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness
William Morris (the artist; the car manufacturer is listed as Lord Nuffield); (born March 23 1834; died October 3 1896): the Walthamstow Gallery here; the Red House in Bexleyheath here; his Society here (the American version here); his wesbsite here; the still-thriving business here; the Victoria & Albert collection here
Charles Alfred Mozley (born May 29 1914; died January 11 1991): designing Penguin book-covers on May 16 - his website here
Andries van Wezel (Andreas Vesalius) (born December 31 1514; died October 15 1564): fully anatomical on June 1; and strange to include him on this list, given that he undertook the work for scientific, not artistic purposes; but take a look at those amazing drawings and tell me they are not art as well as science; bio here; drawings here and here; you might also like to look up Jan Stephan van Calcar, who was an artisan at Titian's workshop, and who is the man who took many of Vesalius' drawings and turned them into woodcuts, as well as being commissioned for several of the originals, developed from Vesalius' provisional sketches; try here
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f) The Architects
And what about the architects: do they not count, the good ones anyway, as illustrators of the landscape? (sadly, today, far too many of them are destroyers of the landscape)
Elias Bouwman (born 1636; died March 18-1686): architect of the "Esnoga", the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, on Feb 1, click here
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (“Le Corbusier”): (born Oct 6 1887 ; died August 27 1965): bio and buildings here; his Foundation here
Abel Joseph (“Jack”) Diamond: (born November 8 1932; died October 30 2022): simultaneously building Toronto’s Opera House and refurbishing my school on Feb 28; bio here; his website here
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel: his tower inaugurated March 31; himself born Dec 15 1832 (died December 27 1923): the tower’s website here
Ephraim Owen Goldberg (Frank Gehry): born Feb 28 1929; for some reason he has two websites, one business here, the other personal here; bio and appraisal here
Alister Gladstone MacDonald: (born May 18 1898; died March 22 1993): architecting the original Toynbee Hall on June 5; obituary here
Andrea di Pietro della Gondola (Andrea Palladio): born Nov 30 1508; died August 19 1580): the RIBA collection here; Palladianism here
Ynyr (Inigo) Jones (born July 15 1573; died June 21 1652): everything here; the Queen’s House in Greenwich here; the Banqueting House here
Oscar Niemeyer (born December 15 1907; died December 5 2012): the architect of Brasilia [pre-Columban Americas]
John Soane (born September 10 1753; died January 20 1837): merely mentioned on March 15; his museum here; much more detail in P’s London
Christopher Michael Wren (born Oct 20 1632; died February 25 1723): bio and buildings here
Frank Lincoln Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright) (born June 8 1867; died April 9 1959): Taliesen burned down on Aug 15; his Guggenheim helter-skelter can be found on Oct 21; mentioned on Feb 28; his Foundation here, his Trust here, his Bulding Conservancy here; my Fallingwater painting here; a longer essay on FLW can be found in "Travels In Familiar Lands"; or will be found, as the book is not yet published.
Julian Carlton: set fire to Taliesin on Aug 15
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g) The Historians of Art
Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (born March 30 1909; died November 3 2001): "The Story Of Art" is on Feb 5 (and as a pdf here); plus a passing mention on Aug 20; his archive here; his Blue Plaque in Hampstead here; Warburg Institute here
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (born July 28 1938; died August 6 2012): unshocked by the new on Feb 5; obituary here
Walter Horatio Pater (born Aug 4 1839; died July 30 1894): bio here; “art for art's sake” here; his school report here
John Ruskin (born on Feb 8 1819; died January 20 1900): my piece about him on Dec 4 also has links to three essays in which he figures in "Private Collection"; his museum here; his college here; his Blue Plaque in Herne Hill here; his complete works here and here; his book about Turner gets a mention on Anna Brownell Jameson's page, May 17
Giorgio Vasari (born July 30 1511; died June 27 1574): referenced on Feb 5 and Aug 4; bio here; designing the Uffizi here; and pictures of his at the Uffizi here and here (he wasn’t just a writer!)
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h) The Collectors
And if I am including the architects, what about the gallery-creators?
Walter Conrad Arensberg - wealthy art collector who lunched with Marcel Duchamp in NYC on April 11; he also wrote some rather indifferent poetry (click here)
Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck (Morrell was her married name) (born June 16 1873; died April 21 1938): taking photos on Nov 22, but I am including her among the collectors, albeit she collected people rather more than their works: click here
William Coles & William Forshaw:professional photographers who took the photograph of Gerald Manley Hopkins on July 28, though their shop on Alfred Street did their names the other way around; and it is because of the shop that they are listed here; click here for their tale, and also a nice piece of Lewis Carroll marginalia
Solomon Robert Guggenheim can be found in his FLW-designed warehouse on Oct 21, and again on Dec 30 (its wesbite here); Simon (fully John Simon) and Benjamin (known as Ben) are also on Dec 30, with Ben’s daughter Marguerite, better known as Peggy, who is in Bilbao with Frank Gehry on Feb 28 (her Venice museum here, Bilbao here; Abu Dhabi is still under construction, here); further mentions on Feb 5 and June 8
Mabel Ganson (Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan) (1879 – 1962): turning me into a poacher and DHL into a mystic on March 2; love this wesbite (shame about the dead links)!
James Louis Macie (that’s James Smithson of the Smithsonian Institute; or probably Jacques-Louis Macie on his French birth certificate: born in Paris in 1765, died in Genoa on June 27 1829): the Institute established on Aug 10, mentioned on Feb 9 and March 3, its wesbite here; why he changed his name here (and on the Pseudonyms page)
Henry Cavendish (born October 10 1731; died February 24 1810): recommended James Smithson for the Royal Society on Aug 10
Charles Saatchi: using PR to sell failed art on Feb 5; gallery website here
Richard Wallace (born July 26 1818; died July 20 1890): donor of one of the world’s great art collections on April 16; its website here
The Marquesses of Hertford: Seymours, as in Henry VIII’s wife Jane et al: housing the Wallace Collection on April 16
*
i) The sub-sub-sections
* The Sistine Chapel , whose building and decorating can be found on Nov 1. The key participants were:
Pope Sixtus IV, Francesco della Rovere , who commissioned it and gave it its name
Pope Julius II, Giuliano della Rovere, the former's nephew and chosen successor (funny thing that, I always understood that God made the choice, through the votes of the other Cardinals); Sixtus only built the walls, it was Julius who got the walls and ceiling painted
Giovanni dei Dolci: its builder, in the sense of mason, the physical construction; the design, not mentioned on Nov 1, was by Bartolomeo ("Baccio") Pontelli; here for Dolci, though more and better here; here for the building; here for Pontelli
and now the painters, in alphabetical order:
Domenico di Tommaso Bigordi (1449-1494), “called Ghirlandaio because his goldsmith father specialized in creating gold and silver garlands (ghirlande)” – that from the National Gallery’s website: try here [see pseudonyms]
Pietro di Antonio Dei, though he painted as Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448-1502): a minor contribution only; more on him here and here
Pietro Vanucci - Perugino was his nom de brosse; chosen because he came from Perugia (1446-1523): Raffaelo was one of his students; bio and pictures here
Raffaelo di Giovanni Santi, or possibly Raffaelo Sanzio da Urbino, and sometimes just one “f”; but either way known in English, incorrectly, as Raphael (born 1483; died April 6 1520): he also provided this blog with an uncommissioned and unpaid illustration on Dec 25
Luca Signorelli (born somewhere between 1441 and 1445; died October 16 1523): provides the illustrations on June 24 and Nov 1; bio and pics here
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni: (born March 6 1475; died February 18 1564): offered to build a tomb for Dante on June 24; “can’t do fresco” on Aug 21 and Nov 1; referenced by Victor Hugo on Oct 18; mentioned May 18; his website here
*
* Vigée-Lebrun
on her own on this page, only becuase there are so many people connected with her who need listing:
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun: her portrait in words on April 16; her portrait of Marie Antoinette on the same page
Adélaïde de Praël (1758-1794): married the banker Jean-François Perregaux in 1779, and thus became “Madame Perregaux”; she can be found, painted by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, on April 16; and her bio likewise at the Wallace Collection, but online, here
Louis Vigée, her dad who was also an artist; unfortunately I can’t find anything else about him except this brief entry on Wikipedia, which you are advised to read with caution as they simply troll the web robotically and pick up a lot of duck-feathers and sea-weed with the fishes (and they often get the wrong fishes, and they never check): anyway, here (and now that you’ve looked, a question for you: if he was named Louis Vigée, he can’t have “married Jeanne Vigée”, unless it was incestuous; he must have married someone who changed her name to his... you see the reason for my Caveat... him too on April 16
But then there are other people who shared her married-name:
Louis-Sébastien Lebrun (born December 10 1764; died June 27 1829 – bio here): no relation to Elizabeth Vigée on April 16, just sharing her name; see “A Journey In Time”
ditto for Albert François Lebrun (1871-1950, President of France from 1932 to 1940 – bio here)
and Charles Lebrun (1619-1690, Louis XIV’s favourite artist of all time; bio here)
whereas Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun (1748-1813) was her husband, and can be found here
* The Durand-Ruel discoveries
Paul-Marie-Joseph Durand-Ruel: (born October 31 1831; died Feb 5 1922); everyone listed below can be found both on Feb 5 (unless otherwise stated, and sometimes both), and on his website, here
Jean Durand (his father), Marie Ruel (his mother), and Eva Lafon (his wife), all making up the family of Paul Durand-Ruel on Feb 5
and now the artists, in alphabetical order:
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (born May 22 1844; died June 14 1926): on the Equal Sex page of Woman-Blindness; at the Met here; her website here
Eugène Louis Boudin (born July 12 1824; died August 8 1898): at the National Gallery here; his website here
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (born December 14 1824; died October 24 1898): not one of the well-remembereds among Paul Durand-Ruel’s discoveries, but painting anyway on Feb 5; bio here; his best friend Auguste Rodin's bust of him here
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (born July 16 1796; died February 22 1875): rejected by the salon, taken up by Durand-Ruel, on Feb 5; bio here; his website here; the Barbizon school here
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (born June 19 1819; died December 32 1877): another of the Etretat crowd on Oct 6; click here and use their “seen by artists” page for all of these; interesting to see Corot, Matisse and Monet also listed; at the Met here; his website here
Charles-François Daubigny (born February 15 1817; died February 19 1878): another of the scarcely-remembereds; try here, and here; his website here
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (born February 26 1808; died February 10 1879): ibid Daubigny, above; try here; his website here
Hilaire Germain Edgar De Gas (Degas): among the Pseudonyms on Feb 8; born July 19 1834 (died September 27 1917); two websites claiming to be his, here and here
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (born April 26 1798; died August 13 1863): another of the Etretat crowd on Oct 6; his Museum here; his website here
Jules Louis Dupré (born April 5 1811; died October 6 1889): bio and paintings here; and no, he was not related to cellist Jacqueline, though probably they shared the same source for the name, the town of Pré in the Channel Islands
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin: yes, him too: born June 7 1848 (died May 8 1903); his website here
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (born September 26 1791; died January 26 1824): discovered by père and mère Durand-Ruel, setting the tone for son Paul’s later career, on Feb 5; his bio here
Édouard Manet 1832-1883: born Jan 23 1832 (died April 30 1883); his website here
Jean-François Millet (born October 4 1814; died January 20 1875): another of the Barbizon artists on Feb 5; bio here; paintings galore here; his website here
Oscar-Claude Monet: born Nov 14 1840 (died December 5 1926); discovered by Durand-Ruel on Feb 5; mentioned on Oct 6; at the Tate here; his own gallery here; his website here
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (born January 4 1841; died March 2 1895): can be found on Woman-Blindness with her sister Edma Pontillon; bio here and here
Narcisse-Virgilio Diaz de la Peña (born August 20 1807; died November 18 1876): bio and paintings here and here
(Jacob Abraham) Camille Pissarro (born July 10 1830; died November 13 1903): dad was Jewish, mum Creole: bio here; his website here
Alfred Sisley (born Oct 30 1839 ; died January 29 1899): Yet another of the Durand-Ruel finds on Feb 5; his wesbite here
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (born Nov 24 1864; died September 9 1901): the Durand-Ruel list just grows and grows on Feb 5; his museum in Albi here; his chateau in Malromé here (his jazz club and restaurant in London here)
* Daddying Dada
Les Frères Duchamp:
Jacques Villon (born July 31 1875; died June 9, 1963); and Raymond Duchamp-Villon (born
November 15 1876; died October 9 1918): the third brother being Marcel Duchamp on April 11. Jacques on his
birth-certificate was Gaston Duchamp, and
mum’s maiden name was Nicolle, not Villon (click here), so I
wonder if they added Villon to
identify with an earlier rebel! Click here for Jacques, who
focused on Cubism and Abstract, when not print-making; here for Raymond, who was
a sculptor
Jordan Lawrence Mott: his New
York ironworks provided Marcel Duchamp with a
convenient urinal on April 11; click here for some rather more arty items
Francis-Marie Martinez
de Picabia (born January 22 1879; died November 30 1953: brought Duchamp’s
"Nude Descending a Staircase" to New York for the Armory Show of
Contemporary Art in 1913 - click here; what happened next can be
found on April 11
Joseph Stella (born June
13 1877 in Muro Lucano, in Italy; died in the vicinity of Brooklyn Bridge on November 5 1946): lunching with Duchamp on April 11; click here for his
bio and paintings
Tristan Tzara (born
April 16 1896; died December 25 1963): merely mentioned on April 11;
not even mentioned on March 23; but he goes with...
... Hugo Ball on March 23, because Ball wrote the
Dada Manifesto, the 1916 version anyway, which can be found here; am I
right in saying that Tristan
Tzara’s 1918 version was different? click here for that
Martin Gayford:
bustering Duchamp on April 11
*
* The Max Jacob-Pablo Picasso meet-up group
First the
hosts:
Max Alexandre, though he signed his books as Léon David Morven le Gaëlique and his paintings as Max Jacob (born July 12 1876; died March 5 1944 en route to Auschwitz): mostly on Aug 19, but also dinner chez Matisse on Dec 12, and a mention on Jan 26; his Quimper website here, his poems here [Pseudonyms and The Poets]
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los
Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (honestly!): Guernica
on April 26, Georges Braque on May
13; Max Jacob on Aug 19; provides an illustration in both
senses on Sept 13 and 17; mentioned somewhat obscurely on Oct 8; his earliest known painting on Oct 22; born Oct
25; dinner with Matisse on
Dec 12
then
the acolytes on Aug 19:
Georges-Charles Augsburger (1902-1974), but remembered as Géo, sometimes as Géa Augsbourg, a name-change owed to the fact that he was a
Swiss from the Schweizedeutsch part of Switzerland who lived most of his life
in France; paintings here
Pierre de Belay (born December 12 1890 in Quimper, which of
course associates him from the outset with Max
Jacob; died June 30 1947): hard to find a website for hi, but googlesearch will bring up lots of
his paintings; his 1936 portrait of Max Jacob is here
Elie Lascaux (born July 5 1888; died October 28 1968): yes, the same Lascaux where a
major prehistoric cave was found (click here for that and see my Art Gallery for my attempt to descale the
"macaronis" found there); Elie's bio and paintings here
Jean Pierre Moulin (born June 20 1899; died, probably on July 8 1943, buried at the Panthéon
in Paris): in the Picasso-Max
Jacob meet-up
group on Aug 19, with more on him and the Jacob circle here; and if
you thought what happened to Max Jacob was bad enough, you may need to prepare yourself
for the first part of this link; but
believe me, it’s worth the momentary anguish, because this turns out to be one
of the true heroes, indeed one of the founders, of the French Resistance
Movement; for that see Jan 26 and responses to bullying; his museum here
André Salmon (born October 4 1881 ; died March 12 1969): had
dinner chez Matisse one night, with Max Jacob and Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, as a result of which Cubism was
mis-shaped into existence; on Aug 19; his
website here
Roger Toulouse (born February 19 1918; died September 11 1994): his
portrait of “Le Poète Max Jacob” here; his website here
Augustin Tuset (born January 27 1893 ; died November 11 1967): his
portrait of Jean Moulin here
*
* The Terezinstadt Salon
Felix (Ferdinand) Bloch: (born
August 15 1898; murdered October 31 1944): incarcerated in the Small Fortress
in the Terezin ghetto, where he was brutally tortured; on April 1: his picture and bio here
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (30 July 1898-9 October 1944): one of the
Bauhaus artists who was imprisoned at Terezin on April 1: click here and here
Pavel Haas (born June 21 1899; died October 17 1944) and Leo
Haas (born April 15 1901; died August
13 1983):
fellow-prisoners at Terezin on April 1; Pavel
the composer here, and the Quartet, named in his
honour and still playing, here; Leo the
artist here. And no, as far as I can discover,
they were not related [Pavel
is also with the musical
maestros]
Franz Petr Kien (born January 1 1919; died 16 October 1944): among the artistic fellow-prisoners
at Terezin on April 1
Max Plaček: born
1902; a fellow-prisoner at Terezin on April 1; murdered
in Sachsenhausen in 1944; his Yad Vashem biography here; his Bar Mitzvah gift for Jiri
Bader here
Fritz Taussig (Bedřich Fritta was his
pseudonym): (born September 19 1906; deported to Terezin on December 4 1941;
died in Oswiecim November 8 1944 - here); his bio here and here; on the blog on April 1
Norbert Troller (born January 12 1896, survived Teresienstadt, died in New York, either
in 1981 or 1984 depending on which source you go to (try here, or here), but given the time and place there must surely be a record that can be
checked: definitely April 1 on this blog - you can verify it here; an artist, but also
an architect, for which click here
František Zelenka (born July 8 1904 in Kutná Hora, Czechia; died en route to you-know-where
on or about October 19 1944): stage designer for Brundibár on April 1; bio here, some
gorgeous artwork here; but he too
was really an architect, for which click here and here
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