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Arthur William Brown - Gifted Gallery
Arthur William Brown was a Canadian commercial artist, most known for his work as an illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post, American Magazine, and Redbook. In the 1890s, he attended the Hamilton Art School and studied under John Sloan Gordon. At the age of 16, he was hired as a chalk plate artist for the Hamilton Spectator . He later left Hamilton and attended the Art Students League in New York City , and studied under Walter Appleton Clark , Frank DuMond , and F. R. Gru

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George Stubbs - Gifted Gallery
George Stubbs ARA , born 25 August 1724, was an English painter , best known for his paintings of horses. Whistlejacket Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough . Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals (such as horses, dogs and lions), perhaps influenced by his love and study of anatomy. His series of paintings on the th

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Nov 51 min read


Jay Hyde Barnum - Gifted Gallery
Jay Hyde Barnum, born about 1888, was an American artist, illustrator and author. He was born in Geneva, Ohio. He attended the Cleveland Art School and the School of the Art Institue of Chicago. He also studied in Woodstock, New York with Bellows, Speicher and Kroll. He made his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He was an author and illustrator of books for children as well as a commercial illustrator. The books he wrote and illustrated are The New Fire Engine, The Little

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Oct 291 min read


John Frederick Herring - Gifted Gallery
John Frederick Herring Sr., born 12 September 1795, was a painter , sign maker and coachman in Victorian England . He is best known for his horse portraits, racehorses with riders up, hunting scenes, and family farm animals.

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Oct 221 min read


Bristow Adams - Gifted Gallery
Bristow Adams, born 11 1875, was an American journalist , professor , forester , and illustrator . Adams was born in Washington, D.C. He taught at Cornell University from 1914 to 1945. Adams also founded the Stanford Chaparral , the oldest humor magazine in the west, in 1899. Adams created at least two scarce large photolithographed rowing posters between 1900 and 1910, one representing Harvard and one Cornell. He is best remembered for his American college posters.

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Oct 151 min read


Peter Helck - Gifted Gallery
Peter Helck, born 17 June 1893, was an American illustrator who specialised in depicting racecars . Helck estimated that he had produced...

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Oct 82 min read


John Pettie - Gifted Gallery
John Pettie RA , born 17 March 1839, was a painter from Edinburgh who spent most of his career in London. He became a member of the...

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Oct 12 min read


Stevan Dohanos - Gifted Gallery
Stevan Dohanos, born 18 May 1907, was an American artist and illustrator of the social realism school, best known for his Saturday...

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Sep 242 min read


Léon Bonnotte - Gifted Gallery
Léon Bonnotte was a French illustrator active during the early 20th century, contributing to periodicals such as Fantasio, a magazine...

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Sep 171 min read


Henri Biva - Gifted Gallery
Henri Biva , born 23 January 1848, was a French artist, known for his landscape paintings and still lifes . He focused primarily on the...

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Sep 101 min read
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