"The Boyhood of Raleigh The Boyhood of Raleigh is a painting by John Everett Millais, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1871. It came to epitomise the culture of heroic imperialism in late Victorian Britain and in British popular culture up to the mid-twentieth century . The painting depicts the young, wide-eyed Walter Raleigh and his brother sitting on the beach by the Devonshire coast. He is listening to a story of life on the seas, told by an experienced sailor who points out to the sea. The painting was influenced by an essay written by James Anthony"
"Sydney Richmond Burleigh Sydney Richmond Burleigh (July 7, 1853 – February 25, 1931) was an American artist, known primarily for his watercolors but also for his oil paintings, drawings, illustrations, and building and furniture designs. He was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, a descendent of the Pilgrim William Bradford. In 1875, he married Sarah Drew Wilkinson (1851–1952) and, with her encouragement and wealth, became a full-time artist. He studied in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens from 1876 to 1880 and then returned to Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Burleigh rose to national prominence after receiving a"
"Sydney Richmond Burleigh Sydney Richmond Burleigh (July 7, 1853 – February 25, 1931) was an American artist, known primarily for his watercolors but also for his oil paintings, drawings, illustrations, and building and furniture designs. He was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, a descendent of the Pilgrim William Bradford. In 1875, he married Sarah Drew Wilkinson (1851–1952) and, with her encouragement and wealth, became a full-time artist. He studied in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens from 1876 to 1880 and then returned to Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Burleigh rose to national prominence after receiving a"
"planning. The painting was hugely successful at the time, and was very widely circulated in reproductions. Millais' son says he once saw a reproduction in ""the hut of a Hottentot shepherd"" in South Africa. Along with Millais' earlier painting ""The Boyhood of Raleigh"" it came to symbolise Britain's self-image as a nation of heroic explorers and empire-builders. Millais received a letter from the explorer Sir George Nares in which he said that the painting had had a powerful effect on the spirit of the nation. The painting was quickly referenced in cartoons. In October 1874 ""Punch"" published a pastiche by"
"Near East) on 13 May 1922 (aged 60), being survived by his wife Lucie Gertrude, three of their four sons, and a daughter. His daughter Philippa married the writer Charles Whibley. Raleigh is buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Lawrence at North Hinksey, near Oxford. His son Hilary edited his light prose, verse, and plays in ""Laughter from a Cloud"" (1923). He is probably best known for the poem ""Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914"": Raleigh Park at North Hinksey, near Harcourt Hill where he lived from 1909 to his"
"Cecil Raleigh Cecil Raleigh (27 January 1856 – 10 November 1914, London, England) was an English actor and playwright. He was the son of Dr John Fothergill Rowlands, and took the stage name of Raleigh. He played for a time in musical theatre, but deserted acting for playwriting and, either alone or in collaboration, produced melodramas, other plays and musical pieces, staged at first chiefly at the Comedy Theatre, London, and in later years at Drury Lane. ""Cheer, Boys, Cheer"" (1895); ""Hearts are Trumps"" (1899); ""The Best of Friends"" (1902); and ""The Whip"" (1909–10) are typical examples of his plays,"
"an adolescent when she died of illness in 1850, while James was a 26-year-old volunteer firefighter who died in a hotel fire shortly before the painting was commissioned. The likenesses of the subjects as children were painted from family daguerreotypes, as some painters of the time regarded photography with suspicion and refused to use photographs as references for portraits. A dog is depicted just entering the studio, another acknowledgement of early photography's limitation to still subjects. The painting is on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. Franklin Sidway Franklin Sidway (July 7, 1834 – March 20,"
"collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia. One of these works had been acquired from the collection of J. Stuart Halladay and Herrel George Thomas. According to the museum's catalog, a needlework picture on silk that she completed at age fifteen is the only other work by her that had been documented by 1988. Rebecca Couch Rebecca Couch (June 19, 1788 – September 4, 1863) was an American painter. Couch was born in Redding, Connecticut, the eldest daughter of Thomas Nash Couch and Abigail Stebbins Couch. She could have received training in watercolor technique, the medium"
"Raleigh, 1976, organized by Richard Craven: 81 lenders' works, 35 years of Johnson's outgoing mail. Around that time, Johnson began his silhouette project, creating approximately 200 profiles of personal friends, artists, and celebrities which became the basis for many of his later collages. His subjects included Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, Edward Albee, Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers, Lynda Benglis, Nam Jume Paik, David Hockney, David Bowie, Christo, Peter Hujar, Roy Lichtenstein, Paloma Picasso, James Rosenquist, Richard Feigen, among others - a who's who of the New York arts and letters scene. During the 1980s Johnson purposefully receded from"
"John Farleigh John Farleigh (16 June 1900 – 30 March 1965), also known as Frederick William Charles Farleigh, was an English wood-engraver, noted for his illustrations of George Bernard Shaw's work ""The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God"", which caused controversy when released due to the religious, sexual and racial themes within the writing and John Farleigh's complementary (and risqué) wood engravings commissioned by Shaw for the book. He is also known for his illustrations of D. H. Lawrence's work, ""The Man Who Died"", and for the posters he designed for London County Council Tramways and"
"Bernard Sleigh Bernard Sleigh (Birmingham 1872–1954) was an English mural painter, stained-glass artist, illustrator and wood engraver, best known for his work ""An Ancient Mappe of Fairyland, Newly Discovered and Set Forth"", which depicts numerous characters from legends and fairytales. A copy of ""The Ancient Mappe"" is in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1923 and 1928. As a young man, Sleigh was greatly inspired by the work of George MacDonald and William Morris. Sleigh was apprenticed to a wood engraver at age 14 and attended the"
"1900 he married Stella D Phillp, producing a son, Brocas Linwood, in 1902 and a daughter, Barbara Grace de Riemer (the children's writer Barbara Sleigh), in 1906. The marriage was dissolved in about 1914. Sleigh retired to Chipping Campden in 1937, like his mentor Arthur Gaskin, moving into Old Forge Cottage in Cider Mill Lane. His imagery by then had turned from romantic medievalism to a world peopled by fairies and elves. Bernard Sleigh Bernard Sleigh (Birmingham 1872–1954) was an English mural painter, stained-glass artist, illustrator and wood engraver, best known for his work ""An Ancient Mappe of Fairyland, Newly"
"painting was commissioned by the subjects' older brother, Franklin Sidway. Parnell was an adolescent when she died of illness in 1850, while James was a 26-year-old volunteer firefighter who died in a hotel fire shortly before the painting was commissioned. The likenesses of the subjects as children were painted from family daguerreotypes. Some painters of the time regarded photography with suspicion, and refused to use photographs as references for portraits. The painting is filled with references to this tension. The children are surrounded by painted portraits, and the photographer's back is to the viewer with his face obscured. The girl"
"painting. Rembrandt Peale Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. Rembrandt Peale was born the third of six surviving children (11 had died) to his mother, Rachel Brewer, and father, Charles Willson Peale in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1778. The father, Charles, also a notable artist, named him after the noted 17th-century Dutch painter and"
"included a four-volume set on the Devil. Howard Little Howard Little (February 12, 1842 – January 7, 1911) was an American artist. A native of North Carolina, he spent the last year of his life in Geneva, Switzerland. Born in Pinehurst, North Carolina, raised in Southern Pines, and an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Little took up drawing at 18. In 1884 he began teaching illustration, and after 1897 founded a school, where his students included F.G. Stevenson. His 1883 classic ""The Dance of the Damned"" remains in print to this day, and his other"
"Malvin Gray Johnson Malvin Gray Johnson (January 28, 1896 – October 4, 1934) was an African-American painter, born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. His family moved to New York City, where he studied art at the National Academy of Design. He rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. He was ""the youngest member of the Harlem Renaissance artists...migrated to New York with his family at an early age...where he was influenced by French Impressionism and Cubism."" Malvin ""was one of the most far-reaching and versatile artists of his period. He drew upon many stylistic sources and demonstrated the disciplined"
"Russell Cheney Russell Cheney (October 16, 1881 – July 12, 1945) was an American Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and New England regionalist painter. The youngest of eleven children Cheney was born in Manchester, Connecticut to Knight Dexter Cheney and Ednah Dow Cheney. He graduated from Yale University in 1904, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. Cheney studied at the Art Students League with Kenyon Cox and George Bridgman until 1907. He continued his art education in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. After his father's death in 1908, he returned to America and"
"until his death in 1914. Cecil Raleigh Cecil Raleigh (27 January 1856 – 10 November 1914, London, England) was an English actor and playwright. He was the son of Dr John Fothergill Rowlands, and took the stage name of Raleigh. He played for a time in musical theatre, but deserted acting for playwriting and, either alone or in collaboration, produced melodramas, other plays and musical pieces, staged at first chiefly at the Comedy Theatre, London, and in later years at Drury Lane. ""Cheer, Boys, Cheer"" (1895); ""Hearts are Trumps"" (1899); ""The Best of Friends"" (1902); and ""The Whip"" (1909–10) are"
"by Holger Cahill, acting as agent for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. According to Lyles, however, it was painted on a plantation between Charleston and Orangeburg. A watermark on the paper has been identified as that used by the English papermaker James Whatman II (1741–1798) between 1777 and 1794. Rockefeller and Cahill transferred the painting to Williamsburg, Virginia to be part of the Rockefeller collection at the Ludwell-Paradise House. It was later gifted to Colonial Williamsburg. The painting is currently held by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg. The Old Plantation The Old Plantation is an American folk art"
"with its strong link to the radical childlike innocence of the American land. Reynolds Beal Reynolds Beal (October 11, 1866 – December 18, 1951) was an American Impressionist and Modernist artist. The elder brother of painter Gifford Beal, Reynolds was born in New York City. He and his brother Gifford spent their summers at Wilellyn in Newburgh, New York, on the Hudson River, and together they would later design the gardens at Wilellyn. His father was William Reynolds Beal, whose brother Thaddeus owned Echo Lawn, not far away. Beal was a man of independent means, and was thus able to"
"Seth Wells Cheney Seth Wells Cheney (November 28, 1810 – September 10, 1856), American artist, a pioneer of crayon work in the United States. He was the son of George Cheney and Electa Woodbridge. He received a public school education. In 1833 he went to Paris and studied under Jean-Baptiste Isabey and Paul Delaroche when he returned he started drawing portraits in Boston in 1841. His portraits are in black and white crayon. He was one of the earliest American artists in black and white, and excelled in giving spirituality to his portraits and ideal female faces, which were sought"
"of celebrities of the 60s was published, Jim featured prominently. He was also commissioned to paint a picture for the 1969/1971 book ""The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics"". Other galleries who acquired his work were Leeds City Art Gallery, Bowes Museum and Thomas's College, York. He was also noticed by collectors abroad and his work was collected by Museums and Galleries as far apart as Caracas, Venezuela, and Zacreb, Yugoslavia. He won the International Best Primitive Painter Award in 1973, with his painting Boy with Horse. James Lloyd (artist) Frederick James Lloyd (12 October 1905, Alsager, England – 1974), more commonly known"
"the hope of a hit there, often working in manners to which their talent was not really suited, a trope exemplified by the suicide in 1846 of Benjamin Haydon, a friend of Keats and Dickens and a better writer than painter, leaving his blood splashed over his unfinished ""King Alfred and the First British Jury"". British history was a very common subject, with the Middle Ages, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots and the English Civil War especially popular sources for subjects. Many painters mentioned elsewhere painted historical subjects, including Millais (""The Boyhood of Raleigh"" and many others), Ford Madox"
"Mary-Austin Klein Mary-Austin Klein (born 1964 in San Bernardino, California) is an American landscape painter best known for her small-scaled and highly detailed paintings[1] of the southwestern United States. Klein's work continues the Impressionist tradition of early California fine artists like William Wendt and George Gardner who explored the west at the behest of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, exchanging paintings for rides. Like these early California artists, Klein’s oil paintings celebrate the bright, colorful light of the southwest. In his blog, ""Made in Frogtown"", the artist and former newsman William Lagattuta notes her “""ability to""... ""reduce enormous, powerful landscapes"
"Samuel Shelley Samuel Shelley (1750/56–1808) was an English miniaturist and watercolour painter. Largely self-educated, Samuel Shelley was a leading miniaturist, i.e., painter of portrait miniatures, of his time, ranking with Cosway, Smart, and Crosse. In addition to his portraits, he also painted in water-colours fancy figures and compositions from Shakespeare, Tasso, and other poets. His water-colours and miniatures were engraved by Bartolozzi, William Nutter, Caroline Watson, and others. Born in Whitechapel, London, Shelley was for the most part self-taught as an artist. His first exhibition was at the Society of Artists in 1773, on 21 March the following year he"
"Rembrandt Peale Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. Rembrandt Peale was born the third of six surviving children (11 had died) to his mother, Rachel Brewer, and father, Charles Willson Peale in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1778. The father, Charles, also a notable artist, named him after the noted 17th-century Dutch painter and engraver"
"James Sullivan Lincoln James Sullivan Lincoln (May 13, 1811 – January 18, 1888) was a noted portrait painter based in Providence, Rhode Island. He has been called the ""father of Rhode Island art"" and the ""father of art in Providence."" His works include eleven portraits of governors of Rhode Island, displayed at the State House, and six portraits of mayors which hang in the Providence City Hall. James Sullivan Lincoln was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, to Sullivan and Keziah (Weston) Lincoln. He was the oldest of six children. His father was a miller and farmer. At age ten, the family"
"Robert Field (painter) Robert Field (1769–1819) was a painter who was born in London, England, and died in Kingston, Jamaica. He was one of America’s leading miniaturists. Along with being the most important painter in Nova Scotia at the beginning of the 19th century, at this time, Field was probably the most professionally trained painter to settle in Canada. Daphne Foskett in ""A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters"" (1972) wrote that Field was, ""one of the best American miniaturists of his time."" He worked in the conventional neo-classic portrait style of Henry Raeburn and Gilbert Stuart. His most famous works"
"was given a solo exhibition also at the Art Association of Harrisburg. Charles Li Hidley Charles ""Li"" Hidley (March 13, 1921 – June 9, 2003) was an American painter who studied in NYC during the New York School and created Abstract Expressionist works in Harrisburg, PA from 1966 to the 1990s. Born in Troy NY, Hidley lost his father during boyhood and was relocated by his mother to NYC in the 1930s. Young Charlie shortened his nickname to ""Li"" in these years, and was known by that moniker for the rest of his life. He developed a passion for writing"
"Archibald Motley Archibald John Motley, Junior (October 7, 1891 – January 16, 1981) was an American visual artist. He studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1910s, graduating in 1918. He is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, a time in which African-American art reached new heights not just in New York but across America—its local expression is referred to as the Chicago Black Renaissance. The Renaissance marked"
"James Whitcomb Riley James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the ""Hoosier Poet"" and ""Children's Poet"" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately 1,000 poems that Riley wrote, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include ""Little Orphant Annie"" and ""The Raggedy Man"". Riley began his career writing verses as a sign maker and submitting poetry to newspapers. Thanks in part to an endorsement from poet Henry"
"Rainey Bennett Rainey Bennett (July 26, 1907 in Marion, Indiana – December 11, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois), attended the University of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago. A renowned artist, illustrator and muralist, Bennett's works have been displayed in major museum art collections. The art collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York include some of Rainey's artwork. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC contains a watercolor, ""Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1952"", as part of its permanent collection. The Art Institute of Chicago has three of Bennett's pieces in its"
"for Troy as a civil engineer and become a lithographer and view publisher by 1886. The period of his greatest productivity of prints continued until 1890. Burleigh was born in Plainfield, Connecticut. One of his lithographs is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. The Boston Public Library and Library of Congress also have examples of his lithographs in their collections. Burleigh's drawings were made into lithographs and include the name of each locality in an artistically stylized font as well as a listing of local landmarks. The designs were copyrighted. Some of the lithographs he published from earlier than"