- Abraham Solomon
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAsolomon.htm
Abstract: Born in Bishopsgate, London, in August 1823. His father, Michael Solomon, was the first Jewish person to be admitted to the freedom of the city of London. At the age of thirteen he became a student at the Sass School of Art and three years later he was admitted to the Royal Academy. Abraham Solomon continued to be a popular artist until his death from heart disease in 1862.
- Allan Ramsay
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jramsay.htm
Abstract: Son of a poet, was born in Edinburgh on 2nd October, 1713, at thirteen he entered Edinburgh High School where he excelled at languages. In 1729 he entered the recently established Academy of St Luke in Edinburgh followed by a period as pupil in London to the Swedish portrait painter, Hans Hysing. In 1767 Ramsay was appointed as Principal Painter to the king. An accident in 1773, where he badly hurt his right arm when falling from a ladder, forced him to retire from painting. Allan Ramsay died on 10th August 1784.
- Frederick Walker
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jwalker.htm
Abstract: Son of a jeweller born in 1840. After a brief education at the North London Collegiate School, Walker found employment in an architect's office. In 1863 he exhibited his first oil paintings at the Royal Academy. By 1872 Walker, whose paintings showed a deep concern for the under-privileged, was acknowledged as the leader of what became known as the social realist school of painting. Frederick Walker suffered from poor health throughout his life and died, aged thirty-five, in 1875. Includes commentaries by contemporaries.
- George Cruikshank
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRcruikshank.htm
Abstract: Born in London on 27th September, 1792 to a caricaturist who died as a result of his alcoholism in 1811. After a brief education he set himself up as a caricaturist and was soon selling his drawings to over twenty different printsellers. Like many artists, Cruikshank was unhappy about the changes that had resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Cruikshank also became involved in the movement to protect children and published several books on the subject including A Slice of Bread and Butter (1857) and Our Gutter Children (1869). George Cruikshank died on 1st February, 1878.
- George Scharf
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jscharf.htm
Abstract: Born in Mainburg, Bavaria on 23rd April, 1788. After studying art painting and lithography in Munich, he soon found work producing lithographs for printers. In 1816, Scarf decided to emigrate to England. In the 1840s Scharf tended to concentrate on scientific work. His main clients were doctors, naturalists and the Royal College of Surgeons. Scharf's health began to deteriorate in the early 1850s. Unable to work, his last years were dominated by money problems. George Scharf died on 11th November, 1860.
- George Walker
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JwalkerG.htm
Abstract: Born at Killingbeck Hall, Seacroft, on 8th May 1781. Educated in York, he became an artist. He developed a reputation as a good artist and in 1814 and a local bookseller commissioned a series of paintings for the book Costume of Yorkshire. The book included the first ever painting of a locomotive. In 1824 he travelled to Italy where he spent time in Naples, Rome and Florence. He also visited Switzerland and France. He spent the rest of his life at Killingbeck Lodge, Seacroft. He died there in 1856.
- Gustave Dore
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jdore.htm
Abstract: Born in Strasbourg in 1832, he became a book illustrator in Paris and his commissions included work by Rabelais, Balzac and Dante. In 1853 he was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. This was followed by other work for British publishers including a new illustrated English Bible. Dore's later work included Paradise Lost, The Idylls of the King and The Works of Thomas Hood. His work also appeared in the Illustrated London News. Dore continued to illustrate books until his death in 1883.
- Harry Furniss
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jfurniss.htm
Abstract: Son of an engineer, born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1854 he worked as an artist in Ireland but in 1876 he moved to England and found work with the Illustrated London News. Over the next eight years he developed a reputation as an outstanding draughtsman. His work became extremely popular with the British public and this enabled him to tour the country giving lectures on subjects such as The Frightfulness of Humour and Humours of Parliament. In 1894 he started his own cartoon magazine, Like Joka. The magazine was not a financial success and he moved to the USA where he worked in the film industry with Thomas Edison. In 1914 Furniss helped pioneer the animated cartoon film. Harry Furniss died in 1925.
- Hubert von Herkomer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jherkomer.htm
Abstract: Born in Germany in 1849 his family moved to England and in 1857 settled in Southampton. Herkomer studied at Southampton School of Art, the Munich Academy and the South Kensington Art School. He left Kensington Art School and 1867 and started a career as a book and magazine illustrator. In 1880s he concentrated on the financially lucrative area of portraiture. He opened his own art school and during the period 1883 and 1904, trained over 500 students. Herkomer also served as Slade Professor of Art between 1885 and 1895. Hubert von Herkomer, who was knighted in 1907, died in 1914.
- Isaac Cruikshank
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRcruikshankIS.htm
Abstract: Son of a customs house officer, born in Edinburgh on 5th October, 1764, he worked as an etcher in Edinburgh but at the age of twenty-one he moved to London. At first he found employment illustrating cheap books and chapbooks. In the 1790s he developed a reputation as an outstanding artist and was in great demand as a printmaker. Cruikshank had ambitions to become a serious artist and had two paintings accepted by the Royal Academy. He died in April, 1811..
- J. M. W. Turner
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAturner.htm
Abstract: Son of a barber and wigmaker, born in London in 1775, as a child he made money by colouring engravings for his father's customers. At the age of 14 he entered the Royal Academy and exhibited his first drawing, A View of the Archbishop's Palace in Lambeth in 1790. By 1800 Turner was acknowledged as one of Britain's leading topographical watercolourist. He died at his cottage in Chelsea in 1851. He left some three hundred paintings and nineteen thousand watercolours to the nation.
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