Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1575-1632
Hendrik van Balen (1575 - 1632) was a Flemish painter, who was born and died in Antwerp. Van Balen studied art while traveling in Italy. He was the teacher of Anthony Van Dyck and Frans Snyders and was also a contemporary of many of the other famous Flemish artists, such as the Brueghels, Jan and Peter. Related Paintings of BALEN, Hendrick van :. | A Farm with a Dead Tree | lapp-spelande fiol | Princess Henrietta Maria of France, Queen consort of England. This is the first portrait of Henrietta Maria painted | An Early Start for Market (mk43) | Portrait of a Woman | Related Artists: George Edmund Varian American Artist 1865-1923
Rae Iso Melbourn 1860-Brighton 1940
George Willison Portrait painter who was born in Edinburgh in 1741 and returned there to spend his retirement.
He was a pupil of Mengs in Rome, before Mengs left for Madrid in 1761.
He painted "Boswell" in Rome in 1765 which is now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Willison was in London from 1767 and exhibited at the Scottish Academy between 1767 - 1770, and at the Royal Academy in 1771 and 1772.
He left London for an opulent retirement in Edinburgh around 1784.