American Tonalist Painter and Printmaker, 1834-1903, He was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail.   Related Paintings of James Abbott Mcneill Whistler :. | nocturne i svart och guld den fallande raketen | George W Vanderbilt | Nocturne | Trouville | arrangemang i gratt och svart nr 1 konstnarens moder |
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Spanish , 1831-1910
George Desmarees
was born in 1697 at Stockholm, where he was instructed in painting by Peter Martin van Meytens, whose assistant he afterwards became. In 1724 he made a stay in Amsterdam, and in the following year in Nuremberg and then in Venice, where he received further tuition from Piazzetta. In 1731 he settled in Munich, where he became court painter, and where he continued to reside till his death in 1776. A portrait of himself and one of his daughter are, with a third in the Munich Gallery, and other portraits by him are at Augsburg.
FLINCK, Govert Teunisz.
Dutch painter (b. 1615, Kleve, d. 1660, Amsterdam).