1829-1912 Related Paintings of william r clark :. | tempelbuddha i inre mongoliet | mil efter mil ligger sturoknen ode erbjuder varken landmarken eller skugga mot den brannan de solen | fargteckiningen nedan ar en medlem i en sladpatrull i fard med att forbereda sig for overnattning utanfor baslagert | for manga manniskor kan bergsklattring tyckas vara en egendomlig sysselsattning men drigten att ga dar ingen manniska gatt forut,att ansran ga sina fy | nicclo och maffeo polo forbereder sig for resan till kublai khans hov i peking | Related Artists:
John Mix StanleyA famous painter of Indians and Indian scen .
American , 1814-1872
American , 1814-1872,was an American painter of landscapes, portraits and Native American life. He was born in Canandaigua, New York and orphaned at the age of 12. At age 14, Stanley became an apprentice to a coach maker. Looking for better work, he moved to west in 1832 and became a painter of signs and portraits. In spring 1843 Stanley accompanied the party of Indian agent Pierce M. Butler to the Tehuacana Creek Council. At the outbreak of the Mexican War in 1845, John Mix Stanley joined Colonel Stephen Watts Kearney's expedition to California and produced many sketches and paintings of the campaign. He traveled to Hawaii in 1848 and spent a year painting portraits of members of the royal family. He traveled across the Isthmus of Panama in 1853. He also painted Comanche warriors in their natural environment. He moved to Detroit in 1864 and remained there for the rest of his life. Stanley helped to found a forerunner of the Detroit Institute of Arts and to incorporate the National Gallery and School of Arts. Stanley's primary interests and sympathies were with the Indians. The Smithsonian exhibited his pictures, but Congress never appropriated monies for them. More than 200 of his works were destroyed in the Smithsonian fire of 1865.
Giambattista MoroniAlbino(near Bergamo 1520/25-Bergamo 1578
Italian painter. He was the most significant painter of the 16th-century school of Bergamo and is best known for his portraits, which feature a naturalistic rendering of both faces and costume and an objective approach to character.
Master TheodoricBohemian painter
active 1350-70 in Prague