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Francis Danby, a British painter born in Ireland, probably was inspired by Géricault's picture when he painted Sunset at Sea after a Storm in 1824, and wrote in 1829 that The Raft of the Medusa was " the finest and grandest historical picture I have ever seen ".
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Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Fioravante Ferramola, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Ludovico Carracci, Antonio Verrio, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francis Hayman, Pompeo Batoni, Benjamin West, Paul Sandby, Richard Wilson, William Etty, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Barry, Francis Danby, Richard Parkes Bonington & Alphonse Legros.
Painters of the Romantic era like John Martin and Francis Danby were influenced to create large and highly dramatic pictures by the sensational dioramas and panoramas of their day.
After an abortive trip to England in the company of Francis Danby and James Arthur O ' Connor, both of whom were close friends of his, he returned to Ireland where he worked mostly producing sketches for engravings for travel books – including among others, George Newenham Wright's guides to Killarney, Wicklow and Dublin, Thomas Cromwell's Excursions through Ireland, and James Norris Brewer's Beauties of Ireland.
Francis Danby, who moved to Bristol from Ireland in 1813 and was to succeed Bird as a leader of the Bristol School, was also influenced by Bird's genre style.
Born in the south of Ireland, he was one of a set of twins ; his father, James Danby, farmed a small property he owned near Wexford, but his death, in 1807, caused the family to move to Dublin, while Francis was still a schoolboy.
The Bristol artists, particularly the amateur Francis Gold, were also important in influencing Danby towards a more imaginative and poetical style.
In 1820 when Francis Danby exhibited The Upas Tree of Java at the British Institution, Cumberland used his influence to promote its favourable reception.
Francis and British
The words " God save Emperor Francis " were inspired by the British anthem, though not the melody, which is from the ( Croatian ) folk tradition.
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.
Fort McHenry looking towards the position of the British ships ( with the Francis Scott Key Bridge ( Baltimore ) | Francis Scott Key Bridge in the distance on the upper left )
Francis Bacon played a leading role in creating the British colonies, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Newfoundland in northeastern Canada.
It was only in the 19th century, with the increasing interest in occultism amongst the British following the publication of Francis Barrett's The Magus ( 1801 ), that the term entered the English language in reference to books of magic.
Woodford, whom British occult writer Francis King describes as the fourth founder ( although Woodford died shortly after the Order was founded ).
While on a trip to England in 1810, Newburyport merchant Francis Cabot Lowell was allowed to tour the British textile factories, but not take notes.
The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.
Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory.
In July 1935, Brigadier Sir Francis Featherstone-Godley led the British Legion's delegation to Germany.
The British Association came to his aid, and the Earl of Ellesmere — then Lord Francis Egerton — gave him yet more efficient help.
* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )
The temple was excavated in 1889-1896 by Francis Penrose of the British School in Athens ( who also played a leading role in the restoration of the Parthenon ), in 1922 by the German archaeologist Gabriel Welter and in the 1960s by Greek archaeologists led by Ioannes Travlos.
Innocent XIII, like his predecessor, showed much favour to James Francis Edward Stuart, the " Old Pretender " to the British throne and liberally supported him.
His brother Francis Clere Hitchcock went on to join the British army and fought during World War I where he was awarded the Military Cross and rose to the rank of Colonel.
Francis and painter
She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.
* Jasper Francis Cropsey ( 1823 – 1900 ), landscape painter and architect ; designed the now-demolished New York City Sixth Avenue elevated railroad stations
It was found to incorporate designs by many of the leading painters of its day, including Jasper Francis Cropsey, Frederic Edwin Church, and Henry Courtney Selous ( Selous was the in-house painter for the original Barker panorama in London for many years.
Since that time, more modern artists, including Spain's Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, as well as the Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon, have paid tribute to Velázquez by recreating several of his most famous works.
The Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon found Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X to be one of the greatest portraits ever made.
The painter Francis Bacon ( artist ) | Francis Bacon called this The Battleship Potemkin image a catalyst for his work.
The Irish born painter Francis Bacon ( 1909 – 1992 ) was profoundly influenced by Eisenstein's images, particularly the Odessa Steps shot of the nurse's broken glasses and open mouthed scream.
After a period as an errand boy ( from the age of 12 ), he was apprenticed to a Francis Whisler, house, coach and sign painter.
Francis Davis Millet ( November 3, 1846 – April 15, 1912 ) was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the on April 15, 1912.
Francis Picabia (; born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia, 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953 ) was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with Cubism, Abstract art, Dada and Surrealism.
* Jasper Francis Cropsey ( 1823 – 1900 ), Hudson River School landscape painter, referred to as " America's Painter of Autumn ".
Christie was born on 14 April 1941 in Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India, the elder child of Rosemary ( née Ramsden ), a painter, and Francis " Frank " St. John Christie.
This work was dedicated to Francis I, who gave him the privilege of printing during ten years any works in Latin, Greek, Italian or French, which were the product of his own pen or had received his supervision ; and accordingly, on his release from an imprisonment occasioned by his homicide of a painter named Compaing, he began at Lyon his typographical and editorial labours.
Film appearances included performances in Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again ( 1991 ), Branagh's full-text rendition of Hamlet ( 1996 ) as King Claudius, John Maybury's Love is the Devil ( 1998 ), a portrait of painter Francis Bacon, as Senator Gracchus in Gladiator ( 2000 ) with Russell Crowe, and as " The Duke " opposite Christopher Eccleston and Eddie Izzard in a post-apocalyptic version of Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy ( 2002 ).
Francis Bacon ( 28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992 ) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery.
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