Dictionary of painters and engravers (1903) (14760891496)

Identifier: dictionaryofpain05brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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h Cattle. His son Arthur is a landscape and animal painter. STARK, Joseph, born at Graz in 1782, firststudied theology, and then law, and afterwardspainting at the Vienna Academy. In 1817 hebecame director of the Academy at Graz. In 1826he travelled in Italy, and produced several portraitsand historical pictures. He etched several platesafter his own pictures, among them a Christ in theHouse of Martha and Mary, which is in theAcademy at Venice. He died at Graz in 1838. STARNINA, Gherardo, painter, born at Florencein 1354 (?), was a disciple of Antonio Veneziano.He is entered on the lists of the Painters Guild, in1387, as Gherardo dJacopo Starna. He paintedhistory in the stiff style which prevailed at the earlyperiod at which he lived. Vasari reports that hewas invited to the court of Spain, where he paintedsome pictures for the king, for which he waswell paid. Among the few works of hie atFlorence which have escaped the ravages of time,is a Dying St. Jerome delivering his doctrines to
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- u W y. < w ^ =§ PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. his disciples, in the church of S. Croce. Someecenes from the life of the Virgin, in a chapel of thecathedral at Prato, are partly attributed to Stamina.He is supposed to have been tbe master of Masolinoda Panicale. He died at Florence in 1408 ? STARRENBERG, Johann, was born at Gron-ingen, and flourished from the year 1650 to 1670.He painted historical subjects, and frescoedceilings. STATTLER, Albert Cornel, painter, was bornat Cracow in 1800. He was a pupil of Lampi, butwent in 1817 to Rome, where he studied at theAcademy of St. Luke, and came under the influenceof Overbeck. He painted historical subjects andportraits and died at Rome in 1870. STAUFFER, Karl, Swiss painter and engraver;born September 2, 1857, at Trubschachen; studiedengraving with Raab and Halm in Munich, andafterwards in Berlin. At first he worked at oil-painting, but exchanged this for engraving, inwhich he bid fair to reach a high level of excel-lence. Of his plates we