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The Union List of Artist Names - The ULAN currently contains some 200,000 names representing approximately 100,000 individual artists (or "creators," including performance artists, and decorative artists) and architects, cumulated from nine participating Getty documentation projects. The entire ULAN is available free of charge, allowing a search for artists or architects and retrieve their variant names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations.
Walter Crane - Abstract: Born in Liverpool in 1845 to a moderately successful artist. In the 1860s Crane began to take an active interest in politics as a supporter of the Liberal Party. His reputation as an artist grew and he was recognised as a talented book illustrator. In 1898 Crane was appointed head of the Royal College of Art. In December 1914 Crane's wife Mary was killed by a train. The couple had been married for forty-four years and Crane was devastated by her death, dieing three months later in Horsham Hospital, on 14th March, 1915. Includes quotes and comments by contemporaries.
Isaac Cruikshank - Abstract: Son of a customs house officer, born in Edinburgh on 5th October, 1764, he worked as an etcher in Edinburgh but at the age of twenty-one he moved to London. At first he found employment illustrating cheap books and chapbooks. In the 1790s he developed a reputation as an outstanding artist and was in great demand as a printmaker. Cruikshank had ambitions to become a serious artist and had two paintings accepted by the Royal Academy. He died in April, 1811..
George Walker - Abstract: Born at Killingbeck Hall, Seacroft, on 8th May 1781. Educated in York, he became an artist. He developed a reputation as a good artist and in 1814 and a local bookseller commissioned a series of paintings for the book Costume of Yorkshire. The book included the first ever painting of a locomotive. In 1824 he travelled to Italy where he spent time in Naples, Rome and Florence. He also visited Switzerland and France. He spent the rest of his life at Killingbeck Lodge, Seacroft. He died there in 1856.
The Royal Academy - Abstract: The first president, Joshua Reynolds, established it as a school to train artists in drawing, painting, sculpture and architecture. The Royal Academy also gave an opportunity for artists to exhibit and sell their work at an annual Summer Exhibition. The work displayed is chosen by the Royal Academy Selection Committee. The Summer Exhibition held from May to August, became an important feature of the national and international art world.
William Hogarth - Abstract: Son of a Latin teacher born in Smithfield, London, in 1697. By 1720 he had his own business engraving book plates and painting portraits. In 1726 he published The Punishments of Lemuel Gulliver, a satire on the prime minister, Robert Walpole. In 1735 Hogarth manages to persuade his friends in Parliament to pass the Engravers' Copyright Act. Later that year, Hogarth established St. Martin's Lane Academy, a guild for professional artists and a school for young artists. In July 1763 he had a paralytic seizure but recoverd. He died on 25th October, 1764.
Luke Fildes - Abstract: Born in Liverpool in 1843. Fildes shared his grandmother's concern for the poor and in 1869 joined the staff of the Graphic magazine, edited by the social reformer, William Luson Thomas. Fildes soon became a popular artist and by 1870 he had given up working from the Graphic and had turned his full attention to oil painting and soon became one of the most successful artists in England. By 1900 Fildes was the most highly paid portrait painter in England. Knighted in 1906, he died in 1918.
John Cooke Bourne - Lithograph artist who produced the book, Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway. Includes illustration. (1814-1896)
John Nash - Brief notes on the English architect of the Picturesque movement.
George Cruikshank - Abstract: Born in London on 27th September, 1792 to a caricaturist who died as a result of his alcoholism in 1811. After a brief education he set himself up as a caricaturist and was soon selling his drawings to over twenty different printsellers. Like many artists, Cruikshank was unhappy about the changes that had resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Cruikshank also became involved in the movement to protect children and published several books on the subject including A Slice of Bread and Butter (1857) and Our Gutter Children (1869). George Cruikshank died on 1st February, 1878.

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List of Austrian artists and architects - This is a list of Austrian artists and architects.
Artists Rights Society - Artists Rights Society (ARS) is a copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property rights interests of over 30,000 visual artists and estates of visual artists from around the world (painters, sculptors, photographers, architects and others).
Society of Artists - The Society of Artists was founded in London in 1760 by an association of artists in order to provide a venue for the public exhibition of recent work by living artists, such as was having success in the long-established Paris salons. A prominent figure among the founders was Joshua Reynolds, soon to be a founder as well of the Royal Academy, ...
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design - The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (BAID) was created in 1916, merging the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, founded in 1894, with the Studio for Decorative Sculpture, established in 1912. The goal was to provide education for American architects, and other artists, mostly sculptors and mural painters who were allied with architects.
ONCE Group - The ONCE Group was a collection of musicians, visual artists, architects, and filmmakers who wished to create an environment in which artists could explore and share techniques and ideas in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The group was responsible for hosting the ONCE Festival of New Music in Ann Arbor between 1961 and 1966.