Horto Van Houtteano
These beautiful floral prints were published in Horto Van Houtteano a lavish Belgian periodical founded by Louis Van Houtte.He was the propietor of the largest nursery of its time on the continent. The periodical appeared monthly for almost 40 years in the mid to late 1800’s and was published by his own printing office in [...]
J. W. Hill
HILL, John William (1812-1879). Son of the aquatint engraver John Hill (see entry), J.W. Hill was brought to America in 1819. His family moved from Philadelphia to NYC in 1822. After 1836, he made his home near West Nyack, NY. Early in his career he was a topographical artist, employed by the New York State [...]
James Sowerby
James Sowerby, (London, 1757 - 1822) was a very well known natural history artist who’s children followed in their fathers career. There is a very nice article regarding the publication of the prints I have listed. The article was written by author Richard E. Pettit and is linked below as well as a general listing [...]
John Leech
John Leech, (29 August 1817 – 29 October 1864 in London) was an English caricaturist and illustrator.
See full link to his biography at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leech_(caricaturist)
John Sartain
John Sartain , 1808-97, American engraver, b. London. Shortly after his arrival in the United States in 1830, he received important commissions for prints after paintings by leading artists. He is known for having introduced pictorial illustration as an important feature of American periodicals, most notably in Graham’s Magazine and in Sartain’s Union Magazine of [...]
Kawase Husai
Kawase Hasui (川瀬 巴水, 1883 – 1957) was a Japanese woodblock printmaker in the early 20th century. He and Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) are widely regarded as two of the greatest artists of the shin hanga style, and are known especially for their excellent landscape prints. During the forty years of his artistic career, Hasui worked [...]
La Belle Assemblée
About the La Belle Assemblée
John Bell (1745-1831) ran Bell’s Circulating Library, which c. 1778-1780, according to one of its catalogues had “above fifty thousand volumes (English, Italian, and French) in history, antiquities, voyages …” La Belle Assemblee was also sometimes called Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine or the Court Magazine and Belle Assemblee. The Early [...]
Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Louis Agassiz Fuertes was born in Ithaca, New York in 1874. Though he had no formal training as an artist, he developed an interest in painting birds and wildlife as a teenager. During this time, he spent many hours in the Ithaca Public Library, drawing and painting from a copy of John James Audubon’s Birds [...]
Michael Harrington Burris
Artist - Michael Harrington Burris
Born – Wake Island - 12/21/1956
Awards
The Art Museum Annual, 1985 Works on Paper of Clay – selected by Dr. Christina Orr-Cahall, Oakland Museum Curator of Art. San Francisco Chronicle, 1986 “Designer Money”. Gallery of Fine Art, 2 Person show. Open Studios, Heart for the Arts, 1985 through 1995. Best Visual Artist [...]
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden was an artist, lithographer for Paxton’s Magazine of Botany. I found much more information on James Paxton than Mr. Holden,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paxton