Tag: Gypsy
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Breakspeare William Arthur’s The Gypsy Girl, with Footnotes. #122
William Arthur Breakspeare (19 January 1856 – 8 May 1914) was an artist from Birmingham, England, the son of John Breakspeare, a flower painter working in the Birmingham japanning trade. Breakspeare lived in Edgbaston, Birmingham until the age of 22. He was apprenticed to the japanners, Halbeard and Wellings, as a decorator. In 1877, he moved…
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24 Works, December 9th. is Leopold Müller’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #246
Leopold Carl Müller (9 December 1834–4 August 1892) was an Austrian genre painter noted for his Orientalist works. Born in Dresden to Austrian, he was a pupil of Karl von Blaas and of Christian Ruben at the Academy in Vienna. Obliged to support his family after his father’s death, he worked eight years as an…
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; Gitane à la mandoline/ Gypsy with mandolin; 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #99
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was the son of a cloth merchant and a milliner. After an education at the Collège de Rouen and two abortive apprenticeships with drapers, he was given the financial freedom at the age of 26 to devote himself to painting. In 1825 to 1828 Corot made the…
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Jules Frédéric Ballavoine, Portrait of Gypsy 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY with Footnotes. #84
The Gypsy, or Romani, colloquially known as Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally itinerant, living mostly in Europe and the Americas. The Romani originate from the northern Indian subcontinent,from the Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab regions of modern-day India. More on the Gypsy Julles Frederick Ballavoine, American, 1855 – 1901, was born in Paris in 1855 and died in 1901.…