Masters of Their Craft
Artists
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31,194 artists in the collection
Bertusi, Giovanni Battista
Italian
Italian, 1577 - 1644
Bervic, Charles-Clement
French
French, 1756 - 1822
Charles Clément Bervic (23 May 1756, Paris – 23 March 1822, Paris), born Balvay, was a French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin. Due to an error in transcribing the baptismal register, he is also now known as Jean Guillaume Bervic. He served his first apprenticeship under Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, then left aged 14 for the studio of the engraver Jean-Georges Wille. When he was 18, he won first prize for drawing at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, of which he was elected a member in 1784. He became a member of the Classe de Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts Section) of the Institut Impérial de France in 1803 and authored the chapter on engraving for the Institut's reports to the Emperor in 1808 on the progress of the arts, literature and sciences since 1789. He won many prizes and his drawing talents were particularly appreciated. In 1809, Bervic was elected an associate member, fourth class, of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, predecessor to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bervic married the painter Marie-Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond in 1788, but she died later that year. In 1791 he remarried to Marie-Madeleine Bligny, who...
Bervinchak, Nicholas
American
American, 1903 - 1978
Besedick, Frank
American
American, 1913 - 1987
Besnard, Albert
French
French, 1849 - 1934
Paul-Albert Besnard (2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker.
Besnier, Nicolas
French
French, 1714 - 1754
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Bessin
French
Bete
Bethan Laura Wood
Bethany Collins
Beth Turk