Artists

Fanelli, Francesco

Francesco Fanelli (c. 1590–1653) was an Italian sculptor, born in Florence, who spent most of his career in England. He likely had contacts if not training in the studio of Giambologna, then in the hands of Pietro Francavilla and Pietro Tacca. He is recorded at work in Genoa in 1609-10 then worked in London from about 1610, as a sculptor in ivory — Joachim von Sandrart mentions an ivory statuette of Pygmalion that attracted the attention of Charles I of England — but mostly as a skilled bronze-caster. He made a fountain of sirens astride dolphins, alternating with scallop shells, with putti clasping fish and other figures, for the king at Hampton Court Palace. It was noticed by John Evelyn in 1662, and some elements remain, perched on a high rusticated base, as the Diana Fountain in Bushy Park. He received a pension in 1635 as "sculptor of the King". His only signed sculpture is a portrait bust of a youthful Charles II as Prince of Wales, dated 1640, at Welbeck Abbey. He left England in 1642 about the same time as his more conservative rival sculptor, the Huguenot, Hubert Le Sueur, also returned to Paris. Abraham van der Doort's inventory of the collection of Charles I calls him "ffrancisco...

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Fang Congyi

Fang Congyi (simplified Chinese: 方从义; traditional Chinese: 方從義; pinyin: Fāng Cóngyì; 1302–1393), courtesy name Wuyu (無隅), sobriquets Fanghu (方壺), Bumang Daoren (不芒道人), Jinmen Yuke (金門羽客) and Guigu Shanren (鬼谷山人), was a famed Chinese painter during the Yuan dynasty. Fang was a native of Guixi, Jiangxi Province. In his youth he studied and became a Daoist priest, joining the Zhengyi Dao sect at his local temple. After the death of his principal instructor in the early 1340s, Fang traveled along the Yangtze River to the capital Khanbaliq, now Beijing. It was there that he began painting. He obtained a patron, and produced a number of works based on his travels. He primarily painted landscapes.

Fang Limin

Fang Shishu

Autumn Colors on the Que and Hua Mountains is a 1296 silk painting by the Yuan dynasty painter and scholar-official Zhao Mengfu. It depicts the Que and Hua Hills in a wetland environment near Jinan in what is now Shandong province, China.

Fang Yulu

Fan Kuan

Fannie Hillsmith

Fannie Nampeyo

Fanny F. Palmer

Fanny (Hicks) Lovejoy

Fanoli, Michele