Masters of Their Craft

Artists

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31,194 artists in the collection

Fredou, Jean-Martial

Fredou, Jean-Martial

French

French, c. 1711 - 1795

Jean-Martial Frédou (28 January 1710, Fontenay-Saint-Père – 26 February 1795, Versailles) was a French painter known for his portraits. Born at Fontenay-Saint-Père, Frédou was attached to the Cabinet du Roi housed in the Hôtel de la Surintendance at Versailles, where he was commissioned to render duplicates of official portraits of the French royal family painted by Jean-Marc Nattier, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Louis-Michel Van Loo, Alexander Roslin or Joseph Siffred Duplessis. In his own commissions he often borrowed elements from the original works of these painters, for he was a deft portraitist himself. Between 1760 and 1762 the dauphine Marie-Josèphe de Saxe, daughter-in-law of Louis XV commissioned informal portraits of herself and her children, for her own use. These portraits, whether in oil or drawn aux trois crayons, touched with pastels, have freshness and life. A modest commission came from the Dauphin and Dauphine in 1757: in 1748 they had earth brought into the little courtyard of their private apartments at the château de Versailles, closed in with trelliswork, to make a little garden; and Frédou was commissioned to paint two perspective panels to enlarge the little...

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Fredrica Justina Staack

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Fredrick Nash

British

1782 - 1856

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Fredricks, Charles D.

American

American, 1823 - 1894

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Fred Sandback

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Fred Taylor

Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli (born in Santa Monica, California, in 1956) is an American artist. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin.

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Fred Wilson

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Freed, David

American

American, born 1936

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Freed, Ernest Bradfield

American

American, 1908 - 1974

Freed, Leonard

Freed, Leonard

American

American, 1929 - 2006

Leonard Freed (October 23, 1929 – November 29, 2006) was an American documentary photojournalist and longtime Magnum Photos member.

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Freedman, Jill

American

American, 1939 - 2019

Jill Freedman (October 19, 1939 – October 9, 2019) was an American documentary photographer and street photographer. She was based in New York City.