2. James Whistler was born July 10, 1834 in
Lowell (Massachusetts). His father, George
Washington Whistler, the famous railway
engineer, in 1842 he was invited for the
construction of roads in Russia, he designed
the Nicholas Railway.
In 1879 he went to Venice, where for 14
months doing watercolor sketches and
completed fifty etchings, on his return to
London, he was elected president of the Society
of British Artists.
Portrait of Whistler with Hat
Artist died on July 17, 1903 in London. He was
buried at the cemetery in London's Church of St..
Nicholas in Chiswick.
3.
4. Born in Sudbury in Suffolk. Thomas - ninth child
in the family of John and Suzanne Gainsborough.
As a child, many malyuvav.Batko sent his son to
study in the capital. Art was educated in London
at the engraver - Frenchman Hubert Hravlo.
Around 1745 opened his studio in the capital
He was married. His wife was the illegitimate
daughter of tycoon de Beaufort. Rumors did
family napivsvitskymy individuals and aristocracy
to their people about their circle. Gainsborough
had 2 daughters.
Died on August 2, 1788
5.
6. For a long time it was believed
that the artist was born in a
village near the town of Candia
Fodele, modern Heraklion on
Crete, which was part of the time
of the Venetian Republic.
However, this is not the case.
Domenico Theotokopoulos was
born in Heraklion in 1541, and in
Fodele he lived for some time
with his family. His parents do
not have any reliable
information, as, indeed, of his
childhood. We know, however,
that in his youth he studied icon
painting.
At age 26, in 1567, he went to
Venice, where he enrolled in a
training workshop of Titian.
In 1576, El Greco went to Spain
for the service of King Philip II
of Spain. After some time, the
artist moved to Toledo - the
ancient capital of Spain, the
center of the Spanish
education and art of the time,
where he remained until his
death.
El Greco died on April 7, 1614
and was buried in Toledo,
Spain, in the convent of Santo
Domingos El Antiguo
