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19th-century English male artists

  • John Gilbert (painter)John Gilbert was born on the 21st of July 1817 in Blackheath, Surrey. He began his working life as an apprentice to a firm of estate agents.
  • William Powell FrithWilliam Powell Frith was born in Aldfield, near Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire on the 9th of January 1819. He had originally intended to be an…
  • Herbert James DraperHerbert James Draper entered the world in 1863 within the bustling heart of London. He was born in Covent Garden, the seventh child and only son of a fruit…
  • William Blake RichmondWilliam Blake Richmond entered the world on the 29th of November 1842 in Marylebone. His father George Richmond was a portrait painter of some note, and his…
  • John Charles DollmanJohn Charles Dollman was born in Hove on the 6th of May 1851. He moved to London to study at South Kensington and the Royal Academy Schools.
  • Joseph FaringtonJoseph Farington entered the world on the 21st of November 1747 in Leigh, Lancashire. He was the second son born to William Farington and Esther Gilbody.