Claude Lorrain
Overview page. Subjects: Language Reference — Art — History of Art — Art.
(c.1604/5–82).
French painter, draughtsman, and etcher who specialized in landscape. He was born at Chamagne (Toul)
Davies [née Morpurgo], Anna Elbina Laura Margherita [known as Anna Morpurgo Davies] (1937–2014), linguist and philologist
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
P ublished online February 2018 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Education; Linguistics; Art Education. 1094 words.
Davies [née Morpurgo], Anna Elbina Laura Margherita [known as Anna Morpurgo Davies] (1937–2014), linguist and philologist, was born on 21 June 1937 in Milan, the fourth child and only...
Grandma Moses
Overview page. Subjects: Arts and Humanities — Social and Cultural History — History of Art — Art — Language Reference.
(b nr. Greenwich, Washington County, NY, 7 Sept. 1860; d Hoosick Falls, NY, 13 Dec. 1961).
The most famous of American naive painters. She took up painting in her seventies...
Hodgkin, John (1766–1845), grammarian and calligrapher
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
September 2004; p ublished online September 2004 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Graphic Design and Typography; Education; Linguistics. 573 words.
Hodgkin, John (1766–1845), grammarian and calligrapher, was born at Shipston-on-Stour, Worcestershire, on 11 February 1766, the son of John Hodgkin, shopkeeper and wool stapler, and his...
Junius [Du Jon], Franciscus [Francis] (1591–1677), philologist and writer on art
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
September 2004; p ublished online September 2004 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Art Education; Education; Linguistics. 1502 words.
Junius [Du Jon], Franciscus [Francis] (1591–1677), philologist and writer on art, was born at Heidelberg, Germany, on 29 January 1591, the youngest of the five children of Franciscus Junius...
