Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
39,743 artists in the collection
Famularo, Marie
American
American, 1901 - 1975
Fance Franck
American
Fancelli, Pietro
Italian
Bolognese, 1764 - 1850
Pietro Fancelli (18 May 1764 – 22 January 1850) was an Italian painter and set-designer.
Fanelli, Francesco
Italian
Italian, active 1608/1665
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...
Fang
Fang Congyi
Chinese
Fang Limin
Fang Shishu
Chinese
1693 - 1751
Fang Yulu
Chinese
1570 - 1619
Fan Ho
Chinese
1937 - 2016
Fan Kuan
Chinese
990 - 1030
Fannie Hillsmith