Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

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Famularo, Marie

American

American, 1901 - 1975

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Fance Franck

American

Fancelli, Pietro

Fancelli, Pietro

Italian

Bolognese, 1764 - 1850

Pietro Fancelli (18 May 1764 – 22 January 1850) was an Italian painter and set-designer.

Fanelli, Francesco

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...

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Fang

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Fang Congyi

Chinese

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Fang Limin

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Fang Shishu

Chinese

1693 - 1751

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Fang Yulu

Chinese

1570 - 1619

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Fan Ho

Chinese

1937 - 2016

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Fan Kuan

Chinese

990 - 1030

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Fannie Hillsmith