Artists

Forty, Jean-Jacques

F. O. Schmidt

Fossati, Davide

Davide Antonio Fossati, a painter and etcher, was bom at Morcote, Ticino, Switzerland in 1708, and studied drawing under Vicenzo Maria Mariotti at Venice, and painting under Daniel Gran, with whom in 1723 he went to Vienna. In 1728 he painted the dining-hall in the monastery of St. Martinsberg at Pressburg; but in 1730 he returned to Venice, and in the next year executed the wall-paintings in the villa at Torre, near Este, as also in the nunnery of Santa Margaretta, near Lauis. He afterwards took to etching, but did not succeed at first. His death occurred at Vienna in 1795. His works as a painter are little known, but he has left among his later and happier efforts several etchings of landscapes and historical subjects after various masters. The following are his plates most worthy of notice: Diana and Calisto; after Francesco Solimena, The Family of Darius before Alexander; after Paolo Veronese. Jupiter destroying the Vices; after the same. Rebekah and the Servant of Abraham; after Antonio Bellucci. The Calling of St. Peter to the Apostleship; after the same. A set of twenty-four Views of Venice, and Landscapes; after Marco Ricci.

Fossati, Domenico

Fossati, Giorgio

Pier Giorgio Frassati (6 April 1901 – 4 July 1925) was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Action and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, to better aid the poor and less fortunate living in his hometown of Turin. Frassati's cause for canonization opened in 1932 after the Turin poor made several pleas for such a cause to open. Pope Pius XII suspended the cause in 1941 due to a range of allegations later proven to be false, which allowed for the cause to resume. Pope John Paul II beatified Frassati in May 1990 and dubbed him the "Man of the Eight Beatitudes". On 7 September 2025, Frassati was canonized along with Carlo Acutis by Pope Leo XIV. Frassati was known for his motto, "verso l'alto."

Fossek, Clementine

Fossier

Robert Fossier (4 September 1927 – 25 May 2012) was a French Historian, specializing in the Western Middle Ages.

Fossum, Magnus S.

Fossum, Syd

Foster, Lawrence

Foster, Marian Curtis

Foster, Myles Birket

Myles Birket Foster (4 February 1825 – 27 March 1899) was a British illustrator, watercolourist and engraver in the Victorian period. His name is also to be found as Myles Birkett Foster.