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Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists
J. M. W. Turner R.A. by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, 1879, showing the uniform binding of the series
Editor
Joseph Cundall Publisher Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Publication date
1879
OCLC
150044969
The Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists was a book series in 38 volumes edited by
Joseph Cundall and his son
Frank ,
[1] and published by
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington in London from 1879 to the 1890s.
[2]
Volumes
Incomplete list of volumes:
Claude Le Lorrain , by
Owen J. Dulles .
Correggio , by M. E. Heaton.
Della Robbia and Cellini
Albrecht Dürer , by
Richard Ford Heath , 1894.
The Figure Painters of Holland , Ronald Gower.
Fra Angelico, Masaccio, and Botticelli
Fra Bartolommeo, Albertinelli, and Andrea del Sarto , by
Leader Scott (the pseudonym of
Lucy Baxter ), 1881.
Fra Giovanni Angelico Da Fiesole and The Early Florentine Painters of the Fifteenth Century . Catherine Mary Phillimore
Thomas Gainsborough, R. A, John Constable, R. A. by
George M. Brock-Arnold
Ghiberti and Donatello
Angiolotto Bondone Called; Giotto , by
Harry Quilter .
Hans Holbein , by Joseph Cundall, 1892.
Hogarth , by
Henry Austin Dobson .
Sir Edwin Landseer , by
Frederic George Stephens .
Lawrence and Romney , by
Ronald Gower .
Leonardo da Vinci
Little Masters of Germany , by W. B. Scott.
Mantegna and Francis
Meissonier , by
John W. Mollett .
Michelangelo Buonarotti , by
Charles Clémont .
Murillo , by
Ellen E. Minor .
Overbeck , by
J. Beavington Atkinson .
Raphael ,
N. D'Anvers .
Rembrandt , by J. W. Mollett. 1879
Reynolds , by
F. S. Pulling .
Rubens ,
Charles William Kett .
Tintoretto , by
W. R. Osler .
Titian , by
Richard Ford Heath .
J. M. W. Turner R.A. , by
W. Cosmo Monkhouse , 1879.
Van Dyck; Frans Hals of Haarlem , by
Percy Rendell Head .
Velázquez , by
Edwin Stowe .
Horace Vernet, Paul Delaroche , by
J. Ruutz-Rees .
Watteau , by J. W. Molett.
Wilkie , by J. W. Mollett.
See also
The Great Historic Galleries of England
References
Further reading
Margaret M. Smith, "Joseph Cundall and the Binding Design for the Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists", The Library , Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2004).
https://doi.org/10.1093/library/5.1.39
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