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Edward Bird Documented profileCountry to be documented
Edward Bird gives a prominent place to scenes of family life, a feature clearly documented in his choice of subjects. Before settling in Bristol in 1794 with the intention of establi…
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Eugène Rémy Maes Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter Eugène Rémy Maes is associated with a pastoral painting entitled “Flock of Sheep at Rest”, which here features an animal subject. The work, executed in oil on woo…
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Endre Tót Documented profileHungary
Born in Sümeg in 1937, the Hungarian artist Endre Tót moves from painting to a conceptual practice using a variety of forms and media, from artist’s books to actions. After studying…
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Ercole Calvi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ercole Calvi’s painting is distinguished by a repertoire of Romantic landscapes, in which views of lakes and landscapes of the Brianza occupy an important place. An Italian painter b…
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Eugène Cottin Documented profileFrance
The French painter and caricaturist Eugène Cottin (1841–1902) works in several fields: painting, humorous drawing for the press and book illustration. He trains at the École des beau…
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Emil Hünten Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johann Emil Hünten, also known as Emil Hünten, was born in Paris on 19 January 1827. Described as a Prussian painter specialising in historical scenes, he also worked as a battle pai…
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Eberhard Viegener Documented profileGermany
The German painter Eberhard Viegener, born in Soest in 1890 and deceased in Bilme in 1967, initially pursued training rooted in the family trade. From 1904 to 1906, he learned painti…
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Eduard von Grützner Documented profileGermany
Eduard von Grützner is associated with Munich genre painting of the second half of the nineteenth century, alongside Carl Spitzweg and Franz von Defregger. At the Academy of Fine Art…
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Ernesto Tatafiore Documented profileItaly
Born in 1943 in Marigliano, near Naples, Ernesto Tatafiore is an Italian artist and painter. His work “Danton”, a mixed-media work on canvas, titled within the image and measuring 35…
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Ettore Gianni Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dobiaschofsky auction catalogue lists under his name a gouache signed at the upper left, *Strand auf Capri*, measuring 13 × 25 cm; estimated at CHF 300, it bears the notation “So…
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Emile van Marcke Documented profileFrance
The French painter Émile Van Marcke, born in Sèvres in 1827 and deceased in Hyères in 1890, built his body of work around rural landscapes and livestock. He began his career at the M…
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz Documented profileFrance · Israel
Born in Krementchouk, then in the Russian Empire and now in Ukraine, Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Mane Leyzerovich Kats, 1894–1962) devoted a significant part of his work to the figures and t…
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Edward Cucuel Documented profileUnited States
American Impressionist painter and illustrator Edward Cucuel was born in San Francisco in 1875. His career brought press illustration and painting together at an early stage, spannin…
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Edward Dwurnik Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Edward Dwurnik, born in 1943 in Radzymin and deceased in 2018 in Warsaw, began « Hitchhiking Journeys » in 1966, a major series in his oeuvre. He studied at the Fa…
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Eugène Verboeckhoven Documented profileBelgium
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, also known as Eugène Verboeckhoven, develops a body of work devoted primarily to animal painting and animated landscapes. He is first trained by his fath…
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Ernst Mollenhauer Documented profileGermany
Executed in oil on paper, this sheet measuring 47 × 61.8 cm bears the signature and date “Mollenhauer 60” in pencil at the lower right; its provenance is listed as private ownership…
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Erwin Kettemann Documented profileGermany
Erwin Kettemann is presented as a German painter, born in 1897 and died in 1971. An oil on canvas entitled “Winterliche Gebirgslandschaft mit Bauernhäusern” is signed and bears the i…
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Eugène Isabey Documented profileFrance
Painter, lithographer and watercolourist Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey was born in Paris on 22 July 1803. He was the son of the painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey. He exhibited at the Paris…
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Elmyr de Hory Documented profileSpain · Hungary
Elmyr de Hory’s career is marked by a practice of copying that, after the war in Paris, became an activity in forgery: having come to try to make a living as an artist, he discovered…
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Eugenio Gignous Documented profileCountry to be documented
Italian painter born in 1850 and died in 1906, Eugenio Gignous is documented by works associated with the landscapes of Lake Maggiore. Feriolo – Lago Maggiore, attributed to the arti…
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Enrique Tábara Documented profileEcuador
Ecuadorian painter Enrique Tábara Zerna, also known as Luis Enrique Tábara, was born in Guayaquil in 1930. His work evolves from figures associated with urban life towards abstractio…
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Ernst Fries Documented profileCountry to be documented
The documented corpus of Ernst Fries includes several landscapes depicting Tivoli, including a canvas that a sale catalogue entry compares with two very similar compositions. Initial…
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Eugène Ciceri Documented profileFrance
Eugène Cicéri’s landscape practice ranges from working from nature around Fontainebleau to views circulated through prints and theatre scenery. His publications and contributions to…
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Edmond Marie Petitjean Documented profileFrance
The French painter and illustrator Edmond Marie Petitjean was born in Neufchâteau, in the Vosges, in 1844 and died in Paris in 1925. His work is associated in particular with landsca…
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Enzo Cucchi Documented profileItaly
In Enzo Cucchi’s work, painting opens up to a plurality of materials and forms: images combine explicit and implicit elements, while his practice extends to walls, installation, cera…
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Eberhard Günther Willikens Documented profileGermany
German painter Ben Willikens, born in 1939, is also known as Günther Eberhard Willikens. He was one of Heinz Trökes’s students. Among his documented works is “Raum 477”, an acrylic o…
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Edgar Ende Documented profileGermany
The German painter Edgar Ende (1901–1965), associated with Surrealism, was also the father of the writer Michael Ende. The work Krippenfechte, dated 1951, is catalogued as a gouache…
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Eduard Boehm Documented profileCountry to be documented
Eduard Boehm was an Austrian painter who lived from 1830 to 1890. A sale catalogue attributes Partie aus Steiermark to him, depicting a fisherman seated at the edge of a pond, at the…
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Elizabeth Cope Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in County Kildare in 1952, Elizabeth Cope is an Irish artist whose painting and drawing take people, places and objects alike as their subjects. She lives and works today in Cou…
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Ella Bergmann-Michel Documented profileGermany
Ella Bergmann-Michel’s career brings together documentary film, graphic design and painting: she made five documentary films between 1931 and 1933, worked as a graphic designer in Lo…
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Enzo Esposito Documented profileItaly
Born in Benevento in 1946, the Italian painter Enzo Esposito began bringing his painting into gallery spaces in 1977: his first installations were painted directly onto the walls. Th…
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Eduard Hildebrandt Documented profileCountry to be documented
Presented as a German landscape painter, Eduard Hildebrandt first apprenticed with his father, a house painter in Danzig, before settling in Berlin, where he trained under Wilhelm Kr…
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Eugène Baboulène Documented profileFrance
The figurative painter and lithographer Eugène Louis Baboulène, born and deceased in Toulon (1905–1994), devoted a significant part of his work to seascapes and Provençal landscapes,…
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Edward Harrison Compton Documented profileGermany
The German painter and illustrator of British origin Edward Harrison Compton was born in Feldafing on 11 October 1881 and died on 6 March 1960. He was the second son of the painter E…
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Enrico Castellani Documented profileItaly
Enrico Castellani’s research makes relief a principle of composition: the deformations of the canvas, arranged as projections and recesses, alter the light and establish a rhythm in…
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Émile Lambinet Documented profileFrance
Émile Charles Lambinet (1815–1877), a French painter born in Versailles and who died in Bougival, devoted himself primarily to landscape painting. The biographical entry identifies h…
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Edmund Kesting Documented profileGermany · Germany
The German painter, graphic artist, photographer and art educator Edmund Kesting (1892–1970) developed a practice that brought together several media and explored the organisation of…
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Emilie Preyer Documented profileGermany
German painter Emilie Preyer (1849–1930) is the artist of a still life of peaches and grapes on a white tablecloth. Entitled “Stillleben mit Pfirsichen und Trauben auf weißem Tischtu…
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Ernst Barlach Documented profileCountry to be documented
Sculptor, painter and writer, Ernst Barlach (1870–1938) developed a body of work in which sculpture sits alongside theatre, drawing and printmaking, while his early works address hum…
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Ernst Wilhelm Nay Documented profileGermany
The German artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay, born in Berlin in 1902 and died in Cologne in 1968, developed a style of painting whose forms and the place accorded to colour changed markedly o…
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Emil Volkers Documented profileGermany
German painter born in 1831 and died in 1905, Emil Volkers is also referred to by his full name, Emil Ferdinand Heinrich Volkers. A Horse Portrait, signed oil on canvas, 25 × 32 cm,…
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Eugène Ionesco Documented profileRomania
Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Dimitri Ionescu in Slatina in 1909 and died in Paris in 1994, was a Romanian-French playwright and French-language writer. He began studying French in Buch…
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Erling Ärlingsson Documented profileSweden
A resource dedicated to signatures records 21 signatures and monograms associated with Erling Ärlingsson on paintings and watercolours. On the reverse of a canvas, a catalogue notes…
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Estella Solomons Documented profileIreland
Estella Solomons (1882–1968) is an Irish artist. A work titled Küstenlandschaft is documented as a signed oil on board, measuring 30 × 35.5 cm; estimated at CHF 300–600, it sold for…
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Emmanuel de La Villéon Documented profileFrance
The French painter Emmanuel Victor Auguste Marie de La Villéon, born in 1858, began studying painting in 1884 with his friends Alfred Roll and Pierre Emmanuel Eugène Damoye. He settl…
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Ezelino Briante Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter of landscapes, seascapes and vedute Ezelino Briante was born in Naples in 1901. One notice reports that he is said to have studied briefly at the Academy of Naple…
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Erich Klossowski Documented profileGermany · France
Erich Klossowski, a German art historian and painter who became a French citizen, is also known as the father of Pierre Klossowski and Balthus. The biographical note describes him as…
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Erich Buchholz Documented profileGermany
Painter, architect, sculptor, graphic artist and product designer, Erich Buchholz pursued a wide-ranging practice accompanied by a critical reflection on how art history tells the st…
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Émilie Charmy Documented profileFrance
Émilie Charmy’s work brings together landscapes, flowers, self-portraits and female nudes. Within this body of work, the landscapes of Corsica offer a documented stylistic point of r…
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Erich Heckel Documented profileGermany
Erich Heckel, a German artist born in Döbeln in 1883 and died in Radolfzell in 1970, was one of the founders of Die Brücke, a group formed in Dresden in 1905 with Fritz Bleyl and Kar…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026