LANGREN [LANGEREN], MICHAEL FLORIS van [MICHAELIS FLORENTÿ, FLORENTIO].
1612-1675.
Mathematician and astronomer to King of Spain. Lived in Brussels.
Gjorde även kartor till Blaeu redan 1631.
Bland arbeten.
Maps for Blaeu 1635: Brabant, Louvain, Antwerp, Mechlin.
Tooley.
(1812–1879) was a British born American artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving.
Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association with American followers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his attention turned from technical illustration toward still life and landscape.
Hill was the son of British aquatint engraver John Hill. He emigrated with his parents from London to the United States in 1819, initially living in Philadelphia. In 1822 the family moved to New York, where Hill apprenticed in aquatint engraving in his father's shop.
In 1838 Hill married Catherine Smith - their children included the astronomer George William Hill and the painter John Henry Hill.
In watercolor and aquatint engravings, Hill employed a stipple technique, building up planes of softly gradated colors made of tiny brushstrokes–a process commonly seen in painted miniatures. Applied to a larger scale on canvas the result was a form of objective real...
Deleuze, Jacques-Antoine-Henri
Var ansvarig för de ca 1030 artiklarna om botanik och naturhistoria i Yverdon-encyclopedin.
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Opium Ships - Huggins, William John
Biografiska uppgifter:1725-1802. Född i Paris, död i Carrières de Charenton.
Fransk kopparstickare. Han lär ha skapat uppemot 1200 kartor, stadsplaner och liknande arbeten, bl a. för d'Anville (se denne) och Robert de Vaugondy.
(Thieme-Becker.)
