LOUISA INGRAM RAYNER

 

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Louisa Ingram Rayner (1832-1924) was a British Architectural landscape artist. Rayner studied painting from the age of fifteen, first with her father. She has rendered streets and picturesquely decaying buildings in many cities and towns of Britain and Northern France. Her scenes include old towns, cities, gateways, streets, markets, old relics and buildings. She has also drawn several interiors, and exteriors of churches.

Rayner was meticulous in drawing architectural elements, building details and surfaces. She was active through her long life of more than 90 years. She lived through, many changing phases the city-life, and recorded it all. She mainly worked with deep-toned water colours. 

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WILHELM SCHUBERT VAN EHRENBERG

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Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, was Antwerp based (1630 -1676) Flemish Painter. He specialized in architectural paintings, including of real and imaginary church interiors, Renaissance palaces and picture galleries.

Wilhelm mainly worked during 1960-1970. He collaborated with his contemporary artists to add human and animal figures. This was a common practice in 17^th C Antwerp.

Wilhelm was a romantic person, who loved to play with light and shade. He had a natural sense of entwining architectural elements to form complex imaginary Capriccio art compositions. He liked Baroque architectural spaces, but in a form gar more conservative, than his other contemporary artists.

Wilhelm created several ‘Gallery paintings’, as was fashionable in the era, depicting showing paintings, artefact scientific instruments and natural specimens.

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FERDINANDO GALLI BIBIENA

 

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Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657-1743) was an Italian Baroque-era Architect, Painter, Set designer and Scenographer. Eight members of the Bibiena family (1690 to 1787) were court designers across Europe. They produced intricate settings for operas, weddings, and funerals, devising ornate motifs that inspired many. Bibiena also worked in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, London, Naples, Stockholm and St. Petersburg.

Bibiena was an expert perspective artist. He avoided the one-point convergent or axially balanced vanishing point views. He instead created scapes with diagonal axis, and multi-vanishing point angular views. With these techniques, he replaced the older style of architectural Capriccio. He detailed the architecture forms to present splendour and spaciousness.

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