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William Strang
William Strang (February 13, 1859–April 12, 1921) was a Scottish painter and printmaker born in Dumbarton. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Alphonse Legros and died in Bournemouth.
Strang produced etchings, portraits and book illustrations. His prints include Death of the Ploughman’s Wife (1888) and The Socialists (1891), and he illustrated The Ancient Mariner (1896) and Don Quixote (1902). Around 1900 he devoted more attention to painting.
Strang exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1892 and the New English Art Club from 1893. He joined the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1896, became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1906 and a Royal Academician in 1921, and served as president of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers from 1918.
Grant Wood
Grant Wood, February 13, 1891–February 12, 1942, was an American painter born near Anamosa, Iowa. He studied with Ernest A. Batchelder at the Minneapolis School of Design, Handicraft, and Normal Art, took life-drawing classes with Charles Cumming at the University of Iowa, and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Académie Julian in Paris.
Wood was associated with American Regionalism alongside Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. With his friend and fellow painter Marvin Cone, he established the Stone City Art Colony in Iowa in 1932. He taught at the University of Iowa from 1934 until his death in 1942.
His work is held by the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art and the Figge Art Museum in Iowa, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, February 13, 1682 or 1683–April 28, 1754, was an Italian painter and draughtsman born in Venice. He trained in the workshop of his father, a woodcarver and sculptor, before studying painting with Antonio Molinari. He continued his studies with Giuseppe Maria Crespi in Bologna.
Piazzetta worked chiefly in Venice and became a member of Bologna’s Accademia Clementina in 1727. In 1750 he was appointed director of the Venetian academy. His pupils included Giuseppe Angeli and Domenico Maggiotto. He collaborated with the engraver Marco Pitteri and the publisher Giovanni Battista Albrizzi.
His paintings and drawings are held by the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, the Louvre Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
