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Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Giuseppe Maria Crespi, March 14, 1665–July 16, 1747, was an Italian painter born and active chiefly in Bologna. He first studied with Angelo Michele Toni, then with Domenico Maria Canuti, Carlo Cignani, and Giovanni Antonio Burrini. He also studied works by Correggio, Barocci, and Venetian painters during travels in northern Italy.
Crespi became known as lo Spagnolo and developed an independent style informed by Bolognese traditions and a broad range of Italian and northern European painting. He established a school in Bologna whose pupils included more than thirty artists; among those associated with his circle were Pietro Longhi and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. His sons Luigi, Ferdinando, and Antonio Liborio also trained under him.
His works are held in major collections including the Uffizi Galleries, the Louvre, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the State Hermitage Museum, and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh, March 14, 1898–July 3, 1954, was an American painter and printmaker born in Paris to American artist parents. He graduated from Yale University in 1920 and studied at the Art Students League of New York, where his teachers included John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller.
Marsh worked as a newspaper and magazine illustrator before establishing his painting career. Associated with the Fourteenth Street School, he depicted New York streets, public transportation, burlesque theaters, and Coney Island in oils, tempera, watercolors, drawings, and prints. He also completed federal mural commissions and began teaching at the Art Students League in 1935.
Marsh continued painting and teaching into the 1950s and died in Dorset, Vermont. His work is held by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler, March 14, 1853–May 19, 1918, was a Swiss painter. He trained first with the landscape painter Ferdinand Sommer in Thun and, from 1872 to 1877, studied with Barthélemy Menn at the Geneva School of Drawing, where he encountered French painting.
Hodler became a leading figure in Swiss art and helped establish a modern national style. His work was associated with Symbolism and with the Geneva artistic circle, including poet Louis Duchosal, who introduced him to Symbolist writing and ideas.
His paintings are held by major public collections including the Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstmuseum Basel, Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid
