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• Rowland Lockey, an English painter and miniaturist, made copies of the work of other artists, including Hans Holbein the Younger (detail of one such copy pictured)?
• Raymond Monvoisin was a French painter and Legion of Honor recipient invited by the Chilean government to establish an Academy of Painting in Santiago, and who also dabbled in mining and ranching?
• Peter Prendergast was recognised as the leading landscape painter in Wales after the death of Sir Kyffin Williams in September 2006?
• Simeon Solomon was a British painter who regularly had works displayed at the Royal Academy in the 1860s?
• according to his Memoir, 18th-century painter Julius Caesar Ibbetson (work pictured) was named after the caesarean section which delivered him after his mother fell on the ice?
• the group portrait Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster by Dutch painter Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613–1670) was considered by Sir Joshua Reynolds to be the finest he had seen?
• the "Guild of Saint Luke" was the usual name for the painters' guild in cities of the Low Countries?
• in addition to being a painter, Wolf Huber was active as an architect, but that no buildings designed by him have survived?
• Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, a German Jewish painter, is considered "the first Jewish painter" because his work was informed by his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his contemporaries chose to convert?
• Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, said to be Christopher Wren's favourite decorative painter, nevertheless did not secure the commission to paint the dome of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, finished in 1708?
• Dutch baroque painter Jan Wyck spent most of his career in England, where he influenced the development of British military art?
• Charles Willson Peale's 1822 self-portrait The Artist in His Museum (pictured) summarizes his career as a painter, taxidermist, and naturalist?
• Australian painter Jeffrey Smart initially wanted to become an architect instead of an artist?
• French-born artist Jan Piotr Norblin is famous in Poland for illustrating many important historical moments of the last years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and is considered one of the most important painters of the Polish Enlightenment?
• Dutch mannerist painter Cornelis Ketel began to paint with his toes towards the end of a successful career as a portraitist, (example, right) in Elizabethan London and Amsterdam?
• Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes hired some painters and sculptors as assistants even though they didn't have experience as pastry chefs?
• Venezuelan painter Cristóbal Rojas produced a painting of purgatory (pictured) shortly before his death in the knowledge he was going to die from tuberculosis?
• 18th-century professional portrait painter Tilly Kettle was the first British painter to work in India?