Hilary Joyce Bradshaw (1916 - 2009)

British Fashion Artist. She was considered the last of her line; artisans who rendered the designs of the day with ink and paint, rather than thru photography. Miss Bradshaw was born into an upper class Scottish family, but her father, a prominent sportsman, abandoned his wife and children when young Hilary was a toddler. (Told […]

Robert Brackman (1898 - 1980)

Artist and teacher, emigrated from Russia in 1908 and studied at the National Academy of Design from 1919 to 1921, and the Ferrer School in San Francisco. Best known for large figural works, portraits, and still lifes. From 1931, he had a long career teaching at the Art Students League in New York and was […]

Patricia Collinge Collinge (1892 - 1974)

Actress. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she performed on the London stage before coming to America in 1908 and continued her stage career as Broadway cast performer in many shows. She made her feature film debut in “The Little Foxes” (1941) and was nominated the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other screen credits included […]

Penleigh Boyd (1890 - 1923)

Painter. He was born in Wetsbury, England, but spent most of his life in Australia,  where he developed into one of the country’s leading painters of his time.  His works include “The Old Bridge, Warrandyte”, “The Breath of Spring”, “Wattle Blossom”, “Spring Fantasy”, “Twixt Shadow and Shine”, and “Salvage”. He was killed in a car […]

Teodoro Alberto Bourse Herrera (1914 - 1997)

Artist. A painter, sculptor, humorist, his works are exposed in all of Latin America. He also illustrated many books, including the “Diccionario Lunfardo” (1978).

Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010)

Artist. As a painter and more notably as a sculptor, she created a long series of semi-abstract yet expressive works that many consider erotic or disturbing. Bourgeois was raised in Paris by a well-off family that sold and repaired tapestries, and with whom she had conflicted relations that were to be manifested in her work. […]

Antoine Bourdelle (1861 - 1929)

French Sculptor. He left school at the age of 13 to work as a wood carver in his father’s cabinet making shop. He learned drawing with the founder of the Ingres Museum in Montauban, then sculpture at the art school in Toulouse. At the age of 24 he won a scholarship to the Ecoles des […]

Napoléon Bourassa (1827 - 1916)

Artist, Author, Teacher. Born in Sainte-Marguerite, Quebec, he had extensive schooling for his time. He studied under the Sulpicians in Montreal for eleven years and took 18 months of private lessons with a painter. Bourassa also spent more than three years in Europe further developing his artistic abilities. Early in his career, he worked primarily […]

Paula Murad Coburn (1955 - 2004)

Actress. A native of Jamaica, Coburn was born Paula Murad, later moving to Cleveland, Ohio, with her parents, and then to Washington, D.C., where she was educated and then became host of the television series, “Real Estate Digest.” She later decided to further her acting career and she moved to Hollywood, California, where she met […]

Henry Brintell Bounetheau (1797 - 1877)

Painter. Became known as painter of miniature portraits. He painted subjects including Charles C. Pinckney, Nathanael Greene, William Ravenel, and Charles A. Pringle. (bio by: Laurie)

William Bouguereau (1825 - 1905)

Artist. He was France’s most popular painter of the late 1800s. A leader of the Academic School, Bouguereau specialized in carefully detailed mythological and genre scenes, and was particularly noted for his tender portrayals of children. “The Abduction of Psyche” (1895) is probably his best-known work.  Today many critics dismiss his style as kitsch and […]

Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau (1837 - 1922)

Artist. She was the first woman to exhibit a painting at the world-famous Paris Salon, and the first American woman to be awarded a gold medal by the French Academy. Her forte was domestic scenes featuring women and children, lovingly detailed in the Academic manner. Elizabeth Jane Gardner was born in Exeter,  New Hampshire,  and […]

Thomas Bouch (1822 - 1880)

Engineer.  A specialist in railway design,  he is credited with inventing caissons and train ferries. His notoriety,  however, rests on the original Tay Bridge in Dundee,  Scotland,  completed in 1878.  It collapsed during high winds on December 28,  1879,  killing 75 people.  An investigation concluded in terms that the bridge was badly designed,  badly constructed, […]

Sandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510)

Artist. He was a contemporary of famed artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci, and his considered one of the best painters of the 15th century period of art and culture in Italy known as the “Quattrocento”. He was pupil of painter Filippo Lippi and worked for the House of […]

Henry Peter Bosse (1844 - 1903)

Photographer. As a draughtsman for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, he took many photographs of the Mississippi River. These photos were discovered in 1990, and a collection was sold by Sotheby’s for $60,000. In Sotheby’s 1995 photographic catalogue, the discovery of his work was proclaimed the most important discovery of 1990. His photos […]

Marguerite Clark (1883 - 1940)

Marguerite Clark Broadway and Silent Movie Actress. After a successful stage career, she starred in a number of Hollywood productions. Raised in Cincinnati, she graduated from a Catholic boarding school at 16, then left to persue her show business ambitions. After working in Baltimore as a chorus girl in 1899, Marguerite made her Broadway bow […]

François Joseph Bosio (1768 - 1845)

Sculptor.

Peter C. Borsari (1938 - 2006)

Photojournalist. He was one of Hollywood’s best known and respected celebrity photographers. His career spanned nearly three decades and his photographs appeared in many well known publications including “Time” and “People” magazine. His high profile celebrity subjects included Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Jack Nicholson and several American presidents. He […]

Ethlyne Clair (1904 - 1996)

Actress. The star of a number of silent films, she is probably best remembered for several Hollywood westerns of the late 1920s. Born Ethlyne Williamson, she was raised in Alabama and was apparently an unwilling participant in show business, pushed by her mother who entered her into beauty pageants and her brother who signed her […]

Solon H Borglum (1868 - 1922)

Sculptor who specialized in themes of the Old West. His older brother was Mount Rushmore Sculptor Gutzon Borglum. (bio by: Chuck Kearns)  Family links:  Parents:  James Moller Borglum (1839 – 1909)  Ida C Mickelsen Borglum (1844 – 1911)  Spouse:  Emma Vignal Borglum (1864 – 1934)*  Siblings:  Gutzon Borglum (1867 – 1941)*  August M Borglum (1867 […]

Diane Cilento (1933 - 2011)

Actress, Author. Born to well-versed parents in the medical field, her father Sir Ralph West Cilento was an expert on tropical medicine, her mother Lady Phyllis Cilento was a gynecologist; she settled with her family in the Brisbane region of Australia. She began her acting studies, initially at New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts […]

Gutzon Borglum (1867 - 1941)

Artist. Best known for being the Mount Rushmore sculptor. He was born John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum in Idaho to a Danish immigrant who embraced the Mormon religion and immediately acquired two wives who were sisters.  When Borglum was 4, his father, a frontier doctor, left the church, discarding young Borglum’s mother so he […]

Norah Borges (1901 - 1998)

Artist. Sister of famed fantasy writer Jorge Luis Borges. Her original name was Leonor Fanny Borges, but her famous brother changed her name to “Norah.” She made many ilustrations for his brother´s book, as well for Victoria Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. (bio by: 380W)  Family links:  Spouse:  Guillermo De Torre (1900 – 1971)* *Calculated […]

Virginia Christine (1920 - 1996)

Actress. She is best remembered as “Mrs Olson,” of the Folger’s Coffee television commercials of the 1960s and 1970s, who dispensed sage advise to next door neighbor young couples while serving them Folger’s Coffee. Born Virginia Christine Kraft in Stanton, Iowa, to the family of Rudolf Kraft, a first generation German farm laborer, she began […]

Francisco Bores (1898 - 1972)

Artist. A Spanish-French painter, he was born in Madrid and died in Paris. He was included in Ultraism movement. In the 20s, he moved to Paris where developed all his career. He was one of the important painters in the spanish colony in Paris, along with Pancho Cossio or Joaquín Peinado. Among his paintings “San […]

Linda Christian (1923 - 2011)

Actress. Born Blanca Rosa Welter, the daughter of a Dutch executive in the oil industry, she grew up in Venezuela, South Africa, Holland, Switzerland and Palestine, learning to speak multiple languages fluently while becoming a model student during her schooling. She worked at the Office of the British Censor during her residence in Palestine and […]

Paul-Emile Borduas (1905 - 1960)

Painter. Leader of the Automatistes, important artists group of Canada. Main author of Refus global, manifesto published in 1948 and signed by many important quebecers artists such as Jean-Paul Riopelle, Claude Gauvreau, Fernand Leduc and Marcelle Ferron.  (bio by: Stephane Tremblay)

Joseph Bonomi (1796 - 1878)

Draftsman, Egyptologist. Born Joseph Bonomi the Younger, in London, son of architect, Joseph Bonomi the Elder. He studied in Rome before accepting a position with an expedition to Egypt in 1824. For the following two years he served as draftsman for the Hay’s Expedition at Abu Simbel, Kalabsha, and Thebes, producing accurate sketches and plaster […]

Richard Parkes Bonnington (1802 - 1828)

Artist and friend of Delacroix. (bio by: Kieran Smith)

America Chedister (1895 - 1975)

Actress. She appeared on the silent screen in films such as Scrambled Wives (1921), Dawn of the East (1921), and Sea Raiders (1922). She was married to film director and writer Edward H. Griffith. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  Edward H. Griffith (1888 – 1975)* *Calculated relationship