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Fielding, Antony Vandyke Copley

(Encyclopedia)Fielding, Antony Vandyke Copley, 1787–1855, English landscape painter in watercolor. For the last 24 years of his life he was president of the Water Colour Society, where he exhibited yearly. Fieldi...

Falcone, Aniello

(Encyclopedia)Falcone, Aniello änyĕlˈlō fälkôˈnā [key], 1607–56, Italian baroque painter of the Neapolitan school. He is known primarily for his battle pieces. There are examples in the National Museum, N...

Herndon

(Encyclopedia)Herndon, town (2020 pop. 24,655), Fairfax co., N Va., inc. 1874, rechartered 1938. A suburb of Washington, D.C., Herndon has a mix of light and high-tec...

Maynard, George Willoughby

(Encyclopedia)Maynard, George Willoughby, 1843–1923, American figure, marine, and mural painter, b. Washington, D.C., studied at the National Academy of Design and in Florence and Antwerp. Maynard created decorat...

O'Grady, Standish Hayes

(Encyclopedia)O'Grady, Standish Hayes, 1832–1915, Irish scholar. His great work was the Silva Gadelica (1892), a collection of old Irish tales. He also translated heroic stories from the Gaelic and began a catalo...

Přerov

(Encyclopedia)Přerov pərzhĕˈrôf [key], Ger. Prerau, city (1991 pop. 51,300), E Czech Republic, in Moravia. A railway center, Přerov manufactures precision instruments, textiles, and foodstuffs. The 16th-centu...

Milwaukee

(Encyclopedia)Milwaukee mĭlwŏkˈē [key], city (1990 pop. 628,088), seat of Milwaukee co., SE Wis., at the point where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers enter Lake Michigan; inc. 1846. The largest...

antique collecting

(Encyclopedia)antique collecting, the assembling of items of aesthetic, historical, and often monetary value from earlier eras. The term antique initially referred only to the preclassical and classical cultures of...

Domrémy-la-Pucelle

(Encyclopedia)Domrémy-la-Pucelle dôNrāmēˈ-lä-püsĕlˈ [key], village, Vosges dept., E France, in Lorraine, on the Meuse River. Joan of Arc was born (1412?) in the village. The house in which she was born is ...

Crawford, Ralston

(Encyclopedia)Crawford, Ralston, 1906–78, American painter, b. St. Catherine's, Ont. Crawford's paintings are marked by precise detail, flat color, and the simplification of form. His works portray the American c...