Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists
J. M. W. Turner R.A. by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, 1879, showing the uniform binding of the series
EditorJoseph Cundall
PublisherSampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Publication date
1879
OCLC150044969

The Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists was a book series in 38 volumes edited by Joseph Cundall and his son Frank,[1] and published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington in London from 1879 to the 1890s.[2]

Volumes

Incomplete list of volumes:

  • Claude Le Lorrain, by Owen J. Dulles.
  • Correggio, by M. E. Heaton.
  • Della Robbia and Cellini
  • Albrecht Dürer, by Richard Ford Heath, 1894.
  • The Figure Painters of Holland, Ronald Gower.
  • Fra Angelico, Masaccio, and Botticelli
  • Fra Bartolommeo, Albertinelli, and Andrea del Sarto, by Leader Scott (the pseudonym of Lucy Baxter), 1881.
  • Fra Giovanni Angelico Da Fiesole and The Early Florentine Painters of the Fifteenth Century. Catherine Mary Phillimore
  • Thomas Gainsborough, R. A, John Constable, R. A. by George M. Brock-Arnold
  • Ghiberti and Donatello
  • Angiolotto Bondone Called; Giotto, by Harry Quilter.
  • Hans Holbein, by Joseph Cundall, 1892.
  • Hogarth, by Henry Austin Dobson.
  • Sir Edwin Landseer, by Frederic George Stephens.
  • Lawrence and Romney, by Ronald Gower.
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Little Masters of Germany, by W. B. Scott.
  • Mantegna and Francis
  • Meissonier, by John W. Mollett.
  • Michelangelo Buonarotti, by Charles Clémont.
  • Murillo, by Ellen E. Minor.
  • Overbeck, by J. Beavington Atkinson.
  • Raphael, N. D'Anvers.
  • Rembrandt, by J. W. Mollett. 1879
  • Reynolds, by F. S. Pulling.
  • Rubens, Charles William Kett.
  • Tintoretto, by W. R. Osler.
  • Titian, by Richard Ford Heath.
  • J. M. W. Turner R.A., by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, 1879.
  • Van Dyck; Frans Hals of Haarlem, by Percy Rendell Head.
  • Velázquez, by Edwin Stowe.
  • Horace Vernet, Paul Delaroche, by J. Ruutz-Rees.
  • Watteau, by J. W. Molett.
  • Wilkie, by J. W. Mollett.

See also

  • The Great Historic Galleries of England

References

  1. ↑ Testimonials (In favour of Mr. Frank Cundall) (PDF). Collection of National Library of Jamaica. 1890.
  2. ↑ McLean, Ruari (1963). Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing. London: Faber & Faber.

Further reading

  • Margaret M. Smith, "Joseph Cundall and the Binding Design for the Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists", The Library, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2004). https://doi.org/10.1093/library/5.1.39
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