Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists

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]

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

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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