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Publisher: London, J. WalkerPublication date: 1810Subjects: Painters -- DictionariesNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Publisher: H. Colburn and R. BentleyPublication date: 1831Subjects: ArtArt, RomanArt / GeneralArt / History / GeneralArt / EuropeanArt / Individual ArtistBiography ... Read more

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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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In Three Volumes. Member Of The First Class Of The Academy Of St. Luke In Rome. ... Read more

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In Three Volumes. Member Of The First Class Of The Academy Of St. Luke In Rome. ... Read more

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In Three Volumes. Member Of The First Class Of The Academy Of St. Luke In Rome. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Henry Fuseli, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Frédéric-César de La Harpe, Hans Auer, Henri Nestlé, Heinrich Menu Von Minutoli, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Johanna Spyri, Alexandre Calame, Peter Ochs, Alfred Escher, Alois Von Reding, Ferdinand Keller, Adolf Guyer-Zeller, Moritz Roth. Excerpt:Adolf Guyer-Zeller (1839-1899) His Spinning Mill in Neuthal Train passing in front of the mill Adolf Guyer-Zeller (1 May 1839 in Neuthal bei Bauma - 3 April 1899) was a Swiss entrepreneur. He was the son of an owner of spinning mill and creator of a textile export trade in Zürich . After the death of his father, he led the company. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Later he turned his attentions to what had become a booming business, the building of railways in Switzerland. He became, among other things, a president of the Schweizerischen Nordostbahn (NOB). Guyer-Zeller was also the founder of Jungfraubahn , (JB) and the Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn (UeBB). In order to finance the JB, he founded the Bank Guyerzeller AG (now HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG ) in 1894, which became fully-owned by HSBC in 2004. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Swiss Landscape by Alexandre Calame Alexandre Calame (May 28, 1810 March 19, 1864) was a Swiss painter . He was born in Arabie, at the time belonging to Corsier-sur-Vevey , today a part of Vevey . He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey, but because his father lost the family fortune, Calame could not concentrate on art, but rather he was forced to work in a bank from the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, it was up to the young Calame to provide for his mother. In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 h... ... Read more