English painter and engraver, he is considered to be the most important artistic personality of British Enlightenment. Son of a school teacher, he learnt the art of engraving at the laboratory of the silversmith Ellis Gamble....
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Bohemian draftsman and engraver, son of a senior official of the city of Prague and destined by his father to study jurisprudence, he left Bohemia at the age of twenty when his family fell into ruin following the Thirty Years' War. In Prague Castle he...
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Daniel Hopfer was a German armour and engraver. Son of a painter called Bartholomäus Hopfer and Anna Sendlerin, Daniel moved to Augsburg still adolescent and there he gained citizenship in 1493....
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Scarce, if not almost nonexistent, are the news about Matthias Hupfuff's life, so we ignore the year of his birth or the state of his parents. We can assume that his place of birth being Strasbourg after his surname, one of the most common in...
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