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This is a list of out-of-copyright books and journals about art and artists, available online to read or download. Includes the visual arts, such as painting, engraving, sculpture etc., only.

Contents

Encyclopedias of artists

Art history

Engraving

engraving
  • Die deutschen Maler-Radierer des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (German painters and engravers of the 19th century) by Andreas Andresen & Josef Eduard Wessely (Rudolph Weigel, 1866). German text.
  • French engravers of the eighteenth century by A. Younger (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent, 1913).
  • French engravers and draughtsmen of the 18th century by E. F. S. Dilke (London: Bell, 1902). Illustrated.
  • Les graveurs du dix-huitième siècle (Engravers of the 18th century) by Roger Portalis & Henri Béraldi (Paris D. Morgand et C. Fatout, 1880).
  • The old engravers of England: in their relation to contemporary life and art by Malcolm C. Salaman (London: Cassell, 1906).

Painting

Biographies of artists

Individual artists

Collected biographies

  • Four Irish landscape painters, George Barret, R. A., James A. O'Connor, Walter F. Osborne, R. H. A., Nathaniel Hone, R. H. A. by Thomas Bodkin (London, T. F. Unwin ltd., 1920). B/w illustrations.
  • German masters of art by H. A. Dickinson (New York, F.A. Stokes, 1914).
  • Great English painters by Alan Cunningham (Philadelphia : Jacobs, 1908). Illustrated. Included early artists up to Holbein, then, Hogarth, Wilson, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Blake.
  • Great English painters by Francis Downman (London: W. Scott, 1886). Illustrated. Life and work of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Morland, Lawrence, Turner and Constable.
  • Landscape and figure painters of America by F. F. Sherman (New York, privately printed, 1917).
  • The landscape and pastoral painters of Holland: Ruisdael, Hobbema, Cuijp, Potter by Frank Cundall (New York, Scribner and Welford, 1891).
  • The Modern School of Art by Wilfrid Meynell (London: W. R. Howell & Co., c. 1887). Biographies of British 19th-century painters.
  • Old English Masters by Timothy Cole (New York: The Century Co., 1902). Artists from Hogarth to Landseer. Illustrated.
  • The Wyons by L. Forrer (London: Spink & Son, ltd., 1917). Talented family of designers, die-engravers and medallists. Illustrated in b/w.

Specific art topics

  • British Marine Painting by C. G. Holme, Ed (London ;Paris; New York: The Studio, 1919). Illustrated.
  • China painting by W.H. Miller (Anglo- French Art Co., 1912). Encyclopedia of methods of decorating and firing porcelain.
  • The development of British landscape painting in water-colours by Charles Home (Ed.) (London, "The Studio", 1918). Illustrated.
  • The earlier English water-colour painters by W. C. Monkhouse (London, Seeley, 1897). Illustrated.
  • Early English water-colour drawings by great masters by Geoffrey Holme (Ed.) (The Studio, London, 1919).Illustrated.
  • The English pre-Raphaelite painters, their associates and successors by Percy H. Bate (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1905). B/w illustrations.
  • Famous Paintings: Volume 1, Volume 2 (Cassell, 1891). Many high-quality colour plates of paintings by artists of all nationalities.
  • The French pastellists of the eighteenth century by Haldane Macfall (London: Macmillan, 1909).
  • A history of the "Old water-colour" society, now the Royal society of painters in water colours: Volume 1, Volume 2 by John Lewis Roget (London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1891).
  • The ideals of painting by J. Comyns Carr (New York, Macmillan, 1917). An Art history focusing on the ideals that inspired European artists throughout the ages.
  • International Art Markets by James Goodwin (2009) subtitled The Essential Guide for Collectors and Investors.
  • Landscape painting and modern Dutch artists by E. B. Greenshields (New York Baker and Taylor, 1906)
  • Modern British water-colour drawings by Alfred Lys Baldrey (London, The Studio, 1900).
  • The Norwich School by Geoffrey Holme (Ed.) (The Studio Ltd., 1920). About the artists of the English Norwich School.
  • Shakespeare in pictorial art by M. C. Salaman (The Studio Ltd., 1916). Illustrated.

Art Journals

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