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21Blow, John — (baptized Feb. 23, 1649, Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, Eng. died Oct. 1, 1708, Westminster, London) British composer, organist, and teacher. He was appointed organist at Westminster Abbey in 1668; in 1774 he became master of the children at… …
22Carissimi, Giacomo — (baptized April 18, 1605, Marino, near Rome died Jan. 12, 1674, Rome) Italian composer. He worked as maestro di cappella at the Collegio Germanico in Rome, a musically important post at a notable Jesuit institution, from 1629 until his death. His …
23Chippendale, Thomas — (baptized June 5, 1718, Otley, Eng. died November 1779, London) English cabinetmaker. Little is known of his life before 1753, when he opened a showroom and workshop in London. In 1754 he published The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker s Director, a… …
24Dibdin, Charles — (baptized March 4, 1745, Southampton, Hampshire, Eng. died July 25, 1814, London) British composer, novelist, and actor. A cathedral chorister, Dibdin began working for a music publisher at age 15 and began his stage career in 1762. His first… …
25Elsheimer, Adam — (baptized March 18, 1578, Frankfurt am Main died December 1610, Rome, Papal States) German painter and printmaker. After studying in Frankfurt, he went to Rome in 1600 and began producing images of Italian Classical subjects, nocturnal scenes,… …
26Fabritius, Carel — (baptized Feb. 27, 1622, Middenbeemster, Neth. died Oct. 12, 1654, Delft) Dutch painter. He studied with Rembrandt in the early 1640s, then settled in Delft, entering its painters guild in 1652. The earliest work attributed to him, The Raising of …
27Gainsborough, Thomas — (baptized May 14, 1727, Sudbury, Eng. died Aug. 2, 1788, London) British painter. At 13 he left his native Suffolk to study in London. By с 1750, back in Suffolk, he had established a reputation in portraiture and landscape painting. He painted… …
28Grew, Nehemiah — (baptized Sept. 26, 1641, Mancetter Parish, Warwickshire, Eng. died March 25, 1712, London) British botanist. A physician and professor, Grew s training in animal anatomy led to his interest in that of plants. His writings noted the existence of… …
29Herrick, Robert — (baptized Aug. 24, 1591, London, Eng. died October 1674, Dean Prior, Devonshire) English poet. Educated at Cambridge and later ordained, he became known as a poet in the 1620s and by the end of that decade had become a country vicar in Devonshire …
30Hogg, James — (baptized Dec. 9, 1770, Ettrick, Selkirkshire, Scot. died Nov. 21, 1835, Altrive, Yarrow) Scottish poet. A shepherd, he was almost entirely self educated. The talents of the Ettrick Shepherd were discovered by Walter Scott when Hogg supplied… …
