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• Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and Their Works: A Handbook (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1874), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni età e d'ogni nazione. (Gaetano Schiepatti, 1830), by S. Ticozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. Leben und Werke der berühmtesten bildenden Künstler. (Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening, 1920), by Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Opera di Baldinucci] (Società tipografica de' Classici italiani, 1808), by Filippo Baldinucci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of pronunciation of artists' names with their schools and dates ; for American readers and students (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1938), by G. E. Kaltenbach and Art Institute of Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artists of the nineteenth century and their works. A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. (Houghton, Osgood, 1879), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Abcedario pittorico : dall'autore ristampato, corretto, ed accresciuto di molti professori, e di altre notizie spettanti alla pittura ed in quest'ultima impressione con nuova, e copiosa aggiunta di altri professori ... (Ed in Naploi, A. Vocola, 1731), by Pellagrino Antonio Orlandi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook. (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.[etc., etc.], 1899), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook. (Houghton, Osgoodand company, 1879), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon; oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher etc. (E.A. Fleischmann, 1835), by G. K. Nagler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of Irish artists (Maunsel & company, limited, 1913), by Walter G. Strickland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adiciones al Diccionario histórico de los más ilustres profesores de las bellas artes en España de D. Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez (Tip. de los huérfanos, 1889), by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano Viñaza and Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunstlexikon; ein handbuch für kün stler und kunstfreunde (W. Spemann, 1905), by Wilhelm Spemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres (E. Grund, 1924), by E. Bénézit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Index of artists, international-biographical; including painters, sculptors, illustrators, engravers and etchers of the past and the present. (P. Smith, 1948), by Daniel Trowbridge Mallett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pittori e miniatori nell' Vmbria. (C. Argentieri, 1923), by Umberto Gnoli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of miniaturists, illuminators, calligraphers, and copyists, with references to their works, and notices of their patrons : from the establishment of Christianity to the eighteenth century (B. Quaritch, 1887), by John W. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (W. Engelmann, 1907), by Ulrich Thieme, Hans Vollmer, Fred C. Willis, and Felix Becker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon ... Nebst einem angehängten Verzeichniss der Bildnissen der in deisem lexicon enthaltenen kunster, in alphabetischer Ordung beschrieben. (Heidegger und compagnie, 1763), by Rudolf Füssli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mallett's index of artists, international-biographical; including painters, sculptors, illustrators, engravers and etchers of the past and the present (R. R. Bowker company, 1935), by Daniel Trowbridge Mallett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dessins, gouaches, estampes et tableaux du dix-huitième siècle; guide de l'amateur (D. Morgand, 1893), by Gustave Bourcard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to Mallett's Index of artists, international-biographical : including painters, sculptors, illustrators, engravers and etchers of the past and the present not in the 1935 edition (P. Smith, 1948), by Daniel Trowbridge Mallett and Daniel Trowbridge Mallett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their work : a handbook (Ticknor, 1881), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. (Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening, 1895), by Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kunstgeschichtliches Wörterbuch (B. G. Teubner, 1928), by Hans Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A biographical history of the fine arts; being Memoirs of the lives and works of eminent painters, engravers, sculptors, and architects. From the earliest ages to the present time. Alphabetically arranged, and condensed from the best authorities ... (J. W. Bouton, 1865), by Shearjashub Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical history of the fine arts; being Memoirs of the lives and works of eminent painters, engravers, sculptors, and architects. From the earliest ages to the present time. Alphabetically arranged, and condensed from the best authorities. Including the works of Vasari, Lanzi, Kugler, Dr. Waagen, Bryan, Pilkington, Walpole, Sir C. Eastlake, and Mrs. Jameson. With chronological tables of artists and their schools, plates of monograms, etc., and supplement. (George Gebbie, 1873), by Shearjashub Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical dictionary of painters, sculptors, engravers, and architects, from the earliest ages to the present time; interspersed with original anecdotes. (Greenland, 1838), by John Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical dictionary of eminent artists : comprising painters, sculptors, engravers, and architects, from the earliest ages to the present time ; interspersed with original anecdotes. To which is prefixed an introduction, containing a brief account of various schools of art. (E. Wilson; [etc., etc.], 1835), by John Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1890), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook. (Hurd and Houghton, 1874), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. (J.R. Osgood, 1884), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of painters and draughtsmen represented in the Library of Reproductions of Pictures & Drawings (Priv. print, 1920), by Robert Clermont Witt and Mary Helene Marten Witt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart : unter Mitwirkung von 300 Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes (E. A. Seemann, 1907), by Hans Vollmer, Frederick Charles Willis, Felix Becker, and Ulrich Thieme (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Supplement to the catalogue of painters and draughtsmen represented in the Library of Reproductions of Pictures & Drawings formed by Robert and Mary Witt. (Privately Printed, 1925), by Robert Clermont Witt and Mary Helene Marten Witt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Allgemeines Künstlerlexicon. New Zusätze zu den Allgemeinen Künstlerlexikon und den Supplementen desselben , 1. Heft. (Orell, 1824), by Rudolf Füssli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Führer durch die Kunstgeschichte bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Globus, 1800), by H. B. Wellberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vite dei pittori, scultori ed architetti moderni (N. Capurro, 1821), by Giovanni Pietro Bellori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slovarʹ russkikh khudozhnikov, vai͡ateleĭ, zhivopist͡sev, zodchikh, risovalʹshchikov, graverov, litografov, medalʹerov, mozaichistov, ikonopist͡sev, liteĭshchikov, chekanshchikov, skanshchikov i proch. s drevni͡eĭshikh vremen do nashikh dneĭ : xi-xix vv. (Tip. M.M. Stasi͡ulevicha, 1893), by N. P. Sobko (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abecedario de P. J. Mariette et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artists. : Ouvrage publié d'après les manuscrits autographes conservés au cabinet des estampes de la Bibliothèque impériale, et annoté (J. B. Dumoulin, 1851), by Pierre-Jean Mariette, Anatole de Montaiglon, and Philippe de Chennevières (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Künstler aller Zeit en und Völker; oder, Leben und Werke der berühmtesten Baumeister, Bildhauer, Maler, Kupferstecher ... etc. ... (Ebner & Seubert, 1857), by Friedrich Mueller and Professor Stuttgart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, oder: Kurze Nachricht von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Kunstgiesser, Stahlschneider ... Nebst angehängten Verzeichnissen der Lehrmeister und Schüler, auch der Bildnisse, der in diesem Lexikon enthaltenen Künstler. (Orell, Füssli & Co., 1806), by Johann Rudolf Fuessli and Hans Heinrich Füssli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook. (J. R. Osgood and company, 1882), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunstgewerbliche Altertümer und Kuriositäten : Führer für Sammler und Liebhaber von Gegenständen der Kleinkunst, von Antiquitäten sowie bon Kuriositäten (R.C. Schmidt, 1916), by Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, Franz M. Feldhaus, and Friedrich Jaennicke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi; Catalogo storico. (R.D. Camera, 1855), by Giuseppe Campori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni (Per il success. al Mascardi, 1672), by Giovanni Pietro Bellori and Albert Clouet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enciclopedia metodica critico-ragionata delle belle arti, dell' abate D. Pietro Zani, Fidentino. pte. 1, v. 1-19; pte. 2, v. 1-9. (Tip. ducale, 1817), by Pietro Zani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni età e d'ogni nazione (G. Schiepatti [etc.], 1830), by S. Ticozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• De levens en werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouvers, graveurs en bouwmeesters, van het begin der vijftiende eeuw tot heden (J.C. van Kesteren, 1842), by J. Immerzeel and C. H. Immerzeel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & gravures de tous les temps et de tous les pays (R. Roger et F. Chernoviz [etc.], 1913), by E. Bénézit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Artists of the nineteenth century and their works. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1896), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abecedario de P. J. Mariette et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les arts et les artistes : Ouvrage publié d'après les manuscrits autographes conservés au cabinet des estampes de la Bibliothèque impériale, et annoté par mm (J.-B. Dumoulin, 1851), by Pierre-Jean Mariette, Anatole de Montaiglon, and Philippe de Chennevières (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical history of the fine arts : or, Memoirs of the lives and works of eminent painters, engravers, sculptors, and architects. From the earliest ages to the present time (J. W. Bouton, 1865), by Shearjashub Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works : A handbook (Hurd and Houghton ;, 1876), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. (Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening, 1921), by Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart; unter Mitwirkung von 300 fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes (E.A. Seemann, 1951), by Ulrich Thieme, Hans Vollmer, Fred. C. Willis, and Felix Becker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biographical dictionary of painters, sculptors, engravers, and architects, from the earliest ages to the present time; interspersed with original anecdotes. To which is added an introduction, containing a brief account of various schools of art ... (Routledge, 1839), by John Gould and C. J. Nieuwenhuys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diccionario biográfico internacional de escritores y artistas del siglo XIX ... (M. Guijarro, 1890), by Carlos Frontaura y Vázquez and Manuel Ossorio y Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slovarʹ russkikh khudozhnikov s drevni︠e︡ĭshikh vremen do nashikh dneĭ : xi-xix vv. (Tip. M.M. Stasi︠u︡levicha, 1893), by N. P. Sobko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schweizerisches künstler-lexikon (Huber, 1905), by Carl Brun and Schweizerischer Kunstverein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works : a handbook (Hurd and Houghton, 1875), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Rogers Memorial Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1901), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook. (J.R. Osgood and company, 1881), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artists of the nineteenth century and their works : A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches (Houghton, Mifflin and co., 1889), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works, a handbook (Houghton, Mifflin, 1895), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works; a handbook. (Houghton, Mifflin and co., 1897), by Clara Erskine Clement Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works ; a handbook (Hurd and Houghton ;, 1877), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1880), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adiciones al Diccionario histo rico de los ma s ilustres profesores de la bellas artes en Espan a de D. Juan Agusti n Cea n Bermu dez (Tipografia de los Hue rfanos, 1889), by Cipriano Mun oz y Manzano Vin aza and Juan Agusti n Cea n Bermu dez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artists of the nineteenth century and their works. A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographisches Künstler-Lexicon der Gegenwart (Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1882), by Hermann Alexander Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works. A handbook. (Houghton Mifflin, 1892), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artists of the nineteenth century and their works. A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1894), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• De levens en werken der Hollandshe en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouwers, graveurs en bouwmeesters : van het begin der vijftiende eeuw tot heden (Gebroeders Diederichs, 1855), by J. Immerzeel, C. Immerzeel, and C. H. Immerzeel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice historique et raisonnée des architectes, peintres, graveurs, sculpteurs, musiciens, acteurs et danseurs, imprimeurs, horlogers & méchaniciens (Vincent, 1776), by abbé de Fontenai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario portatile delle belle arti : ovvero, ristretto di ciò, che spetta all' architettura, alla scultura, alla pittura, all' intaglio, alla poesia, ed alla musica ... (Nella stamperia Remondini, 1758), by Jacques Lacombe and Remondini (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American painters, sculptors and engravers (Printed for the Subscribers, 1926), by Mantle Fielding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mallett's index of artists, international-biographical; including painters, sculptors, illustrators, engravers and etchers of the past and the present (R.R. Bowker Co., 1935), by Daniel Trowbridge Mallett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionary of pronunciation of artists' names (The Art institute of Chicago, 1938), by Gustave Emile Kaltenbach and Art Institute of Chicago (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kunstgewerbliche Altertümer und Kuriositäten (R.C. Schmidt, 1920), by Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, Franz M. Feldhaus, and Friedrich Jaennicke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Artists of the nineteenth century and their works. A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1907), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurze nachricht von dem leben und den werken der mahler (Orell, 1779), by Rudolf Füssli and Hans Heinrich Fuessli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversations-Lexicon für bildende Kunst. (Romberg, 1843), by Lorenz Clasen, Friedrich Faber, and Johannes Andreas Romberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical and critical dictionary of painters, engravers, sculptors and architects, from ancient to modern times; with the monograms, ciphers, and marks used by distinguished artists to certify their works. (G.P. Putnam & Co., 1852), by Shearjashub Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical history of the fine arts; being memoirs of the lives and works of eminent painters, engravers, sculptors, and architects, from the earliest ages to the present time ... (G. Gebbie, 1873), by Shearjashub Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études artistiques. Artistes inconnus des XIV XV et XVI siècles. Académie des arts de Lille. (A. Aubry [etc.], 1877), by Jules Houdoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artists of the nineteenth century and their works. A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. (J. R. Osgood, 1885), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the lives and works of eminent painters, engravers. (J.W. Bouton, 1865), by Shearjashub Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works : a handbook. (Hurd and Houghton ;, 1874), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni (Per il success. al Mascardi, 1672), by Giovanni Pietro Bellori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biografia degli artisti (Gondoliere, 1840), by Filippo De Boni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon (Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening, 1922), by Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Allgemeines künstler-lexicon. Nachträge und berichtigungen. (Literarische anstalt, Rütten & Loening, 1906), by Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A biographical and critical dictionary of painters, engravers, sculptors and architects, from ancient to modern times : with the monograms, ciphers, and marks used by distinguished artists to certify their works (Putnam, 1853), by Shearjashub Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)

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