Artists -- Europe
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- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
- Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828
- Blake, William, 1757-1827
- Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893
- Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865-1945
- Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571
- Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760
- Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
- Corinth, Lovis, 1858-1925
- Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877
- Diehl, Alice M. (Alice Mangold), 1844-1912
- Fripp, Robert, 1946-
- Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866
- Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
- Heinichen, Johann David, 1683-1729
- Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927
- Howe, J. B. (J. Burdett), 1828-1908
- Hunter, John Kelso, 1802-1873
- Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927
- Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893
- Lavergne, Claudius, 1814-1887
- Leno, Dan, 1860-1904
- Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835
- Morris, William, 1834-1896
- North, Marianne, 1830-1890
- Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 1805-1871
- Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
- Rosengarten, Ruth
- Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928
- Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842
- Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904
- Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
- Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922
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Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of That Celebrated Sculptor; and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists, from the Time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to That of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by John Thomas Smith (page images at HathiTrust)- The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work From its Foundation in 1769 to 1904 (8 volumes; London: H. Graves and Co. and G. Bell and Sons, 1905-1906), by Algernon Graves
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; some volumes US access only
- Volume I (Abbayne to Carrington): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Carroll to Dyer): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (Eadie to Harraden): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Harral to Lawranson): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (Lawrence to Nye): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Oakes to Rymsdyk): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII (Sacco to Tofano): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII (Toft to Zwecker): multiple formats at archive.org
- My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)
- A Memoir of Thomas Bewick (1862), by Thomas Bewick, contrib. by Jane Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life of William Blake, With Selections From His Poems and Other Writings (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Alexander Gilchrist, contrib. by William Blake
- William Blake (from the Popular Library of Art series, ca. 1910), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Work (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1921), by Juliet M. Soskice (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sir D. Y. Cameron, R. A. (Modern Masters of Etching #7; London: The Studio, 1925), by Malcolm C. Salaman, illust. by David Young Cameron (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini, by Benvenuto Cellini, trans. by John Addington Symonds
- Vita di Benvenuto Cellini, Orefice e Scultore Fiorentino da lui Medesimo Scritta, Nella Quale Molte Curiose Particolarità si Toccano Appartenenti Alle arti, ed all'istoria del suo Tempo Tratta da un Ottimo Manoscritto (in Italian; fictitious imprint; actually published Florence: Bartolini, 1792), by Benvenuto Cellini
- Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text)
- A Narrative of The Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq. Written by Herself (London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829), by Charlotte Charke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself (new edition with notes and supplement, in 2 volumes; London: J. C. Nimmo, 1889), by Colley Cibber, ed. by Robert William Lowe, illust. by Robert Bowyer Parkes and Adolphe Lalauze
- Lovis Corinth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Horst Uhr (HTML at UC Press)
- La Vie et L'Oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue Raisonné (2 volumes in French; Lausanne and Paris: Fondation Wildenstein, c1977-1978), by Robert Fernier (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
- The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography (London and New York: John Lane, 1908), by Alice M. Diehl
- Robert Fripp: From King Crimson to Guitar Craft (1990), by Eric Tamm (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Souvenirs de Famille (1823-1866): Recueillis et Commentés (in French; Paris: Impr. Chromotypographique, 1897), by Amable Tronquoy, ed. by Lucien Tronquoy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Van Gogh and Expressionism (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, c1964), by Maurice Tuchman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Vincent van Gogh: A Biographical Study (2 volumes; London and Boston: Medici Society, 1922), by Julius Meier-Graefe, trans. by J. Holroyd-Reece, illust. by Vincent van Gogh (both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Genius Ignored: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Bach, Thoreau, Melville, Van Gogh, Nabokov, and Casablanca (last revised 2018), by Lucius Furius (illustrated HTML at humanist-art.org)
- Johann David Heinichen als Dramatischer Komponist: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Oper (dissertation in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1916), by Richard Tanner
- Reminiscences of My Life (London: W. Heinemann, c1914), by Henry Holiday (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Cosmopolitan Actor: His Adventures All Over the World (London: Bedford Pub. Co., ca. 1888), by J. B. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Retrospect of an Artist's Life, by John Kelso Hunter (HTML in Scotland)
- My Life and Times (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1926), by Jerome K. Jerome (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- On the Stage- and Off (London: The Leadenhall Press; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Kenneth Skeaping (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- On the Stage, and Off: The Brief Career of a Would Be Actor (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
- Records of a Girlhood (second edition; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1880), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Records of a Girlhood (second edition; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1883), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Records of Later Life (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1882), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
- Records of Later Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1882), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
- From Friend to Friend (London: J. Murray, 1919), by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, ed. by Emily Ritchie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Year of Consolation (2 volumes; London: E. Moxon, 1847), by Fanny Kemble
- Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
- Journal of a Residence in America (Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1835), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Claudius Lavergne: Peintre d'Histoire et Peintre Verrier (in French; Paris: Bloud et cie, ca. 1910), by Georges Claudius Lavergne, contrib. by Claudius Lavergne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Dan Leno, Hys Booke, Written by Himself: A Volume of Frivolities, Autobiographical, Historical, Philosophical, Anecdotal, and Nonsensical (new and cheaper edition; London: Greening and Co., 1901), by Dan Leno (page images at Google; US access only)
- Dan Leno (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Jay Hickory Wood
- The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian (new edition, abridged and condensed; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Mrs. Mathews, ed. by Edmund Yates, contrib. by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
- Of William Morris and His Work (Easter Art Annual, Art Journal extra number; London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1899), by Lewis F. Day
- William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902), by Elisabeth Luther Cary (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Recollections of a Happy Life: Being the Autobiography of Marianne North (second edition, 2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1892), by Marianne North, ed. by Janet Catherine North Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
- Recollections of a Happy Life: Being the Autobiography of Marianne North (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1894), by Marianne North, ed. by Janet Catherine North Symonds
- Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
- Memoirs of Mary Robinson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1895), by Mary Darby Robinson and Mary Elizabeth Robinson, contrib. by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Mrs. Mary Robinson: Written by Herself, With the Lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Grace and Philip Wharton, by Mary Darby Robinson and Mary Elizabeth Robinson, ed. by J. Fitzgerald Molloy, contrib. by Mrs. A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton (Gutenberg text)
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