Artists -- Europe
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- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
- Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828
- Blake, William, 1757-1827
- Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893
- 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
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
- Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
- North, Marianne, 1830-1890
- Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 1805-1871
- Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
- Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
- Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928
- Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842
- Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904
- 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)
- 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)
- 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, by Colley Cibber
- 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 (HTML and zipped Word files with commentary at erictamm.com)
- 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; US access only)
- 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
- Leonardo da Vinci, by Maurice W. Brockwell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1916), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison With Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes (in English and German), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Immanuel Kant: A Study and Comparison With Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes (2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1914), by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, trans. by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
- Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text)
- Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Miriam Allen De Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Handzeichnungen Michelangelos (in German; Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1922), by Erwin Panofsky
- The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, by John Addington Symonds (Gutenberg text)
- Michelangelo: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures, and a Portrait of the Master (based on the 1900 edition, with some modern color images added), by Estelle M. Hurll, illust. by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Michelangelo: A Record of His Life As Told in His Own Letters and Papers (London: Constable and Co., 1913), by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ed. by Robert W. Carden
- Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Renaissance: Savonarola; Cesare Borgia; Julius II; Leo X; Michael Angelo (English edition; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by Arthur Gobineau, ed. by Oscar Levy, trans. by Paul V. Cohn
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