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• Robert Brandon, goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later Chamberlain of London, was the father-in-law of the artist Nicholas Hilliard and of Captain John Martin of the Jamestown Colony?
• Irish cricketer and artist Robert Gregory was the subject of four poems by W. B. Yeats?
• the artist and illustrator N. C. Wyeth (pictured) was the grandfather of Howard Wyeth, the stride pianist and drummer for Bob Dylan?
• the Bulldozer Exhibition has got its name because the Soviet authorities actually used bulldozers to disperse the spectators and destroy the paintings of the participating Moscow nonconformist artists?
• Pixiv is a Japanese online community for artists, which as of February 2009 consists of over 600,000 members, and 3 million submissions?
• Chen Wen Hsi was the first Singaporean artist to be conferred an honorary doctorate by the National University of Singapore?
• Dutch painter Willem Thibaut made the cartoons for the two stained-glass windows in the Sint Janskerk in 1570?
• Singaporean artist Chua Ek Kay’s ink paintings blended traditional Chinese painting forms and Western art theories and techniques?
• Ukrainian realist artist Apollon Mokritsky played the significant role of introducing the former serf and talented artist Taras Shevchenko to the Ukrainian and Russian intelligentsia?
• Vietnamese-born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs?
• actor Buck Taylor, though he still appears in mostly Western films, is also a prolific artist of the American West?