Isabella BeethamW
Isabella Beetham

Isabella Beetham was an 18th-century British silhouette artist. She began her career by cutting the silhouette images. After studying painting with successful miniature portraitist John Smart, Beetham painted silhouettes to be framed or miniatures were made for jewelry. From 1785 to 1809, she had a business on 27 Fleet Street in London, where she produced silhouettes of men and women. She is considered one of the great 18th century silhouette artists, along with John Miers and Auguste Edouart.

Otto BöhlerW
Otto Böhler

Otto Böhler was an Austrian silhouette artist who specialized in portraits of many great conductors, composers, and pianists of his time.

Emil CedercreutzW
Emil Cedercreutz

Emil Herman Robert Cedercreutz, was a Finnish Baron, sculptor and silhouette artist best known of his horse sculptures. He was a member of the Cedercreutz family.

William M. S. DoyleW
William M. S. Doyle

William Massey Stroud Doyle (1769-1828) was a portrait painter and museum proprietor in Boston, Massachusetts.

Luise DuttenhoferW
Luise Duttenhofer

Christiane Luise Duttenhofer was one of the most important German papercutting artists. Her work has Biedermeier, Neoclassical, Romantic features. After her death, she quickly fell into obscurity and was only rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th-century. Her husband was engraver Christian Friedrich Traugott Duttenhofer. Their son Anton Duttenhofer was also a copper engraver and a pupil of his father.

Auguste EdouartW
Auguste Edouart

Auguste Amant Constant Fidèle Edouart (1789–1861) was a French-born portrait artist who worked in England, Scotland and the United States in the 19th century. He specialized in silhouette portraits.

Matthias Jansz van GeunsW
Matthias Jansz van Geuns

Matthias Jansz van Geuns was a Dutch Mennonite teacher and minister.

Casparis HaanenW
Casparis Haanen

Casparis Haanen was a Dutch painter, papercutter and draftsman.

Elisabeth Alida HaanenW
Elisabeth Alida Haanen

Elisabeth Alida Haanen, was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Vasily HelmersenW
Vasily Helmersen

Wilhelm Paul Christian Nikolai von Helmersen was a Baltic German artist and book illustrator. He is known mostly for his illustrations to Eugene Onegin.

Martha Ann HoneywellW
Martha Ann Honeywell

Martha Ann Honeywell (1786–1856) was an American disabled artist, who produced silhouettes using only her mouth and her toes, often in public performances.

William James HubardW
William James Hubard

William James Hubard (1807–1862) was British-born artist who worked in England and the United States in the 19th century. He specialized in silhouette and painted portraits.

Joanna KoertenW
Joanna Koerten

Joanna Koerten, was a Dutch artist who excelled in painting, drawing, embroidery, glass etching, and wax modeling. She achieved fame as a silhouette cutter, the art of creating outline images from pieces of cut paper mounted on a contrasting background. She produced landscapes, seascapes, flowers, portraits, and religious scenes in this medium. Her clients included Peter the Great of Russia, Frederick Elector of Brandenburg, Johan de Witt and William III of England.

Elizaveta KruglikovaW
Elizaveta Kruglikova

Elizaveta Sergeyevna Kruglikova was a Russian-Soviet painter, etcher, silhouettist and monotypist.

Eveline Adelheid von MaydellW
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell

Eveline Adelheid von Maydell was a German silhouette artist. Born in Iran, she studied drawing in Pärnu, Estonia, in Riga, Latvia and in St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved to the United States in 1922.

Jane Beetham ReadW
Jane Beetham Read

Jane Beetham Read was an English portrait painter who began by working in her mother, Isabella Beetham's studio painting silhouette portraits in the 1790s. She studied under John Opie and exhibited her works at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1794 and 1797.

S. John Ross (artist)W
S. John Ross (artist)

Sebastian John Ross, known as S. John Ross was an American-born Australian caricature artist and showman, famous for his miniature silhouette portraits cut in black card and mounted on a white background. He made numerous media appearances and became a well-known identity at annual shows such as the Sydney Royal Easter Show and the Brisbane Ekka, where he worked each year for about 60 years. He was regarded within his lifetime as "a legend".

Beatrix ShermanW
Beatrix Sherman

Beatrix (Beatrice) Sherman was an American 20th-century silhouette artist.

Nina Simonovich-EfimovaW
Nina Simonovich-Efimova

Nina Simonovich-Efimova was a Russian artist, puppet designer and one of the first professional Russian puppeteers. Together with her husband Ivan Efimov she founded the tradition of Soviet puppet theater, acting as the driving force behind the Efimovs' presentations.

Persis Goodale Thurston TaylorW
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor

Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906) was a painter and sketch artist who was born in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on September 28, 1821.