Artist History
Ishikawa Tairo (1762-1818) was a painter and samurai retainer of the Shogunate during the late Edo period. He is said to have studied the Kano school of painting, but he also had connections with Dutch scholars such as Sugita Genpaku, Maeno Ryotaku, and Otsuki Gentaku, and studied Western painting techniques by copying illustrations from imported Western books and copperplate prints.
