Eliza MAMARDASHVILI, 1987 ✿

ELiza Mamardashvili is an Ukrainian artist. She was born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine in 1987. She took painting lessons from famous Zaporozhye artist Anton Sheretov (school-studio of painting and drawing).

Jules Bastien-LEPAGE ✿

Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that emerged from the later phase of the Realist movement.
His most famous work is his landscape-style portrait of Joan of Arc which currently resides at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.

Stephanie CLAIR ✿

La leggerezza dell'Amore abbandonata in un abbraccio promette il dono per l'eternità... 

~ Catherine La Rose© ~

Tihamer MARGITAY (1859-1922) ✿

Tihamér Margitay (1859–1922) was a Hungarian painter. He was born in Jenke, Austria-Hungary, (today Jenkovice, Slovakia). He painted anecdotic, so-called "parlour pictures", in the style of Jules Bastien-Lepage.

Helene RIEDEL ✿

Hélène Riedel (1901-1991)was a Belgian visual painter. She was born in Troppau (now Opava, Czech Republic) and death in City of Brussels. Riedel developed her own style and very personal themes, apart from the great artistic trends. Her paintings are neither abstract, nor slavishly realistic.

Thomas DEWING ✿

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851 – 1938) è stato un pittore impressionista statunitense. Tecnicamente "tonalista", fece parte dei "Ten American Painters".

Gustave COURTOIS ✿

Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, also known as Gustave Courtois (1852-1923) was a French painter, a representative of the academic style of art.

Alphonsine DE CHALLIÉ (1858-1904) ✿

Alphonsine de Challié (1858 - 1904) was a French artist born at the Château de Gaultret in Deux-Sèvres. She grew up in a family of intellectuals who cared about artistic education and encouraged her drawing skills as well as her sister Laurence's talents as a pianist. Her father Édouard de Challié was a naval officer and South Seas backpacker, while her mother Laure de Jussieu was a writer. She has published various works on morality crowned by the Institute and which have earned her great notoriety.

Thomas Wilmer DEWING ✿

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American Tonalist painter best known for his tonalist paintings, a genre of American art that was rooted in English Aestheticism. Dewing's preferred vehicle of artistic expression is the refined, aristocratic female figure situated in a moody and dreamlike surrounding.

Emile FRIANT ✿

Émile Friant (1863-1932) was a French artist, was born in the commune of Dieuze. He would later be forced to flee to Nancy by the encroachment of the Kingdom of Prussia's soldiers. He exhibited paintings throughout his lifetime at the Paris Salon. Student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, he moved to Paris where he attended the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel.

Lawton PARKER ✿

Lawton Silas Parker (1868-1954) was an American impressionist painter. Born in Fairfield, Michigan, raised in Kearney, Nebraska, Parker studied at the Art Institute of Chicago beginning in 1886.

Emile VERNET-LECOMTE (1821-1900) ✿

Charles Émile Hippolyte Vernet-Lecomte (1821-1900) è stato un pittore orientalista francese. Émile Vernet-Lecomte appartenne ad una famiglia di pittori illustri. Era pronipote di Claude Joseph Vernet (1714-1789), figlio di Hippolyte Lecomte a sua volta genero di Claude Vernet, e nipote di Horace Vernet. Quest'ultimo fu altresì uno dei suoi maestri, assieme a Léon Cogniet.

Emile VERNET-LECOMTE ✿

French Orientalist painter Émile Vernet-Lecomte (1821-1900) born Charles Émile Hippolyte Lecomte. He came from a family of illustrious painters. His great-grandfather was Claude Joseph Vernet and his father was the battle painter, Hippolyte Lecomte; who was himself the son-in-law of Carle Vernet, and the nephew of Horace Vernet.

Oleg SERGEEV, 1956 ✿

Oleg Sergeev is a Russian painter, pastelist, and sculptor. Oleg Sergeev was born in 1956 in Russia, where he graduated from the Moscow Central Art School of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Moses SOYER ~ Dancers ✿

Moses Soyer (1899-1974) was a Jewish Russian-American painter and printmaker. He was born in Borisoglebsk, Russia, impoverished Jewish family. Soyer’s father was a Hebrew teacher and writer and encouraged his children to explore artistic and intellectual pursuits. Moses’s twin, Raphael Soyer, and younger brother, Isaac, also became successful artists.

Sylvain FORGET, 1962 ✿

Sylvain Forget is Canadian Figurative painter, born in Saint-Jérôme in 1962, he decided at the age of 19 to devote himself entirely to painting in the classical style, thus expressing his way of seeing the people and things around him.

Attilio TORO (1892-1982) ✿

Attilio Toro (Naples, 1892-1982) was an Italian artist, considered one of the greatest exponents of Neapolitan twentieth-century painting.

Felice CASORATI ✿

Felice Casorati (Novara, 1883 - Turin, 1963) was an Italian painter, engraver, designer, set designer and teacher. Felice Casorati was one of the most important artists of the early twentieth century, a leading exponent of magical realism, a typical expressive mode of Italy in the 1920s.

Karol BAK ✿

Karol Bąk is a Polish Surrealist painter, was born in Koło in the Wielkopolska Region in 1961. He graduated from the Fine Arts High School of Poznań with a degree in Interior Exhibition Arrangement. In 1984, he was admitted to the Graphics Department of the State College of Art (currently the University of Arts in Poznań).

Agnes GOODSIR ✿

Agnes Noyes Goodsir (18 June 1864 – 11 August 1939) was an Australian portrait painter who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. She was born in Portland, Victoria, Australia, one of eleven children born to David James Cook Goodsir and Elizabeth Archer.

Julio MOISES ✿

Julio Moisés Fernández de Villasante (Tortosa, 1888-Suances, 1968), was a Spanish painter and portraitist. He founded a Free Academy of Art in 1923. Director of the San Fernando School of Fine Arts (1942–1946). He worked above all on genre painting and female portraiture, a mixture of costumbrismo and folklore.

Emma LOWSTADT-CHADWICK ✿

Swedish painter Emma Löwstädt (1855-1932) specialized in genre scenes and portraits. Coming to Grez with her sister Eva, Emma lives in the middle of the Nordic artistic colony which includes a large number of women.

Emma CHADWICK ✿

Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick (10 August 1855, Stockholm – 2 January 1932, Avignon), was a Swedish painter who specialized in genre scenes and portraits.

Anna ANCHER ✿

Anna Ancher (18 August 1859 – 15 April 1935) was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artist colony on the northern point of Jylland, Denmark. She is considered to be one of Denmark's greatest visual artists. The artistic talent of Anna Ancher became obvious at an early age and she became acquainted with pictorial art via the many artists who settled to paint in Skagen, in the north of Jylland.

Juan GONZALEZ ALACREU, 1937 ✿

Juan González Alacreu is a Spanish painter, was born in Burriana, Castellón in 1937. At the age of eight he began taking lessons at the School of Arts and Crafts; at the age of sixteen he won a scholarship at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia, where his teachers were Sanchis Gago, Genaro Lahuerta and Bayarri.

Mary Neal Richardson (1859-1937) ✿

Mary Neal Richardson (1859-1937) was American painter known for Portrait, figure and landscape painting. Daughter of Franklin and Mary Pathena Neal Richardson, was born in Mt. Vernon, Maine, and later lived in Canton, Maine. She came to Canton at the age of six and was later a schoolteacher.

Janet CUMBRAE STEWART ✿

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart (23 December 1883 – 8 September 1960) was an Australian painter. She was born at Brighton, Victoria, youngest of the ten children of Francis Edward Stewart, an early settler of Gladstone, Queensland, and his wife Agnes, née Park, of Wellington, New Zealand. She spent the 1920s and 1930s painting in Britain, France and Italy. Cumbrae Stewart studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School, where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin.

Philippe SWYNCOP ~ Spanish Beauty ✿

Philippe Swyncop (1878-1949) was a Belgian painter, etcher, illustrator and designer of posters from the first half of the twentieth century. He was the older brother of Charles Swyncop, whom he trained as a painter.

Anna DE WEERT ✿

Anna De Weert, born Cogen (27 May 1867 – 12 May 1950) was a Belgian painter in the Luminist style. Weert was born in Ghent, her family were prosperous with a high regard for nature, art and in particular watercolours.

Charles Louis Eugène ASSEZAT DE BOUTEYRE ✿

Charles Louis Eugène Assezat de Bouteyre, né à Clermont-Ferrand le 7 juillet 1864 et mort à Antibes le 3 avril 1942, est un peintre français.

Johann Victor KRÄMER ✿

Austrian painter Johann Victor Krämer (1861-1949), working generally within the Orientalist genre. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, and received many awards through his life

Mary CASSATT ~ Mother and Child ✿

Mary Cassatt (Pittsburgh, 22 maggio 1844 – Château de Beaufresne, 14 giugno 1926) è stata una pittrice statunitense che visse in Francia dove diventò amica e allieva di Degas, esponendo le proprie opere insieme a quelle degli artisti del movimento impressionista. Cassatt realizzò molti dipinti che ritraggono la vita sociale e privata delle donne della sua epoca, ponendo una particolare attenzione all'intimo legame che si realizza tra le madri e i loro bambini.

Fernando AMORSOLO ~ Planting Rice ✿

Filipino artist Fernando Amorsolo (Manila, 30 maggio 1892 – Manila, 24 aprile 1972) best remembered for his landscapes of the countryside in the Philippines. Was the first-ever to be recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines. He was recognized as such for his "pioneering use of impressionistic technique" as well as his skill in the use of lighting and backlighting in his paintings, "significant not only in the development of Philippine art but also in the formation of Filipino notions of self and identity.

Walter Ernest WEBSTER ✿

Walter Ernest Webster (1877-1959) was a British painter born in Manchester, England. Walter showed artistic prowess as a child, winning a study scholarship at the Royal College of Art. In 1899, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, studying there for five years. During his course of study at the Academy, Walter won numerous art prizes.

Damian LECHOSZEST, 1976 ✿

Damian Lechoszest is a Polish painter, born in 1976 in Racibórz. He graduated from the Opole University of Technology in 2002. During his studies, he attended practical painting classes at the Art High School in Opole.

Mahmoud SAÏD ✿

Mahmoud Said (1897-1964) was an modern Egyptian painter-female figure, peasants, religion, landscape. Born into the aristocratic circle of Alexandria, he was the son of former Egyptian Prime Minister Mohamed Saïd Pacha (1863-1928), and the uncle of Queen Farida of Egypt (1921-1988). He graduated from the French School of Law in 1919.

Johann Victor KRÄMER (1861-1949) ✿

Johann Victor Krämer (1861– 1949) was an Austrian painter and photographer, working generally within the Orientalist genre. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, and received many awards through his life.

Elihu VEDDER (1836 -1923) ✿

Elihu Vedder (1836 -1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He was born in New York City.

Ambrose McEVOY ✿

Ambrose McEvoy ARA (12 August 1877 – 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour.

Jacob MARIS (1837-1899) ✿

Jacob Maris (August 25, 1837 – August 7, 1899) was a Dutch painter, considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. With his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters.

Henry SCOTT TUKE ✿

Henry Scott Tuke (York, 12 June 1858 - Falmouth, 13 March 1929) was a British painter and photographer. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style and he is probably best known for his paintings of young men and boys, which have earned him pioneering status in homosexual culture and queer art.

Alfred STEVENS Painting ✿

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Jean Gabriel DOMERGUE ✿

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889 – 16 November 1962) was a French painter often described as “the inventor of the pin-up” for his wide-eyed, slender-necked portraits of Parisian women from the 1920s. He was in Bordeaux, France and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Irving Ramsey WILES ✿

Irving Ramsey Wiles (April 8, 1861 – July 29, 1948) was an important American artist, born in Utica, New York. Wiles was a popular exponent of American grand manner portraiture as redefined by the work of John Singer Sargent, Giovanni Boldini, and James Whistler in late 19th century Europe.

Joseph BAIL ✿

Joseph Bail (1862-1921) è stato un pittore naturalista francese nato a Limonest, nella regione francese del Rodano. Joseph Bail ricevette la sua prima formazione dal padre, Antoine Jean Bail (1830-1919), praticante della tradizione realista dei soggetti di genere, prima di passare per lo studio di Jean-Léon Gérôme e quella di Carolus-Duran.

Francois Gall ~ Ballerine ✿

François Gall (Kolozsvár, 22 marzo 1912 – Parigi, 9 dicembre 1987) è stato un pittore francese di origine ungherese noto per il suo stile impressionista. Perfeziona il suo talento artistico all'Accademia Reale di Belle Arti di Roma e al Collegium Hungaricum.

James John HILL ✿

James John Hill RBA (1811-1882) was an English landscape and portrait painter, known for his many rustic paintings and portraits of Lady Burdett-Coutts.