Gaetano Gandolfi | I Disegni

Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802) è stato un pittore Italiano del tardo barocco e del primo periodo neoclassico, attivo a Bologna.

Gaetano Gandolfi frequentò l'Accademia Clementina di Bologna, ma su di lui l'influenza determinante fu esercitata dal fratello Ubaldo.

Come studente all'Accademia Clementina ha vinto due medaglie per la scultura e quattro medaglie per i suoi disegni.

Gaetano Gandolfi | Rococò painter

Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque and early Neoclassic period, active in Bologna.

Gaetano was born in San Matteo della Decima, near Bologna, to a family of artists.

Ubaldo Gandolfi was his brother, Mauro Gandolfi was his son, and Democrito Gandolfi was his grandson.

Gaetano became a "student" at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna, where he was taught by Felice Torelli and Ercole Lelli.

Jules Grün (1868-1934) | Painter of the Belle Époque

Jules-Alexandre Grün was a French🎨 Post-impressionist painter, poster artist and illustrator.

He is called the last great artist of the Belle Époque.

Jules-Alexandre Grün was a student of the famous theater decorator of the Paris Opera, Jean-Baptiste Lavastre, and the landscape painter and long-time jury member of the Paris Salon, Antoine Guillemet.

Konstantin Gorbatov (1876-1945) | Romantic Landscape painter

Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov was a remarkable Russian🎨 landscape artist who infused his works with incredible elegance, serenity and poetical beauty.

Gorbatov's oeuvre currently may not be so well known to the general public, but art connoisseurs understand the value of his unique, sophisticated and vibrant artworks.

Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917) | Impressionist painter

Frederick McCubbin was an Australian artist🎨 and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian Impressionism.

Frederick McCubbin was a son of Melbourne.

He was born and brought up in working-class Melbourne, he trained at the National Gallery of Victoria’s art school from 1872-1886 and was drawing master there from 1886-1917.

Francesco Paolo Michetti | Genre painter

Francesco Paolo Michetti (1851-1929) was an Italian painter known especially for his genre works.

He was born in Tocco da Casauria in the Province of Chieti. His father having died when he was a boy, Michetti was forced to work with a local artisan.

In 1868, Michetti was awarded a stipend by the province to study at the Accademia (now Istituto) in Naples under Domenico Morelli.

Emil Nolde | The Die Brücke Group

German painter in oils and watercolour of landscapes, still life and figure compositions, lithographer, etcher and wood-engraver.

Born near Nolde, a village in North Schleswig. Changed his name from Hansen to Nolde in 1902. Worked as wood carver in several furniture factories, studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Karlsruhe 1888-9 and began to sketch landscapes and portraits in his spare time.

Taught drawing at the Museum of Industrial Arts in St Gall, Switzerland, 1892-7. First oil paintings 1896.

Decided to devote himself to painting and studied at Friedrich Fehr's private school in Munich 1898-9 and with Adolf Holzel in Dachau 1899; also spent part of 1899-1900 in Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian.

In the following years, lived mainly in Berlin and on the island of Alsen.

Armand Guillaumin | Paysages | Page 3

Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 - June 26, 1927), was a French impressionist painter, best remembered for his landscapes of Paris, the Creuse département, and the area around Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel near the Mediterranean coast in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region of France.

Francesco Lojacono | Scenery painter

Francesco Lojacono or Lo Jacono (1838-1915) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and seascapes.

He was born in Palermo, Sicily, and received his early training there with his father Luigi, a history painter, and Salvatore Lo Forte.

Francesco Lojacono won a gold medal for a small canvas presented at an exhibition in Palermo, and this gained him a stipend to move in 1856 to Naples, where attended the school of Filippo Palizzi.

Guy de Maupassant: "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance

Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, one of the fathers of the modern short story.

• "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt".

• "I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth".

• "You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government".

Elin Danielson-Gambogi | Naturalist painter

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi (3 September 1861 - 31 December 1919) was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received professional education in art, the so-called "Painter sisters' generation".

The group also included Helene Schjerfbeck.

Early life and studies

Elin Danielson was born in the small village of Noormarkku, near the city of Pori in Western Finland to Karl Danielson and Rosa Amalia Danielson.

Her early years were however spent at Ilmajoki as her father attempted farming there. Because of the Finnish famine of 1866–68, the farm failed. After being forced to sell the farm, her father Karl shot himself.

Her mother Rosa returned to Noormarkku with her two daughters.

Ramón Casas i Carbó | Il pittore modernista

Ramón Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) è stato un pittore Spagnolo, famoso per i suoi ritratti e caricature della buona società di Barcellona, Madrid e Parigi.

Divenne famoso anche per i suoi quadri sulle rivolte sociali.

Fu anche disegnatore grafico e cartellonista pubblicitario, mezzi con cui diffuse il movimento modernista.

Figlio di una famiglia benestante, il padre aveva fatto fortuna a Cuba e la madre proveniva da una ricca famiglia, rivelò presto la sua inclinazione per l’arte.

Henri Rousseau | Post-Impressionist painter

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.

He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector.

He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.

Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.

Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.

Edoardo Tofano | Genre / Romantic painter

Edoardo Tofano (Naples, 1838 - Rome, 1920) was an Italian painter.

He painted historic, genre and Orientalist themes.

He began his studies at the Albertina Academy of Turin, but completed studies at the Accademia Clementina of Bologna.

He then returned to Naples where he became a follower of the Realism of Domenico Morelli.

At the age of 23 (1861), he was recruited as an instructor at the Art Institute of Naples, a post he held till 1864.

Sir John Everett Millais | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet PRA (1829-1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7).

Charles Edward Hallé (1846-1914) | Genre painter

Charles Edward Hallé, sometimes given as Edward Charles Hallé, was an English painter🎨 and gallery manager.

He was a painter of history scenes, genre scenes🎨 and portraits.

Hallé was the son of Sir Charles Hallé, the German-born pianist and orchestra conductor, who emigrated to England during the revolution of 1848. His younger sister was the sculptor and inventor Elinor Hallé CBE.

William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941)

William McGregor Paxton was an American painter and instructor who embraced the Boston School paradigm and was a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists.

He taught briefly while a student at Cowles Art School, where he met his wife Elizabeth Okie Paxton, and at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston.

Paxton is known for his portraits, including those of two presidents - Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge - and interior scenes with women, including his wife.

His works are in many museums in the United States.

Francesco Galante (1884-1972) | Figurative painter

Francesco Galante (1884-1972) è nato a Margherita di Savoia, in provincia di Foggia, il 4 nov. 1884 da Michele e Carmela Raffaella Lopez, si trasferì ben presto a Napoli dove, dal 1896, frequentò l'Istituto di Belle Arti. Fu allievo di M. Cammarano e V. Volpe e concluse gli studi nel 1904 ricevendo il primo premio🎨 sia per la figura dipinta sia per il paesaggio. Studente, collaborò a vari giornali napoletani come illustratore: nel 1904 fu, con Alberto Martini, tra i primi collaboratori della rivista milanese Varietas e nel 1911 illustrò articoli di F. Russo per un'altra nota rivista di Milano, La Lettura.

Édouard Sain | Excavations at Pompeii, 1865

Édouard Alexandre Sain (13 May 1830 - 26 June 1910) was a French painter whose works included historical and genre subjects as well as portraits.

Sain was strongly interested in antiquity.

He first settled at Écouen, where he painted various rustic scenes in the plein air style, but experimented with other styles.

His paintings from this period include Vénus et l'Amour, a group of chimney sweeps and a historical painting of the period of Louis XV.

Paul Fischer | Cityscapes painter | Page 2

The son of the artist Phillip Fischer, Paul Gustave Fischer was born in Copenhagen. One of a rich vein of Danish painters🎨 working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Fischer was a contemporary of amongst others, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935), Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) and Peter Wilhelm Ilsted (1861-1933).