Alceste Campriani (1848-1933) Genre painter

Alceste Campriani was an Italian painter🎨 noted for his landscapes, especially of the Neapolitan countryside.

He was born in Terni from a noble family. His father's political attachment to the cause of Italy prompted his arrest by Papal officers.

This led to economic difficulties for the Campriani family. He was enrolled in the Naples Institute of Fine arts, but he proved recalcitrant to academic discipline, and abandoned the institute to paint on his own.

George Dunlop Leslie (1835-1921) | Genre painter

George Dunlop Leslie was an British Genre painter🎨, author and illustrator.

Leslie was born into an artistic family, his father was the notable genre painter Charles Robert Leslie RA, and his uncle Robert Leslie was a marine artist.

He studied art first at Cary's Art Academy, then from 1854 at the Royal Academy. His first exhibition at the Academy was in 1859 and he showed his work every year thereafter. He became an Associate (ARA) in 1868 and a full Royal Academician (RA) in 1876.

Antonio Rotta (1828-1903) | Genre painter

Antonio Rotta was an Italian painter🎨, mainly of genre🎨 subjects.

Rotta was born on 28 February 1828 in Gorizia in the Kingdom of Illyria.

He enrolled at the Accademia Reale di Belle Arti of Venice, where he studied under Ludovico Lipparini.

His early genre paintings of Venetian scenes were followed by a number of religious and history paintings, among them Tiziano istruisce "Irene di Spilimbergo" ("Titian teaching Irene of Spilimberg").

Alexei Harlamoff (1840-1925) | Genre painter

Alexei Alexeievich Harlamov / Алексе́й Алексе́евич Харла́мов was born in Dyachevka, near Saratov, Russia.

He enrolled as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg where he was awarded🎨 a gold medal before continuing his studies in Paris.

It was here under the influence of Léon-Joseph Florentin Bonnat (1834-1923)🎨, a Professor in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with whom he studied that Harlamoff developed his very particular style. Bonnat, born in Bayonne on the Spanish border, had studied in Spain and subsequently Italy, and was in his early years considered to be of the Spanish School.

Carl Wilhelmson | Genre painter

Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson (186-1928) was a Swedish painter, graphic artist, amateur photographer and art teacher.

His father, Anders Wilhelmson, was a "Bästeman" (a type of Naval Master), who died in a shipwreck in 1875. His mother, Amalia, opened a small shop to support the family.

Some relatives were in the printing business so, in 1881, he was apprenticed to the lithographers Meyer and Köster in Gothenburg.

He also took evening classes at the School of Design and Crafts. He later became a full time student of Carl Larsson🎨 at the Valand Academy.

Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924)

Daniel Ridgway Knight was an American artist🎨 born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success.

Born: March 15, 1839, Pennsylvania, United States.

Died: March 9, 1924, Paris, France.

On view: Huntington Museum of Art, Berkshire Museum, High Museum of Art.

Periods: American Realism, Realism.

Art forms: Painting.

Children: Louis Aston Knight🎨.

Henry H. La Thangue RA (1859-1929)

Henry Herbert La Thangue RA🎨 was an English🎨 realist rural landscape painter associated with the Newlyn School.

Early life

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La Thangue was born in Croydon, Surrey, a suburb of London, and was schooled at Dulwich College where he met fellow painters Stanhope Forbes🎨 and Frederick Goodall. He studied painting first at the Lambeth School of Art and then, from 1874-79, at the Royal Academy, London, winning a gold medal for his work in 1879.

Léon Bonnat (1833-1922) | Academic painter

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat was a French painter🎨, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1882.

Bonnat won a medal🎨 of honour in Paris in 1869, going on to become one of the leading artists of his day.

Bonnat was quite popular with American students in Paris. In addition to his native French, he spoke Spanish and Italian and knew English well, to the relief of many monolingual Americans.