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.

Dimitra Milan, 2000 | Whimsical /Surrealist painter

Celebrated artist Dimitra Milan’s extraordinary paintings can be found in private collections across the U.S. and Europe.

Born into a family of established artists, Dimitra has been developing her style and ability from a very young age at the Milan Art Institute in Arizona, founded by her parents, Elli and John Milan.

Whimsical and Surreal, Dimitra expresses herself through rich color and bold designs. Her paintings reflect a dreamy world where anything is possible and fearless subjects harmoniously coexist.

Her original art can be found in fine art galleries in Arizona and Hawaii.

Leonid Afremov | The "Impressionist" Lovers

Leonid Afremov (1955-2019) was a Russian-Israeli modern impressionistic artist who worked with palette knives and oils.

Over the last 25 years, he developed his own personal style and technique which differentiates him from other artists. He painted mainly city scenes, vintage cars, seascapes, cats playing jazz and flowers.

Afremov was born in Vitebsk, the same town where Marc Chagall began his artistic career. He developed his passion for painting in the USSR until 1990.

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.

Vladimir Dunjić, 1957 | Abstract / Figurative painter

Vladimir Dunjić🎨 - Serbian painter - graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Mladen Srbinovic in 1981.

He has been a member of ULUS, the Serbian Association of Fine Arts, since 1982. Vladimir Dunjić🎨 has also taken part in several solo and group exibitions, both in Yugoslavia and abroad. He works and lives as a free lance artist in Belgrade.

James Van Fossan, 1964 | Figurative painter

James Van Fossan resides in Eagle, Colorado.

Since leaving the corporate world to focus on his art full time ten years ago, the self taught Van Fossan has come to command some of the highest recognitions in realism. His 2012 painting, Magnum Opus, claimed the coveted Chairman's Choice Award in the 2012/2013 International Art Renewal Center Salon, as well as the Best of Show prize for the The Collection Beaux-Arts Réaliste International Competition (Montreal, Canada) in 2014.;

Jacob Dhein, 1978 | Modern Impressionist painter

San Francisco artist Jacob Dhein was interested in art as a child. Crayons and colored pencils were his tools of expression. He spent hours intricately crafting drawings of comic book heroes and animals. By the time he graduated from high school, one of his drawings was exhibited on the wall of a local bank. It wasn’t until he was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh that he decided to take a drawing class.

He found this so compelling that he continued with sculpture and painting. During this time he met several accomplished and influential artists who encouraged him to pursue a career in art.

Ignatov Sergey, 1961 | Improvizionism style painter

Ignatov Sergey Vladimirovich /Игнатов Сергей Владимирович is an Russian Artist🎨, known for working in the Improvizionism style.

- "I was born in the capital of ancient Rus - the beautiful city of Vladimir. The happy childhood passed in Belgium - the city of Brussels, and in Germany - the city of Bonn. There my parents worked through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Of course this fact fully influenced the formation of my personality and perception of the modern world.

Samy Charnine, 1967 | Surrealist painter

Charnine has been impacted by the Masters as well as by the surrealists🎨 but his style is pure Charnine.

He combines whimsical images with precision in his execution. The result is poetic and seasoned. Winning attention and praise for his technique and sophistication of his ideas, Charnine’s paintings are realistic in their detail yet with composition that evokes an emotional response from the viewer.

Andrea del Verrocchio | Sculpture works

Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) was 15th-century Florentine sculptor and painter and the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci. His equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, erected in Venice in 1496, is particularly important.

The sculptural works either recorded to be by Verrocchio or actually extant are few in number.

According to his brother Tommaso, Verrocchio was responsible for an inlaid slab (1467) in the Florentine church of San Lorenzo recording the burial place of Cosimo de’ Medici, who died in 1464.

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.

Nathan Brutsky, 1963 | Life is Tango

Ukrainian painter Brutsky was born in Kiev.

Since childhood he was engaged in different aspects of art: painting, sculpture and art-design.

From the age of 10, he dedicates to art at least several hours daily.

Nathan graduated Art School and Kiev College of Industrial design.

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.

Andrea del Verròcchio | The Teacher of Leonardo da Vinci

Andrea del Verrocchio (born 1435, Florence - died 1488, Venice), 15th-century Florentine sculptor and painter and the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci.

His equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, erected in Venice in 1496, is particularly important.

The only surviving painting that according to documentary proof should be by Verrocchio, an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with Saints in the Donato de’ Medici Chapel of the cathedral at Pistoia, was not completed by the master himself.

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).

Emerico Tóth, 1970 | Abstract painter

Imre Tóth is an Hungarian painter. "My name Imre Tóth, artist name Emerico. My art is abstract, realistic, modern, sometime surreal, created in my own style and vision that most closely leans towards the expressionist and impressionist generic descriptions of styles.

There is no commitment towards theme and style. There is no defined path, only the love of painting. It is an ever-learning and experimenting spirit".

Nicola Simbari (1927-2012)

Italian painter Nicola Simbari was born in San Lucido, Calabria and this beautiful area greatly impacted his Mediterranean paintings: the blues of the ocean and sky and the bright hues of the flowers.

His family moved to Rome when he was young and his father worked there as a Vatican architect.

Rome's art masterpieces so impressed Simbari that, by age 13, he decided to study art and enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti. He opened his first studio in Rome at 22 years of age. Simbari's early works featured scenes from his childhood - gypsies, cafes, fishing villages and the Italian countryside.

Bernardino Licinio | High Renaissance painter

Bernardino Licinio (1489-1565) was a painter during the Italian High Renaissance, creating portraits and religious works.

He was born in Bergamo in the town of Lombardy.

It is said that he may have trained in the studio of Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516), a prominent Venetian painter of the Bellini family.

Licinio stayed close to the artistic developments of the Venetian school of painting.