Jacob de Wit | Dutch Rococo Era painter

Jacob de Wit (19 December 1695 - 12 November 1754) was a Dutch artist** and interior decorator who painted many religious scenes.

Jacob de Wit was born in Amsterdam, and became famous for his door and ceiling paintings. He lived on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, and many of the buildings on the Keizersgracht still have door or ceiling paintings done by him.

Since many of the families who lived in Amsterdam in those days had country villas, de Wit also painted in houses in the fashionable areas of Haarlem and the Vecht river.
According to the RKD he was the pupil of Albert van Spiers in Amsterdam and Jacob van Hal in Antwerp where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1714.

While in Antwerp, he made a series of watercolor sketches of the Rubens ceilings in the Carolus Borromeuskerk in Antwerp.

After the church was struck by lightning in 1718 these became a historical document, and his pupil Jan Punt later engraved his sketches and published them in 1751.
His pupils were Jan de Groot (painter from The Hague), Dionys van Nijmegen, Jan Punt, Pieter Tanjé, and the brothers Frans and Jacob Xavery. Jacob de Wit died in Amsterdam in 1754. Tako Hajo Jelgersma was his follower.

Jacob de Wit fu uno dei più celebri artisti di Amsterdam del suo tempo, noto soprattutto per le sue decorazioni parietali e di soffitti nelle case del patriziato benestante.

Si era specializzato in una pittura decorativa del genere trompe-l’oeil a grisaglia, con la quale sapeva magistralmente imitare il rilievo in pietra.

David J Cunningham, 1983 ~ Figurative painter

David Cunningham's interest in art began early due in part to thei nfluence of his older brother and a cousin who are also artists. When David was 16 he started attending classes part-time at The Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art a traditional art school that ad heres to astringent French academic tradition as well as taking classes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Alberto Gálvez, 1963 | Figurative painter

Spanish painter Alberto Gálvez is known for his oil on linen paintings that capture an enchanted world.

His influences run from antiquity and Renaissance imagery to poetry and French avant-garde films of the 1960s.

Throughout, he reminds us that the ideals of the classical period, proportion, balance and harmony, are still operative, inspiring and engaging.

Galvez embraces this understanding to create images that exist outside of space and time.

Diego L. Rodríguez ~ Abstract illustrator

Diego L. Rodríguez is an Illustrator, Graphic Designer and visual Artist from Spain.

From his childhood, he has been always dedicated to the audiovisual !eld. He has studied Cinema Production, Publicity and Photography, working on those !elds for a few years. The arrival of new tools and the outburst of digital graphics, made Diego to focus his career into digital art and illustration.

Nicholas Hely Hutchinson, 1955 | Neo-Romantic painter

Nicholas Hely Hutchinson is a painter, based in Dorset.

Initially influenced by Dufy and Matisse, he has also drawn on the British Neo-Romantic tradition.

He settled near Blandford, Dorset, and the countryside of that county and Wiltshire, horse racing, interiors and still life were among his subjects.

He studied at Harrow School, Saint Martin's School of Art and Bristol Polytechnic.