Gentile da Fabriano | Gothic Era painter

Gentile da Fabriano, original name Niccolò di Giovanni di Massio (born c. 1370, Fabriano, Papal States [Italy]-died 1427, Rome), foremost painter of central Italy at the beginning of the 15th century, whose few surviving works are among the finest examples of the International Gothic style.

Hiroshi Yoshida | Landscape painter / printmaker

Hiroshi Yoshida / 吉田 博 (September 19, 1876 - April 5, 1950) was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker.

He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his excellent landscape prints.

Yoshida travelled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style, including the Taj Mahal, the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canyon, and other National Parks in the United States.

Edward Portielje (1861-1949)

Edward Antoon Portielje (1861-1949) was born in Antwerp on 8 February 1861. He trained under Charles Verlat (1824-90), who had taught at the Antwerp Academy since 1877 and became director of it in 1885.

Like his father, Jan Frederik Pieter Portielje (1829-1908), a Dutchman, Edward Antoon Portielje devoted himself primarily to genre painting. His elder brother, Gerard Jozef Portielje, also made a name for himself as a painter.

Edward Antoon Portielje died in his native Antwerp in 1949.

Edward Portielje | Genre painter

Edward Antoon Portielje (1861-1949) was an Belgian🎨 genre painter.

Portielje was born in 1861 in Antwerp, the son and brother of artists. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp under Charles Verlat. Although Impressionist style🎨 was becoming increasingly fashionable throughout Europe in Portielje’s early years, he maintained the “academic” manner taught in the French🎨 and Belgian🎨 academies and characterized by a high degree of finish. Similarly, he chose genre scenes and anecdotal subject matter long familiar to Dutch audiences.

Bernardo Strozzi | Music players in the Baroque era

Baroque painter** Bernardo Strozzi, named il Cappuccino and il Prete Genovese (c. 1581 - 2 August 1644) was one of the most influential Italian painters of the early 17th century, especially in Genoa and Venice.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Strozzi see:

• Bernardo Strozzi | Baroque painter ⏩
• Bernardo Strozzi | Portraits of composer Claudio Monteverdi ⏩