Jan Steen | Baroque Era painter

Jan Steen, in full Jan Havickszoon Steen, (born c. 1625, Leiden, Netherlands - died February 3, 1679, Leiden), Dutch painter** of genre, or everyday, scenes, often lively interiors bearing a moralizing theme.

Steen is unique among leading 17th-century Dutch painters** for his humour; he has often been compared to the French comic playwright Molière, his contemporary, and indeed both men treated life as a vast comedy of manners.

John Arthur Lomax | Genre painter

John Arthur Lomax was an British** genre painter, born in Manchester. He studied in Stuttgart and at the Munich Academy, but returned to Manchester and later relocated to London.

The artist’s subjects were mainly historical genre of the 17th and 18th Centuries, especially of the Civil War period, often with a dramatic or sentimental theme.

Titles at the Royal Academy include “Thoughts of Christmas”, “An Old Master” and “Flaw in the Title”.

Remy Daza Rojas, 1955 | Figurative painter

Remy Daza Rojas is a Bolivian painter, born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. From 1978-1981 he studied at the Ernesto de la Cárcova School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina and practiced painting from a young age, along with Gíldaro Antezana, Ricardo Pérez Alcalá, and Vladimir Rojas.

His paintings are made with a skillful technical handling, in realism in which the human figure becomes the protagonist.

The color and, above all, the light are worked very skillfully creating expressive forms, full of harmonious sensuality and that tend to touch certain symbolism or incorporate surreal elements.

Quinten Massys | Northern Renaissance painter

Quinten Massys, Massys also spelled Matsys, Metsys, or Messys, (born c. 1465/66, Leuven, Brabant [now in Belgium] - died 1530, Antwerp), Flemish artist, the first important painter of the Antwerp school.

Trained as a blacksmith in his native Leuven, Massys is said to have studied painting after falling in love with an artist’s daughter. In 1491 he went to Antwerp and was admitted into the painters’ guild.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Life

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, also spelled Brueghel or Breughel, (1525-1569), the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, whose landscapes and vigorous, often witty scenes of peasant life are particularly renowned.

Since Bruegel signed and dated many of his works, his artistic evolution can be traced from the early landscapes, in which he shows affinity with the Flemish 16th-century landscape tradition, to his last works, which are Italianate.

He exerted a strong influence on painting in the Low Countries, and through his sons Jan and Pieter he became the ancestor of a dynasty of painters that survived into the 18th century.