Jean Beauduin | Genre painter

Jean Beauduin (1851-1916) was a Belgian painter**, draughtsman and illustrator of genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. Although Belgian by birth, Jean Beauduin would spend much of his life in France where he built a considerable reputation as an oil painter.

He received his artistic training at the Academy of Antwerp.

Charles Kuwasseg | Landscape painter

Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg (1838, Draveil, Essonne - 1904) was a French painter** of the 19th century**. He was influenced by the Barbizon school and created especially landscapes, but also cityscapes and coastal views.

Born in Draveil, Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg was the son of Karl Joseph Kuwasseg, an Austrian born in Trieste on March 16, 1802, and also a renowned painter. His father left for Paris, and took the French nationality. He died in Paris in January 1877.

Initially Charles Euphrasie trained and worked with his father but later became a sailor and travelled the world.

Rupert Bunny | Pastorale, 1893

Title: Pastorale [Sea idyll Pastorale]

Artist: Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864-1947)**

Date: 1893

Style: Impressionism

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 142.0 h x 251.0 w

Current location: National Gallery of Australia

Vicente López y Portaña | Neoclassical painter

Vicente López Portaña (September 19, 1772 - July 22, 1850) was a Spanish painter**, considered one of the best portrait painters of his time.

Vicente López Portaña was born in Valencia on September 19, 1772. His parents were Cristóbal López Sanchordi and Manuela Portaña Meer. Vicente López began formally studying painting in Valencia at the age of thirteen, he was a disciple of father Antonio de Villanueva, a Franciscan monk, and he studied at the Academy of San Carlos in his native city.

William Merritt Chase | A Modern Master

William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was anAmerican painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher.

He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design.

Chase won many honors at home and abroad, was a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and from 1885-1895 was president of the Society of American Artists.