Rogier Van Der Weyden | The Descent from the Cross, c. 1435

The Descent from the Cross was commissioned by the Greater Guild of Crossbowmen of Leuven in today's Belgium and was originally installed in the Chapel of Our Lady Without the Walls. The tiny crossbows in the side spandrels of the picture reflect the original patronage. De Vos and Campbell both give an approximate date of 1435 for the painting.

De Vos argues that the earliest known copy of Van der Weyden's Deposition, the Edeleheere triptych in Leuwen, may have been completed by 1435, certainly before 1443. This implies that Van der Weyden's painting pre-dates it. The painting was exchanged around 1548 for a copy by Michael Coxcie and an organ.

Henri Matisse | The Models

For Henri Matisse (1869-1954)🎨, his models were more than muses; they were partners in his work and guides on the ever-shifting paths to artistic expression.

He would often work with one model for an extensive period of time, beginning in 1916 with Italian model Laurette, sometimes spelled Lorette, who posed for nearly 50 paintings in the year after they met.

Matisse's longest continuous relationship was with Lydia Delectorskaya, a Russian woman who later become his secretary, studio manager and nurse to his sick wife.

Marius Markowsk, 1976 | Digital painter

Marius Markowski was born in Switzerland and makes digital paintings which look like they have been made with oil or acrylic paint.

"My artistic effort in digital painting was founded its origin in the oil painting, where I was passionately focusing my energy for several years. One day I had the idea to prepare an image on the computer in order to have more liberty in the development process. I experimented with these new tools and so discovered my enthusiasm for digital painting".

Mary Evelina Kindon (1849-1919) Genre painter

Mary Evelina Kindon was a British🎨 watercolorist, genre scenes🎨 and urban landscapes painter during the 20th century.

Mary Kindon was born in Victorian London and adopted a style that was being taught in the more progressive continental academies.

Mary Kindon was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the Suffolk Street Gallery in London. She also exhibited at the Institute of Painters in Watercolors from 1874.

She often painted mothers and children and seems to have been fond of painting girls in white dresses.

She exhibited widely, including Société des Artistes Français, the Paris Salon, the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Academy. She also exhibited at the Bushey Society of Artists in Rudolph Road.

Bushey Museum has three works by her in its collections.

L'artista Mary Evelina Kindon (1849-1919) è stata una acquerellista Britannica🎨, pittrice di scene di genere🎨 e di paesaggi urbani durante il XX secolo.

Mary Kindon è nata nella Londra vittoriana e ha adottato lo stile che veniva insegnato nelle accademie continentali più progressiste. Ha spesso dipinto mamme e bambini e sembra aver amato dipingere ragazze in abiti bianchi.

Ha esposto ampiamente, tra cui la Société des Artistes Français, il Salone di Parigi, la Society of Women Artists e la Royal Academy.

Ha esposto anche alla Bushey Society of Artists di Rudolph Road. Bushey Museum ha tre sue opere nelle sue collezioni.

Andrey Esionov / Андрей Есионов, 1963 | Academic Watercolor painter

Esionov Andrey Kimovich / Есионов Андрей Кимович is a Russian painter🎨 and graphic artist, who paints portraits and cityscapes.

He is academician (Full member) of the Russian Academy of Arts (the painting department, 2018), a member of the Russian Artistic Union of Painters (1995), the Moscow Artists' Association of International Art Fund, and the Union of Russian Artists.

Esionov works in the portrait genre, and actively promotes watercolor painting.

According to critics he works in a contemporary art style at the interface of academism.

The artist's works are in the collections of museums including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), the State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg), the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan), Samara Regional Art Museum (Samara) and the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan (Tashkent).