Otto Eduard Pippel | Ballet dancers

Otto Eduard Pippel was born in 1878 in Lodz, then a Russian city but now in Poland.

He died in Planegg on the outskirts of Munich in 1960.

He began his artistic career at the School of Applied Arts in Strasbourg training to work on decorative projects, but his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the Russian army for four years.

Oscar Wilde: "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Vladimir Kush

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Lizzie Riches, 1950 | Magical realism painter

Lizzie is a Londoner by birth though growing up near Epping Forest gave her an enduring love of the natural world.

Childhood visits to the National Gallery awakened a passion for painting and visiting Audley End at the age of five began a lifelong interest in Elizabethan Portraiture.

A hopeless student at Art School, Lizzie preferred to develop her own style by going back to study the paintings she had loved as a child.

She joined London’s Portal Gallery in 1976, exhibiting with them in Chicago, New York and Paris and continuously in London ever since. Portal introduced Lizzie to The Red Dot Gallery, close to her home in Norfolk, in 2011.

Niccolò Cannicci | Genre painter

Niccolò Cannicci (1846-1906) was an Italian painter🎨, who painted urban and rural views, often depicting the intersection of the urban and industrial landscape with the rural and pastoral.

He was born in Florence. He began his studies in design at Academy of Fine Arts of Florence under professors Marrubini and Pollastrini, and from there moved to the studio of professor Antonio Ciseri.

He then was influenced by the school of the Macchiaioli🎨.

He moved to San Gemignano.

He painted mainly landscapes and genre paintings🎨 of peasant life and animals.

Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Vita ed Opere

Còrcos Vittorio Matteo - Figlio di Isach è di Giuditta Baquis, nacque a Livorno il 4 ottobre del 1859.

Egli si indirizzò subito allo studio del disegno iscrivendosi all'Accademia di belle arti di Firenze, ove dal 1846 era professore un, altro livornese famoso, E. Pollastrini.