Carlo Brancaccio | Genre painter

Carlo Brancaccio (1861-1920) was an Italian painter, active mainly in an Impressionist style.

While he initially had studied mathematics, he abandoned this to study painting by age 22 years.

He was mentored by Eduardo Dalbono.

His main subjects were city streets, sea and landscapes, mostly vedute of Naples.

Andrei Tsoy / Андрей Цой, 1971

Андрей Цой was born in Murmansk, northern Russia.

He is the son of a korean father and ukrainian mother.

From 1986-1990 Tsoy attended the Dnipropetrovsk art school, before moving to the prestigious Ukrainian National Academy of Fine Arts where he completed his undergraduate education in 1997.

In 1993 the young Tsoy held is first solo exhibition at the Tychyna museum.

Sir Frederic William Burton | Victorian painter

Irish painter🎨 Sir Frederic William Burton RHA (8 April 1816 in Wicklow - 16 March 1900 in London) was the third director of the National Gallery, London.

• Artistic career

Educated in Dublin, he was elected an associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy at the age of twenty-one and an academician two years later.

In 1842 he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy. A visit to Germany and Bavaria in 1842 was the first of a long series of trips to various parts of Europe, which gave him a profound knowledge of the works of the Old Masters.

Eduard Zentšik, 1975 | Surrealist painter

Eduard Zentšik is a contemporary Estonian genre-busting artist.

In his creative work, he has managed to unite localness with globality, to shatter one’s hope for the result awaited from the artist, to put up a serious façade with ease whilst playing an ironical game with unknown rules and to deceive the spectator in such a way that nobody has noted that.

It is only at first perusal that his self-positioning as "Unknown Artist Zentšik" is an offer for the spectator to believe into the primacy of the art object over the art source.

Carl Hallström | Romantic Landscape painter

Carl Axel Thure Hallström (1850-1929) was a Swedish artist, a classical Romantic landscape painter.

He specialized in atmospheric, poetic depictions of nature, particularly focusing on the "blue hour" - the delicate transitions of dawn and dusk.

Hallström began his career as a skilled lithographer before transitioning to oil painting.

His style bridged traditional academic landscape art and the emerging plein-air naturalism of the late 19th century.