Lesser Ury (1861-1931) | Impressionist painter

Lesser Ury was an German Impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was born Leo Lesser Ury in Birnbaum, the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the Ury family's move to Berlin.

In 1878 Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went to Düsseldorf to study painting at the Kunstakademie. Ury spent time in Brussels, Paris, Stuttgart, and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887.

David Cheifetz, 1981 | Figurative / Still Life painter

American painter David Andrew Nishita Cheifetz was born in the Pacific Northwest. A former architect, David started learning to paint with oils in the fall of 2007 while attending the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, and in 2009 made the transition to full-time artist. David currently lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife, Yasmine.

Ivan Goryushkin-Sorokopudov (1873-1954) | Genre painter

Russian painter🎨 Ivan Silych Goriushkin Sorokopudov / Иван Силыч Горюшкин-Сорокопудов was born in the family of barge hauler Sila Goryushkin in the Nashchi village of the Tambov province in 1873.

Became an orphan in the early age and was sent to the distant relatives Sorokopudov belonged to the lower middle class from Saratov. So he obtained his double last name.

Raphael (1483-1520) | The Madonnas

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino🎨, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his early death at 37, leaving a large body of work.

Raphael | High Renaissance painter

For centuries Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520) has been recognised as the supreme High Renaissance painter, more versatile than Michelangelo and more prolific than their older contemporary Leonardo.

Though he died at 37, Raphael's example as a paragon of classicism dominated the academic tradition of European painting until the mid-19th century.

Raphael (Raffaello Santi) was born in Urbino where his father, Giovanni Santi, was court painter.