Jean-François Portaels | Orientalist painter

Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels was a Belgian painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and orientalist subjects.

He was also a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

He is regarded as the founder of the Belgian Orientalist school.

He was praised in his time as the premier painter of 'everyday elegance and feminine grace'.

Madre Teresa / Dorian Florez | Give me someone to love..

Lord, when I am hungry,

give me someone needing food.

When I am thirsty,

send me someone needing a drink

When I am cold, send me

someone to warm

When I am grieved, send me

someone to console

When my cross grows heavy

let me carry another's cross too

Robert Henri | Ashcan School painter | Page 1

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Robert Henri (1865-1929) was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, in 1865, the son of a professional gambler and businessman.

In 1881 he accompanied his family to Denver. When his father was indicted for manslaughter a year later the Cozads changed their name and fled to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In 1886 Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Hovenden and James B. Kelly.

In 1888 he went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian under Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. During the summers he painted in Brittany and Barbizon, and visited Italy prior to being admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1891.

Isaac Israëls | Impressionist painter

Isaac Lazarus Israëls (1865-1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. The son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida Schaap, Isaac Israëls displayed precocious artistic talent from an early age.

Between 1880-1882 he studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he met George Hendrik Breitner who was to become a lifelong friend. In 1881, when he was 16, he sold a painting, Bugle Practice, even before it was finished to the artist and collector Hendrik Willem Mesdag.

Léon Bazile Perrault | La venditrice di rose

Léon Bazile Perrault ( Poitiers, 16 giugno 1832-1908, Royan) era un pittore accademico Francese.

È nato da una famiglia modesta.

Studente diWilliam Bouguereau e François-Edouard Picot, espose al Salon dal 1863 in poi, producendo molte opere di genere immensamente popolari.

Nel 1887 fu decorato con la Légion d'honneur.