Vladimir Dunjic, 1957 | Abstract/Figurative painter | Page 2

Born in Čačak, Serbian painter Vladimir Dunjić🎨 graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Mladen Srbinović in 1981.

He has been a member of Ulus (The Serbian Association of Fine Arts) since 1982.

He took part in several solo and group exhibitions, both in Yugoslavia and abroad.

Vladimir Dunjic lives and works in Belgrade.

Jean Raoux | Rococo painter

Jean Raoux, French painter, was born at Montpellier.

After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter.

His reputation had been previously established by the acclaimed decorations executed during his three years in Italy on the palace of Giustiniani Solini in Venice, and by some easel paintings, the Four Ages of Man (National Gallery), commissioned by the grand prior of Vendôme.

Julius LeBlanc Stewart | Un americano al Salone di Parigi

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855, Philadelphia - 5 gennaio 1919, Parigi), è stato un artista Americano che ha trascorso la sua carriera a Parigi.

Contemporaneo del pittore espatriato, John Singer Sargent, Stewart è stato soprannominato "il parigino di Philadelphia".

Suo padre, il milionario dello zucchero William Hood Stewart, trasferì la famiglia da Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a Parigi nel 1865, e divenne un illustre collezionista d'arte e uno dei primi mecenati di Marià Fortuny e degli artisti di Barbizon.

Bessie Davidson | An Australian Impressionist in Paris

Bessie Ellen Davidson (1879-1965) was an Australian painter🎨 known for her impressionist, light-filled landscapes and interiors.

Davidson was born on 22 May 1879 in North Adelaide, South Australia, to a family of Scottish and English origin.

In 1904, after her mother's death, she went to Europe to study art in company with Preston.

They spent the first few months in Munich, where Davidson studied briefly at the Künstlerinner Verein, before moving on to Paris.

There she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, under René-Xavier Prinet🎨, where she met and began a lifelong friendship with Philippe Besnard's future wife, Germaine Desgranges. She also took classes with Raphael Collin, Richard Miller and Gustave Courtois.

Hendrick ter Brugghen | Baroque painter

Hendrik Terbrugghen (1588-1629), Dutch painter, among the earliest northern followers of the Italian painter Caravaggio.

In the early 1590s Terbrugghen’s family moved to Utrecht, a strong Roman Catholic centre, where he studied with Abraham Bloemaert.

Terbrugghen reportedly spent 10 years in Italy, having arrived in Rome about 1604, and thus could have had direct contact with Caravaggio, who left Rome in 1606.