William Dyce | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Prof William Dyce FRSE RSA RA (1806-1864) pioneer of state art education in Great Britain.

Dyce studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and the Royal Academy schools, London.

One of the first British students of early Italian Renaissance painting, he visited Italy in 1825 and 1827-1828, meeting in Rome a group of young German painters, the Nazarenes.

Claude Monet | The Houses of Parliament, 1900-1905

Claude Monet painted a series of oil paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, in the fall of 1899 and the early months of 1900 and 1901 during stays in London.

All of the series' paintings share the same viewpoint from Monet's window or a terrace at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames and the approximate canvas size of 81 cm x 92 cm (32 in x 36 3/8 in).

They are however painted during different times of the day and weather circumstances.

Laura Lee Zanghetti | Figurative painter

Award winning artist Laura Lee Zanghetti is a self taught artist who mainly works in oils.

She paints full time and enjoys a number of different techniques and styles of painting in her home studio in Walpole MA.

Her favorite subjects vary from beach scenes to cityscapes and her latest.... "umbrella ladies".

She's been painting full time for the past 13 years in her home studio in Walpole.

Robert Antoine Pinchon | Post-Impressionist painter

Claude Monet referred to him: "As a surprising touch in the service of a surprising eye".

Among Robert Antoine Pynchons' important works are a series of paintings of the River Seine, mostly around Rouen and landscapes depicting places in or near Upper Normandy.

Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886-1943) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School- l'École de Rouen.

He was consistent throughout his career in his dedication to painting landscapes en plein air.

Keith Perelli, 1968 | Surrealist painter

Keith Perelli is a figurative artist exploring male portraiture through the lens of personal, social and political issues.

The abstract and surrealist sensibilities in his work stems from both his interest in the work produced and taught at the University of New Orleans by prominent local professors in the field of painting.

His graduate work at the University of Cincinnati in sculpture and installation focused on the on complex social and political ramifications of HIV and and the AIDS crisis of the 80ś and 90ś.