Erik Werenskiold | Realist painter

Erik Theodor Werenskiold (11 February 1855 - 23 November 1938) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator.

He is especially known for his drawings for the Asbjørnsen and Moe collection of Norske Folkeeventyr, and his illustrations for the Norwegian edition of the Snorri Sturlason Heimskringla.

Pierre Jean Edmond Castan | Genre painter

Pierre Jean Edmond Castan (1817-1892) was a French painter.

Born in Toulouse in Haute-Garonne, Castan quickly turns to the drawing, and follows the teaching of Drolling in Paris.

He is then a pupil of neoclassical painter François Pascal Simon Gérard (1770-1837), and begins in the Salon of French Artists in 1868.

Sir William Rothenstein | Portrait painter

Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer and writer on art.

Emerging during the early 1890s, Rothenstein continued to make art right up until his death.

Though he covered many subjects - ranging from landscapes in France to representations of Jewish synagogues in London - he is perhaps best known for his work as a war artist in both world wars, his portraits, and his popular memoirs, written in the 1930s.

More than two hundred of Rothenstein's portraits of famous people can be found in the National Portrait Gallery collection.

Rodica Toth Poiata, 1960 | Figurative painter

Rodica Toth Poiata is a contemporary Romanian painter who was born in Brasov.

Graduated: Plastic Arts University, Timisoara.

Affiliations: Romanian Plastic Artists Union (UAPR).

Participant at various personal, group, national and international shows.

She was professor of art at high-school in Brasov and Sulina (where he resided for six to seven years), after which it was established in Bucharest.

Raffaello Celommi | Genre / seascape painter

Raffaello Celommi (19 April 1881 - 3 March 1957) was an Italian genre and seascape painter.

He was born in Florence to the painter Pasquale Celommi and his Florentine mother, Giuseppina Giusti.

Within a few months, he developed respiratory ailments, and his mother moved to Roseto degli Abruzzi, a sea-side town in the province of Abruzzo, hoping the marine air would benefit him.

Nikoletta Kiraly, 1978 | Palette knife painter

Nikoletta Király was born in Debrecen, Hungary. Her drawing talent was recognised at a very early age.

She moved near Lake Balaton with her family in her elementary school years and finished her high school education in Keszthely.

During these years she became the student of the painter Eörs Dókus, who started her on the rocky journey of oil painting.

Joseph Caraud | Genre painter

Early in his career Joseph Caraud (1821-1905) was inspired, like many other artists, by Italy and Algeria, basing his early Salon entries on his experience in these countries.

But as his career progressed he became more interested in anecdotal, genre scenes in which elegant women in their luxurious clothing with sumptuous patterning recalled the eighteenth-century style and rendering of details found in paintings by Fragonard, Greuze, and Watteau.

Joseph Caraud was born on January 5th, 1821 in Cluny, in the Saône-et-Loire region of France.

Carl Kronberger | Genre painter

Carl Kronberger (or Karl Kronberger; March 7, 1841 – October 27, 1921) was an Austrian painter.

Carl Kronberger was born in Freistadt, Upper Austria, on March 7, 1841.

He was the son of a landlord.

In 1869 he went to Munich and received his formal training with Hermann Dyck, Hermann Anschütz and Johann Georg Hiltensperger at the Academy of Munich.

Edgar Maxence | Symbolist painter

Edgard Maxence (1871-1954) was a French Symbolist painter.

He was taught by Elie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He is a contemporary of Henri Evenepoel, Jules Flandrin, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, Léon Printemps, Georges Rouault and other notable alumni from this famous school.

He exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1894 until 1939, and was active on the salon's committees and juries.

Victor Dargaud | Paris painting

Victor Dargaud | The Statue of Liberty in Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi's Studio, Paris

Paul-Joseph-Victor Dargaud (1850-1921), a specialist in topographically accurate views of the fashionable boulevards of Paris, is little known today, although he exhibited at the Salon from 1873 until his death.

This painting, one of his best-known works, represents the fabrication of the Statue of Liberty.

Its sculptor, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, aspired to rival the sublime effect of such monuments as the Pyramids and the Sphinx.

Because of its scale, Bartholdi had to construct Liberty in sections, as shown in this painting of the statue’s left arm.

Although the right arm of the statue was shipped to the United States in 1876 in time for the centennial, the entire statue was not completed until 1883.

Pierre Outin | Genre painter

Pierre Outin (1840-1899) was a French 19th Century painter.

Pierre Outin's father is a wealthy trader that does not approve his son's taste for art and drawing.

Outin's inclination for art begins at the Moulins high school where he learns drawing. His father wants him "back on track" and send him working in England.

He is still under 18 at his return in Paris and is soon hired in a silk trade, to his father's satisfaction.

Outin gets emancipated in 1861 and decides to quit his job.

Émile Pierre Metzmacher | Genre painter

Émile Pierre Metzmacher (1815-1890) was a Parisian painter specialising in genre and portraiture.

A student of Boulanger, Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre and Florent Joseph Marie Willems, Metzmacher debuted at the Salon in 1863.

He obtained honourable mentions for his work in the years 1879 and 1889.

August von Kaulbach | Portrait / History painter

Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920) was a German portraitist and historical painter.

He was born to a family that included several well known artists and began his studies with his father, Friedrich Kaulbach.

He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, where he studied with August von Kreling and Karl Raupp.

Ibrahim Kodra | Post-cubist painter

Ibrahim Likmetaj Kodra (22 April 1918 - 7 February 2006) was an Albanian painter.

Kodra was born in Ishëm (Ishmi), Albania, son of Murat and Xhixhe.

His mother died when he was young, and he did not receive adequate treatment from his stepmother.

His father was working in the Commercial Marine.

Ibrahim took art classes from Odhise Paskali during 1929, focusing on sport as well.

Livio Možina, 1941 | Realist painter

Livio Možina is an Italian painter, born in Trieste. He started painting at the age of 28 as an autodidact, and in 1971 he held his first solo exhibition.

He concentrated in particular on still life and landscapes.

His experience is very personal and has its roots in hyperrealism.

Le visioni poetiche della natura di Peder Mønsted

Nato alla fine dell'"Età dell'oro" (1800-1860) della pittura danese, Peder Mork Mønsted (1859-1941) si è fatto una reputazione principalmente come paesaggista naturalista, ammirato soprattutto per il suo punto di vista poetico.

La sua prima formazione artistica è stata alla Prince Ferdinand School of Art di Aarhus, in Danimarca, dove ha studiato con il paesaggista Andreas Fritz, che ha influenzato lo sviluppo del giovane artista.

Mønsted è poi entrato all'Accademia di Copenaghen nel 1875, ma se ne è andato nel 1879 senza sostenere l'esame finale, scegliendo invece di continuare i suoi studi in modo indipendente con artisti affermati, tra cui il pittore di genere e paesaggista realista danese Peder Severin Krøyer e del pittore accademico francese William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Kristian Zahrtmann | Naturalist painter

Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, known as Kristian Zahrtmann (1843-1917) was a Danish painter.

He was a part of the Danish artistic generation in the late 19th century, along with Peder Severin Krøyer and Theodor Esbern Philipsen, who broke away from both the strictures of traditional Academicism and the heritage of the Golden Age of Danish Painting, in favor of naturalism and realism.

He was known especially for his history paintings, and especially those depicting strong, tragic, legendary women in Danish history.

He also produced works of many other genres including landscapes, street scenes, folk scenes and portraits.

Christen Dalsgaard | Genre painter

Christen Dalsgaard (1824-1907) was a Danish painter, a late student of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.

Early life and education

Christen Dalsgaard was born on 30 October 1824. He was the son of the owner of the estate, Krabbesholm Manor, located near Skive in Jutland.

He showed early signs of artistic talent, and received training as a craft painter. In the spring of 1841 Niels Rademacher, a visiting landscape painter, encouraged the young artist and convinced his parents of their son's talent.

Frederik Vermehren | Genre painter

Johan Frederik (Frits) Nikolai Vermehren, also known as Frederik Vermehren (1823-1910), a genre and portrait painter in the realist style.

His artistic career took place during the period of Danish art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

Vermehren, along with his fellow artists Christen Dalsgaard (1824-1907) and Julius Exner (1825-1910), were prominent in the Danish genre of painting; they depicted ordinary people of the country, especially farmers and other country folk.

His idealised depictions helped define and encourage Denmark's period of national romanticism.

Jacob Vrel | Dutch Golden Age painter

Jacob Vrel (1630–1680) was a Dutch, Flemish, or Westphalian painter of interiors and urban street scenes during the Dutch Golden Age (1588-1672). He was active from 1654-1662.

Jacob Vrel is also referred to as Jan instead of Jacob(us); alternative spellings of his surname are Frel, Frelle, Vreele, Vrelle and Vriel.

Though Vrel's birthplace is unknown, scholars consider him a Dutch artist.

He is considered to have worked in Delft and Haarlem.

Fanny Brate | Genre painter

Fanny Ingeborg Matilda Brate was a genre painter who depicted Swedish nature, folklore and home interiors. She also painted portraits.

Fanny Brate was born in Stockholm in 1861. Her father was Johan Frans Gustaf Oscar Ekbom, who served as a royal factor for King Oscar II.

Her mother was Henriette Alexandrine Dahlgren. Fanny Brate trained as an artist.

Like many of her contemporaries she studied at the Kungliga Akademi (Royal Academy) in Stockholm, where she enrolled in 1879.

Torajirō Kojima | Impressionist painter

Torajirō Kojima / 児島虎次郎 (1881-1929), born in Shimohara Village, Kawakami-gun, Okayama Prefecture (now Naruha-cho, Takahashi City) in 1881, was a leading Impressionist painter in Japan.

Torajiro Kojima was first a disciple of Takeji Fujishima and then attended the University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, and in 1908 went to Paris to continue his studies.

In 1909 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, where he trained in Luminism.

André Brouillet | Academic / Genre painter

Pierre Aristide André Brouillet (1857-1914) was a French academic painter specialising in genre painting, portraits and landscapes.

Born in Charroux, the son of sculptor Pierre-Amédée Brouillet and Élisabeth Leriget, Brouillet began engineering studies at the École centrale Paris in 1876 before entering the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts three years later, where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme.

In the year of his reception at the Salon de peinture et de sculpture in 1879, he attended Jean-Paul Laurens' lessons.

Mara Schasteen, 1976 | Still life painter

"Wyoming native and artist, I am dedicated to excellence in expressing the beauty of the world around me.

I work primarily in oils. The path my life has taken has not allowed for formal study of the arts, so I am teaching myself".

Julius Exner | Genre painter

Johan Julius Exner, (30 November 1825 - 15 November 1910), Danish genre painter, was born in Copenhagen to Johann Gottlieb Exner, a Czech musician from Bohemia, who came to Denmark during the Napoleonic period, and his wife Karen Jørgensdatter.

Exner originally intended on becoming a history painter, but quickly found his niche, however, in genre painting, the most popular and lucrative painting style of his era.

Gustav Vermehren | Genre painter

Gustav Vermehren (1863–1931) was a Danish painter who was born in Copenhagen into a creative family and destined to become an artist.

He initially took drawing lessons from his father (the painter Frederik Vermehren).

He studied at the technical school and was finally admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in Sep. 1881 and ended his studies there in May 1891.

Józef Rapacki | Landscape painter

Józef Rapacki (19 March 1871, Warsaw - 31 January 1929, Olszanka) was a Polish painter, watercolorist and graphic designer; best known for his nostalgic landscapes of Mazovia.

He was born to a theatrical family; son of the actor, Wincenty Rapacki. His brother Wincenty and sister Honorata also became actors.

Jerzy Leszczyński, the actor and director, was his nephew. He decided on a different course and, at the age of fourteen, enrolled in a drawing class taught by Wojciech Gerson.

Friedrich Prolss | Genre painter

Fritz (Friedrich) Anton Otto Prölß (1855-1934) was a German portrait and genre painter.

Prölß studied painting at the academies in Dresden with Ferdinand Pauwels and in Munich from 1880 with Franz von Defregger.

He was a member of the Munich artists' cooperative and exhibited his paintings in the Munich Glass Palace, among other places.

Although his residence was in Munich, he spent the summer months in Mittenwald for more than 50 years from 1879, where he created most of his work.

Giambattista Bassi | Master of Verismo

Gian Battista Bassi was an Italian painter. In his day he was defined as the "Master of Verismo".

Born in 1784 in Massa Lombarda, Giambattista Bassi joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 1810, and thanks to one of his paintings, he was awarded a three year stay in Rome.

Among many, he became friends with Tommaso Minardi, Antonio Canova and Pietro Giordani, thanks to whom Bassi was able to obtain his first important commission: two paintings for the King of Naples.

Karel Balcar, 1966 | Figurative painter

Karel Balcar (born in Lanškroun) is a Czech painter.

Balcar studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague (1984-1985) and at the University of Economics, Prague (1986-1987).

In 1992 he enrolled Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and graduated in 1999 from studio of professor Zdeněk Beran.

Most of his exhibitions since then have been in Prague, including venues such as the Liechtenstein Palace, town hall and the Rudolfinum but also the cities of Brno, Hradec Králové and at the Czech Centre in New York City.

He lives and works in Prague.

William Frederick Yeames RA | Historical genre painter

William Frederick Yeames RA (1835-1918) was a British painter best known for his oil-on-canvas "And When Did You Last See Your Father?", which depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.

Yeames was born in Taganrog, Russia, the son of a British consul based in Russia.

After the death of his father in 1842, Yeames was sent to school in Dresden where he began studying painting.

After a change in the fortunes of his family, Yeames moved to London in 1848, where he learnt anatomy and composition from George Scharf and took art lessons from F. A. Westmacott.

Lorenzo Vallés | History / Genre painter

A painter of history, mythology, genre scenes and landscapes, Lorenzo Vallès (1830-1910) was born in Madrid.

He first studied art at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, together with the renown artist Federico del Campo.

Born in a modest family, he was fostered by the Duke of Sesto who granted him with a pension, thus giving himthe opportunity to go and study art in Rome in 1853.

There, he joined a significant communauty of emigrant artists and, above all, the Spanish colony of painters who included Rafael Senet y Perez (1856-1926), Marià Fortuny i Marsal and Martín Rico y Ortega (1833-1908), who had already found a great international demand fortheir works.

Leo Gestel | Cubo-Futurism / Modernist painter

Leo Gestel | Lady with Large Hat in Summer House, 1913 | Frans Hals Museum

This portrait of a ladym clothed in red and with a penetrating gaze, was not painted in a single style.

Like many artists in the 1910s, Leo Gestel was inspired by the international avant-garde.This included movements such as French Cubism and Italian Futurism.

The structure of the work is of a Cubist nature. The mosaic patern in the background brings Futurism to mind.

The Futurists attempted to record velocity and movement in their art. The circular forms in this painting suggest a dynamic of this kind.

The elegant and self-confident-looking lady was an artist friend of the painter, Else Berg.

Gestel became acquinted with her, and her husband Mommie Schwarz, through the art collector Piet Boendermaker of Bergen.

Gestel painted this portrait of her during a sojourn to Majorca. | Source: © Frans Hals Museum

Nora Heysen | Portrait / Still-life / War painter

From: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Daughter of renowned landscape painter Hans Heysen, Nora Heysen (1911-2003) established her own reputation as a distinguished portrait and still-life painter, becoming the first woman to win the Archibald Prize and to be appointed an Australian official war artist during the Second World War.

Born at Hahndorf, South Australia, the fourth child of Hans and Selma Heysen, Nora received her earliest art training from her father.

At fifteen she commenced studies at the School of Fine Arts, Adelaide, under F. Millward Grey, where she received a traditional academic training, learning to draw from plaster casts and live models.

Harald Moltke (Danish painter, 1871-1960)

Harald Viggo Moltke was a Danish painter, author and explorer. Among his activities Moltke, participated as draftsman in four Arctic expeditions.

Harald Moltke was born in Helsingør, the son of Oskar Peter August Moltke (1828–82) and Karen Marie Jensdatter (1849-1939). He spent 10 years in North Carolina as a child between 1874 and 1884. After the death of his father, the family returned to Denmark.

In 1889, he began a course of study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, which he completed in 1893.

Frans Hogerwaard | Impressionist painter

Dutch painter Frans (François) Hogerwaard (1882-1921) was known for his (mundane) portraits and figures, and for his landscapes.

Like his brother the painter George Hogerwaard, Frans Hogerwaard was born on Java in the Dutch Indies.

He was educated at the School of Arts and Crafts in Haarlem and then at the Rijksacademie of Amsterdam (1904-1906), where he became close friends with Tjeerd Bottema and Wim de Haas.

Albert Chevallier Tayler | Genre painter

Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925) was an British artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting, but was also involved in the plein air methods of the Newlyn School.

He studied at Heatherley's School of Art, Royal Academy Schools and with avant-garde painters in Paris.

He was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire.

Furcy de Lavault | Still life with flowers

Marie-Albert-Tibule Furcy De Lavault (1847-1915) was a fine painter of landscapes, still lifes and above all, flowers.

Marie-Albert-Tibule Furcy de Lavault was born in Saint-Genis (Charente-Inférieure), France.

He debuted at the Salon of 1880 with Fleurs de Printemps (Spring Flowers) and Nature Morte (Still Life).

These early Salon entries show Furcy de Lavault’s propensities towards the long-established tradition of still lifes and an interest in flowers.

Giacomo Leopardi | The Lonely Sparrow / Il Passero Solitario, 1835

D'in su la vetta della torre antica,

Passero solitario, alla campagna

Cantando vai finchè non more il giorno;

Ed erra l’armonia per questa valle.

Primavera dintorno

Brilla nell’aria, e per li campi esulta,

Caspar David Friedrich | Il sognatore, 1835 | Hermitage Museum St Petersburg

Pedro Salinas | Che allegria vivere / What a joy to live

Che allegria, vivere

e sentirsi vissuto.

Arrendersi

alla grande certezza, oscuramente,

che un altro essere fuori di me,

molto lontano,

mi sta vivendo.

Maria Amaral

Harvey Dinnerstein | Figurative painter

Harvey Dinnerstein (April 3, 1928 - June 21, 2022) was a figurative artist and educator.

A draftsman and painter in the realistic tradition, his work included genre paintings, contemporary narratives, complex figurative compositions, portraits, and intimate images of his family and friends.

Education

Dinnerstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied with Moses Soyer, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Julian E. Levi at the Art Students League of New York.

Alois Arnegger | Winter landscapes

Austrian painter Alois Arnegger established a reputation as a fine portraitist and landscape artist, and was particularly well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings, especially of Naples, Sorrento and Capri.

Discover the beautiful paintings by Alois Arnegger, capturing a stunning sunsets over a winter landscape.

Mary Quant | The Mother of the Miniskirt / La "Mamma della Minigonna"

"The sixties mini was the most self indulgent, optimistic 'look at me, isn't life wonderful' fashion ever devised. It expressed the sixties, the emancipation of women, the Pill and rock 'n' roll. ... It was the beginning of women's lib" - Mary Quant, 2012.

Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, DBE, FCSD, RDI (1930-2023) is a British fashion designer and fashion icon.

She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements.

She was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hotpants.

Ernestine Carter wrote: "It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent fashion there are three: Chanel, Dior and Mary Quant".

Philippe Mercier | Rococo painter

Philippe Mercier (also spelled Philip Mercier; 1689 - 18 July 1760) was an artist of French Huguenot descent from the German realm of Brandenburg-Prussia (later Kingdom of Prussia), usually defined to French school.

Active in England for most of his working life, Mercier is considered one of the first practitioners of the Rococo style, and is credited with influencing a new generation of 18th-century English artists.

Mercier was born c. 1689-1691 in Berlin, the son of Pierre Mercier (died 1729, Dresden), a Huguenot tapestry-worker.

Robert Högfeldt | Watercolor cartoonist

Gustaf Robert Högfeldt was born in 1894 in Eindhoven, Netherlands and died in 1986 in Stockholm.

He was a painter, primarily known for his watercolours.

His pictures often feature comical and fairytale-like narratives.

He studied in Paris, Düsseldorf and Stockholm and is represented at the Nationalmuseum and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Herbert Davis Richter | Floral still life painter

Herbert Davis Richter (1874-1955) was born in Brighton 10th May 1874. His family moved to Lansdown on the outskirts of Bath and it was at the Bath School of Art that Richter studied Furniture Design and Architecture.

He subsequently set up in business with his brother Charles, the Company Bath Cabinet Makers, with himself as Head of the Design Department.

In 1900, the Company was awarded Gold and Silver Medals at the Paris World Exhibition.

The Company was later awarded contracts for the furniture and fittings for the Cunard Liners, Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth.

Fritz Syberg | Naturalist painter

Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Syberg, generally known as Fritz Syberg, (28 July 1862, Fåborg - 20 December 1939, Kerteminde) was a Danish painter and illustrator, one of the or Funen Painters (Fynboerne) living and working on the island of Funen.

Biography

Syberg, from a poor background in Fåborg, first served a house painter's apprenticeship under Syrak Hansen, the father of fellow artist Peter Hansen before attending the Copenhagen Technical School in 1882 where Holger Grønvold taught him drawing.

After a short period at the Danish Academy (spring 1884), he attended the Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler (1885-1891) where he was the first of the Fynboerne to study under Kristian Zahrtmann.

Hanna Pauli | Genre painter

Hanna Hirsch, later Hanna Pauli (1864-1940), was a Swedish painter; primarily of genre scenes and portraits.

Hanna Hirsch was a daughter of music publisher Abraham Hirsch.She was a friend of Eva Bonnier, and they followed each other through the painting school of August Malmström, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm.

Eva Bonnier (1857-1909)

Eva Fredrika Bonnier (1857-1909) was a Swedish painter and philanthropist.

Born in Stockholm as the daughter of publisher Albert Bonnier and a member of a leading family of publishers, Bonnier studied painting with August Malmström and became a student in the women's section of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 1878.

Together with her friend and co-student Hanna Hirsch, she traveled to Paris in 1883, staying there until 1889.

John Donne | Il sogno / The Dream

Per nessun altro, amore, avrei spezzato

questo beato sogno.

Buon tema per la ragione,

troppo forte per la fantasia.

Sei stata saggia a svegliarmi. E tuttavia

tu non spezzi il mio sogno, lo prolunghi.

Tu così vera che pensarti basta

per fare veri i sogni e storia le favole.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) | Contemplation | Royal Collection