Alberto Manfredi | Cubo-futurist painter

Italian painter🎨 and engraver Alberto Manfredi (Reggio Emilia, 1930-2001) after graduating at the University of Bologna was, for many years, professor of etching at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence.

He was one of the most respected and refined painters and print-makers in Italy. Manfredi frequently met Giorgio Morandi and made many portraits of him.

He moved also in literary circles and as a result illustrated over a hundred literary works and 'livres d’artiste'.

He held many exhibitions of his paintings which received critical acclaim (the critic Maccari wrote 'Manfredi is one of the very few painters who still knows how to draw').

As a result of his fine draughtsmanship he became a very accomplished printmaker of etchings, drypoints and linocuts, with a wonderful sense of the use of colour.

His subjects include portraits, landscapes, animals and female figures and a number of catalogues have been published by leading galleries in which he exhibited, in Italy and France.

Martin Johnson Heade | Landscapes

From: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum

The American painter Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) started out as a portraitist and took up landscape painting late in life.

He spent three years travelling around Europe during his formative years.

This first Grand Tour marked the start of an itinerant lifestyle which he continued to lead throughout his entire existence.

From 1840 to 1859 he lived in Philadelphia, New York, Saint Louis, Chicago, Trenton and Providence.

John Martin | Romantic Landscape painter

John Martin (19 July 1789 - 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator. Martin was born in July 1789, in a one-room cottage, at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the fourth son of Fenwick Martin, a one-time fencing master. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to learn heraldic painting, but owing to a dispute over wages the indentures were cancelled, and he was placed instead under Boniface Musso, an Italian artist, father of the enamel painter Charles Muss.

Stephan Bakałowicz | Academic painter

Stephan Bakałowicz /Степан Бакалович (1857, Warsaw -1947, Rome) was a Polish painter from Warsaw, famous in the Russian Empire. He was noted for his paintings on the subjects of Ancient Rome.

From 1936 he was a member of authorities of Polish Association of Artists - "The Capitol".

Bakałowicz was born in Warsaw, into an artistic Polish family. His father was a painter, his mother an actress and so it was only natural for the boy to be drawn to a career in the arts.

He received his first painting lessons from his father and then went on to study at the Warsaw School of Art before joining the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts in 1876.

Kari-Lise Alexander, 1982 | Pop Surrealism painter

Kari-Lise Alexander’s expressive work explores themes rooted in her Scandinavian heritage.

Innocent maidens float in worlds of their own making, oftentimes losing themselves in their daydreams.

At a young age Kari-Lise was always experimenting with paints, pencils, pastels and anything else she could get her hands on.

In 2000 she studied fine art for two semesters but left college to pursue other interests.

It wasn’t until spring of 2009 that her heart led her back to painting and she hasn’t stopped since.

Francis Danby | The Bristol School of painters

Francis Danby (16 November 1793 - 9 February 1861) was an Irish painter of the Romantic era. His imaginative, dramatic landscapes were comparable to those of John Martin. Danby initially developed his imaginative style while he was the central figure in a group of artists who have come to be known as the Bristol School. His period of greatest success was in London in the 1820s.