Pierre Carrier-Belleuse | Ballet dancers

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, French painter was the son of famous painter and sculptor Albert Carrier-Belleuse 1824-1887.

Similarly to his brother Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, he learned his artistic trade from his father.

He studied under Alexandre Cabanel and Galland at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1875.

Yaroslav Gerzhedovich, 1970 | Surrealist / Gothic style painter

Yaroslav Gerzhedovich was born in Leningrad in 1970, later graduating from the Nikolai Roerich Fine School of Arts. Gerzhedovich's works are always masterfully painted with his style echoing those of the old masters.

His graphic works are drawn in muted tones, resemble illustrations to nonexistent fictional novels and have found numerous fans after frequently popping up on the Internet. The World Wide Web became not only a means for sharing his artistic call to escape mundane reality for the world of fantasy but also a source of inspiration for the artist.

Sue Halstenberg | Victorian elegance

Sue Halstenberg's paintings are vibrant portraits of love, beauty and healing energies.

Her artwork is in Dr. Doreen Virtue’s oracle cards is also reproduced as stitchery kits, pillows and tapestries. Sue's art studio is in Ojai CA.

Sue Halstenberg began her career working as a fashion illustrator for the Southern California department stores.

A few years later she started her own business, accepting commissions for portrait and figure paintings in pastel and acrylic.

Direk Kingnok, 1976 | Watercolor Cityscape painter

Direk was born in a small town in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

He grew up among natural surroundings and interested in art since childhood.

At age 9 he won a gold medal from the International Children’s Art Competition Japan and several times later, That must be the starting point for his art more seriously.

Wilhelm von Schadow | Romantic painter

Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (7 September 1789 - 19 March 1862) was a German Romantic painter.

Biography

He was born in Berlin, the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, who gave him his first lessons in drawing. He then turned to painting, and was instructed by Weitsch.

In 1806-1807 Schadow served as a soldier. In 1810 he traveled with his elder brother Rudolph to Rome where he became one of the leading painters of the Nazarene movement.

Giuseppe Cominetti | Divisionist painter

Giuseppe Cominetti (Salasco, Province of Vercelli, 1882 - Rome, 1930) was an Italian painte.

His brother Gian Maria Cominetti (1884-1961) was a notable writer and screenwriter. He studied till 1898 in the Lyceum Massimo D'Azeglio in Turin.

He received his first training was at the Albertina Academy of Turin, but moved in 1902 to Genoa where he came into contact with Plinio Nomellini and the work of Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen.

Giuseppe Cominetti - I conquistatori del sole

John Singer Sargent | Gassed, 1919

Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).

It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station.

Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war and visited the Western Front in July 1918 spending time with the Guards Division near Arras, and then with the American Expeditionary Forces near Ypres.