Stojan Milanov, 1963 | Impressionist painter

Serbian painter Stojan Milanov has been a professional painter since 1985 and member of The Applied Artists and Designers Association of Serbia - ULUPUDS since 2005.

In 2005, he was awarded "Artist of the Year" by Simic Galleries, California.

His themes are human figure and urban landscape, technique oil on canvas.

Graduated from the University of Architecture in Belgrade.

He has participated in many collective exhibitions and art meetings.

Wendy Ng | Abstract / Realist painter

"Painting in the traditional form gives me the opportunity to experiment with the qualities of the paint, the juxtaposition of patterns and textures, to achieve a play of balance and to create rich and inviting paintings" - Wendy Ng.

Chinese born artist Wendy Ng got her education in the United States, Belgium and the United Kingdom and currently based in Australia. Her heart has always desired to study art. She was trained in Art and Design at The Wimbledon School of Art, UK, with a Graphic Design and Illustration background in advertising and publishing.

She paints in the traditional form but takes her ideas further by experimenting with patterns and textures creating a balance between Real-life Art and Abstract Art.

Michael Carson, 1972

Influenced by the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec🎨, John Singer Sargent🎨, Norman Rockwell🎨, Malcolm Liepke🎨, and Milt Kobayashi, Michael Carson is primarily a figurative Artist who likes to tell a story.

His figures usually find themselves in bars, nightclubs, cafes, and jazz clubs; even at home in intimate settings.

Stanislav Plutenko, 1961 | Surrealist painter

Stanislav V. Plutenko was born in Russia. Plutenko studied at the Moscow University of National Economy, taking lessons in painting from private masters. In 1984 he created his first works.

From 1985-1990 he did designer's work in commercial advertising and joined UNESCO's guild of graphic artists in 1991.

In 1997 he was rewarded with the Grand Prix of the «Golden Brush» exhibition.

Samuel Morse (1791-1872) | American inventor and painter

Known today primarily as the inventor of the telegraph, Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) began his career as a painter.

Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, he attended Yale University, graduated in 1810, and moved to Boston.

There he became the private pupil and friend of the painter Washington Allston, who introduced him to a traditional program of study that encompassed drawing, anatomy, and art theory.

With Allston’s encouragement, Morse went to London, where he met Benjamin West and was accepted as a student at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Morse’s first major painting there, The Dying Hercules (1812-1813, Yale University Art Gallery), earned high praise.

Returning home in 1815, full of optimism and national pride, Morse confronted an artistic climate unfavorably disposed to history painting in the grand manner and was forced to turn to portrait painting for financial support.

Throughout the late 1810s and 1820s, he painted portraits of clients in cities and towns along the Atlantic seaboard.

Van der Vaart and Wissing | Queen Anne, when Princess of Denmark,1685

Title: Queen Anne, when Princess of Denmark;

Artists: Willem Wissing (Dutch painter🎨, 1656-1687), Jan van der Vaart (Dutch painter🎨, 1647-1721)

Current location: National Galleries of Scotland.

Queen Anne (1665-1714) - Princess of Denmark, Reigned 1702-1714 - was the last of the Stuart dynasty to occupy the British throne.

Shown here aged eighteen, seductively dressed and posed in a sumptuous interior, her reign was dominated by war with the French and her failure to produce an heir.

Robert Philipp (1895-1981) | Impressionist painter

Robert Philipp was an American painter🎨 influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his figures, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars.

Noted art critic Henry McBride called Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation.

He was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League of New York for 33 years, the American artist Itshak Holtz was a student of Philipp.