Gerardine Jacoba ~ Still life painter of flowers

Came from an artistic family, the still life Dutch painter Gerardina Jacoba Van de Sande Bakhuyzen [1826-1895], was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Her father was the painter Hendrik Van de Sande Bakhuyzen, and her brother was the painter Julius Jacobus Van de Sande Bakhuyzen.

Gerardina was taught by her father, as were all her numerous sisters. She achieved great success with her oils and watercolours of flowers and still lives, winning numerous medals between 1870-1880, in which year she had an exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in London.

Andre Kohn, 1972 | White umbrellas

Андрей Конь is a Russian-born American painter.

Raised by an artistically gifted family near the Caspian Sea in southern Russia, Andre Kohn’s childhood was marked by the natural splendor of mountains and sea, and by an unfettered access to all the creative arts.

Almudena Pintado, 1969 ~ Abstract Mixed media painter

Almudena Pintado, self-taught spanish painter, born in Benavente, Spain in 1969. CIALEC member (International Centre for Art and Literature "E. Córdoba"). Develops his work in the abstract style and mixed media on canvas or wood. 

Mary Baxter St. Clair | Magical Fantasy painter

Mary Baxter St. Clair, american painter, entered the world with a brush in her hand.

Others remark that she paints with fairy dust.

All are touched by her sense of wonder and marvel at her beautifully detailed paintings of wide-eyed children, ethereal angels, elusive fairies and piquant pixies, richly dressed in brilliant colors.

Ennio Montariello, 1960 ~ Figurative painter

Nato a Napoli nel 1960, il pittore italiano Ennio Montariello vive a Campello sul Clitunno (Pg). Nel 1978 si diploma presso il Liceo Artistico di Napoli. Nel 1982 e 1983 si diploma agli Stages Internazionali di pittura di Anacapri di Napoli. Questioni delle arti: incontri internazionali, tenuti da Gillo Dorfles, Joe Tilson, Gianni Pisani, Enrico Baj, Giulio Carlo Argan, Achille Bonito Oliva, Filiberto Menna, Lea Vergine, Francesco Vincitorio, Mimma Russo.

Childe Hassam | Flag series / La serie delle bandiere

The most distinctive and famous works of american painter Childe Hassam's later life compose the set of about thirty paintings known as the "Flag series".
Flag paintings by Hassam are in the collections of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Historical Society and the National Gallery of Art.
Claude Monet, among other french painter, had also painted flag-themed works - The Rue Montorgueil, Paris 1878.

Claude Monet | The Rue Montorgueil, 1878

The Rue Montorgueil, Paris, was painted by Claude Monet (1840-1926) on 30 June 1878 for a festival declared that year by the government celebrating "peace and work".
This was one of the events organised for the third Universal Exhibition in Paris a few weeks after it opened, and intended to be a symbol of France’s recovery after the defeat of 1870.

Gustave Caillebotte | Impressionist painter

Gustave Caillebotte, (born August 19, 1848, Paris, France - died February 21, 1894, Gennevilliers), French painter, art collector, and impresario who combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis.

Born into a wealthy family, Caillebotte trained to be an engineer but became interested in painting and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He met Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet in 1874 and showed his works at the Impressionist exhibition of 1876 and its successors.