Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

John Atkinson Grimshaw, British painter, was a Victorian-era and Imaginative painter, known for his city night-scenes and landscapes.

Some artists of Grimshaw's period, like Vincent Van Gogh and James Smetham, left letters and documents recording their work and lives.

Grimshaw left behind no letters, journals or papers; scholars and critics have little material on which to base their understanding of his life and career.

Georg Anton Rasmussen | Seascape painter

Georg Anton Rasmussen (1842-1914) was Norwegian artist, known for land-and seascape paintings.

Georg Anton Rasmussen was born in Stavanger in 1842, but studied with the German painter Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905)** in Düsseldorf.

Consequently, several of G.A. Rasmussen’s German subjects originate in the Düsseldorf area, but there are also themes from Berlin to where he moved in 1899.

His landscapes were extremely popular, as G.A. Rasmussen’s eye for colour was more powerful and personal than was normally the case in the Germany of the age.

Quang Ho, 1963 | Still life

Vietnamese-born American painter🎨 and illustrator Quang Ho🎨, was born in Hue, Vietnam, immigrated to the United States in 1975 and is now a U.S. Citizen.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Quang Ho🎨 see Quang Ho, 1963 | Impressionist Figurative painter🎨.

Paul Falconer Poole RA | Genre painter

Paul Falconer Poole RA (1806-1879) was an British** subject and genre painter** born in Bristol.

• Life and work

Though self-taught his fine feeling for colour, poetic sympathy and dramatic power gained Poole a high position among British artists. He exhibited his first work in the Royal Academy at the age of twenty-five, the subject being The Well, a scene in Naples. There was an interval of seven years before he next exhibited his Farewell, Farewell in 1837, which was followed by the Emigrant's Departure, Hermann and Dorothea and By the Waters of Babylon.

Georg Pauli | Symbolist painter

Swedish painter Georg Vilhelm Pauli (2 July 1855 - 28 November 1935) was born in Jönköping.

Pauli studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 1871-75 and 1878-79, and studied and worked in France and Italy for several years during the 1870s and 1880s.

He studied naturalist in- and outdoor painting, influenced by Bastien-Lepage.

Louis Janmot | The Lyon School of Art

Anne-François-Louis Janmot (1814-1892) was a French painter and poet.

Early years

Janmot was born in Lyon, France of Catholic parents who were deeply religious. He was extremely moved by the death of his brother in 1823 and his sisters in 1829.

He became a student at the Royal College of Lyon where he met Frederic Ozanam and other followers of his philosophy professor, Abbe Noirot.

In 1831 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and a year later, he won the highest honor, the Golden Laurel.

Vilhelm Hammershøi | Interior / Portrait painter

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.

In 1997, Denmark issued a postage stamp in his honour.

Life

Vilhelm Hammershøi was born iin Copenhagen, Denmark.

The son of a well-to-do merchant, Christian Hammershøi, and his wife, Frederikke (née Rentzmann), Hammershøi studied drawing from the age of eight with Niels Christian Kierkegaard and Holger Grønvold, as well as painting with Vilhelm Kyhn, before embarking on studies with Frederik Vermehren and others at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | Le pardon en Bretagne, 1886

From: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Like many of his contemporaries, Dagnan-Bouveret** was fascinated by the religious customs of Brittany in northern France.

In this scene, penitents wearing traditional regional dress proceed solemnly around a church; some go barefoot or kneel to demonstrate remorse.

Annotated drawings on the reverse of the canvas indicate that the painter’s wife posed for the young woman in the foreground; the mother of an artist friend appears at left.