Jafar Petgar (1920-2005) | Genre painter

Jafar Petgar (1920-2005) was one of the most influential Iranian Old Masters.

His work, a dozen at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, shows this gifted artist achieved the mastery of his craft at an early age (see his painting of his mother while he was only 17).

Osamu Obi, 1965 | Figurative/Portrait painter

Japanese painter⏭ 小尾 修 Osamu Obi was born in Kanagawa, Japan.

• 1988 - Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting;
• 1990 - Completed Master's Degree Program in Oil Painting, Musashino Art University;
• 1991 - Exhibition of Grand Prize Paintings, Tokyo Central Museum. Awarded Grand Prize;
• 1993 - Participated in Yasui Prize Exhibition;
• 1996 - Participated in Exchange Exhibition between South Korean and Japanese Oil Painters (Yokohama and Seoul).

Henri-Joseph Harpignies | The Barbizon school of painters

Harpignies, Henri-Joseph (born June 28, 1819, Valenciennes, France-died Aug. 28, 1916, Saint-Prive), French landscape painter, born at Valenciennes in 1819, was intended by his parents for a business career, but his determination to become an artist was so strong that it conquered all obstacles, and he was allowed at the age of twenty-seven to enter Achard's atelier in Paris.

From this painter he acquired a groundwork of sound constructive draughtsmanship, which is so marked a feature of his landscape painting.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Le Bras Vif à Choissy, 1911

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir⏩ (French painter⏭, 1841-1919)
Title: Le Bras Vif à Choissy , 1911
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 32.38 x 54.29 cm. (12.7 x 21.4 in.)

Martiros Manoukian, 1947 | Abstract painter

"God gives each of us something at birth. A person doesn’t become an artist – he is simply born an artist", …and so it began for Martiros Manoukian, the artist born on August 5, 1947.

His talent emerged at an early age and he began painting seriously at age 11.

Even as a child, Martiros exhibited his great enthusiasm for freedom, adventure, and nature.

Full of energy and the desire for self-expression, he was already rebelling against the status quo, conformity, and anything "collective" in character.

Catherine Chauloux, 1957 | Magic Realism painter

Born in Nantes, Catherine Chauloux lives in the Nantes region.

Self-taught painter, she had for masters the painters of the Italian and Flemish renaissance.

She exhibits since 1984 in France and abroad. For 10 years, she has been living in a lyrical world on the borders of the imagination..

Scott Waddell, 1981 | Figurative painter

Scott Waddell was born and raised in Central Florida.

He received his BFA from Florida State University.

After college, Scott spent the next several years studying classical painting at the Florence Academy of Art and the Waterstreet Atelier under Jacob Collins.

In 2006 Scott moved with his wife to shoreline Connecticut where they continue to reside with their son and many pets.

Sir William Fettes Douglas | Victorian painter

Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822-1891) was a Scottish painter and art connoisseur, rising to be President of the Royal Scottish Academy.

He was the eldest son of James Douglas and Martha Brook, grand-niece of Sir William Fettes, bart., the founder of Fettes College; was born on 12 March 1822 in Edinburgh.

On the completion of his education at the High School of Edinburgh, he entered the Commercial Bank of Scotland, in which his father was accountant; but the elder Douglas was an amateur of some talent, and the son devoted the leisure of the ten years he was in the bank"s service to painting and drawing.