Adam de Coster | A young woman holding a distaff before a lit candle

This painting is emblematic of the refined and dramatic nocturnes that form the small catalogue of works by Adam de Coster.

Benedict Nicolson was the first scholar to isolate a corpus of works by this Flemish candlelight painter in a series of publications.

He based this group around Lucas Vorsterman’s engraving after a lost work by de Coster, which depicted tric-trac players and a musician illuminated by two burning candles on a table.

Hsin-Yao Tseng, 1986 | Cityscapes

Award winning painter Hsin-Yao Tseng was born in Taipei, Taiwan.

After graduated from high school in Taiwan, in 2004 summer, Hsin-Yao came to United State to study aboard.

He works in a range of genres: from lush evocations of San Francisco and other cities to expressive portraits and finally to lustrous interiors in which multiple figures enact a story.

Dario Campanile, 1948

Born in Rome, Italian painter Dario Campanile started to sketch as a very young child. At the age of six, his talent for art was encouraged with the gift of a small set of watercolors from an uncle, himself a painter.

When he was 14, Campanile was bedridden with a kidney ailment for three months, and his father gave him his first oil paints to cheer him up.

As soon as he began to work with them, there was a sense of familiarity of being able to easily express himself in this medium. This experience influenced him profoundly to continue with his art.

Henry Ryland | Neo-Classical painter

Henry Ryland (1856-1924) was a British painter, book illustrator, decorator and designer.

He was the son of John Benjamin and Elizabeth Ryland and was born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire in 1856.

He studied in London at the South Kensington Art School, and at Heatherley's.

He also studied in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Lefebvre.

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.