Sir William Orpen | Portrait painter

Sir William Orpen, in full Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (1878-1931) was a Irish painter.

He attended the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin (1891-1897), and the Slade School of Art, London (1897-1899). He became a friend of Augustus John and joined the New English Art Club.

The influence of Velázquez, in particular, is apparent in such early genre subjects as The Mirror (1900; London, Tate).

Adolfo Tommasi | Macchiaioli painter

Adolfo Tommasi (1851, Livorno - 1933, Florence) was an Italian painter.

Having left Livorno, Tommasi moved to Florence, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and met Silvestro Lega, who taught Adolfo’s younger cousins Angiolo and Ludovico and spent a great deal of time with the Tommasi family. He also briefly studied under Carlo Markò the Younger, but the style of academic painting did not appeal to him.

Daniel Sprick, 1953 | Figurative painter

American painter Daniel Sprick was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and studied at the Ramon Froman School of Art, the National Academy of Design in New York City, as well as the University of Northern Colorado where he received his BA in 1978.

Daniel Sprick’s life long love of drawing and technical mastery of painting began with his fascination of drawing at the age of four. Well educated in the pictorial tradition of art history, Sprick’s influences reach back to Northern European masters such as Robert Campin and Roger van der Weyden admiring their ability to render a convincing look at invisible realms and otherworldly occurrences.

Gaston Cariot | Neo-Impressionist painter

The painter Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot🎨 (1872-1950) was born in Paris in the Marais district.

His father was a luggage maker. Very young, Cariot drew sketches of Paris and the surrounding countryside.

The artist was strongly influenced by the work of Claude Monet🎨, his series of 1890-1891 and his views of the Cathedral of Rouen🎨, as well as by the technique of pointillist and divisionist🎨 painters.

Eugene Boudin | Impressionist painter

Eugène Boudin, (born July 12, 1824, Honfleur, France - died August 8, 1898, Deauville), one of the first French landscape painters to paint in the open air, directly from nature.

His many beach scenes directly link the carefully observed naturalism of the early 19th century and the brilliant light and fluid brushwork of late 19th-century Impressionism.

Charles Camoin | Fauve painter

Charles Camoin (23 September 1879 - 20 May 1965) was a French painter associated with the Fauves.

Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck), formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves (meaning "the wild beasts") for their wild, Expressionist-like use of color.

Gustave Loiseau | The historiographer of the Seine

Gustave Loiseau (3 October 1865 - 10 October 1935) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.

Loiseau's paintings, revealing his passion for the seasons from the beginning of spring to the harvests later in the autumn, often depict the same orchard or garden scene as time goes by.

Series of this kind, which also include cliffs, harbours or churches, are reminiscent of Claude Monet.

Peder Mønsted | Naturalist painter

Peder Mørk Mønsted (10 December 1859 - 20 June 1941) was a Danish realist painter, best known for his landscape paintings.

His father was a well-to-do shipbuilder.

At an early age, he began to receive painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus and, from 1875-1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner.

In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau.

Ludwig Passini | Genre painter

Ludwig Johann Passini (1832-1903) was an Austrian narrative and genre painter🎨 and printmaker.

Ludwig Passini was born on 9 July 1832 in Vienna, the son of the engraver Johann Nepomuk Passini. The Passini family moved to Trieste in 1850.

On 9 November 1864 Passini married Anna Warsaw (1841-1866), who was the daughter of Robert and Mary Warschauer, the great-granddaughter of banker Joseph Mendelssohn and the great-great-granddaughter of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.