E. Charlton Fortune | Impressionist painter

Euphemia Charlton Fortune (1885-1969) was an American Impressionist artist from California.

She was trained in Europe, New York and San Francisco.

She painted many portraits as well as landscape views of California and European sites.

In midlife she turned to liturgical design. She signed her paintings "E. Charlton Fortune", which helped conceal her gender.

Eleuterio Pagliano | Romantic /genre painter

Eleuterio Pagliano (1826-1903) was an Italian painter of the Romantic period as well as an activist and fighter of the Risorgimento.

Pagliano was born in Casale Monferrato in the Kingdom of Sardinia and studied at the Brera Academy in Milan until 1848.

He initially trained with Giuseppe Sogni, then under the neoclassic painter Luigi Sabatelli.

He began his artistic career with paintings in a distinctly Neoclassical style, but very quickly he was won over to Romanticism, as championed then in Milan by Hayez and Tranquillo Cremona. He painted the Death of Luciano Manara.

Damian Elwes, 1960 | Conceptual painter

Damian Elwes has painted many of the major studios of the twentieth century including those of Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, René Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí.

Damian Elwes lives and works in Santa Monica, California.

Giacometti's Studio

Bloomsbury Group | Art History and Sitemap

Bloomsbury is the name commonly used to identify a circle of intellectuals and artists who lived in Bloomsbury, near central London, in the period 1904-1940.

In 1905, a group of writers and intellectuals began to meet at the London home of the artist Vanessa Bell and her writer sister Virginia Woolf to share ideas and support each other’s creative activities… their meetings continued for the next three decades.

They were in revolt against everything Victorian and played a key role in introducing many modern ideas into Britain.

Roger Fry | A london garden

Duncan Grant | Post-Impressionist painter

Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was born at Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire, the son of Major Bartle Grant and Ethel McNeill.

His childhood was spent in India.

He returned to Britain in 1893.

Although his family intended him to have an army career, he took up painting at the encouragement of the French painter Simon Bussy, entering the Westminster School of Art, London, in 1902.