Gerrit Dou | A Hermit, 1664 | Rijksmuseum

Title: A Hermit
Artist: Gerrit Dou🎨 (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1613-1675)
Date: 1664
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: h 33.5cm Ń w 27.5cm
Current location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Ludwig Dettmann (1865-1944) Couple in Landscape

Ludwig Julius Christian Dettmann (1865-1944) was a German🎨 Impressionist painter.

He was one of the founders of the Berlin Secession in 1898, and, together with Max Liebermann🎨, Walter Leistikow, Otto Heinrich Engel, Oskar Frenzel, Curt Herrmann and Fritz Klimsch, was a member of the advisory board.

Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Sogni, 1896

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Livorno, 4 ottobre 1859 - Firenze, 8 novembre 1933) è stato un pittore Italiano, conosciuto in particolare per i suoi realistici ritratti.

Elise MacDonald | Magical Surrealist painter

Born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Graduated with a BA(Fine Art) from Wits University.

First exhibition at Crake Gallery, Jhb in 1982.

Thereafter exhibited in group show at the Everard Read Gallery, Jhb.

After relocating to Knysna in 1996 exhibited at Trent Read's Knysna Fine Art gallery.

After a serious illness in 2009, her passion for painting was re-ignited.

Hermann Corrodi | Italian ruins at the nightfall

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (July 1844 - 30 January 1905) was an Italian painter** of landscapes and orientalist scenes
Corrodi was born in Frascati (an alternate source lists his birthplace as Zurich) and lived for many years in Rome. Corrodi studied at the Academy of St Luke under his father, Salomon Corrodi (1810-1892) and in Paris (1872).
Corrodi received commissions for history paintings from the British royal family. He was acquainted with most of the European royalty of the time, including a friendship with Queen Victoria, and traveled widely in the Far East, including Egypt, Syria, Cyprus and Istanbul, which provided the subject matter for many of his paintings.

Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) | Impressionist painter

Sir Arthur Streeton was one of the foremost Australian🎨 Impressionist painters, and his paintings continue to count among the most iconic images of Australian art.

Streeton’s artistic training began aged 15, with night classes in design at Melbourne’s National Gallery School, while he worked as an office clerk and, later, as an apprentice lithographer.

He read amateur art manuals imported from Europe and America that encouraged painting en plein air.

Tytus Brzozowski

Tytus Brzozowski - architect and watercolorist. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.

He also studied and worked in Finland where he was searching for severe Nordic art and design.

Tytus Brzozowski presents the city of his dreams - full of decorative buildings, narrow streets and soaring towers.

Using the elements of architecture and landscape that are characteristic for Warsaw, he creates new worlds that, despite its fairy character, are still local.