Joan Brull | Dream, 1905

Artist: Joan Brull (Catalan symbolist painter⏩, 1863-1912)
Title: Dream
Date: circa 1905
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Height: 2,000 mm (78.74 in); Width: 1,410 mm (55.51 in).
Current location: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

François-Alfred Delobbe | Woman sifting, 1882

François Alfred Delobbe's (13 October 1835, Paris - 10 February 1920, Paris) most powerful influences were his deep connection to the French countryside and William Bouguereau, his teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Born in Paris and absorbed in his studies for so many years, the young artist had few opportunities to escape the city.

It was not until Delobbe journeyed to Concarneau, the native home of his friend and fellow artist Alfred Guillou, that he began to explore Brittany's rocky fields and ancient villages.

Rudolf Koller (Swiss painter, 1828-1905)

Rudolf Koller (21 May 1828 - 5 January 1905) was a Swiss painter⏭. He is associated with a realist and classicist style, and also with the essentially romantic Düsseldorf school of painting.

Koller's style is similar to that of the realist painters Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Considered Switzerland's finest animal painter, Koller is rated alongside George Stubbs, Rosa Bonheur and Théodore Géricault. While his reputation was based on his paintings of animals, he was a sensitive and innovative artist whose well-composed works in the "plein air" tradition, including Swiss mountain landscapes, are just as finely executed.

Riccardo Galli (1869-1944) | Pittore naturalista

Riccardo Galli (Milano, 1869 – Barzio, 1944) è stato un pittore ed incisore Italiano.

Oltre che pittore, Riccardo Galli fu anche poeta ed illustratore per note riviste dell’epoca e per l’editore Ricordi e musicista. Fu allievo di Giuseppe Bertini (pittore) all'accademia di Brera.

La sua pittura all’inizio fu ispirata dal vero e che trovava i propri temi nella vita contadina e della campagna. Una pittura costruita con il colore sovrapposto in dense pennellate e che era indirizzata dagli ideali patriottici verso il naturalismo lombardo.

Noè Bordignon | Pittore di genere

Noè Raimondo Bordignon (Salvarosa, 3 settembre 1841 - San Zenone degli Ezzelini, 7 dicembre 1920) è stato un pittore Italiano.

Biografia

Di umili origini, grazie all'interessamento di alcune personalità ebbe una prima formazione a Castelfranco, passando poi, nel 1859, all'Accademia di Venezia.

L'ambiente lagunare lo mise in contatto con artisti di grande rilievo: allievo di Michelangelo Grigoletti, Carlo De Blaas e Pompeo Marino Molmenti, ebbe come compagni di studi Giacomo Favretto e Guglielmo Ciardi; strinse una forte amicizia con Tranquillo Cremona e, più tardi, prese contatto con i maggiori esponenti della pittura di genere, come il già citato Giacomo Favretto, Luigi Nono ed Alessandro Milesi.

James Clarke Hook (1819-1907)

James Clarke Hook RA (21 November 1819 - 14 April 1907) was an British painter⏭ and etcher of marine, genre and historical scenes and landscapes.

Hook was born in London, the son of James Hook, a draper and one time Judge of the Mixed Commission Court in Sierra Leone. His mother was the second daughter of Bible scholar Dr Adam Clarke - hence the painter's second name. Young Hook's first taste of the sea was on board the Berwick smacks which took him on his way to Wooler.

Thomas Bossard, 1971 | Fantasy painter

Thomas Bossard, Painter in oil, born in Poitiers, France, studied art at Saint Luc School, Belgium.

His paintings of the theatre portray the humour and comical life behind the scenes and his large canvas’s show the insignificance of man.

This young artist has a very deep understanding of human nature. Prior to becoming a professional artist Thomas worked with the theatre, creating and putting together stage sets for plays and opera, and he has also been a porcelain artist at Limoges (France).

Nicola Simbari (1927-2012) | Abstract painter

Nicola Simbari was an Italian painter.

Though born in San Lucido, Calabria, Nicola Simbari was raised in Rome, where his father was an architect for the Vatican.

He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and in the 1940s he began devoting himself to painting in a studio at Via del Babuino in central Rome.
He began to develop a distinct style stemming from impressions of life, nature and the Mediterranean, impressions which abstractly reflect themselves in the purely vivid and passionate colors of his work.

Franz Eybl | Reading girl, 1850

Franz Eybl (1 April 1806 - 29 April 1880) was an Austrian painter.

Eybl was born in the Viennese suburb of Gumpendorf at Große Steingasse 136 (today Stumpergasse 55).

By 1816, at the age of ten, he had already entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, studying under Josef Klieber and Josef Mössmer.

Between 1820-1823 he studied under Johann Baptist von Lampi and Franz Caucig, reproducing antique statues and casts.

Eugene de Blaas | Gipsy Girl

Eugene de Blaas, also known as Eugene von Blaas or Eugenio Blaas (24 July 1843 - 10 February 1931), was an Italian-Austrian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism.

Carlo Perindani (Italian Impressionist painter, 1899-1986)

Italian painter⏭ Carlo Perindani (1899-1986) was born in Milan, in Corso Garibaldi, and had only ever seen the sea once, as a child, with the eyes of someone who dreams of liberty while he is a prisoner; and for a long time he kept tight hold of it in his heart to give himself strength.

Perindani lived for a while on the Italian island of Capri which is famous for its beautiful coast line.

Armand Guillaumin | Landscapes in Crozant

Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 - June 26, 1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer.

Guillaumin was called the leader of the École de Crozant, a diverse group of painters who came to depict the landscape in the region of the Creuse around the village of Crozant.