Frederick F. Fursman (1874-1943) | Impressionist painter

Frederick F. Fursman, also known as Frederick Frary Fursman, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in France before establishing himself as a painter and teacher in Chicago and Milwaukee.

He started Michigan​’s Saugatuck Summer School of Painting in 1910 and remained its director for the next thirty years, influencing many young American artists.

Stanisław Żukowski | Interiors of Russian estate houses

Żukowski (Zhukouski), Stanisław (1873, Yendruhoucy village in Hrodna guberniya - 1944, Pruszków near Warszaw, Poland) - Painter of landscapes🎨, interiors, still life.

He was born into the family of aristocrat deprived of possessions and the rights of the nobility for participating in the 1863 uprising.

In 1892 S. Żukowski, against his father’s will, went to Moscow to study painting.

He graduated from Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he was supervised by Isaac Levitan🎨.

Francesco Longo Mancini (1880-1948)

Francesco Longo Mancini was an Italian painter🎨 of the early 20th century🎨 who was known for his paintings of figures.

He was born in Catania where he lived part of his life.

Francesco Longo Mancini studied at the Regio Istituto Tecnico in Catania.

After that, he moved to Rome, and studied at the Scuola Libera del Nudo under the guidance of Francesco Jacovacci and Filippo Prosperi.

Federico Rossano | School of Resina

Federico Rossano (1835-1912) was an Italian painter in a Realist style.

Rossano was born in Naples, and studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, at the objection of his father, a former soldier in the army of Murat, and who wished his son to study architecture.

He was influenced by the School of Posillipo, and the style Filippo Palizzi, but developed his own subject matter.

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) | Still Lifes

Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter🎨 who was one of the creators of the painting style known as Fauvism.

Vlaminck was noted for his brash temperament and broad interests; he was at various times a musician, actor, racing cyclist and novelist.

He was also a self-taught artist who proudly shunned academic training, aside from drawing lessons.

In 1900 Vlaminck met the painter André Derain 🎨 during a train accident, and the two shared a studio from 1900-1901.

Aloysius O'Kelly | Breton girls on a beach

Aloysius O'Kelly (1853-1936) was an Irish painter.

Early life

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Aloysius was the youngest of four boys and one girl to the Kelly family of Dublin. His grandparents on his father's side were natives of County Roscommon and his father ran a blacksmith's shop and dray making business in Peterson's Lane. It was his mother who directed him towards a career in the arts.

Cecile Walton (1891-1956) Symbolist painter

From an artistic family, Scottish painter Cecile Walton was the daughter of Glasgow Boys artist Edward Arthur Walton.

She studied in London, Edinburgh, Paris and Florence and became a member of the Edinburgh Group, practising in the capital as a painter, sculptor and illustrator.

Influenced by the Symbolist style, her book illustrations for the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen perfectly capture the fanciful characters and stories of the Danish author. | © National Galleries of Scotland

William W. Churchill (1858-1926)

William Worcester Churchill was born in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, in 1858 and died in Washington, DC in 1926. He was a painter of figure studies, portraits and landscapes in oil and pastel, and entered the Boston Museum School in 1877.

He then trained in Paris in the late 1870s with the French Salon artist Léon Bonnat for two years.

While still in Paris, Churchill also took lessons from his fellow-Bostonian Tarbell, who was himself in France studying at the Académie Julian.

Frederic Payet, 1960 | Impressionist painter

Born on the French Island of Madagascar where the sunny, colorful and exotic atmosphere and a quality of light found nowhere else, has influenced his art to this day; Frederic was reared in Paris and moved to the United States, in 1989.

His defining style is impressionism which he uses to encapsulate his perceptions of the world. Frederic’s work conveys the long-lost environments of a calm countryside and cityscape whether French or North American.

Maurice Cullen | The pioneer of the Canadian Impressionism

Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866-1934) was a pioneer of impressionism in Canadian art and is particularly noted for his winter landscapes.

Cullen moved to Montréal with his family in 1870.

There he began his art training as a sculptor at the Conseil des arts et manufactures and with sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert.

Like other artists of his generation, he went to Paris for additional training.

Daniel Sannier, 1944 | Impressionist painter

Contemporary French artist🎨 Daniel Sannier lives and works in his home town, an ancient city on the bay of the Somme River.

Most of the inspirations for his beautiful landscape paintings come from this area in Northern France known as "Picardie".

The orchards in bloom, the quiet side waters of the Somme River covered with Water lilies and the wide fields of "Colza" - these are his subjects and for that he has become well known throughout Europe as well in the United States.

Edmond Marie Petitjean (1844-1925)

Edmond Marie Petitjean was a self-taught French painter🎨, known for landscapes and seascapes.

His father was a lawyer and wanted him to follow suit; forcing him to study law despite his artistic talent and sending him to Paris, where he was apprenticed to a notary.

While there, he visited the museums and became determined to be an artist.

His parents cut off his financial support, but he was able to find employment managing a small factory in Nancy.

Alexei Harlamoff | The Arrangement, 1880

"The Arrangement" was painted in the mid-1880s, during the best period of Harlamoff's life, when he was popular and admired.

'Straightforward of subject, superlative of execution, and true to beauty... All is simple, there is no mendacious elegance'

- these are the words of Emile Zola describing another of Harlamoff's works and which can also be applied with perfection to "The Arrangement".

Gustave Madelain | Post-Impressionist painter

French artist Gustave Madelain (1867-1944) was born at Charly (Aisne) and quickly developed his own interpretation of French post Impressionism.

His specialized in painting landscapes of all types and these he usually did in oil paint.

He regularly showed his work in Paris and regularly submitted his work to the "Salon of Independents" from 1907.

Guillaume Seignac | No cherries for you!

French academic painter Guillaume Seignac was born in Rennes in 1870, and died in Paris in 1924.

He started training at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he spent 1889 through 1895.

He had many teachers there, including Gabriel Ferrier, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.

Jean-Charles Decoudun, 1962 | Paris painter

Fascinated by pedestrian streets and squares, churches and covered markets, in fact, with everyday life, the French painter🎨 Jean-Charles Decoudun uses watercolors to paint these scenes of life.

The artist observes and notes that people are attracted to these places of daily scenes and enjoys painting their squares, cafés and streets. The subjects of his paintings are, in his eyes, the true creators.

Vladimir Babich / Владимир Бабич, 1953

Vladimir Babich is a contemporary Russian artist🎨.

He works in the style of Post-impressionism following the traditions of Van Gogh🎨, Monet🎨.

Vladimir N. Babich graduated from the Moscow University of Art (Stroganovskoye uchilishye).

He is a member of Moscow Artists Association since 1986.

Arthur Hughes | April Love, 1856 | Tate Gallery

"April Love" is a painting by the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) which was created between 1855-1856.

It was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1856.

Originally acquired by William Morris, the painting was purchased by the Tate Gallery, London (now Tate Britain) in 1909 and has remained in the Tate collection to the present day.

Claude Monet | Summer, 1874

In April and May of 1874, for the first time Monet and his artist friends exhibited their own works rejected by the official "Salon" in rooms belonging to the photographer Nadar on the boulevard des Capucines.

A newspaper critic, referring to Monet’s Impression - Sunrise of 1872 mockingly coined the term "Impressionists".

Arthur Hughes | Fair Rosamund, 1854

Legend has it that in 1176 Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II of England, poisoned ‘Fair’ Rosamund Clifford, the king’s beautiful mistress and true love.

Henry had created a secret garden for Rosamund at Woodstock, a Royal estate in Oxfordshire, accessible only via a maze.

Arthur Hughes (British Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1832-1915) has painted the moment when Eleanor, seen lurking in the background, discovers the entrance to the garden, gaining the opportunity to commit murder.