Werner van den Valckert | A girl holding pancakes in a feigned stone window, 1624

Werner van den Valckert (1580/85-1627) was a Dutch🎨 Golden Age painter and engraver.

Though he was born in Amsterdam, he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in the Hague between 1600-1605.

By 1614 he had moved to Amsterdam, because his daughter was baptized there. His earliest dated etchings are from 1612.

His surviving paintings are historical allegories and portraits.

He also made a prestigious schuttersstuk, which features the Amsterdam burgermeester Albert Burgh.

George Spencer Watson | Romantic / Portrait painter

George Spencer Watson R.O.I., R.P., A.R.A., R.A. (8 March 1869, in London - 11 April 1934, in London) was an English🎨 portrait artist of the late romantic school who sometimes worked in the style of the Italian Renaissance.

• Career

He studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1889, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1891.

He won Royal Academy Schools Silver Medals in 1889 and 1891, and the Landseer Scholarship in 1892.

He was elected to the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) in 1900, Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) in 1904, Associate of the Royal Academy in 1923, and a Member of the Royal Academy (RA) in 1932.

Antonio Ambrogio Alciati (1878-1929)

Alciati, Antonio Ambrogio - Nato a Vercelli il 5 sett. 1878, studiò pittura a Vercelli con G. Costa, nell'Istituto di Belle Arti, poi a Milano con V. Bignami e C. Tallone all'Accademia di Brera, dove più tardi tenne la cattedra di figura.

Dopo alcuni quadri di un verismo sentimentale e nebuloso - tra T. Cremona e E. Carrière - si dedicò particolarmente al ritratto con una tecnica impressionistica facile e a largo impasto -Ritratto della signorina Binda, premiato a Brera nel 1914.

Partecipò alle Biennali veneziane dalla VII alla XII. Eseguì affreschi in chiese e ville della Lombardia (villa Pirotta a Brunate). Opere sue si conservano nelle Gallerie d'arte moderna di Milano (Ritratto della madre, pastello) e di Roma (Ritratto della signorina Pirotta), nel municipio di Vercelli (La vedova) e in numerose collezioni private. Morì a Milano il 7 marzo 1929. | di Palma Bucarelli, © Treccani, Enciclopedia Italiana

Paul Cezanne, Un grec de la Belle Époque..

In his review of the Second Impressionist Exhibition of 1877, the art critic Georges Riviere (1850-1900) defended Les Baigneurs au repos🎨 of 1875-1876 by terming Cézanne, "Un grec de la Belle Époque" and arguing that:

• "his canvases have the calm and heroic serenity of the paintings and terra-cottas of antiquity, and the ignorant who laugh at the Bathers, for example, impress me like barbarians criticizing the Parthenon".
• "M. Cézanne est, dans ses æuvres, un grec de la belle époque; ses toiles ont le calme, la sérénité héroïque des peintures et des terres cuites antiques, et les ignorants qui rient devant les Baigneurs, par exemple, me font l’effet de barbares critiquant le Panthéon.
• (…) la peinture de M.Cézanne a le charme inexprimable de l’antiquité biblique et grecque, les mouvements des personnages sont simples et grands comme dans les sculptures antiques, les paysages ont une majesté qui s’impose …"

William Acton (1906-1945)

William Hamilton Mitchell Acton (16 August 1906 - 31 August 1945) was an Anglo🎨-Italian painter🎨 who died while in active service during World War II.

• Biography

William Hamilton Mitchell Acton was born in Florence on 16 August 1906, the son of Arthur Acton (1873-1953), an art collector and dealer, and Hortense Lenore Mitchell (1871-1962), the heiress of John J. Mitchell, President of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. Harold Acton was his older brother.

He attended Chateau de Lancy, Geneva, and Eton College; at Eton his contemporaries were Robert Byron, Brian Howard, Alfred Duggan and Anthony Powell, who remembers William fondly in his memoirs.

Arturo Martini | Portrait of Wally Toscanini, 1925

Arturo Martini, (born August 11, 1889, Treviso, Italy - died March 22, 1947, Milan), was a leading Italian sculptor and painter between World War I and II.

He moved between a very vigorous (almost ancient Roman) classicism and modernism. He was associated with public sculpture in fascist Italy, but later renounced his medium altogether.

Futurism

Martini seems to have been an active supporter of the Futurist movement between 1914-1918. He certainly corresponded with Umberto Boccioni and produced a modernist booklet in 1918. His early works show an archaic tendency, two-dimensionality and polychrome effects.

Oscar Hermann Lamb (1876-1947)

Oscar Hermann-Lamb was an Italian artist🎨 born in Trieste. Like so many Triestine painters he studied in Munich, where he remained for two years, between 1895-1896.

Immediately afterwards he continued his studies in Rome and from 1900 he decided to settle in Vienna.

His friendship with the Friulian sculptor Alfonso Canciani dates back to this phase - also a resident of Vienna - to whom he dedicated a portrait, documented in the archive of the Revoltella Museum.

Especially committed to the study of the figure, in these years he produced great compositions of a Divisionist🎨 imprint (see the "I founders🎨" canvas of 1903, purchased from the Revoltella Museum).

Albert Moulton Foweraker (1873-1942) Landscape painter

Albert Moulton Foweraker (7 July 1873 - January, 1942) was an English painter🎨.

He was educated at Exeter Cathedral School, was an exhibitioner at Cavendish College, Cambridge in 1890, and went on to Christ's College, from where he obtained his Degree in Applied Science in 1893.

He obtained First Class Honours, City and Guilds in 1896, and was a qualified Milling Engineer. He was also sometime Demonstrator In Science at Exeter Technical College. He was married in July 1897 to Annie Triphina Coles.

Alberto Salietti (Italian painter, 1892-1961)

Alberto Salietti (Ravenna, 1892 - Chiavari, 1961) was an Italian painter🎨.

Salietti was born in Ravenna and moved to Milan when child.

An eclectic character in the artistic universe of the first half of the century, he played two parts with expertise: he was the secretary of the group “Novecento” where he meticulously handled both national and international relationships and left a wealth of information in the archives; and painter "amongst the most significant contemporary artists" as how Ugo Nebbia has consecrated him.

Abraham Brueghel (1631-1690)

Abraham Brueghel è stato un pittore Fiammingo.

Appartenente alla celebre dinastia dei Brueghel - era figlio di Jan il Giovane e nipote di Jan Brueghel dei Velluti; il suo bisnonno era il celebre Pieter Bruegel il Vecchio, Abraham Brueghel trascorse, al contrario dei suoi famigliari, quasi tutta la vita in Italia, dove giunse nel 1649.

Abraham dipinse quasi solo composizioni di fiori; la sua prima commissione importante fu quella per il nobile messinese Antonio Ruffo, un raffinatissimo collezionista che fu il primo italiano a richiedere un'opera di Rembrandt.

Giovanni Boldini | La danzatrice spagnola, 1900

Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara, 31 dicembre 1842 - Parigi, 11 gennaio 1931) è stato un pittore Italiano, considerato uno degli interpreti più sensibili e fantasiosi dell'elettrizzante fascino della Belle Époque.

La ballerina spagnola si chiamava Anìta de la Feria, e le sue movenze vennero immortalate da Giovanni Boldini.

Mary Evelina Kindon (1849-1919) Genre painter

Mary Evelina Kindon was a British🎨 watercolorist, genre scenes🎨 and urban landscapes painter during the 20th century.

Mary Kindon was born in Victorian London and adopted a style that was being taught in the more progressive continental academies.

Mary Kindon was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the Suffolk Street Gallery in London. She also exhibited at the Institute of Painters in Watercolors from 1874.

She often painted mothers and children and seems to have been fond of painting girls in white dresses.

Rodolfo Amoedo (1857-1941) Academic painter

Rodolfo Amoedo (11 December 1857, Salvador - 31 May 1941, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian painter🎨, designer and decorator.

His interest in art and decoration began when a family friend (who was a lyricist) invited him to do work on the now defunct Teatro São Pedro.

In 1873, he enrolled at the "Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro", where he studied with Victor Meirelles.

The following year, he transferred to the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes.

Harry Bliss, 1964 | Famous Artist's Modeling Agency

Harry Bliss is a United States cartoonist and illustrator.

Bliss grew up in New York State among an artistic family. His sister Rachel Bliss and brother Charlie Bliss, and father Jack Bliss are all artists. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and studied illustration at the University of the Arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts and at Syracuse University earning an M.A.

Bliss has illustrated many books and produces cartoons and covers for The New Yorker. His first book for children, A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech was a New York Times bestseller, as was Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider and Diary of a Fly all by Doreen Cronin. Bliss' self-titled cartoon collection Death by Laughter with an introduction by Christopher Guest was published in 2008.

Harry Bliss | Modigliani, Léger, Munch, Picasso and Whistler cartoon

Eugenio Zampighi, il pittore Romantico

Eugenio Zampighi (Modena, 1859 - Maranello, 1944) è stato un pittore e fotografo Italiano, principalmente di soggetti di genere..

Iscrittosi giovanissimo all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Modena, fin dai suoi primi saggi di soggetto storico accoglie la suggestione della lezione verista del pittore modenese Giovanni Muzioli.

In giovanissima età e fin dai suoi primi dipinti storici fu influenzato dal pittore verista modenese Giovanni Muzzioli.