Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859-1933) | Genre painter

Italian painter🎨 Vittorio Matteo Corcos was  known for genre works🎨 depict winsome and finely dressed young men and women, in moments of repose and recreation.

Born on October 4, 1859 in Livorno, Italy, he studied drawing and painting at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence under Enrico Pollastrini.

Between 1881-1886, he frequently exhibited at the Salon.

His works are held in the collections of the Uffizi in Florence and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome.

William Logsdail (1859-1944)

William Logsdail fu un pittore Britannico prolifico di paesaggi, ritratti e di genere - scene metropolitane su larga scala, in particolare monumenti di Londra.

Ha esposto alla Royal Academy, alla Royal Society of British Artists, alla Grosvenor Gallery, alla New Gallery (Londra) ed altri.

È famoso per le sue realistiche scene di Londra e Venezia e per il suo stile plein air.

Angelo Barabino (Italian painter, 1883-1950)

Angelo Barabino è stato un pittore Italiano🎨, dapprima Divisionista🎨-simbolista, poi esponente della corrente sociale, allievo di Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. Amico del Pellizza, fu uno dei suoi allievi più fedeli, e come tale seguì il maestro anche nel suo passaggio dalla corrente Divisionista🎨 a quella sociale. Nel 1907, dopo la morte del Pellizza, completò un dipinto da lui incompiuto, "Il girotondo".

Nenad Mirkovich, 1951

Mirkovich, il cui nome Nenad nella sua lingua madre (serbo) significa "sorpresa", offre quell'elemento di sorpresa offre quell'elemento nei suoi dipinti di paesaggi tranquilli, coste fragorose, sinfonie pacifiche ed energici gruppi jazz.

Collezionisti di tutte le età e di diversi stili di vita trovano qualcosa nel variegato repertorio di Nenad Mirkovich per deliziare i sensi. Si delizia con le reazioni degli spettatori quando scoprono che lo stesso artista di talento ha dipinto tutte queste scene.

Nenad Mirkovich afferma, tuttavia, che i vari soggetti e gli stili che usa nel suo lavoro non sono così diversi come sembrano a prima vista.

Daniel Ridgway Knight | La sosta, 1890

Dopo i primi successi artistici di Daniel Ridgway Knight a Parigi, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissioner lo invitò a trasferirsi a Poissy, una città rurale non lontana dai confini della città.

Il famoso Meissonier è stato colpito dal talento di Ridgway Knight e ha offerto il suo consiglio protetto e una sfida: dipingere un'immagine di grandi dimensioni da un recente schizzo.

Ridgway Knight raggiunse audacemente l'obiettivo del suo mentore, e il conseguente dipinto del 1875, Les Laveuses (venduto in queste sale il 25 aprile 2006, lotto 142) lo mise in una nuova direzione, informando una serie di composizioni multi-figurali ambiziose e complesse, come il presente lavoro.

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Henri Fantin-Latour (French painter and lithographer, January 14, 1836 - August 25, 1904) - A collection of 111 paintings and lithographs.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Fantin-Latour see:

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Henri Fantin-Latour | Cherries, 1883

Henri Fantin-Latour | Cherries, 1883 | Victoria and Albert Museum

"Cherries" is a fine example of Fantin-Latour's paintings of flower, a category in which he progressively specialised executing up to 500 floral compositions.

This painting shows a cherry branch with cherries and leaves whose bright red and green contrast against the plain white background.

This effect of light and colour are characteristic of the new naturalism developed in French art in the second half of the 19th century, which anticipate the Impressionists' new experimentations.

"Cherries" was probably painted in Paris in Fantin-Latour's studio.

It shows a branch of cherry tree with cherries and leaves, the motif being cut off on the edges.

It is one of the three paintings the South Kensington School of Design, now Victoria and Albert Museum, acquired as a model for its students.

They all share the characteristic of presenting a single plant rather than a bouquet, depicted without a vase or table, on a plain background.

Here the artist focused his attention on the contrast between the brilliant colours of the cherries and the almost white background, pervading the picture with a strong luminosity.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Self-Portrait, 1858

Henri Fantin-Latour | Self-Portrait, 1858 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

At the beginning of his career, between 1854 and 1861, Fantin-Latour executed a large number of self-portraits in chalk, charcoal, and oil.

This example reveals his fascination with the work of Rembrandt and Courbet, who both used broad, rich strokes of paint and depicted forms as if they were emerging from an enveloping darkness. | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Henri Fantin-Latour | Artworks | Page 3

Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group compositions of contemporary French classical composers and celebrities in the arts.

For other works by Fantin-Latour see:

• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 1
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) | 111 artworks | Page 2

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)

A contemporary of the Impressionists, the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour was notable for his flower paintings and group portraits of the Paris intellectuals of the period.

The son of Théodore Fantin-Latour, also an artist, who initiated him in the art of painting, he studied at the École de Dessin in Paris.

However, he derived his real training from copying the classical works of the Great Masters in the Musée du Louvre, particularly Titian and Veronese.

Later, in 1861, he was a disciple of Gustave Courbet for a while, although his discreet, intimate realism was very different from that of his master and caused them to go their separate ways very soon.

Peter Mork Monsted (1859-1941)

Peder Mørk Mønsted (Balle Mølle, 10 dicembre 1859 - Fredensborg, 20 giugno 1941) è stato uno tra i rappresentanti del periodo d'oro della pittura Danese e fu noto come paesaggista.

Mønsted difficilmente può essere collegato alla pittura di paesaggio accademica perché venne molto influenzato dall'Impressionismo francese.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Page 1

Ignace Henri Jean Fantin-Latour was a French painter, born in Rhone-Alpes, France, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He is best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of his friends Parisian artists and writers.

His work strongly influenced the Symbolist movement of the late 19th Century.

Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England.

William Bouguereau | Tricoteuse Bretonne, 1871

Curious to experience the uniquely preserved language, religion, and traditions of Brittany’s sixth-century Celtic ancestors, crowds of cultural tourists travelled to this province in northwestern France in the late nineteenth century.

William Bouguereau made his first journey with his family in the summer of 1866 and found himself deeply moved by the region’s coastal landscape and distinctive people, leading him to return every summer until 1870, often vacationing in the small town of Douarnenez.

In July, their final visit was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War prompting Bouguereau’s return to Paris in July to enlist in the National Guard, putting his artistic career on hiatus.

William Bouguereau | Tricoteuse, 1873

Shortly after Adolphe William Bouguereau🎨 (French Academic painter, 1825-1905) completed Tricoteuse, in 1874, Goupil transferred the painting to their gallery in The Hague and sold it to the Poortman family. Tricoteuse has remained in The Netherlands ever since and with the same family for nearly a century.

No doubt with the help of his powerful dealer, Goupil, Bouguereau was being acquired by many collectors in The Netherlands at this time.

Louis Béroud | The Copyists in the Louvre, 1909

After visiting the Louvre, an American visitor noted that:

"along the galleries are numerous temporary stands, easels, etc., at which artists are constantly at work copying such paintings as they may have orders for, or hope to find purchasers for" (as quoted in Barbara Stern Shapiro, Pleasures of Paris: Daumier to Picasso, Boston, 1991, p. 108).

Vladimir Pervuninsky, 1957 | The Viennese Waltz

Vladimir Pervuninsky / Владимир Первунинский was born in the Russian town of Chelyabinsk. Recognized at an early age for his artistic talent, he went on to attend the Omsk Pedagogical Institute, where he majored in painting and graphics.

Vladimir, in search of a more focused and complete training, set off for Moscow, where he was accepted into the acclaimed V.I. Surikov Moscow State Art College. There, he studied under the tutelage of the well-known academician D.M. Mochalsky.

Vladimir, always, was fascinated by Impressionism and Belle Epoque painting, the strict curriculum of the Soviet Ministry of Culture allowed no latitude for students or instructors to stray from the state sanctioned style of Socialist Realism.

Leon Bazile Perrault | Rose Seller

Léon Bazile Perrault (Poitiers, 16 June 1832-1908, Royan) was a French academic painter.

He was born to a modest family.

A student of William Bouguereau and François-Edouard Picot, he exhibited at the Salon from 1863 onwards, producing many genre works which were immensely popular.

He was famous for his le petit naufragé (The little shipwrecked boy, 1874) and his paintings of children.

Michelle Seo | Pencil portraits of celebrities

Born in Los Angeles, California, Michelle Seo Hongmin is an self taught Pencil artist. Michelle attracts not only celebrities, she also makes portraits of ordinary people.

Her drawings made with ordinary pencil show surprising realism and precision in each of his works.

"I started the project Golden Era at the end of July 2009 with my past Hollywood actresses drawings and i'm so happy and excited to see all of 12 ladies right in front of me... there were some times i wanted to quit being tired and lazy".

Michelle Seo Hongmin | Merlyn Monroe

Paul Cézanne | Post-Impressionist painter

Cézanne's🎨 works were rejected numerous times by the official Salon in Paris and ridiculed by art critics when exhibited with the Impressionists.

Yet during his lifetime Cézanne was considered a master by younger artists who visited his studio in Aix.

Along with the work of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, the work of Cézanne, with its sense of immediacy and incompletion, critically influenced Matisse and others prior to Fauvism and Expressionism.

After Cézanne died in 1906, his paintings were exhibited in a large museum-like retrospective in Paris, September 1907.

The 1907 Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne greatly affected the direction that the avant-garde in Paris took, lending credence to his position as one of the most influential artists of the 19th century and to the advent of Cubism.

Dan Thompson | Figurative painter

American painter🎨 Dan Thompson was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC.

He earned his MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several additional years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.

He has been awarded🎨 two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and has twice received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award🎨 for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2001, Thompson won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.