Bernard Peltriaux (1921-1999) | Art Deco painter

Bernard Peltriaux was an French painter🎨.

Born in Reims, in the northeast of France, Bernard Peltriaux went to study art in Paris in the studio of René Jaudon.

Impressed with the social life of the time he developed to a typical artists of the French scene.

Empathetic, rich in detail and with a touch of exclusivity Peltriaux painted scenes at equestrian events with beautiful women, living in the bistro, at the bar and at the Lido.

Léon Zeytline (1885-1962) | Belle Époque painter

Léon Zeytline / Леон Цейтлин was a Russian-born French🎨 Impressionist and Modern painter.

Leon Zeytline studied painting, sculpture and architecture in Moscow before setting off on a tour of discovery of Europe, and Paris in particular, where his family of Russian origin settled well before the revolution.

Linda Le Kinff, 1949 | Modern Cubist painter

Linda Le Kinff was born in Paris from French and Brazilian parents.

She started her career as a painter at the age of 20.

In the 1970s she traveled to India, Tibet, Mexico and Italy.

She lived and worked in Italy for 12 years learning the ancient techniques of tempera, egg painting and the gold leaf method taught by masters in Florence and Livorno.

Vladimir Mukhin, 1971 | Ballet dancers

The founder of an magical fusion of a new genre, Vladimir Mukhin knows the material fully well, he feels the shape with the tip of his brush, he is deeply psychological yet will always find a place for a touch of good humor or gentle irony.

The structures of his compositions are very literature-intense, musical in color, with a touch of unforgettable theatrical reminiscences, which makes it unbelievably immersive.

Haynes King (1831-1904) Genre painter

Haynes King was an English🎨 genre painter. Apart from genre subjects, he painted interiors, landscapes, and coast scenes with figures.

King was born at Barbados in December 1831, son of Robert M. King by his wife Maria. Coming to London in 1854, he became a student at Leigh's (afterwards Heatherley's) Academy in Newman Street, London.

Raffaele Monti (1818-1881) | Allegorical sculptor

Raffaele Monti was an Italian🎨 sculptor, author and poet born in Milan.

He studied under his father, the noted sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti in the Imperial Academy.

He was invited to Vienna while aged only 20 where he received extensive patronage, he subsequently returned to Milan in 1840.

In 1846 Monti travelled to England for the year, and later settled there.

Pino Daeni | Romantic painter

Giuseppe Dangelico Daeni (1939-2010) was an Italian Impressionist book illustrator and painter.

Trained in Italy at the Art institute of Bari, and later at Milan's Academy of Brera, Pino perfected his skills painting figure studies heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli.

After establishing himself as a successful artist in his native land, Pino immigrated to the United States, seeking more artistic freedom and opportunity.

Pino has illustrated 3.000 books, movie posters and magazine illustrations and his style has dominated the market.

Laura Coombs Hills (1859-1952)

Laura Coombs Hills was an American artist🎨 and illustrator who specialized in watercolor and pastel still life paintings, especially of flowers, and miniature portrait paintings on ivory.

She became the first miniature painter elected to the Society of American Artists, and she was a founder of the American Society of Miniature Painters.

Wlastimil Hofman | Pittore simbolista

Wlastimil Hofman (1881-1970) era un pittore accademico Ceco-Polacco, rappresentante del simbolismo.

Era il più giovane dei sei figli di Ferdinand Hofmann e della sua moglie polacca, Teofila Muziková.

Nel 1889, la famiglia si trasferì a Cracovia, dove Wlastimil frequentò la St. Wenceslas School.

Alessandro Puttinati (1801-1872)

Alessandro Puttinati, also Putinati was an Italian sculptor.

Son of the engraver and medalist Frncesco, he was a pupil and follower of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) in Rome.

Among his best known works are some statues for the cathedral of Milan; the statues of San Carlo and Sant'Ambrogio in San Simpliciano; the Monument to Carlo Porta (1862) which was located in the Giardini di Porta Venezia and was destroyed during the Anglo-American bombing in Milan as well, the one to Garibaldi in Luino (1867), the first dedicated statue to Garibaldi still alive and of the statue of Masaniello (1846) today at the Gallery of Modern Art (1846).

William Jabez Muckley (1829-1905)

William Jabez Muckley was a noted English artist🎨 who was born at Wordsley, Kingswinford, in Staffordshire. He was the eldest of the seven children of Jabez Muckley who was a glass artisan.

William Jabez Muckley began his career as a glass cutter with W.H.B. and J.Richardson of Wordsley and became their principal designer and engraver.

When only 22, he was responsible for much of the engraving that earned the firm considerable praise in the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Igor Morski, 1960 | Surreal Green

Igor Morski is a Polish painter🎨, illustrator and graphic designer whose surreal work is as thought evoking as they are beautifully rendered.

Anyone wishing to glance at his work will find themselves staring. It’s the kind of art that would make a casual observer do a double-take.

Alena Shymchonak | Impressionist painter

Alena Shymchonak is a painter who comes from Estonia. She produces a lot of paintings for collectors in different countries.

She like using palette knife and oil painting to produce her paintings.

Alena’s works found collectors in UK, USA, Canada, China, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Turkey and many European countries.

She’s always available for Individual oil painting commissions.

Pino Daeni (1939-2010)

Pino Daeni, pittore Italiano, nato Giuseppe d'Angelico a Bari, iniziò i studi presso l'istituto d'arte della città. Nel 1960 è entrato all'Accademia di Brera di Milano dove ha perfezionato il suo talento e la sua abilità nella pittura della figura.

Dal 1960-1979 i suoi lavori sono comparsi in alcune importanti mostre in tutta Italia ed in Europa e, nello stesso periodo, due grossi editori italiani, Mondadori e Rizzoli, gli hanno commissionato numerose illustrazioni per copertine di libri.

Tuttavia, Pino Daeni si è sentito limitato a Milano, voleva la libertà artistica che credeva esistesse negli Stati Uniti, e così nel 1979 vi è emigrato sotto il patrocinio della Galleria Borghi.

Josef Kote, 1964

Josef Kote is a New York-based visual artist, best known for his distinctive style and technique.

A native of Albania, Josef Kote is a skilled and discerning interpreter of color harmonies, light and mood.

The core of Kote’s work is based on expressing feelings and emotions.

His bold brushwork and sweeping strokes of vibrant colors are applied more often than not with a pallet knife, while other areas of the canvas are left monochromatic and devoid of detail, creating a negative space that lets the eye drift to infinity.

Maryam Mughal, 1987 | Figurative painter

- I am Maryam Mughal, born and brought up in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Since a child, the air in front of me was the canvas and I was brushing it with colors of my thoughts.

One day I did it on paper and the world around me said, wow, since than I was titled as a natural artist and my hands itch to create more art to beautify life around me.

Anatoly Metlan, 1964 | Impressionist painter

Anatoly Metlan è nato a Yalta, in Ucraina, vicino al Mar Nero.

Crescendo, Metlan ha sviluppato la passione per le opere degli impressionisti.

Dopo il liceo ha frequentato la Krivoi Rog University, nel sud dell'Ucraina.

Mentre era all'università, Metlan espose le sue opere e pian piano si fece un nome.

Nel 1989, era stato accettato nella Guild Artist in Ucraina.

Shafira Yablonski, 1938 | Impressionist painter

Ukrainian painter Shafira Yablonski was born in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk.

When Shafira was 3 years old the world war II began and her family was evacuated to Kazakhstan.

When the war was over and the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk was liberated, they returned home to Ukraine.

There Shafira spent her childhood and adolescence and finished high school.

All her childhood she was fond of drawing. When Shafira was 15, she joined the art studio at the House of Culture and began learning to paint.

Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭, 1955

Zhaoming Wu 吴兆铭 is a Chinese-born painter. Wu grew up in Guangzhou City, China and he received his BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and his MFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California.

Wu is known best for his figurative paintings. Inspired heavily by 19th century French painting🎨, Wu describes his work as "representational, but not traditional classical".

This can be seen, as Wu uses modern elements of graphic design in his work.

Mariano Fortuny y Marsal | Fantasy on Faust, 1866

In this work, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838-1874) establishes an eloquent link between painting and music and a clear exposition of what his friend, the Baron Davillier, called his very lively and very pure taste in music.

Fortuny depicts one of the musical evenings that he attended in Madrid during the summer of 1866 at his friend and former classmate, Catalan painter Francisco Sans y Cabot’s studio at no. 13, calle Flor Baja in Madrid.