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Aykut Aydogdu, 1986


Istanbul-based freelance illustrator Aykut Aydoğdu has developed a unique style creating surreal, enigmatic digital art. He is also known as "aykutmaykut".
His surreal figurative works are mainly concentrated on the dilemmas of the daily life.

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William Oxer | Portrait painter

Living in at Hatchlands Park, Surrey where The Cobbe Collection is based, William Oxer was to assist in various projects including an exhibition for the Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace and large-scale designs for interiors in historic houses such as Goodwood House, Petworth House and Hatchlands Park.
He lived at the latter back in 1996, working with restorer and interiors expert, Alec Cobbe.


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Claude Monet | Seine painting


During the 19th and the 20th centuries the Seine inspired many artists.
The Seine is a 777-kilometre-long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France.
It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometres northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre (and Honfleur on the left bank).

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Luigi Loir | View of Notre Dame


Luigi Loir (22 December 1845 - 9 February 1916) was a French painter, illustrator and lithographer.
Luigi Loir was born in Goritz, Austria. He was the son of Tancrède Loir François and Thérèse Leban, his wife, respectively valet and housekeeper of the French royal family in exile in Austria.
Installed in the duchy of Parma in 1847, Luigi Loir studied at the school of Fine Arts of Parma in 1853.

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Daniel Garber (1880-1958)


Like most impressionist painters, Daniel Garber painted landscapes en plein air, directly from nature.
He exhibited his works nationwide and earned numerous awards🎨, including a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco, California.
He was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1913.

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Robert Henri | Edna Smith in a Japanese Wrap, 1915

Robert Henri (1865-1929), urban realist painter, a leader of The Eight and the Ashcan School and one of the most influential teachers of art in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.
Henri studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, from 1884-1888, and at both the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.


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Caravaggio | The crowning with thorns, 1603


The Crowning with Thorns is a painting by the Italian master🎨 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio🎨. Executed probably in 1603, it is now located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
According to Caravaggio🎨's biographer Giovanni Bellori a Crowning with Thorns was made for Caravaggio's patron Vincenzo Giustiniani, and this painting can be traced convincingly to the Giustiniani collection.

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Claude Monet | Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom) 1873


Claude Monet made this work in the vicinity of his home in Argenteuil, a village on the Seine northwest of Paris that was a favorite gathering place of the Impressionists.
Although the scene has previously been called Plum Blossoms and Apples Trees in Bloom, the type of tree cannot be determined from the flurry of white buds evoked by the artist.

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Abraham Pether (1756-1812)


Abraham Pether was an English🎨 landscape painter, recognised for his skill in depicting moonlit scenes.
He was also a talented musician, inventor, mathematician and philosopher.
He painted river and mountain scenery, with classical buildings, in a pleasing though artificial style, somewhat resembling that of Richard Wilson; but his reputation rests on his moonlight subjects, which attracted much admiration, and earned for him the sobriquet of "Moonlight" Pether.

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Albert Gleizes | Impressionist / Cubist artists


Albert Gleizes (1881-1953) as a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris.
Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", 1912.
Gleizes was a founding member of the Section d'Or group of artists.
He was also a member of Der Sturm, and his many theoretical writings were originally most appreciated in Germany, where especially at the Bauhaus his ideas were given thoughtful consideration.

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Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884-1961)


Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian artist.
Born in the Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin, at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1902-1905 and was an early member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.

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Fabian Perez (Buenos Aires, 1967)

Fabian Perez è un artista di Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ha lasciato la sua città natale Campana, all'età di 20 anni e ha iniziato a viaggiare per il mondo cercando di sviluppare il talento artistico che aveva ereditato da sua madre.
Negli anni ha esplorato molti percorsi diversi alla ricerca di una maggiore espressione di sé e verità artistica.
Attualmente risiede a Los Angeles.
L'arte e lo stile di Fabian sono unici; la sua arte riflette passione, emozione e pura energia.
È il creatore di un nuovo stile di pittura che ha chiamato Neo Emotionalism, caratterizzato da uno stile narrativo drammatico ed un'atmosfera inebriante.


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Lluis Rizzo Rey, 1959 | Surrealist painter


Lluís Rizzo Rey was born in Barcelona. He had the good luck of growing up with his parents, parental grandparents, brother and five sisters, in an environment that was humble but full of fascination for culture.
Since he was seven years old, Lluís already exhibited a passion for art, and he was drawing every minute he could, whenever he did not need to study.

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Jozsef Borsos (1821-1883)


Jozsef Borsos was a Hungarian🎨 portrait painter and photographer.
He was also renowned for his numerous "genre" paintings and is most often recognized as an artist of the Biedermeier.
Jozsef Borsos studied in Budapest and subsequently at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts from 1840 until 1842.

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Valentine Cameron Prinsep | Pittore preraffaelita


Valentine Cameron Prinsep, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di Val Prinsep (Calcutta, 14 febbraio 1838 - Londra, 4 novembre 1904), è stato un pittore Britannico, membro dei preraffaeliti.
Nato a Calcutta nel 1838, Valentine Cameron Prinsep era il secondo figlio di Henry Thoby Prinsep, un funzionario dell'Impero anglo-indiano, e di sua moglie Sarah Monckton Pattle, figlia di James Pattle.
Lei era sorella della fotografa Julia Margaret Cameron e di Maria Jackson (nata Pattle), nonna di Virginia Woolf e Vanessa Bell.

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Alexander Shevelev / Александр Шевелёв, 1964


The art of Alexander Shevelev from Rybinsk, Russia has an indestructible relation to a certain time. An era for him to live and to create in.
An era with it's history which determined his art inclination. Themes served as subjects in his works are diverse: russian nature with it's bright revolution of the seasons, different aspects of province life, historical tendencies of urban and rural life, et cetera.
To find the artistic and historical sides of ordinary life and than bring it to his artworks is the main thing Aleksander aims at.

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Anna Rose Bain, 1985


Anna Rose Bain is a classical realist artist located in Arvada CO. She specializes in painting commissioned oil portraits for the Denver area and nationwide.
Anna Rose Bain was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. She began drawing from the moment she could pick up a pencil.

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Constantin Lvovich, 1974 | Ballet dancers

Constantin Lvovich / Константин Львович studied at the studio of Ilya Glazunov at the Academy of Fine Arts of Moscow.
Influenced by many styles, he has mastered the technique of combining both Realism and Impressionism.
An acclaimed artist at 36 years of age, he has exhibited throughout Europe.


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Eugene de Blaas (1843-1931)


Eugene de Blaas🎨 was born to Austrian parents. His father, Karl (1815-1894), teacher to him and his brother Julius became Professor at the Academy in Vienna and Venice, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
It was in Venice that Eugene de Blaas established himself as the leading painter of Venetian genre.
The golden Italian climate and the magnificent old stone facades had made Venice an essential stop on the Grand Tour since the early eighteenth century.
Past visitors had returned home with views and portraits; the late nineteenth visitor wanted more.

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Olga Sacharoff (1889-1967)

Olga Nicolaevna Sacharoff was a Spanish artist of Russo-Persian origin associated with naive art and the Surrealist movement.
Olga Sacharoff (also spelled Sakhorova, Zakharova, or Zacharoff) was born in Georgia, which at the time was a part of the Russian Empire.
Her mother was of Persian origin. After studying at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, she visited Rome and traveled to Munich, where she came in contact with the German Expressionist movement.