Jenny Montigny (1875-1937) | Impressionist painter

Jeanne (Jenny) Montigny was a Belgian painter🎨.

Montigny's father was a lawyer and government official who oversaw several boards and commissions and was later Dean of the law faculty at the University of Ghent.

Her mother was of English origin.

Alphonse Roehn (1799-1864) | Genre painter

Jean Alphonse Roehn was a French painter🎨 who was born, worked and died in Paris.

He was the son of a successful genre painter🎨 Adolphe-Eugène-Gabriel Roehn (1780-1867) who was his first teacher.

At the age of fourteen, Jean-Alphonse Roehn left his father's studio for the École des Beaux Arts where he studied under Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Antoine-Jean Gros.

Guido Borelli, 1952

Guido Borelli da Caluso is an Italian painter. He was born in Caluso.

He comes from an artistic background, and his family always encouraged him to develop his talent, as early as childhood.

He won a contest at 13 and held his first exhibition at the age of 17 at Ars Plauda Gallery in Turin.

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)

Claude-Joseph Vernet was the leading French🎨 landscape painter (with Hubert Robert🎨) of the later 18th century🎨.

He achieved great celebrity with his topographical paintings and serene landscapes.

He was also one of the century's most accomplished painters of tempests and moonlight scenes.

Vernet was born at Avignon and trained there with his father, Antoine, and with the history painter Philippe Sauvan.

Ted Dyer, 1940 | Romantic Impressionist painter

Ted Dyer is Cornwall's leading Seascape and Landscape impressionist classic painter.

His work is acclaimed internationally through his many exhibitions, prints, art cards and books and he is probably Cornwalls most widely collected artist.

Ted Dyer was born in Bristol. He has lived and worked for most of his life in the West country. His younger years were spent in Devon and Somerset, then in 1972 he moved with his family to Cornwall.

Luca Albino (1884-1952)

Luca Albino was an Italian painter🎨 who was born in 1884.

He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Costa Amalfitana in the 19th and 20th centuries with Luigi Paolillo, Angelo Della Mura and Antonio Ferrigno.

His paintings, which he calls "sun bombs", depict picturesque corners of the coast and scenes of everyday life, such as the many markets and fishermen.

Thérèse Dupré (1877-1920) | Naturalist painter

Thérèse-Marthe-Françoise Dupré was a French🎨 realist painter.

Dupré was born in Paris and learned to paint from her father Jules Dupré🎨.

She is known for paintings depicting women's work in the manner of her father and her uncle Georges Paul François Laurent Laugée.

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🎨.

Jacques Alfred van Muyden (1818-1898) | Genre painter

Jacques Alfred van Muyden was a Swiss🎨 history, portrait and genre painter🎨, engraver, and a co-founder of the "Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Maler und Bildhauer".

Biography

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His mother was Swiss, but his father was a Dutchman from Utrecht. His family wanted him to study law, but he chose painting instead.

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.

Marco De Gregorio (1829-1876) | School of Resina

Marco De Gregorio was an Italian painter🎨, who would form part of the School of Resina, painting works that spanned the spectrum from historical to genre🎨 topics.

He was born in Resina (present day Ercolano) near Naples.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples after 1850, where he was influenced by Gonsalvo Carelli and Giacinto Gigante.

An ardent patriot, in 1860 he joined Garibaldi and even participated in the Battle of Volturnus.

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 | Still Lifes

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), 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.

Jean-Francois Millet | Rest after work, 1866

During the harvest, a peasant's workday could last from the early hours of the morning until well into the evening, punctuated only by meal times and a rest from the sun at midday.

Here, a man and woman lay in the shade of a haystack.

The wheat sheaves to their right mirror their pose, while the pairs of sickles, shoes, and distant cows all reinforce the theme of companionship.

Jean-Francois Millet | Rest after work, 1866 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Emile Auguste Hublin | Genre painter

Emile Auguste Hublin (1830-1891) was born and raised in Angers, the historic capital of the northwestern French province of Anjou.

In the late 1840s or early 1850s, he moved to Paris, where he trained with François Edouard Picot, a student of Jacques-Louis David.

Hublin depicted his rural subjects in regional attire often revealing signs of wear.

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) | Quotes

Marie Alexandre Valentin Sellier (French, 19th/20th Century) | La farandole de Pétrarque, 1900

• "Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good".

• "L'amore è la grazia incoronante dell'umanità, il diritto più santo dell'anima, il legame d'oro che ci lega al dovere e alla verità, il principio redentrice che principalmente riconcilia il cuore con la vita ed è profetico del bene eterno".

Aloysius O'Kelly | Breton girls on a beach

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

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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

Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828-1891) Academic painter

Jules-Élie Delaunay was a French🎨 academic painter.

He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Lamothe.

He worked in the classicist manner of Ingres🎨 until, after winning🎨 the Prix de Rome, he went to Italy; in 1856, and abandoned the ideal of Raphaelesque perfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists.