Louis Gaidan (1847-1925) Neo-Impressionist painter

Louis Gaidan was a French painter🎨 associated with the Neo-Impressionism movement🎨.
He was born in Nîmes to a wealthy family who owned a bank, the Banque Gaidan.

He studied in Paris with the Academic painter Jean Jalabert and later in Nîmes with the landscape painter Paulin Bertrand.

Jalabert taught him the fine draftsmanship of the Academic tradition and from Paulin Bertrand he was exposed to the painting of landscapes en plein air.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Christie's

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William John Leech | Impressionist painter

William John Leech (1881-1968) was an Irish painter, well known for his illustrations of Concarneau harbour.

The works of Leech feature coastal and harbour scenes, landscapes, interiors, still life and portraits.

He went to school at St Columba's College, Dublin in Rathfarnham, later studying at the Metropolitan School.

He later transferred to the Royal Hibernian Academy and studied under Walter Osborne. In 1903, Leech left Dublin for Paris, where he would fall in love with the French landscape.

Émile Munier (1840-1895) | Academic painter

Émile Munier was born in Paris on June 2, 1840 and lived with his family at 66 rue des Fossés, St Marcel.

His father, Pierre François Munier, was an upholstery artist at the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins and his mother, Marie Louise Carpentier, was a polisher in a cashmere cloth mill.

Emile, and his older brother François Joseph (born in 1839), went to the local communal school.

By the time their younger brother was born the family’s fortune had improved and Florimond Louis, who was born on September 11, 1851, was enrolled in a boarding school.

All three brothers displayed an early gift for drawing and each had produced a pastel self-portrait between the ages of 13 and 14 - Emile’s is dated 1854.

Antonio Puccinelli | Macchiaioli painter

Antonio Puccinelli (19 March 1822, Castelfranco di Sotto - 22 July 1897, Florence) was an Italian painter; one of the group known as the "Macchiaioli".

He was the son of a tailor and was planning to follow his father in that trade, but a group of local citizens noticed his talent for art.

Thanks to a scholarship, he was able to attend the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where he studied with Giuseppe Bezzuoli.

Joaquín Allustante (1853-1935) | Genre painter

Joaquín Pallarés Allustante was a Spanish painter🎨 of portraits, genre, religious compositions, murals and decorative arts.

He was initially trained at the Escuelas de Bellas Artes de Zaragoza under the tutelage of Marco and Antonio José Palao and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Saint-Ferdinand (Madrid) where he was a pupil of Vincent Palmaroli and Paul Gonzalvo.

He furthered his training in Paris and remained in the French capital until 1881, when he moved to Rome.

Joaquín Agrasot (Spanish, 1836-1919)

Joaquín Agrasot y Juan was a Spanish painter🎨 of the Realistic style who produced many works in the Costumbrismo genre.

Agrasot was born in Orihuela. His studies began in his home town and, in 1856, he received a fellowship from the "Diputación Provincial de Alicante", the local government.

He then enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia, where he studied with the art restorer Francisco Martínez Yago, the father of Salvador Martínez Cubells.

John Graham-Gilbert | Portrait painter

John Graham-Gilbert (1794-1866) was a Scottish portrait painter and art collector.

Graham-Gilbert was born in Glasgow as John Graham, the son of a West India merchant and was at first trained in his father's counting-house, but preferred art and travelled to London in 1818 where he was admitted into the Royal Academy.

Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785-1847) Romantic painter

Georg Friedrich Kersting was a German painter🎨, best known for his Biedermeier-style interior paintings and his association with fellow artist Caspar David Friedrich🎨.

Kersting came from a large and impoverished family in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of a glazier.

He studied at the progressive Copenhagen Academy between 1805-1808, where he adapted the visual clarity of the contemporary Danish school and was awarded a silver medal🎨 in draughtsmanship.

Francesco Gioli (1846-1922) Macchiaioli painter

Francesco Gioli was an Italian painter🎨 and member of the Macchiaioli movement.

He was born in San Frediano a Settimo near Pisa.

He studied first in the Academy of Pisa, then in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, under Antonio Ciseri and Enrico Pollastrini.

His painting of Carlo Emanuele di Savoia dispatches the Spanish Ambassador (1868), first exhibited in Florence, and awarded a prize at an exhibition in Pistoia in 1889, gave him recognition.

Fritz Gartner (German, 1882-1958)

Fritz Gärtner, full name: Friedrich Anton Gärtner, was born in Aussig - Bohemia, the son of senior teacher Julius Gärtner. He was a painter, engraver and sculptor.

His first training was with the painter Josef Reiner in Aussig. In 1900 he joined Gabriel von Hackl's nature class at the Munich Art Academy.

Carl Spitzweg | The Bookworm, 1850

"The Bookworm" / "Der Bücherwurm", is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter🎨 and poet Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885)🎨.

The picture was made circa 1850 and is typical of Spitzweg's humorous, anecdotal style and it is characteristic of Biedermeier art in general.

Mark Daly, 1956 | Impressionist painter

Mark Daly is a professional American🎨 Impressionist artist of city street, beach and boat scenes.

He has received prominent awards🎨 in national juried art exhibitions.

Mark was taught to draw at an early age by Elizabeth Daly (his mother) and Woodhull Young (Curator of the Vanderbilt Museum). In recent years, CW Mundy🎨 has mentored Mark in oil painting.

Arturo Faldi (1856-1911) Macchiaioli painter

Arturo Faldi was an Italian painter🎨. Faldi attended the Academy of Florence, a pupil of Michele Gordigiani and Muzzioli.

He began with arguments drawn from sacred history and paintings with Egyptian as: "Joseph sold to Potiphar", "Predicts that Atirte the first victories of Sesostris", "Pharaoh judged by the people".

Walter Bondy (1880-1940) | Impressionist painter

Walter Bondy was born and grew up in a family of industrialists in Budapest.

Between 1902-1903, he attended academies in Vienna, Berlin and Munich.

He met Jules Pascin (1885-1930)🎨 at the Holosi Academy in Munich. Bondy arrived in Paris in 1903.

He associated with Le Dôme’s regulars, notably Rudolf Lévy, who introduced him to the German artists living in Paris.

Lionel Royer (French, 1852-1926)

Lionel-Noël Royer was a French painter🎨. He was most famous for painting large scenes of the life of Joan of Arc in the Basilica of Bois-Chenu in Domrémy.

Lionel Royer was born in Château-du-Loir in Sarthe on December 25, 1852.

He volunteered before his 18th birthday for the Franco-Prussian War and took part in the Battle of Loigny-Poupry on December 2, 1870 under the command of General Athanase de Charrette de la Contrie.

Modest Huys (1874-1932) | Luminist painter

Modest Huys was a Flemish🎨 Impressionist and Luminist painter.

From a young age, he worked in his father's painting and decorating business and later studied at the "Gentse Nijverheidschool" (Ghent Industrial School).

In 1891 or 1892, he came into contact with Emile Claus🎨, who encouraged his artistic inclinations.

Filippo Anivitti (1876-1955) | Rome painting

Born in Rome, Filippo Anivitti studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, with Filippo Prosperi (1831-1913), holder of the chair of figure.

He then attended the evening courses of Alessandro Morani, at the Industrial Artistic Institute.

Cesare Pavese / Pino Daeni | In the morning you always come back, 1950

Dawn’s faint breath

breathes with your mouth

at the ends of empty streets.

Gray light your eyes,

sweet drops of dawn

on dark hills.

Your steps and breath

like the wind of dawn

smother houses.

The city shudders,

Stones exhale -

you are life, an awakening.

Wilhelm Menzler (1846-1926) | Genre painter

Wilhelm Menzler Casel was a German painter🎨 of portraits, genre scenes and of flowers.

Born in Kassel, Northern Germany, on 28 March 1846 Menzler died in 1926.

Active in Munich he studied with van Lerins and went on to exhibit in Vienna from 1891.

Menzler’s works can be found in museums and galleries in Budapest and in Sydney.