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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Edmund Greacen (1876-1949)

Edmund William Greacen was an American🎨 Impressionist painter. His active career extended from 1905-1935, during which he created many colorful works in oil on canvas and board.

One of his works, a reproduction of which is at the Smithsonian Institution, was awarded the Salmagundi Club's Samuel T. Shaw Prize🎨 in 1922.

Kal Gajoum, 1968

Kal Gajoum was born in Tripoli. He was only ten years old when he entered his first art competition.

Later on he was introduced to oil painting and palette knife techniques by friend of the family who were artist in attendance at the Leonardo da Vinci school of art in Rome.

He held his first exhibition in 1983 in Tripoli.

Matilda Browne (1869-1947)

Matilda Browne was an American🎨 Impressionist artist noted for her flower paintings and her farm and cattle scenes.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, she was a child prodigy who received early art training from her artist-neighbor, Thomas Moran🎨.

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French🎨 post-Impressionist artist.

He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism.

While less famous than his paintings, his conté crayon drawings have also garnered a great deal of critical appreciation.

Maria Oosthuizen, 1972 | Romantic painter

Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen was born in Paarl, raised mostly in Gauteng, currently residing in Mossel Bay.

"I believe my highest calling in life is my relationship with God, my husband, my children and with all people. My friends and family provide a balance in my life and keep me humble. They are all extraordinary people!

I am inspired by God for He is the creator of all beautiful things. He called me for His purpose and in obedience and love of art, I paint with all I am to worship Him" - Maria Oosthuizen.

Vincent van Gogh | Daubigny's Garden, 1890

Van Gogh🎨 was a lifelong admirer of the work of Charles-François Daubigny🎨.

This celebrated landscape painter had lived in Auvers.

So when Vincent arrived in the village, he went to see Daubigny's home and garden as soon as he could. This is Van Gogh's first painting of the garden. He later made two larger ones on canvas.

Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942)

Nato a Hartford, Kentucky, Charles Courtney Curran ha trascorso i suoi anni formativi a Sandusky, Ohio, dove la sua famiglia si trasferì nel 1881.

Ha studiato per un anno alla Cincinnati School of Design, quindi si è trasferito a New York.

In questa città, si iscrive alla National Academy of Design ed alla Art Student League; la sua partecipazione a mostre in cui i suoi straordinari dipinti sono l'inizio di una brillante carriera.

Per perfezionare la sua formazione, parte a studiare a Parigi dove, dal 1888-1902, fu uno studente, all'Académie Julian, di Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Jules Joseph Lefebvre e Henri-Lucien Doucet.

Milt Kobayashi, 1950

Milt Kobayashi is a sophisticated painter who demonstrates a consummate mastery of design and unsentimental curiosity about people.

The fertile cross-currents of two great cultures have nurtured his art to a harmonious resolve of Western technique with Oriental color, pattern and spatial composition.

Gary Lee Price, 1955

Gary Lee Price was born in Twin Falls, Idaho. As a child Gary would sit in his room and draw. His ability to create art became his strength and his salvation. 

After graduating from Montpelier High School in Idaho, Price went on to study art at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho.

However, it was not until he was attending the Utah Technical College in Provo where he met and studied with sculptor Stan Johnson, that he was drawn to sculpture.

Anna Kincaide | Fashion painter

The works of American artist🎨 Anna Kincaide are a gateway to a world that is at once fantastical and familiar, inspired by fashion, photography, as well as elements of the decorative arts.

Juxtaposing control and spontaneous disruption, Kincaide emphasizes the hidden, internal landscape of the figures she portrays.

Kincaide's references to history and fashion are clear.

In her works we are reminded of the extravagant heights of Marie Antoinette's famous coiffure, which reached greater and greater heights in 18th century France, the iconic headdress of Egyptian queen Nefertiti🎨, the famous French Hood of Anne Boleyn, and the modest Spanish style one of Catherine of Aragon.

Vladimir Mukhin, 1971

Vladimir Mukhin’s works instantly win you over with their lyricism, refined lines, light and energy, combining rich dynamics of Art Nouveau and basics of traditional academic painting.

His works are appreciated both by professional artists and art lovers worldwide.

Master’s works can be found in art museums, galleries and private collections in Russia, USA, China, Canada, France, Holland, Germany and Australia, which is a true representative of his fine artistic talent, his thinking, professionalism and the originality of his message.

Armand Guillaumin | Figure painting

Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons.

He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861.

There, he met Paul Cézanne🎨 and Camille Pissarro🎨 with whom he maintained lifelong friendships. While he never achieved the stature of these two, his influence on their work was significant.

Claude Emile Schuffenecker (1851-1934)

Émile Schuffenecker was a French🎨 Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector.

A friend of Paul Gauguin🎨 and Odilon Redon🎨, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh🎨, Schuffenecker was instrumental in establishing The Volpini exhibition, in 1889.

His own work, however, tends to have been neglected since his death - and even worse, recent season campaigns in the media have reactivated resentments virulent since the late 1920s, when Schuffenecker was suspected to have imitated the work of other contemporary artists, among them, Van Gogh.

Edmund Tarbell (1862-1938)

Edmund Charles Tarbell was an American🎨 Impressionist painter.

Edmund Tarbell contributed to America's place in the world of art.

To him and his work Europe turned its eyes in admiration, as did the whole people in America.

Tarbell's works were honest works.

In him was none of the transient sensationalism which brought notoriety to others.

Anna Marinova / Анна Маринова, 1983

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Anna Marinova studied at the Saint Petersburg Roerich College of Art.

From 2004-2010 she studied at The Repin🎨 Art Institute (The Russian Academy of Arts) in workshops with professor of painting V.V. Sokolov.

She began exhibiting in 2005, and in 2008 she was awarded🎨 with the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for academic excellence.

Carlos Vanderlei Pinto, 1953 | Magic Realism painter

Self-taught painter, composer and poet Carlos Vanderlei Pinto was born in Brazil.

He studied graphic arts and at 13 he won his first prize🎨 in the regional Flag Day poster competition.

Charles Conder (1868-1909)

Charles Conder (Londra, 1868-1909) è stato un pittore Inglese emigrato in Australia, membro chiave della scuola di Heidelberg.

Nato a Londra, trascorse però molti anni dell'infanzia in India prima della morte della madre.

Successivamente, nel 1884 venne mandato dal padre a Sydney.

Pierre-Albert Marquet (1875-1947)

Albert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.

He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse.

Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910-1914, several female figure paintings.

Albert Henry Fullwood (1863-1930)

Albert Henry Fullwood was an Australian artist who made a significant contribution to art in Australia.

He painted with Heidelberg School artists around Melbourne and moved with Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton to live and paint at their camp in Sirius Cove, Sydney.

Fullwood was the Australian official war artist to the 5th Division in the World War I.

Fullwood was born in Hockely, Birmingham, son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr.

Alexandre Altmann (1885-1950)

Alexandre Altmann was a Russian-French painter🎨.

Altmann was born to a poor Jewish family in Sobolevka near Kyiv in Ukraine in 1885. At the age of eleven, Altmann ran away to Odessa where he worked variously as a tailor, shoemaker, metalworker and grocery salesman.

The painter Vlas Mikailovich Doroshevich took Altmann under his wing after noticing Altmann’s draughtsmanship and thus encouraged his pursuit of art.

Albert Dubois-Pillet | Neo-impressionist painter

Albert Dubois-Pillet (1846-1890) was a French Neo-impressionist painter and a career army officer. He was instrumental in the founding of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, and was one of the first artists to embrace Pointillism.

Albert Dubois-Pillet was a career military officer and self-taught amateur painter, closely aligned with the Neo-impressionists. Though not formally trained, various Salons accepted his still lifes for display as early as 1877.

Auguste Veillon (1834-1890)

Louis-Auguste Veillon was a Swiss painter🎨, noted for his Orientalist works.

After obtaining a degree in Reformed theology in Lausanne, he joined François Diday at his studio in Geneva, where he primarily painted seascapes and mountain scenes from the Bernese Oberland.

In 1858, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

While in Paris, he spent a considerable amount of time in the Louvre, copying the works of the masters, especially the 17th-century Dutch masters and the work of Claude Lorrain🎨.

Hugo Simberg | Pittore simbolista

Hugo Gerhard Simberg (Hamina, 24 giugno 1873 - Ähtäri, 12 luglio 1917) è stato un pittore Finlandese di origine Svedese che aderì alla corrente simbolista.

Fu anche grafico e scultore.

Hugo Simberg fu uno dei nove figli del colonnello Nicolai Edward Simberg (1822-1915) e della sua seconda moglie Ebba Matilda Widenius (1840-1897).

Aveva anche nove fratellastri, figli di suo padre e della sua prima moglie.

Hugo Simberg | L'angelo ferito, 1903

German Aracil, 1965

Contemporary spanish artist pastelliste, German Aracil was born in Alicante. In 1985 he began his studies at the San Carlos School of Fine Art in Valencia, Spain.

Aracil's first one-man show was held in his home town of Alicante, followed in 1990 by exhibitions in New York's Liz Liberatore Gallery. Two years later he took part in the Art Miami International Art Fair.

Max Bouvet (1854-1943)

French painter Max Bouvet was born in La Rochelle. Bouvet is mainly known for his seascapes in a post-impressionist style, often illustrating Breton and Vendean panoramas.

Itzchak Tarkay (1935-2012)

Itzchak Tarkay was an Israeli artist. Tarkay was born in Subotica, on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border.

In 1944, Tarkay and his family were sent to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, until Allied liberation freed them a year later.

In 1949, his family emigrated to Israel, living in a kibbutz for several years.

Henri Matisse: Creativity takes courage!

• "There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted" - Henri Matisse.
• "Penso che nulla sia più difficile per un vero pittore che dipingere una rosa, perché per dipingerla deve dimenticare tutte le rose che ha dipinto prima" - Henri Matisse.

Joseph Désiré Court (1797-1865)

Joseph-Désiré Court was a French painter🎨 of historical subjects and portraits.

Court was born at Rouen. He became a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts under Gros, and after carrying off the principal honours there pursued his studies still further at Rome.

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt | Skagen painter

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt, also Vilhelm von Gegerfelt (1844-1920) was a Swedish painter.

Born in Gothenburg, Gegerfelt was the son the architect Victor von Gegerfelt (1817-1915).

From 1861-1863, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy, at the Royal Swedish Academy from 1864-1867, and thereafter in Düsseldorf until 1872.

Johann Till the Younger (1827-1894) Genre painter

Johann Till the Younger was an Austrian🎨 19th Century painter.

Johann Till the Younger trained in Vienna under his father Johann Till the Elder (1800-1889).

His father’s predominant interests were historical scenes.

Johann Till the Younger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna under Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862) and Christian Ruben (1805-1875).

Cafiero Filippelli | Macchiaioli painter

Cafiero Filippelli (1889-1973) was an Italian painter.

Born into a family of modest income in Livorno, Cafiero Filippelli started working at a very young age, but still managed to gain his diploma at the Scuola d’Arte e Mestieri.

Thanks to a scholarship he then went to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where he got to know Giovanni Fattori and Galileo Chini.

Lino Selvatico (1872-1924) | Belle Ѐpoque painter

Lino Selvatico was an Italian painter🎨.

His father, Riccardo was a lawyer, poet, comedic dramatist and politician, who intended his son to become a lawyer and legislator.

Lino's brother, Luigi Selvàtico (1873-1938), was also a painter.

Luigi was nicknamed il gobbo Selvatico due to his physical ailment.

Jerrard Gems | Vintage flower

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers".
"I profumi sono i sentimenti dei fiori" - Heinrich Heine

"I paint flowers so they will not die".
"Dipingo i fiori così che non moriranno" - Frida Kahlo

"A flower blossoms for its own joy".
"Un fiore sboccia per la sua stessa gioia" - Oscar Wilde