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.

Early life

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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.

William W. Churchill (1858-1926)

William Worcester Churchill was born in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, in 1858 and died in Washington, DC in 1926. He was a painter of figure studies, portraits and landscapes in oil and pastel, and entered the Boston Museum School in 1877.

He then trained in Paris in the late 1870s with the French Salon artist Léon Bonnat for two years.

While still in Paris, Churchill also took lessons from his fellow-Bostonian Tarbell, who was himself in France studying at the Académie Julian.

Frederic Payet, 1960 | Impressionist painter

Born on the French Island of Madagascar where the sunny, colorful and exotic atmosphere and a quality of light found nowhere else, has influenced his art to this day; Frederic was reared in Paris and moved to the United States, in 1989.

His defining style is impressionism which he uses to encapsulate his perceptions of the world. Frederic’s work conveys the long-lost environments of a calm countryside and cityscape whether French or North American.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Why Study Art from the Past?

Art from the past holds clues to life in the past.

By looking at a work of art's symbolism, colors, and materials, we can learn about the culture that produced it.

For example, the two portraits above are full of symbolism referring to virtues of an ideal marriage during the fifteenth century.

Maestro delle Storie del Pane (Italian (Emilian), active late 15th century) | Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini and Portrait of a Woman, possibly Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini, 1494

Sir Thomas Lawrence | Julia, Lady Peel, 1827 | Frick Collection

Julia Floyd (1795-1859) was married in 1820 to the British statesman Sir Robert Peel, who twice served as Prime Minister and was an avid patron of Lawrence.

The Frick portrait apparently was inspired by Rubens’ painting of Susanna Fourment🎨 known as the "Chapeau de paille", which Peel had acquired in 1823.

Maurice Cullen | The pioneer of the Canadian Impressionism

Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866-1934) was a pioneer of impressionism in Canadian art and is particularly noted for his winter landscapes.

Cullen moved to Montréal with his family in 1870.

There he began his art training as a sculptor at the Conseil des arts et manufactures and with sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert.

Like other artists of his generation, he went to Paris for additional training.

Daniel Sannier, 1944 | Impressionist painter

Contemporary French artist🎨 Daniel Sannier lives and works in his home town, an ancient city on the bay of the Somme River.

Most of the inspirations for his beautiful landscape paintings come from this area in Northern France known as "Picardie".

The orchards in bloom, the quiet side waters of the Somme River covered with Water lilies and the wide fields of "Colza" - these are his subjects and for that he has become well known throughout Europe as well in the United States.

Edmond Marie Petitjean (1844-1925)

Edmond Marie Petitjean was a self-taught French painter🎨, known for landscapes and seascapes.

His father was a lawyer and wanted him to follow suit; forcing him to study law despite his artistic talent and sending him to Paris, where he was apprenticed to a notary.

While there, he visited the museums and became determined to be an artist.

His parents cut off his financial support, but he was able to find employment managing a small factory in Nancy.

Alexei Harlamoff | The Arrangement, 1880

"The Arrangement" was painted in the mid-1880s, during the best period of Harlamoff's life, when he was popular and admired.

'Straightforward of subject, superlative of execution, and true to beauty... All is simple, there is no mendacious elegance'

- these are the words of Emile Zola describing another of Harlamoff's works and which can also be applied with perfection to "The Arrangement".

Gustave Madelain | Post-Impressionist painter

French artist Gustave Madelain (1867-1944) was born at Charly (Aisne) and quickly developed his own interpretation of French post Impressionism.

His specialized in painting landscapes of all types and these he usually did in oil paint.

He regularly showed his work in Paris and regularly submitted his work to the "Salon of Independents" from 1907.

Guillaume Seignac | No cherries for you!

French academic painter Guillaume Seignac was born in Rennes in 1870, and died in Paris in 1924.

He started training at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he spent 1889 through 1895.

He had many teachers there, including Gabriel Ferrier, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.

Jean-Charles Decoudun, 1962 | Paris painter

Fascinated by pedestrian streets and squares, churches and covered markets, in fact, with everyday life, the French painter🎨 Jean-Charles Decoudun uses watercolors to paint these scenes of life.

The artist observes and notes that people are attracted to these places of daily scenes and enjoys painting their squares, cafés and streets. The subjects of his paintings are, in his eyes, the true creators.

Vladimir Babich / Владимир Бабич, 1953

Vladimir Babich is a contemporary Russian artist🎨.

He works in the style of Post-impressionism following the traditions of Van Gogh🎨, Monet🎨.

Vladimir N. Babich graduated from the Moscow University of Art (Stroganovskoye uchilishye).

He is a member of Moscow Artists Association since 1986.

Arthur Hughes | April Love, 1856 | Tate Gallery

"April Love" is a painting by the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) which was created between 1855-1856.

It was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1856.

Originally acquired by William Morris, the painting was purchased by the Tate Gallery, London (now Tate Britain) in 1909 and has remained in the Tate collection to the present day.

Vincent van Gogh | Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Me, 1888

We can tell that Van Gogh painted this view of the sea from the beach, as grains of sand have been found in the paint layers. It was done at the fishing village of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, during a trip he took from Arles in the south of France.

In addition to the blue and white that he brushed onto the canvas with bold strokes, he used green and yellow for the waves.

He applied these colours with a palette knife, neatly capturing the effect of the light through the waves.

Van Gogh was enthusiastic about the colours of the Mediterranean Sea.

Claude Monet | Summer, 1874

In April and May of 1874, for the first time Monet and his artist friends exhibited their own works rejected by the official "Salon" in rooms belonging to the photographer Nadar on the boulevard des Capucines.

A newspaper critic, referring to Monet’s Impression - Sunrise of 1872 mockingly coined the term "Impressionists".

Arthur Hughes | Fair Rosamund, 1854

Legend has it that in 1176 Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II of England, poisoned ‘Fair’ Rosamund Clifford, the king’s beautiful mistress and true love.

Henry had created a secret garden for Rosamund at Woodstock, a Royal estate in Oxfordshire, accessible only via a maze.

Arthur Hughes (British Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1832-1915) has painted the moment when Eleanor, seen lurking in the background, discovers the entrance to the garden, gaining the opportunity to commit murder.

Claude Monet | A bouquet of gladioli, lilies and daisies, 1878

Painted in 1878, Monet’s "Bouquet of gladioli, lilies and daisies" / "Bouquet de glaïeuls, lis et marguerites" - beautifully demonstrates the artist’s ability to evoke the lavishness and vitality of flowers, rendering them with extraordinary freshness and spontaneity.

Claude Monet | La terrasse à Sainte-Adresse, 1867

"The Garden at Sainte-Adresse" is a painting by the French impressionist painter Claude Monet.

The painting was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art after an auction sale at Christie's in December 1967, under the French title "La terrasse à Sainte-Adresse".

The painting was exhibited at the 4th Impressionist exhibition, Paris, April 10-May 11, 1879, as no. 157 under the title Jardin à Sainte-Adresse.

Piotr Stoliarenko (1925-2018) | Post-impressionist painter

Piotr Kuzmich Stoliarenko / Петр Кузьмич Столяренко - a landscape, seascape and dreamy garden painter, a master of still-life and genre paintings, is considered as one of the most fascinating of the Crimean artists🎨.

He is called the Soviet post-impressionist, and his art - a crucial classic of Soviet and post-Soviet painting.

The artist was born in the picturesque village of Kertch, a delightful fishing village in the Crimea, on the edge of the Azov Sea.

Piotr Stoliarenko attended the Aivazovsky academy of fine arts and was a pupil of Nikolai Barsamov.

Jim Daley, 1951 | Genre painter

Born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, Jim Daly studied at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California.

His paintings of American genre are represented in many private and corporate collections and have received numerous awards🎨.

His paintings also appear in the permanent collections of the Favell Museum in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the U.S. Marshall Historical Society, Fort Lauderdale, Florida and The Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Gustaf Theodor Wallen (1860-1948)

Gustaf Theodor Wallén (14 dicembre 1860, Stoccolma - 15 gennaio 1948, Leksand) è stato un pittore, grafico, disegnatore e scultore Svedese.

Ha iniziato a studiare all'Artigianato di Stoccolma ed alla Scuola professionale nel 1878, ma nel 1879 si è iscritto alla Scuola dell'Accademia delle Arti, dove ha studiato per Georg von Rosen.

Durante l'accademia divenne stretto amico di Bruno Liljefors, Gottfrid Kallstenius ed Anshelm Schultzberg, la sua interazione con Schultzberg prese vita.

Gli fu conferita la medaglia reale nel 1887 per la pittura ad olio "Havsstrand a Kivik".

Carl Wilhelmson (Swedish, 1866-1928)

Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson🎨 was born in the little fishing village of Fiskebäcksil on the west coast of Sweden.

He began working in a print works in Gothenburg as a lithography apprentice.

Wilhelmson trained first as a commercial lithographer in Göteborg.

In 1886 he enrolled as a student of decorative painting at Valand College of Art where his teacher was Carl Larsson🎨.

Johannes Vermeer | Officer and Laughing Girl, 1657

Officer and Laughing Girl, also known as "Officer and a Laughing Girl", "Officer With a Laughing Girl" or "De Soldaat en het Lachende Meisje", was painted by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer between 1655 and 1660.

It was painted in oil on canvas, typical of most Dutch artists of the time, and is 50.5 by 46 cm.

It now resides in The Frick Collection in New York.

Officer and Laughing Girl includes many of the characteristics of Vermeer's style.

Proust and Johannes Vermeer

"By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal, differing more widely from each other than those which roll round the infinite and which, whether their name be Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us their unique rays many centuries after the hearth from which they emanate is extinguished.

Ernest Rouart (1874-1942) | Impressionist painter

Ernest Rouart was one of the five children on Henri Rouart (1833-1912), an engineer, collector and artist.

Henri was intimately involved with the Impressionist painters, especially Degas🎨, whose "Dancers at the Bar", now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he once owned.

Henri exhibited in all the official Salons between 1868-1872 as well as with the Impressionists from 1876-1996 (except 1882).

Vincent van Gogh | A Woman Walking in a Garden, 1887

"A Woman Walking in a Garden" was painted by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in 1887.

As the title indicates, it depicts a woman walking through a garden.

Greenery is everywhere and numerous trees can be seen in the background.

In 1886 van Gogh left Holland for Paris never to return.

Frederick Goodall RA (1822-1904) | Orientalist painter

Frederick Goodall RA was an English artist🎨.

Life

Frederick Goodall was born in London in 1822, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall (1795-1870). He received his education at the Wellington Road Academy.

Goodall's first commission, for Isambard Brunel, was six watercolour paintings of the Thames Tunnel. Four of these were exhibited at the Royal Academy when Frederick was 16.

Daniel Sprick, 1953 | Pittore figurativo

Daniel Sprick è un artista del Colorado, noto per il suo realismo contemporaneo nella pittura figurativa, le nature morte ed i paesaggi.

Per Sprick, il Rinascimento settentrionale ed italiano sono i periodi in cui sono state realizzate alcune delle sue opere preferite. A partire dal 1400, ed andando avanti al lavoro di Hans Holbein e Vermeer.

Quando si parla di profondità e sincerità, sia la pittura barocca che quella rinascimentale sono diventate uno standard per l'artista.

Vladimir Kuš, 1965 | Paintings

Vladimir Kush è un pittore e scultore surrealista nato in Russia.

Ha studiato al Surikov Moscow Art Institute e dopo diversi anni di lavoro come artista a Mosca, sua città natale, è emigrato negli Stati Uniti, stabilendo infine la sua galleria sull'isola di Maui, nelle Hawaii.

I suoi dipinti ad olio sono anche venduti come stampe giclée che hanno contribuito alla sua popolarità ed hanno portato alla creazione di ulteriori gallerie a Laguna Beach, California, Las Vegas e Nevada.

Nel 2011 Kush vinse il Primo Premio🎨 in Pittura alla mostra internazionale Artistes du Monde a Cannes.

Paul-Michel Dupuy (1869-1949)

Paul Michel Dupuy was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and Albert Maignan at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français every year from 1896 until his death, and became a member of the Salon in 1899.

His "The Elephants at the Zoological Gardens" was awarded🎨 the third class medal in 1901 and his "Luxembourg Palace, Autumn Evening" won the second class medal🎨 in 1902.

Paul-Albert Besnard (1849-1934)

Paul-Albert Besnard was a student of the academic painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), won the prix de Rome in 1874 and was among the founders of the Société Nationale in 1890.

Throughout his career his style remained in between academic and impressionistic.

During the last thirty years of his life he held important positions in the Académie de France in Rome, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Académie française, the Académie de Saint Luc and the Royal Academy. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lucius Rossi (1846-1913) | Genre painter

Lucius Rossi was an Italian🎨 genre painter who has worked and lived in Paris.

Rossi trained at the Academy San Luca in Rome. He was strongly influenced by the Romantic painters, and also the Spanish artist Marià Fortuny🎨.

Rossi left Italy to settle in Paris in 1867, where he began to work as a designer for magazines, including the illustrated British newspaper "The Graphic".

Victor Charreton (1864-1937)

French🎨 Post-Impressionist painter Victor Charreton was one of the founding members of the Show of Autumn (Salon d'Automne), and was made knight of the Legion of Honour🎨 in 1914.

He was a teacher at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1919-1925.

Victor Charreton is famous for his landscapes and still-life paintings, often sharing Impressionist preoccupations whilst trying to capture momentary effects of specific times of day or seasons, at sunset or in a snowy landscape.

George Morren (1868-1941)

George Morren was a Belgian painter. It belonged to the impressionist luminist school🎨 of the Belgian🎨 "Art Nouveau".

George Morren, third child of Anna Henrica Van den Wouwer and Arthur Morren, a wealthy merchant of grain in Antwerp, was born in Ekeren, the northern district of Antwerp, during the reign of King Leopold II.

He grew up in a bourgeois and Francophile family. His upbringing included an artistic education.

Georges Lapchine | Market Scene in Sainte-Maxime, 1937

Georges Lapchine (1885-1950) was an Russian painter🎨 from the Paris school.

Born in Moscow, Lapchine studied at the local Stroganov Academy.

Since 1906 he studied in France; in 1924, he moved to Paris.

Since 1925 he exhibited regularly at the major exhibitions "Société des Artistes" and "Salon des Indépendants".

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.

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.

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).

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🎨 (born June 25, 1865, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.- died July 12, 1929, New York, New York), 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.

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.

Tamara de Lempicka | The Baroness with a Brush

Born Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland (then a sovereign state of Russia), Tamara de Łempicka (1898-1980) has come to be recognized both by her epithet, "Baroness with a Brush", and as icon of the Roaring Twenties.

As the daughter of wealthy parents, she was sent to Lausanne, Switzerland, to attend boarding school as a child - an experience she despised.

During the summer of one of her final years in Lausanne, however, her grandmother took her on a tour of Italy, where she first witnessed the work of Old Masters, an encounter that would ultimately inspire her life-long passion for art.