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Václav Brožík | Pittore accademico

Václav Brožík (1851-1901) è stato uno storico dell'arte, considerato il più grande pittore accademico Ceco.
Nel 1896 divenne il primo, e finora unico artista Ceco, a diventare membro dell'Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Václav Brožík studiò dal 1868 presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Praga sotto Emil Lauffer.
Nel 1871 si trasferì per poter proseguire i suoi studi all'Accademia di Dresda e dal 1873 all'Accademia di Monaco di Baviera, dove fu influenzato in particolare da Carl Theodor von Piloty.


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Frederick Morgan ROI | Genre painter

Frederick Morgan ROI (1847-1927) is known mostly for his romantic and sentimental paintings of children in the same style as his contemporary Arthur John Elsley.
His paintings achieved great popularity in his lifetime and were widely published.
He exhibited with the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI).
Morgan's paintings are exhibited at many art galleries and museums including the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth.
His Turn Next was used to advertise Pears' Soap and is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.


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Elli Michler | Ti auguro Tempo

Non ti auguro un dono qualsiasi,
ti auguro soltanto quello che i più non hanno.
Ti auguro tempo, per divertirti e per ridere;
se lo impiegherai bene potrai ricavarne qualcosa.


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Anton Dieffenbach | Pittore di genere

Anton Heinrich Dieffenbach (1831-1914) è stato un pittore paesaggista e di genere Tedesco, noto per i suoi ritratti di bambini.
Si trasferì a Strasburgo con i suoi genitori nel 1840 e prese lezioni da un artista locale di nome Charles Duhamel.
Grazie alla raccomandazione di Duhamel, poté recarsi a Parigi e studiare con lo scultore James Pradier.


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Fabio Cipolla | Orientalist painter

Fabio Cipolla (1852-1935) was a distinguished Italian painter of genre scenes and "costume paintings".
He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and his works were published in various periodicals.
He made his first appearance at the exhibitions in Milan in 1879 and in Turin in 1880, and in the following years he developed the adoption of a mannered narrative realism on genre subjects.
Fabio Cipolla lived and worked in Rome all his life.


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Konstantin Sterkhov, 1968

Konstantin Sterkhov è un artista, docente ed autore di fama internazionale, nato in Russia.
In qualità di rinomato acquerellista, gli è stato concesso un visto Global Talent per il Regno Unito.
Sterkhov è autore di sei libri della collana "Masters of Watercolor", cinque manuali didattici sulla tecnica dell'acquerello e gli almanacchi "Planet of Watercolor".
È richiesto in tutto il mondo come espositore, autore, docente e membro della giuria.


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Nikolai Belsky | Genre painter

Russian painter Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945) painted mostly genre paintings, especially of the education of peasant children, portraits, and impressionistic landscapes studies.
Bogdanov was born in the village of Shitiki in Smolensk Governorate in 1868, then he added to his surname "Belsky" in accordance with the name of the Uyezd where he was born.
He studied at the elementary school where his teacher was Sergey Rachinsky, then studied icon-painting at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1883, modern painting at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1884 to 1889, and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1894 to 1895.