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.

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.