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.

Jenny Montigny (1875-1937) | Impressionist painter

Jeanne (Jenny) Montigny was a Belgian painter🎨.

Montigny's father was a lawyer and government official who oversaw several boards and commissions and was later Dean of the law faculty at the University of Ghent.

Her mother was of English origin.

Alphonse Roehn (1799-1864) | Genre painter

Jean Alphonse Roehn was a French painter🎨 who was born, worked and died in Paris.

He was the son of a successful genre painter🎨 Adolphe-Eugène-Gabriel Roehn (1780-1867) who was his first teacher.

At the age of fourteen, Jean-Alphonse Roehn left his father's studio for the École des Beaux Arts where he studied under Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Antoine-Jean Gros.

Guido Borelli, 1952

Guido Borelli da Caluso is an Italian painter. He was born in Caluso.

He comes from an artistic background, and his family always encouraged him to develop his talent, as early as childhood.

He won a contest at 13 and held his first exhibition at the age of 17 at Ars Plauda Gallery in Turin.

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)

Claude-Joseph Vernet was the leading French🎨 landscape painter (with Hubert Robert🎨) of the later 18th century🎨.

He achieved great celebrity with his topographical paintings and serene landscapes.

He was also one of the century's most accomplished painters of tempests and moonlight scenes.

Vernet was born at Avignon and trained there with his father, Antoine, and with the history painter Philippe Sauvan.

Ted Dyer, 1940 | Romantic Impressionist painter

Ted Dyer is Cornwall's leading Seascape and Landscape impressionist classic painter.

His work is acclaimed internationally through his many exhibitions, prints, art cards and books and he is probably Cornwalls most widely collected artist.

Ted Dyer was born in Bristol. He has lived and worked for most of his life in the West country. His younger years were spent in Devon and Somerset, then in 1972 he moved with his family to Cornwall.

Luca Albino (1884-1952)

Luca Albino was an Italian painter🎨 who was born in 1884.

He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Costa Amalfitana in the 19th and 20th centuries with Luigi Paolillo, Angelo Della Mura and Antonio Ferrigno.

His paintings, which he calls "sun bombs", depict picturesque corners of the coast and scenes of everyday life, such as the many markets and fishermen.

Thérèse Dupré (1877-1920) | Naturalist painter

Thérèse-Marthe-Françoise Dupré was a French🎨 realist painter.

Dupré was born in Paris and learned to paint from her father Jules Dupré🎨.

She is known for paintings depicting women's work in the manner of her father and her uncle Georges Paul François Laurent Laugée.

Frederick F. Fursman (1874-1943) | Impressionist painter

Frederick F. Fursman, also known as Frederick Frary Fursman, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in France before establishing himself as a painter and teacher in Chicago and Milwaukee.

He started Michigan​’s Saugatuck Summer School of Painting in 1910 and remained its director for the next thirty years, influencing many young American artists.

Stanisław Żukowski | Interiors of Russian estate houses

Żukowski (Zhukouski), Stanisław (1873, Yendruhoucy village in Hrodna guberniya - 1944, Pruszków near Warszaw, Poland) - Painter of landscapes🎨, interiors, still life.

He was born into the family of aristocrat deprived of possessions and the rights of the nobility for participating in the 1863 uprising.

In 1892 S. Żukowski, against his father’s will, went to Moscow to study painting.

He graduated from Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he was supervised by Isaac Levitan🎨.

Jacques Alfred van Muyden (1818-1898) | Genre painter

Jacques Alfred van Muyden was a Swiss🎨 history, portrait and genre painter🎨, engraver, and a co-founder of the "Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Maler und Bildhauer".

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His mother was Swiss, but his father was a Dutchman from Utrecht. His family wanted him to study law, but he chose painting instead.

Francesco Longo Mancini (1880-1948)

Francesco Longo Mancini was an Italian painter🎨 of the early 20th century🎨 who was known for his paintings of figures.

He was born in Catania where he lived part of his life.

Francesco Longo Mancini studied at the Regio Istituto Tecnico in Catania.

After that, he moved to Rome, and studied at the Scuola Libera del Nudo under the guidance of Francesco Jacovacci and Filippo Prosperi.

Marco De Gregorio (1829-1876) | School of Resina

Marco De Gregorio was an Italian painter🎨, who would form part of the School of Resina, painting works that spanned the spectrum from historical to genre🎨 topics.

He was born in Resina (present day Ercolano) near Naples.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples after 1850, where he was influenced by Gonsalvo Carelli and Giacinto Gigante.

An ardent patriot, in 1860 he joined Garibaldi and even participated in the Battle of Volturnus.

Federico Rossano | School of Resina

Federico Rossano (1835-1912) was an Italian painter in a Realist style.

Rossano was born in Naples, and studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, at the objection of his father, a former soldier in the army of Murat, and who wished his son to study architecture.

He was influenced by the School of Posillipo, and the style Filippo Palizzi, but developed his own subject matter.

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) | Still Lifes

Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter🎨 who was one of the creators of the painting style known as Fauvism.

Vlaminck was noted for his brash temperament and broad interests; he was at various times a musician, actor, racing cyclist and novelist.

He was also a self-taught artist who proudly shunned academic training, aside from drawing lessons.

In 1900 Vlaminck met the painter André Derain 🎨 during a train accident, and the two shared a studio from 1900-1901.