Carl Larsson | Arts and Crafts movemen

Carl Larsson (1853-1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes.

He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life.

Larsson was born in Gamla stan, the old quarter of Stockholm, on 28 May 1853. His family was poor and Carl grew up in dismal circumstances.

The only glimmer of hope was his strong artistic talent, which emerged early on in his life. When he was thirteen years old his teacher at the school for the poor persuaded him to apply for a place at Principskolan, the preparatory department of the Art Academy.

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse | Il pittore delle ballerine dell'Opera

Pierre-Gérard Carrier-Belleuse (Parigi, 1851-1932) è stato un pittore Francese.

Noto soprattutto come pittore delle ballerine dell'Opera, gli si devono anche numerosi paesaggi e tre "panorami".

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse era figlio del pittore Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse e di Louise Anne Adnot. Suo fratello Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, fu anch'egli pittore e scultore.

Studiò alla Scuola di Belle arti di Parigi, dopo essere stato allievo di suo padre e poi di Alexandre Cabanel.

Nel 1875 espose per la prima volta al Salon, dove, nel 1897, ricevette una menzione d'onore.

All'Expo di Parigi del 1889 ottenne invece una medaglia d'argento. Al pari di suo padre, il suo soggetto preferito fu la donna.

Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629-1684)

Pieter de Hooch (20 December 1629 (baptized) - 24 March 1684 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway.

He was a contemporary of Jan Vermeer in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, with whom his work shares themes and style.

Howard Pyle (1853-1911)

Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 - November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people.

He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.

In 1894, he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry (now Drexel University).

After 1900, he founded his own school of art and illustration named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. Scholar Henry C. Pitz later used the term Brandywine School for the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region, several of whom had studied with Pyle.

Ernest Ange Duez | Pittore di genere

Il pittore Francese Ernest Ange Duez (1843-1896) è nato l'8 marzo 1843 a Parigi, e ha studiato pittura sotto Isidoro Pils.

Espone per la prima volta al Salon nel 1868 con Mater Dolorosa, e raggiunge il successo nel 1874 con una medaglia di terza classe per i suoi dipinti Splendeur e Misère. Ha vinto altre medaglie lì in seguito.

Le scene di genere raffiguranti la vita moderna comprendevano il ristorante Au Le Doyen (1878) e Café sur la Terrasse (1890). I ritratti includevano Madame Duez (1877) ed Alphonse de Neuville (1880).

Paesaggi e scene balneari erano spesso ispirati alla campagna della Normandia attorno a Villerville e Le Havre.

Nel 1879 al Salon espose il grande trittico Saint Cuthbert, raffigurante le fasi della vita di Cuthbert ambientate in paesaggi basati sulla campagna intorno a Villerville. Considerato il suo più grande lavoro, è ora al Musée d'Orsay.

Walter Ernest Webster | Pittore figurativo

Walter Ernest Webster RI ROI RP (1878-1959) è stato un pittore e ritrattista Britannico. Ha lavorato anche come illustratore.

Fu membro sia del Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors (RI) che del Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) nel 1920 e della Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) nel 1921.

Marc Chagall | Le Cirque

Marc Chagall’s fascination with the circus began at a young age, when travelling acrobats, dancers and musicians visited his hometown of Vitebsk in pre-revolutionary Russia.

In his later years in Paris, the artist regularly attended the Cirque d'Hiver with the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard.

Vollard encouraged the pastime in the hope that Chagall would be inspired to create an illustrated book on the subject.