Johan-Laurents Jensen (1800-1856)

Johan Laurentz Jensen, spesso indicato come JL Jensen (8 marzo 1800 - 26 marzo 1856), è stato un artista Danese specializzato in pittura floreale.

Vita e formazione

Parallelamente ai suoi studi all'Accademia danese, divenne allievo di Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg e anche di Cladius Detlev Fritzsch.

Specializzato in pittura floreale, Jensen ha continuato la sua formazione a Parigi sotto i fratelli fiamminghi, Gérard e Cornelis van Spaendonck, e presso la fabbrica di porcellane di Sèvres, dove ha appreso l'arte della pittura floreale in miniatura.

Leopold von Stoll (1808-1889) | Still life of flowers painter

Leopold von Stoll was a flower painter of Dutch origin, who was primarily active in Austria.

Leopold von Stoll was born in 1808 in the Netherlands.

In 1828, he worked in Krakow and Warsaw.

From 1830-1834 lived in Saint Petersburg, where he held a job of a flower painter at the Imperial Botanical Garden.

In 1834, he came to Vienna and consequently gained there much popularity as a still-life (flower, fruits) artist.

From 1834-1869, he regularly participated in various exhibitions in that city (at the Academy of Fine Arts, the "Künstlerhaus", etc.).

Giovanni Carnovali, detto "Il Piccio"

Giovanni Carnovali (Montegrino Valtravaglia, 29 settembre 1804 - Coltaro, 5 luglio 1873) è stato un pittore Italiano.

Giovanni Carnovali, detto il Piccio, nato a Montegrino Valtravaglia (VA) il 29 settembre 1804, da una famiglia dalle umili origini, si trasferì in tenera età ad Albino, in provincia di Bergamo.

Herman Richir | Pittore accademico

Herman Jean Joseph Richir (1866-1942) è stato un pittore accademico Belga di scene allegoriche e mitologiche e ritrattista di grande talento.

Richir iniziò la sua carriera artistica all'Accademia d'Arte di Saint-Josse-ten-Noode/Sint-Joost-ten-Node, dove è stato formato dai rinomati insegnanti Gustave Joseph Biot e Charles Hermans.

Alla ricerca della perfezione artistica, nel 1884 si trasferisce all'Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, dove affina ulteriormente le sue capacità sotto la tutela di Jean Francois Portaels.

Michele Cascella | Saint Germain en Laye, 1966

Michele Cascella🎨 (7 September 1892 - 31 August 1989) was an Italian artist🎨.

Primarily known for his oil paintings and watercolours, he also worked in ceramics, lithography, and textiles.

He exhibited regularly at the Venice Biennale from 1924 until 1942, and his works are owned by major museums in Italy and Europe, including Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris and Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.

Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793-1872) | Portrait / Genre painter

Margaret Sarah Carpenter (Salisbury 1793 - 13 November 1872 London), born Margaret Sarah Geddes, was a British painter🎨. Noted in her time, she mostly painted portraits in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence. She was a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington.

• Early life

She was born in Salisbury, the daughter of Captain Alexander Geddes, who was of an Edinburgh family, and Harriet Easton. She was taught art by a local drawing-master. Her first art studies were made from the pictures at Longford Castle, belonging to Lord Radnor.

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)

Umberto Boccioni, (born October 19, 1882, Reggio di Calabria, Italy—died August 16, 1916, Verona), Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of the Futurist movement in art.

Boccioni was trained from 1898-1902 in the studio of the painter Giacomo Balla, where he learned to paint in the manner of the pointillists.

In 1907 he settled in Milan, where he gradually came under the influence of the poet Filippo Marinetti, who launched the Futurist movement, which glorified the dynamism of modern technology.

Boccioni adapted Marinetti’s literary theories to the visual arts and became the leading theoretician of Futurist art.