Henry John Stock | Influences, 1905

Henry John Stock (1853-1930) is one of those minor but highly individual artists who are among the glories of the English Romantic tradition.

Born in Greek Street, Soho, in 1853, he went blind in childhood but recovered his sight on being sent to live at Beaulieu in the New Forest.

He studied at the St. Martin's School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, and is said to have been encouraged by the engraver W.J. Linton, who took him to Italy. (It seems unlikely that this was before 1866, when Linton settled in America, since Stock would only have been thirteen at the time.

Eugeniusz Żak | Pittore Post-Impressionista

Eugeniusz Zak (1884-1926) è stato un pittore Polacco.

All'inizio Zak espresse il suo temperamento artistico attraverso un sofisticato uso della linea, facendo riferimento nei suoi ritratti a sanguigna alle opere di Leonardo, Botticelli, Hans Holbein il giovane e Dürer.

Poi, nella prima fase della sua carriera, si accostò allo stile dei Nabis, mediante l'elaborazione di superfici piatte, circoscritte in modo sfumato, senza contorni precisi e dai colori leggermente opachi.

Ernest Higgins Rigg (1868-1947) | The Potato Pickers

Ernest Higgins Rigg was a British painter🎨 of rural genre, landscapes and portraits.

Rigg was born in Bradford and studied at the School of Art there and then at the Acade´mie Julian in Paris.

He first visited Staithes in 1896 and lodged in Hinderwell at Quaker Garth and later stayed at the village’s Commercial Hotel. He moved to Sussex in 1908, but returned to Yorkshire after the First World War, living in Shipley in 1918 and Richmond in 1919. His brothers, Alfred and Arthur H. were both artists.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian, 1527-1593)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books, that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.

Arcimboldo was born in Milan in 1527, the son of Biagio, a painter who did work for the office of the Fabbrica in the Duomo.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo did not leave written certificates on himself or his artwork. After the deaths of Arcimboldo and his patron—the emperor Rudolph II—the heritage of the artist was quickly forgotten, and many of his works were lost. They were not mentioned in the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. Only in 1885 did the art critic K. Kasati publish the monograph "Giuseppe Arcimboldi, Milan Artist" in which the main attention was given to Arcimboldi's role as a portraitist.

Ettore Tito | Le mondine in Polesine, 1885

Ettore Tito🎨 (17 December 1859 - 26 June 1941) was an Italian artist🎨 particularly known for his paintings of contemporary life and landscapes in Venice and the surrounding region.

He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and from 1894 to 1927 was the Professor of Painting there.

Tatiana Deriy (Russian painter, 1973)

Tatiana Deriy is a dynamically growing painter, whose major creative goal is comprehension of unity of the world's esthetic beauty and its profound meaning as well as rendering them to viewers through painting.

Born in a wonderful part of Moscow region, not far from ''Archangelskoye" estate full of creations of famous architects and sculptors, refinement of palace parks and canvases by Veroneze and Tintoretto, at an early age she developed special world outlook which later on defined the tenor of her work, based on the sense of harmony and beauty.

Comprehending the secrets of mastery of great painters of the past became her primary objective. In 1985 she entered Moscow Art College a hors concurs, graduated from it, which enabled her to continue education in Moscow State Academic Institute named after V.Surikov.

Max Svabinsky (1873-1962)

Max Švabinský (1873-1963) was a Czech painter🎨, draughtsman, graphic artist, and professor in Academy of Graphic Arts in Prague.

Švabinský is considered one of the more notable artists in the history of Czech painting and produced significant work during the first half of the 20th century.

He was relatively unusual among modernist artists in that his work was accepted by the communist regime; this was due at least in part to his having formed his artistic personality prior to 1900, prior to the advent of cubism. | © Wikipedia