Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959)

Sir Alfred James Munnings, KVO, PRA era conosciuto come uno dei migliori pittori Inglesi di cavalli e come critico schietto del modernismo.

Coinvolto dal Canadian War Memorials Fund di Lord Beaverbrook, dopo la Grande Guerra ottenne numerose commissioni prestigiose che lo resero ricco.

Munnings è stato eletto presidente della Royal Academy of Arts nel 1944.

E' stato fatto un Knight Bachelor nel mese di luglio dello stesso anno, ed è stato nominato un Cavaliere Comandante del Royal Victorian Order nel 1947 New Year Honours.

Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938)

Marianne von Werefkin /Мариа́нна Влади́мировна Верёвкина (10 September [O.S. 29 August] 1860, Tula, Russia - 6 February 1938, Ascona, Switzerland), born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina (transliteration Marianna Vladimirovna Verëvkina), was a Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter.

Godfried Schalcken | Pittore di genere

Godfried Schalcken o Schalken (1643-1706) è stato un pittore Olandese.

I quadri di Schalcken sono caratterizzati dai giochi di luce: era solito dipingere soggetti in ambienti scuri illuminati da candele.

Studiò pittura sotto la guida di van Hoogstraten a Dordrecht ed in seguito con Gerrit Dou a Leida.

Gabriel Metsu | Baroque painter

Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), Dutch painter was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway.

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

De Hooch was born in Rotterdam to Hendrick Hendricksz de Hooch, a bricklayer, and Annetge Pieters, a midwife.

Frans Hals | Baroque Era painter

Frans Hals the Elder (1582-1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem.

He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art.

Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture.

Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638) | Genre painter

Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde, c. 1605 - Antwerp, January 1638) was a Flemish painter🎨 active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century.

Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other 'lower class' individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings.

John Singer Sargent: "Fai uno schizzo su qualsiasi cosa e mantieni attiva la curiosità!"

"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh".

"Non si fanno mai abbastanza schizzi. Fai uno schizzo su qualsiasi cosa e mantieni attiva la tua curiosità".

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend".

"Ogni volta che dipingo un ritratto perdo un amico".