Anna Marinova / Анна Маринова, 1983

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Anna Marinova studied at the Saint Petersburg Roerich College of Art.

From 2004-2010 she studied at The Repin🎨 Art Institute (The Russian Academy of Arts) in workshops with professor of painting V.V. Sokolov.

She began exhibiting in 2005, and in 2008 she was awarded🎨 with the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for academic excellence.

Carlos Vanderlei Pinto, 1953 | Magic Realism painter

Self-taught painter, composer and poet Carlos Vanderlei Pinto was born in Brazil.

He studied graphic arts and at 13 he won his first prize🎨 in the regional Flag Day poster competition.

Charles Conder (1868-1909)

Charles Edward Conder was an English🎨-born painter, lithographer and designer. He emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, arguably the beginning of a distinctively Australian tradition in Western art.

His work is associated with impressionism.

Pierre-Albert Marquet (1875-1947)

Albert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.

He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse.

Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910-1914, several female figure paintings.

Albert Henry Fullwood (1863-1930)

Albert Henry Fullwood was an Australian artist who made a significant contribution to art in Australia.

He painted with Heidelberg School artists around Melbourne and moved with Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton to live and paint at their camp in Sirius Cove, Sydney.

Fullwood was the Australian official war artist to the 5th Division in the World War I.

Fullwood was born in Hockely, Birmingham, son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr.

Alexandre Altmann (1885-1950)

Alexandre Altmann was a Russian-French painter🎨.

Altmann was born to a poor Jewish family in Sobolevka near Kyiv in Ukraine in 1885. At the age of eleven, Altmann ran away to Odessa where he worked variously as a tailor, shoemaker, metalworker and grocery salesman.

The painter Vlas Mikailovich Doroshevich took Altmann under his wing after noticing Altmann’s draughtsmanship and thus encouraged his pursuit of art.

Albert Dubois-Pillet | Neo-impressionist painter

Albert Dubois-Pillet (1846-1890) was a French Neo-impressionist painter and a career army officer. He was instrumental in the founding of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, and was one of the first artists to embrace Pointillism.

Albert Dubois-Pillet was a career military officer and self-taught amateur painter, closely aligned with the Neo-impressionists. Though not formally trained, various Salons accepted his still lifes for display as early as 1877.