Paul-Albert Besnard (1849-1934)

Paul-Albert Besnard was a student of the academic painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), won the prix de Rome in 1874 and was among the founders of the Société Nationale in 1890.

Throughout his career his style remained in between academic and impressionistic.

During the last thirty years of his life he held important positions in the Académie de France in Rome, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Académie française, the Académie de Saint Luc and the Royal Academy. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lucius Rossi (1846-1913) | Genre painter

Lucius Rossi was an Italian🎨 genre painter who has worked and lived in Paris.

Rossi trained at the Academy San Luca in Rome. He was strongly influenced by the Romantic painters, and also the Spanish artist Marià Fortuny🎨.

Rossi left Italy to settle in Paris in 1867, where he began to work as a designer for magazines, including the illustrated British newspaper "The Graphic".

Victor Charreton (1864-1937)

French🎨 Post-Impressionist painter Victor Charreton was one of the founding members of the Show of Autumn (Salon d'Automne), and was made knight of the Legion of Honour🎨 in 1914.

He was a teacher at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1919-1925.

Victor Charreton is famous for his landscapes and still-life paintings, often sharing Impressionist preoccupations whilst trying to capture momentary effects of specific times of day or seasons, at sunset or in a snowy landscape.

George Morren (1868-1941)

George Morren was a Belgian painter. It belonged to the impressionist luminist school🎨 of the Belgian🎨 "Art Nouveau".

George Morren, third child of Anna Henrica Van den Wouwer and Arthur Morren, a wealthy merchant of grain in Antwerp, was born in Ekeren, the northern district of Antwerp, during the reign of King Leopold II.

He grew up in a bourgeois and Francophile family. His upbringing included an artistic education.

Georges Lapchine | Market Scene in Sainte-Maxime, 1937

Georges Lapchine (1885-1950) was an Russian painter🎨 from the Paris school.

Born in Moscow, Lapchine studied at the local Stroganov Academy.

Since 1906 he studied in France; in 1924, he moved to Paris.

Since 1925 he exhibited regularly at the major exhibitions "Société des Artistes" and "Salon des Indépendants".

Aykut Aydogdu, 1986

Istanbul-based freelance illustrator Aykut Aydoğdu has developed a unique style creating surreal, enigmatic digital art. He is also known as "aykutmaykut".

His surreal figurative works are mainly concentrated on the dilemmas of the daily life.

William Oxer | Portrait painter

Living in at Hatchlands Park, Surrey where The Cobbe Collection is based, William Oxer was to assist in various projects including an exhibition for the Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace and large-scale designs for interiors in historic houses such as Goodwood House, Petworth House and Hatchlands Park.

He lived at the latter back in 1996, working with restorer and interiors expert, Alec Cobbe.