Carl Wilhelmson (Swedish, 1866-1928)

Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson🎨 was born in the little fishing village of Fiskebäcksil on the west coast of Sweden.

He began working in a print works in Gothenburg as a lithography apprentice.

Wilhelmson trained first as a commercial lithographer in Göteborg.

In 1886 he enrolled as a student of decorative painting at Valand College of Art where his teacher was Carl Larsson🎨.

Johannes Vermeer | Officer and Laughing Girl, 1657

Officer and Laughing Girl, also known as "Officer and a Laughing Girl", "Officer With a Laughing Girl" or "De Soldaat en het Lachende Meisje", was painted by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer between 1655 and 1660.

It was painted in oil on canvas, typical of most Dutch artists of the time, and is 50.5 by 46 cm.

It now resides in The Frick Collection in New York.

Officer and Laughing Girl includes many of the characteristics of Vermeer's style.

Proust and Johannes Vermeer

"By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal, differing more widely from each other than those which roll round the infinite and which, whether their name be Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us their unique rays many centuries after the hearth from which they emanate is extinguished.

Ernest Rouart (1874-1942) | Impressionist painter

Ernest Rouart was one of the five children on Henri Rouart (1833-1912), an engineer, collector and artist.

Henri was intimately involved with the Impressionist painters, especially Degas🎨, whose "Dancers at the Bar", now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he once owned.

Henri exhibited in all the official Salons between 1868-1872 as well as with the Impressionists from 1876-1996 (except 1882).

Vincent van Gogh | A Woman Walking in a Garden, 1887

"A Woman Walking in a Garden" was painted by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in 1887.

As the title indicates, it depicts a woman walking through a garden.

Greenery is everywhere and numerous trees can be seen in the background.

In 1886 van Gogh left Holland for Paris never to return.

Frederick Goodall RA (1822-1904) | Orientalist painter

Frederick Goodall RA was an English artist🎨.

Life

Frederick Goodall was born in London in 1822, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall (1795-1870). He received his education at the Wellington Road Academy.

Goodall's first commission, for Isambard Brunel, was six watercolour paintings of the Thames Tunnel. Four of these were exhibited at the Royal Academy when Frederick was 16.

Daniel Sprick, 1953 | Pittore figurativo

Daniel Sprick è un artista del Colorado, noto per il suo realismo contemporaneo nella pittura figurativa, le nature morte ed i paesaggi.

Per Sprick, il Rinascimento settentrionale ed italiano sono i periodi in cui sono state realizzate alcune delle sue opere preferite. A partire dal 1400, ed andando avanti al lavoro di Hans Holbein e Vermeer.

Quando si parla di profondità e sincerità, sia la pittura barocca che quella rinascimentale sono diventate uno standard per l'artista.