Claude Monet | A bouquet of gladioli, lilies and daisies, 1878

Painted in 1878, Monet’s "Bouquet of gladioli, lilies and daisies" / "Bouquet de glaïeuls, lis et marguerites" - beautifully demonstrates the artist’s ability to evoke the lavishness and vitality of flowers, rendering them with extraordinary freshness and spontaneity.

Claude Monet | La terrasse à Sainte-Adresse, 1867

"The Garden at Sainte-Adresse" is a painting by the French impressionist painter Claude Monet.

The painting was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art after an auction sale at Christie's in December 1967, under the French title "La terrasse à Sainte-Adresse".

The painting was exhibited at the 4th Impressionist exhibition, Paris, April 10-May 11, 1879, as no. 157 under the title Jardin à Sainte-Adresse.

Piotr Stoliarenko (1925-2018) | Post-impressionist painter

Piotr Kuzmich Stoliarenko / Петр Кузьмич Столяренко - a landscape, seascape and dreamy garden painter, a master of still-life and genre paintings, is considered as one of the most fascinating of the Crimean artists🎨.

He is called the Soviet post-impressionist, and his art - a crucial classic of Soviet and post-Soviet painting.

The artist was born in the picturesque village of Kertch, a delightful fishing village in the Crimea, on the edge of the Azov Sea.

Piotr Stoliarenko attended the Aivazovsky academy of fine arts and was a pupil of Nikolai Barsamov.

Jim Daley, 1951 | Genre painter

Born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, Jim Daly studied at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California.

His paintings of American genre are represented in many private and corporate collections and have received numerous awards🎨.

His paintings also appear in the permanent collections of the Favell Museum in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the U.S. Marshall Historical Society, Fort Lauderdale, Florida and The Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Gustaf Theodor Wallen (1860-1948)

Gustaf Theodor Wallén (14 dicembre 1860, Stoccolma - 15 gennaio 1948, Leksand) è stato un pittore, grafico, disegnatore e scultore Svedese.

Ha iniziato a studiare all'Artigianato di Stoccolma ed alla Scuola professionale nel 1878, ma nel 1879 si è iscritto alla Scuola dell'Accademia delle Arti, dove ha studiato per Georg von Rosen.

Durante l'accademia divenne stretto amico di Bruno Liljefors, Gottfrid Kallstenius ed Anshelm Schultzberg, la sua interazione con Schultzberg prese vita.

Gli fu conferita la medaglia reale nel 1887 per la pittura ad olio "Havsstrand a Kivik".

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.