Cesare Pavese / Pino Daeni | In the morning you always come back, 1950

Dawn’s faint breath

breathes with your mouth

at the ends of empty streets.

Gray light your eyes,

sweet drops of dawn

on dark hills.

Your steps and breath

like the wind of dawn

smother houses.

The city shudders,

Stones exhale -

you are life, an awakening.

Wilhelm Menzler (1846-1926) | Genre painter

Wilhelm Menzler Casel was a German painter🎨 of portraits, genre scenes and of flowers.

Born in Kassel, Northern Germany, on 28 March 1846 Menzler died in 1926.

Active in Munich he studied with van Lerins and went on to exhibit in Vienna from 1891.

Menzler’s works can be found in museums and galleries in Budapest and in Sydney.

Jenny Montigny (1875-1937) | Impressionist painter

Jeanne (Jenny) Montigny was a Belgian painter🎨.

Montigny's father was a lawyer and government official who oversaw several boards and commissions and was later Dean of the law faculty at the University of Ghent.

Her mother was of English origin.

Alphonse Roehn (1799-1864) | Genre painter

Jean Alphonse Roehn was a French painter🎨 who was born, worked and died in Paris.

He was the son of a successful genre painter🎨 Adolphe-Eugène-Gabriel Roehn (1780-1867) who was his first teacher.

At the age of fourteen, Jean-Alphonse Roehn left his father's studio for the École des Beaux Arts where he studied under Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Antoine-Jean Gros.

Guido Borelli, 1952

Guido Borelli da Caluso is an Italian painter. He was born in Caluso.

He comes from an artistic background, and his family always encouraged him to develop his talent, as early as childhood.

He won a contest at 13 and held his first exhibition at the age of 17 at Ars Plauda Gallery in Turin.

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)

Claude-Joseph Vernet was the leading French🎨 landscape painter (with Hubert Robert🎨) of the later 18th century🎨.

He achieved great celebrity with his topographical paintings and serene landscapes.

He was also one of the century's most accomplished painters of tempests and moonlight scenes.

Vernet was born at Avignon and trained there with his father, Antoine, and with the history painter Philippe Sauvan.

Ted Dyer, 1940 | Romantic Impressionist painter

Ted Dyer is Cornwall's leading Seascape and Landscape impressionist classic painter.

His work is acclaimed internationally through his many exhibitions, prints, art cards and books and he is probably Cornwalls most widely collected artist.

Ted Dyer was born in Bristol. He has lived and worked for most of his life in the West country. His younger years were spent in Devon and Somerset, then in 1972 he moved with his family to Cornwall.