Lionel Royer (French, 1852-1926)

Lionel-Noël Royer was a French painter🎨. He was most famous for painting large scenes of the life of Joan of Arc in the Basilica of Bois-Chenu in Domrémy.

Lionel Royer was born in Château-du-Loir in Sarthe on December 25, 1852.

He volunteered before his 18th birthday for the Franco-Prussian War and took part in the Battle of Loigny-Poupry on December 2, 1870 under the command of General Athanase de Charrette de la Contrie.

Modest Huys (1874-1932) | Luminist painter

Modest Huys was a Flemish🎨 Impressionist and Luminist painter.

From a young age, he worked in his father's painting and decorating business and later studied at the "Gentse Nijverheidschool" (Ghent Industrial School).

In 1891 or 1892, he came into contact with Emile Claus🎨, who encouraged his artistic inclinations.

Filippo Anivitti (1876-1955) | Rome painting

Born in Rome, Filippo Anivitti studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, with Filippo Prosperi (1831-1913), holder of the chair of figure.

He then attended the evening courses of Alessandro Morani, at the Industrial Artistic Institute.

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.