
This idyllic landscape “The Portico of a Country Mansion, near Florence” painted by Hubert Robert, commissioned by a financier, Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville, a...

This idyllic landscape “The Portico of a Country Mansion, near Florence” painted by Hubert Robert, commissioned by a financier, Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville, a...

A Swiss painter Fritz Zuber-Buhler (1822—1896) was one of these artists who came to Paris in search of artistic glory, and became part of the large circle of academic...

Robert Poetzelberger (1856—1930) was an Austrian painter, sculptor and lithographer. Poetzelberger’s depiction of a wood nymph sets the classical allusions of the 1880s...

Pierre Auguste Cot (1837—1883) studied at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris, where he was taught by Léon Cogniet, Alexandre Cabanel and William Bouguereau, with whom he...

American Impressionist woman artist Mary Cassatt (1844—1926) created a series of theatre scenes in the late 1870s, displaying an interest in city nightlife shared by...

The Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862—1918) made this portrait of Mäda Primavesi over a hundred years ago, when she was about nine years old. Mäda...

Peder Severin Krøyer (1851—1909), a Norwegian by birth, had travelled and studied extensively in Germany, Holland, Belgium and Denmark. He was one of the best known of...

Lionel Edwards (1878—1966) was a British artist who specialised in painting horses and other aspects of British country life. He is best known for his hunting scenes but...

At the age of seventeen British-born Thomas Cole (1801—1848) emigrated with his family from England to the United States, first working as a wood engraver in...

Claude Monet (1840—1926) painted more than thirty views of Rouen Cathedral in 1892–93. Moving from one canvas to another as each day progressed, he painted the facade...

Between 1890 and 1891 Monet devoted some thirty paintings to the haystacks in a field near his house at Giverny. In the midst of this effort, he wrote to the critic...

Michael Ancher (1849—1927) came to Skagen in 1874 at the age of 25, and he was the only one of the visiting artists who settled permanently in the town. He is known for...

Childe Hassam (1859—1935) was a pioneer of American Impressionism. His finest works manifest his brilliant handling of colour and light. Hassam created more than 2,000...

When Childe Hassam (1859—1935) exhibited “The White Dory, Gloucester” at the National Academy of Design in the spring of 1895, critics responded with enthusiasm:...

Childe Hassam (1859—1935) was a frequent visitor to the Florence Griswold House in Old Lyme, Connecticut, between 1903 and 1909. Apple Trees in Bloom, Old Lyme was...