
Jean Ranc (1674—1735) was a French Baroque painter known for his court portraits. At the behest of Philip V of Spain, he traveled to Madrid in 1722 to make various...

Jean Ranc (1674—1735) was a French Baroque painter known for his court portraits. At the behest of Philip V of Spain, he traveled to Madrid in 1722 to make various...

Kazimierz Mordasewicz (1859—1923) was born in Minsk. As a young man he pursued a militry career. He then began an artistic career entering the Warsaw School of Drawing...

“Come back... even as a shadow, even as a dream...” — Euripides. Parker Hagarty, Grief, 19th century, Private collection. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

A painter of still-lifes, portraits, and genre scenes, William J. McCloskey (1859—1941) was an important figure in California’s early art scene and best known for...

Gustav Pope (1831—1910) was a British Victorian painter of Austrian origin. After his migration from Austria, he entered the country’s artistic scene through the...

Lauded for his dazzling brushwork and ability to capture the likeness of the subject, American artist Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861—1948) became the artist of choice for a...

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” — Émile Zola. Tuke Henry Scott, Miss Muriel Lubbock, 1898,...

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” — Nicole Krauss, The History of Love....

The artist, who charged seven thousand pesetas for the portrait, included it in his important personal exhibition at the Georges Petit gallery in Paris in 1906 and two...

François Flameng (1856—1923) was a successful society portraitist who received commissions in Paris, London, St. Petersburg and New York. François Flameng, Portrait of a...

In ‘Arranging the Bouquet’, the artist Fernand Toussaint (1873—1963) fused the crosscurrents of French Modernism and Post Impressionism with the Academic portraiture of...

Georges Clairin (1843—1919) was born in Paris in 1843, Georges Clairin received his artist education at the École des Beaux-Arts. Georges Clairin, La Promenade, 19th...

Carolina Maraini-Sommaruga (1853—1916) was a socialite and benefactor. Her philanthropy was rewarded with the title of countess, conferred on her in 1926 by King...

“Look around you — the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are foolish and we don’t understand that...

Georg Emil Libert (1820—1908) was an accomplished Danish landscape painter known primarily for his grand naturalistic depictions of Jutland and Bornholm. Georg Emil...

The artist’s wife Mary modelled for the figure, and the garden belonged to Holland House in Kensington. Artist John Young-Hunter (1874—1955) was born in Glasgow and...

Rome-born English artist John William Waterhouse (1849—1917) painted classical themes in the Academic style before embracing the ethos of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...

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Charles Courtney Curran’s (1861—1942) artistic style and link with Impressionism remained consistent throughout his career. His depiction of women and children among...

“To paint the sea, you must love it, and to love it, you must know the sea.” — Frederick Judd Waugh. Frederick Judd Waugh, A Dawn Flight, 1861, Private collection....
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