
In portraits of female subjects, Anton Rafael Mengs (1728—1779) displays a warm and gentle quality, more Rococo in tone than the slightly academic coldness marking his...

In portraits of female subjects, Anton Rafael Mengs (1728—1779) displays a warm and gentle quality, more Rococo in tone than the slightly academic coldness marking his...

George Lawrence Bulleid (1858—1933) is best known as a painter of highly finished oil paintings and watercolours of subjects from classical antiquity, in the manner of...

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." — William Blake. Henry Ryland, Spring...

Benjamin Champney (1817—1907) was an American painter. Most art historians consider him the founder of the "North Conway Colony" of painters who came to North Conway,...

William Bradford (1823—1892) was an American romanticist painter, photographer and explorer, originally from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, near New Bedford. He is known for...

Cornelis Lieste (1817—1861) was a Dutch painter and lithographer. He specialised in Romantic style landscapes. Cornelis Lieste, Landscape with Crescent Moon, Private...

Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823—1903) was a French-born British artist who specialised in genre painting of children and women. Her family left France for the United...

Franz Xaver Petter (1791—1866) was one of the most important still-life artists of the Biedermeier period in Vienna. From 1816 Petter started exhibiting his works...

Paul Theodor van Brussel (1754—1795) was one of the most accomplished still life artists of his day. Van Brussel’s choice of arrangements, handled with extraordinarily...

Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans (1787—1868) was known as one of Belgium's most celebrated 19th-century painters of historic subjects, genre scenes, and landscapes. Pierre...

Charles Cromwell Ingham (1796—1863), an Irish artist, who moved to New York in 1816 and soon became known as that city's premier "ladies' painter." Under her left arm,...

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the...

The overwhelming quality of this meticulously painted still-life artwork is enhanced by its excellent state of preservation which allows the viewer to enjoy Georgius...

Jan Frans van Dael (1764—1840), a Flemish artist, was one of the most highly regarded still life painters of flowers and fruits in Paris during the late 18th and early...

William Anstey Dolland (1858—1929), a Victorian artist of the same generation as John William Godward, Henry Ryland and George Lawrence Bulleid, also specialised in...

Henri Fantin-Latour’s (1836—1904) flower paintings were particularly appreciated in England, where, through James McNeill Whistler and Sir John Everett Millais,...

Henry Ryland (1856—1924) was a British painter, book illustrator, decorator and designer. Ryland's style combined the poeticism of the Pre-Raphaelites art movement with...

George Lawrence Bulleid (1858—1933) was an English Victorian watercolourist, born in Glastonbury, Somerset. In 1889, he became an Associate of the Royal Water Colour...

Henry Ryland (1856—1924) was a British painter, book illustrator, decorator and designer. This beautiful watercolour is a particularly enchanting example of Ryland's...

Charles Paul Landon (1760—1826) was a French painter and writer on art. He entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, where he made a lifelong friendship with Robert...

Daughter of the Empress María Teresa Habsburg and the Emperor Francisco I of Lorena, María Carolina Habsburg-Lorena (1752—1814) married Ferdinand IV of Naples in 1768,...

An accomplished restorer and connoisseur of Old Master paintings, Giuseppe Molteni (1800—1867) was, alongside Francesco Hayez, the leading portraitist in Milan during...

Painted in Aranjuez, this portrait depicts the eldest daughter of Charles IV and María Luisa de Parma. This is one of Mariano Salvador Maella’s (1739—1819) finest...

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu. Vittorio Reggianini, A Young Beauty (details), Private...

Jessica Hayllar (1858—1940) was a Victorian British painter. Her work may have been influenced by photography, since the Hayllar family used photographs to keep records...

“As a woman, my country is the whole world.” — Virginia Woolf. Vittorio Reggianini, The Flirtation, Private collection.

After moving to Florence in 1885, following years as both a student and teacher at the art academy of Modena, Vittorio Reggianini (1858—1938) turned from historical and...

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836—1904) was born in the family of a portrait painter Jean-Theodor Fantin-Latour and Elena Naidenova, a by birth - from the city of Orel. In 1841,...