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...
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“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,...
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...
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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...
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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 lilacs here represent early love, and the lady’s dress style and star necklace imply innocence. ‘The Lady with the Lilacs’ was first owned by Lewis Carroll, author...
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...
Charles Courtney Curran’s (1861—1942) artistic style and link with Impressionism remained consistent throughout his career. His depiction of women and children among...
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Ulpiano Checha y Sanz (1860—1916) was born in Colmenar de Oreja in the center of Spain just outside Madrid and studied at the Madrid Academy. At the age of 19 he became...
“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....
Inspired by the bold, flat style Post-Impressionist movement of the late 1890s — the Nabis — a group of painters with whom he was briefly associated — Swiss-born artist...
John William Godward (1861—1922) was a master of classical subject paintings which are stylistically similar to the work of Victorian artists Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema...
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Mauritz Frederik Hendrik De Haas (1832—1895) was a Dutch-American marine painter. Contemporaries lauded his work for its realistic nature, which was attributed to his...
Albert Julius Olsson (1864—1942) was a British landscape artist. He was born in Islington, London, to a Swedish father and an English mother. Olsson had no formal...
The woman represents the goddess Nyx, in Greek mythology, female personification of the night. Nyx is often described as a black-robed goddess. Early Symbolist and Art...
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy. Louis Gurlitt, View of Kullen in Sweden. Smugglers Hiding their Goods...
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During his almost 60-year career he created around 6,000 paintings. The sea became his teacher and would show itself to him under all its facets, providing him with...
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre. Ilya Zankovsky, Darial Gorge (Darjalpasset),...
Norwegian artist Peder Balke (1804—1887) visited the North Cape only once, in 1832, but the experience became a touchstone of his imagination for the rest of his life....
Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (1840—1905) was a Finnish landscape painter. He studied art at Düsseldorf. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1897. He...
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“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” ― Mark Twain. Georg Eduard Otto Saal, Forest Landscape in the Moonlight, 1861, Rijksmuseum,...
Under a moonlit sky, Albert Bierstadt’s (1830—1902) trappers are at home in the dark, mysterious wilderness. Albert Bierstadt’s romantic painting style sought to capture...
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