Eugene Delacroix

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1840) Musée Du Louvre, Paris, France
[Då korsfararna landade i staden 1204] ...kunde de inte tro att en så rik stad kunde finnas i hela världen. Då de såg de höga murarna och rika tornen som omslöt den och de praktfulla palats och höga kyrkor som var så många att ingen kunde tro det om han inte såg det med egna ögon, och stadens längd och bredd var furstligare än alla andra...

Ur Villehardouin, Erövringen av Konstantinopel

Albert Edelfelt

Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905) The Virgin Mary in the Rose Garden () Private Collection
Edelfelt hade framgångar på Salongen i Paris, och erhöll 1880 medalj för målningen Ett barns likfärd (1879). 1881 invaldes Edelfelt i den Ryska konstakademin. Edelfelt skördade även lagrar med sina porträtt, till exempel Läsande parisiska (1880) och porträttet av operasångerskan Aino Ackté (1901). För porträttet av Louis Pasteur (1885) belönades Edelfelt med franska hederslegionens kors. Under förtryckstiden fick Edelfelts patriotiska verk, bland andra Björneborgarnas marsch (1892) och illustrationerna av Fänrik Ståls sägner stor spridning i Finland. Ref. Wikipedia

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Flowers In A Fruit Bowl (1894)
Gauguin var först impressionist, men utvecklade runt 1888 i Bretagne en dekorativ stil med långtgående förenkling, hela färgplan, starka konturer, den så kallade primitivismen. 1888 delade han en gul stuga med Vincent van Gogh Arles i södra Frankrike. Gauguin vistades 1891–1893 och 1895–1903 på Tahiti och Marquesasöarna för att måla primitiva polynesiska motiv. Han var en av den moderna konstens främsta föregångare.

Frits Thaulow

Frits Thaulow (1847 - 1906) La Dordogne (1903)
En av Frits Thaulows mästerliga skildringar av vatten i långsam rörelse.

Vladimir Mikhailov

Vladimir Mikhailov (f. 1978) Still life with aluminium mug 
From 2003 is a participant of annual expositions of students’ works at I.E. Repin's Institute, Saint-Petersburg.

George Frederick Watts

George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) Hope (1886) Tate Collection
Det politiskt korrekta tycks vara tillväxt. Visst är det trevligt, vårt glesbefolkade land uppfylls av arbetande människor. Vi blir alla litet rikare och kan tillverka sådant som vi alla önskar oss. Ännu finns det odlingsbar mark och i länder med brist på rent vatten kan det renas och avsaltas. Baksidan på detta glänsande mynt är en allt torftigare djurvärld, de befinner sig allt oftare på de platser där vi inte önskar att de är. Likadant går det med artrikedomen inom växtlivet, urskogarna blir onekligen mindre. Så vad är det vi hoppas på i det litet längre perspektivet?

Gerrit Dou

Gerrit Dou (1613-1675) Old Woman Reading a Bible (~1630) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Gerrit Dou was one of the most highly esteemed Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, prized for his meticulous technique and illusionistic effects. He entered Rembrandt van Rijn's Leiden studio at the age of fifteen, when the great master himself was still a teenager. Dou's fame, however, resulted from his own artistic achievements. He was considered the founder of the Leiden school of fijnschilders (fine painters), and his works were sought by collectors throughout Europe, including Queen Christina in Stockholm and Cosimo III de' Medici in Florence, who paid extremely high prices for his works.

Guan Weixing

Guan Weixing (f. 1940) Autumn Rhythm
In 1960, when Guan Weixing was still a first grade student in Luxun Fine Arts Academy, Eugen Popa, a Romanian Professor, broke a rule in order to accept Guan into his oil painting training class. And in 1962, he was graduated a master. So far, many of his works have been published, collected, and exhibited not only in many national exhibitions but also in international ones held in America, Japan, France and so on.

Jonas Lie

Jonas Lie (1880-1940) Morning on a River (~1912) Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
Jonas Lie often depicted the sea, channels, and ships with dramatic perspective and powerful use of color. He became known for colorful impressionistic scenes of harbors & coves, painted during the many summers he spent on the coasts of New England & Canada. Throughout his prolific career he painted brilliantly colored images of the rocky coves and harbors that identify the region’s dramatic shoreline. Lie painted a landscape mural in honor of his wife, Sonia, in the sanctuary of the First Unitarian Society of Plainfield, New Jersey in 1929. It is inscribed, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills.”

William J. Aylward

William J. Aylward (1875-1956) Illustration i Harper's Monthly Magazine 1918

Pino Daeni

Pino Daeni (Giuseppe Dangelico) (1939-2010)
Pino Daeni's art and canvases elicit feelings of warmth, nostalgia, love and family. His paintings are often set on vibrantly sunny beaches on the Mediterranean where he grew up.Pino  is noted for his exceptional ability to capture the movements and expressions of his subjects - a talent which has brought his artwork a worldwide following and private commissions to do portraits.

Maud Sumner

Maud Sumner (1902-1957) Still Life with Books 
Maud Sumner was born in Johannesburg in 1902 and died in 1957 at the young age of 55. She was educated at Rodean School in Johannesburg. Sumner moved to London in 1939 but returned to South Africa in 1941 where she worked in Johannesburg until 1946. She had sixteen one-man exhibitions and completed numerous portraits and figure-studies. Between 1947 to 1953, her religious feelings deepened and she painted a number of sacred subjects as well as carrying out commissions for Church art. Always intelligent, her work became increasingly emotional in later years. Maud Sumner's paintings are represented in every public collection in South Africa as well as being represented in a number of overseas public collections.Ref. Artvault

Iain Faulkner

Iain Faulkner (f. 1973)
Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1996 with a BA (Honours) Degree in Fine Art, he has established himself as a skilled draughtsman, an artist with the integrity to embrace the difficult path of contemporary figurative painting wherein the yardsticks of competence and painterly skill can be measured and judged, warts and all. Still only in his thirties, Faulkner has already had numerous successful solo shows in the UK, USA, Spain and Italy.

Childe Hassam

Childe Hassam (1859-1935) Rainy Day, Columbus Avenue, Boston (1885) Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
During the ensuing years Mr. Hassam painted many popular street and patriotic scenes in the city. Frequent travel to New England resulted in painting that depict scenes in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Isle of Shoals in New Hampshire, and Cos Cob and Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Les côteaux de l'Hermitage, Pontoise (~1868) Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
"The Hermitage, however realistic an arcadian scene it appears to be, belongs to Pissarro’s seemingly unfulfilled quest for a truthful manner of depiction. Shortly afterward he abandoned this Realist style for a looser brush and the atmospheric effects for which he is popularly known, the trademarks of Impressionism."
Cornelia Lauf

Herman H. Wessel

Herman Henry Wessel (1878-1969)
A prominent member of Cincinnati's artistic community, Herman Wessel studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy, Royal Academy in Munich, and Academie Julien in Paris. He taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy for 40 years and painted many prominent public murals. He and his wife Bessie Wessel worked closely with Frank Duveneck and became leading experts on authenticating his works.

Margaret Jordan Patterson

Margaret Jordan Patterson (1867-1950) Petunias 
Born in Soerabaija, Java, Miss Patterson worked during her lifetime as a painter, printmaker, illustrator, and art teacher in Boston and Wellesley, MA. She studied art formally at the Pratt Institute, NY under Arthur Dow and with Herman Dudley Murphy and Charles Herbert Woodbury in Boston.

Mårten Eskil Winge

Mårten Eskil Winge (1825-1896) Hjalmars avsked av Orvar Odd efter striden på Samsö (1866)
I föräldrahemmet hade hans intresse väckts för de fornnordiska sagorna och under lärotiden uppmärksammades han för sina teckningar med fornnordiska motiv. Bland annat utförde han illustrationer till Adam Oehlenschlägers "Nordens Gudar" och kronprins Karls dikter"Fosterbröderna". Han attraherades av Göticismen och tillsammans med sin studiekamrat och vän konstnären August Malmström göt han nytt liv i de historiska traditionerna. Ref. Wikipedia