TONI BORDIGNON

Capriccio landscape painting by TONI BORDIGNON (1921-), in the Old Master style

Georg Anton Rasmussen (August 7, 1842, Stavanger - October 23, 1914, Berlin) was a Norwegian landscape painter who spent most of his career in Germany. He began his artistic training in Bergen, where he studied with Johan Ludvig Losting and Anders Askevold. In 1863, he moved to Copenhagen to study with Frederik Rohde [de] at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. From 1864 to 1867, he completed his studies at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf with Oswald Achenbach, and was influenced by the works of Hans...

River landscape with mill, 1839 Dimensions: 51 x 70 cm (canvas) Oil on canvas (original canvas), Signed and dated lower left Canvas by Legendre Wi...

Thomas Sidney Cooper was one of the foremost animal painters of the Victorian period. He was born in Canterbury, Kent, and as a small child he began to show strong artistic inclinations, but the circumstances of his family did not allow him to receive any systematic training. By the time he was twelve years old, he was working in the shop of a coach painter. Later he obtained a job as a scene painter, and he alternated between these two occupations for about eight years. He still felt a strong desire to become an artist, and all his spare moments were spent drawing and painting from nature. At the age of twenty, he went to London, drew for a while in the British Museum, and was admitted as a student of the Royal Academy. Subsequently, he returned to Canterbury, where he was able to earn a living as a drawing master and by the sale of sketches and drawings. In 1827, he settled in Brussels and married before taking up a position as a teacher in Brussels in 1829. There he befriended Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, the great Belgian animal painter, who greatly influenced his style. He was also influenced by the 17th Century Dutch School. Because of the Belgian Revolution, he returned to London where he settled and first exhibited at Suffolk Street in 1833. He exhibited forty-eight pictures at the British Institution between 1833 and 1863. ‘Landscape and Cattle’, Royal Academy 1833, was shown until 1902 without a break - a record for a continuous exhibit at the Royal Academy. Sheep and cattle were his most frequent subjects, although he did paint a few figurative subjects. Cooper collaborated between 1847 and 1870 with Frederick Richard Lee...

Endoguruv was one of the great artists in the history of Russian landscape painting, and the depiction of still waters was an important theme in his works. Ivan Endogurov depicted no...