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Edward Charles Williams was born in London in 1807. He studied with his father, British landscape painter, Edward Williams. He exhibited his first work at the Royal Academy in 1840. ...

Ivan Kirilov was born in 1933 in Russia. He is an impressionist painter specializing in floral still lives, nudes and interiors. The painting measu...

Émile Breton studied under his brother, the artist Jules Breton. Breton began to exhibit at the Salon in Paris in 1861. He was awarded a medal three years in a row, from 1866 to 1868...

Henry Schouten was a Belgian artist best known for painting farmyard scenes of animals in their environment. Born in 1859 in Indonesia, Schouten went on to study art at the Academy o...

Roman Chatov was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in 1900. He began drawing when he was still a teenager, including doing magazine illustrations at age 16 and being a military-correspo...

Dutch artist Louis Stütterheim was born in 1873 in Rotterdam. His full name was Lodewijk Philippus Stütterheim. Stütterheim started painting at the age of 15. He worked at a trade office and also studied at the Academy for Visual Arts in Rotterdam. He moved to The Hague, where he spent a short time at the drawing academy. He also received lessons from Alexander Henri Robert...

Born in Lower Austria in 1844, Rudolf Bernt was a painter and architect. He studied at the Vienna Technical University as an architect, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna unde...

Alice Maud Fanner was born in Surrey in 1865 and for many years lived in the Chiswick area of London. She studied at the Richmond School of Art and also taught there. She attended Slade School of Art in London. She was a pupil of Albert Julius Olsson. Like Olsson, Fanner often painted the sea and the coast, as well as yachts and sailing scenes. One of her paintings, "Riverside Landscape," was included in the book "Women Painters...

Charles Merrill Mount was born Sherman Merrill Suchow in Brooklyn, New York in 1928. Mount attended Columbia University, leaving to study at the Art Students League of New York. In a...

William Alexander Drake was born in Toronto, Ontario. He studied at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto under George A. Reid, William Cruikshank and Charles M. Manly. After a discuss...

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, French landscape and figure painter and founding member of the Barbizon School, was born in 1808 in Bordeaux to Spanish parents who had fled the Peninsular Wars. At 15 he began working as a ceramic painter in a porcelain factory, where he met Jules Dupré. Strongly influenced by Delacroix and the Romantics and attracted by medieval and Middle Eastern art, Diaz often in his early career painted exotic subjects. He showed his paintings in the Paris Salons of the 1830s and 1840s. Beginning in 1833 Diaz began to explore the forest of Fontainebleau, where he became a regular summer visitor in the following years, forming a close association with Théodore Rousseau and the other landscape painters of what came to be known as the School of Barbizon. Awarded a first-class medal at the Salon of 1848, he was appointed chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1851. In the early 1860s Diaz...

From the Grand Canal to the Doges Palace, the gondoliers to the lagoons, Benvenuti focused on painting the city of Venice, which makes up the majority of subject matter within his wo...