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Josef Büche (1848-1917) was a genre   Austrian painter who specialised in portrait paintings . He was a son of a painter and studied in arts at he the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under names like Carl Wurzinger and Eduard von Engerth. He was a recipient of an overall study award. He portrayed…

Adam de Coster was born in 1586 in Mechelen and died on 4 May 1643 in Antwerp. Very little is known about this gifted artist. He was a Baroque era genre painter. Check out some of his masterpieces which are full of emotions.

Today’s art works and paintings are of Charles Chaplin who was a French academic painter and engraver. He was born in 1825 and lived on this planet till 1891. He was half British and half French, in the year 1886, he became a naturalized Frenchman, and however he worked in France all his life. From…

Thomas Benjamin Kennington was born on 7 April 1856 and lived till 10 Dec 1916. He was a British artist and was a well-known social realist , genre and portrait painter. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Society of British Artists in the Suffolk Street and the Grosvenor Gallery. He wa…

Franz von Defregger (1835-1921) was an Austrian artist who was a very well known artist of genre art and history paintings. Check out some of the art works by Franze von Defregger.

Arthur John Elsley created paintings that feel calm and comforting. His work focuses on simple moments filled with emotion. As a genre painter , he transformed everyday scenes into lasting memories. Arthur John Elsley 1860 1952 lived during an era of great artistic change. Still, he chose so…

Theodore Gerard was a Belgian Painter and was born in 1829 and he died in 1895. He was a painter and an engraver of genre scenes. He was a painter who got most of his inspiration from the Low Countries. In the year 1863, Gerard studied at the Ghent Academy and later moved to Brussels. He tra…

Gustave Jean Jacquet was an academic classical painting artist (1846-1909), he was born in 1846 on 25the May in Paris. He was known as a pupil of Bouguereau and he debuted at the Paris Salon in 1865 and exhibited under “The Reverie”, this exhibition showed that he was very much similar to his …

The world of 19th century art was filled with innovation, yet the works of Fred Morgan artist stood apart. Better known as Frederick Morgan, he was a British artist celebrated for his charming depictions of childhood and family life. His paintings embodied romantic art , full of warmth, love…

Guy Cambier started painting at an early age. At the age of nine years old, he lost the use of his legs caused by a tragic accident. Guy Cambier was born in 1923 in Uccle-lez-Bruxelles. He was a painter who painted scenes, figures, portraits and still life paintings . He was self taught and studi…

Pieter de Hooch was born in 1629 and lived till 1684. He was a Dutch artist and was very famous for his genre paintings that shows daily life scenes of people. He was one of the contemporary for Johanas Vermeer and his works resembles his works in terms of styling and themes. Check out some…

Erik Ludwig Henningsen was born in Copenhagen to a grocer named Frants Ludvig Hennington (1820-1869) and Hilda Charlotte Christine nee Schou (1824-1880) on 29 August. Ludwig died on 28 November 1930. He was a famous Danish painter and illustrator . He loved creating and depicting Social Realist…

Romà Ribera i Cirera (Barcelona, 1848-1935) was a talented artist from Catalonia who became famous for his detailed paintings of rich people's social events. He also enjoyed painting scenes from the 17th and 18th centuries, showing his interest in history.

Girl With a Pearl Earring Johannes Vermeer is one of the greatest Dutch painter which the history have seen, he was born on October 31, 1632 and died on December 15, 1675. He used to draw day to day middle class interior scenes from his surroundings. Johannes Vermeer is considered to be on…

Introduction François-Joseph Navez was one of Belgium’s most revered Neoclassical painters. This Belgian Artist was known for his portraits and historical scenes. His mastery of technique and deep commitment to art have made his works, like the emotionally charged  Massacre of the Innocent…

Guillaum Seignac was a French academic painter who was born in Rennes, France in 1870 and later died in 1924. During his lifetime, his work was very sort after and his work’s got huge recognition too. He started taking training at the Academie Julian in Paris and at that academy he spent his tim…

Alessandro Zezzos | Italian Genre painter Alessandro Zèzzos ( Venice, 1848 - Vittorio Veneto, 1914) was an  Italian painter  of  genre scenes, costume scenes, portraits and vedute, in watercolors and oils. He studied under Giacomo Favretto, Alessandro Milesi, and Luigi Nono at the Academy of…

Alfred Stevens was born in 1823 in Belgian and died in 1906. His early childhood was surrounded by the works of arts as his family was involved in visual arts. His father was an art collector, who owned some watercolor paintings by Eugene Delacroix and fought in the Napoleonic war in the army …

Cesare Augusto Detti (1847-1914) was a painter and artist from Italy who later moved to Paris during the Belle Epoque. He is a very well-known artist of historical paintings in the nineteenth century. He loved to paint scenes of daily life, portraits, historical subjects and had a very r…

Julio Romero de Torres ( 1874-1930 ) was the son of Rafael Romero Barros, a painter and curator of what was then called the Museum of Painting in Cordoba. He would be marked by family life which revolved around his father’s studio, the classrooms of the School of Fine Arts and Music Conservato…