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Jean Hilaire Belloc was born on 27 November 1786 and was a French Painter . In the starting of his career as an artist he was a student in the studio of Antoine Gros and later he became the student of Jean-Baptise Regnault . He worked as a professor of drawing at the I’Ecole-de-Medecine. In…

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…

Lilla Cabot Perry was an American artist who used to make portraits and landscapes works in impressionist  style in a free form manner. He was very much influenced by Claude Monet .

Charles Hopkinson was an American landscape water colorist and a portrait painter.  During his lifetime he painted almost 800+ portraits and most of his portraits were commissioned. He had many sitters such as Calvin Coolidge, Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Masefield.

Gilles Marie Joseph Albrier was a 19th century painter who was born 4 Oct 1971 and died in March 1863. Gilles was a French painter and his art master was Jean Baptiste Regnault .

Nikolai Bodarevsky was a Ukrainian born Russian artist. He was a well known painter and an art professor.

About: Leo Putz Leo Putz was born in Merano in 1869 and was a Tyrolean painter (South Tyrol is an autonomous province in northern Italy). He was an artist who belonged to Art Nouveau, Impressionism and beginning of Expressionism. Some of his prominent subjects include: Figures , Landscapes …

Antonio de la Gándara (1861-1917) was a French Painter, Draughtsman and a Pastellist.

Heinrich Salem Lehmann was born in Kiel in the Duchy of Holstein where he learnt art from his father Leo Lehmann and from other painters. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1835 and received a second-class medal there. The artist later got settled in Paris permanently in 1842 and b…

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is one of the very famous art works of Georges Seurat and is a great example of Pointillism . Quick facts about ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’

William Powell Frith was an English Painter who was specialized in genre painting and panoramic narrative artworks.

Self Portrait- Jean-Baptiste Regnault Jean Baptiste Regnault was born on 9 October in 1794 in Paris and was a French Painter . He made many painting in his life that range from small ones to very large historical paintings.He had many followers and students such as Crepin, Guerin, Godefroy Eng…

Paintings by famous and well known French artist - Francois Flameng  (1856-1923).

Odoardo Borrani (1833-1905) was an Italian Artist who was associated with Macchiaioli group.

Paintings by Belgian Artist - Firmin Baes (1874- 1943).

Frederick Goodall was an English Artist (1822-1904) and was born in London. He got his education from Wellington Road Academy and belonged to Orientalist movement. Frederick was well known for his oil paintings.

Willard Leroy Metcalf was a well known American artist who was born in Lowell in 1858. He belonged to the period of Impressionism , Modern art and American Impressionism. We was a well known painter of his time.

Impressionism is an art movement that belonged to 19 th century and it got originated with the help of a group of Paris-based artist and got into prominence during 1870s and 1880s. Impressionism paintings are characterized by very small, thin but visible strokes. In short, in impressionism the…

Osman Hamdi Bey  (30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was born in the Ottoman Empire. He was a notable painter, artist, archaeologist, museographer and writer. He has painted many notable works and one of his most notable work is The Tortoise Trainer which he painted in 1906 and 1907. This pa…

Paul Signac (Paul Victor Jules Signac) was born on 11 November 1863 and lived till 15 August 1935. He worked with Georges Seurat and developed Pointillism . He was a well-known French Neo-Impressionist painter.