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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 …

John William Godward was born in Britain in 1861 and was a Neo-Classical/Pre-Rahaelite painter. He was said to be a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, but when painter like Picasso emerged then his work fell out of favour. He had a life which was full of sorrow and grief. He was so depressed…

Friedrich Von Amerling was an Australian painter and was born in 1803 in Vienna. He later died in the year 1887. He was one the most famous portrait painter of his times in the court of Franz Josef, he worked as a court painter from 1835 to 1880. His name is taken with Ferdinand George Waldmuller …

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 …

Nicolai Fechin was born in Russia in 1881. He was known to be a Russian-born American Painter who was a famous portrait artist and was also famous for his various works which were centered on Native Americans. He graduated with high marks from the imperial Academy of Arts and travelled throughout …

Charles Courtney was an American Impressionist painter and was born in 1861 and later in 1881 moved to place called Sandusky, Ohio. He studied for one year at design school in Cincinnati named Cincinnati School of Design and afterwards, started a promising and brilliant career and got himself enro…

Ning Tao is a figurative painter from China and was born in 1964; he uses classical painting techniques for art research and exploration. Most of his art works and paintings have gray background screen and mostly comprises of ethnic hair, bird’s nest, rust bed and other symbolic signs.

Born in Fife, Scotland in 1951, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer. For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolor paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. In 1989, he submitted two paintings to th…

About Plastic Classics In my current body of work, Plastic Classics, Old Masters are given a contemporary twist. I use anything of the right size, shape or colour: toys, shells, buttons, beads, jewellery, curtain hooks, springs etc. No colour is added - everything is used exactly 'as found'…

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was a French Realist and impressionist painter and was born in 1796. He breathed his last in 1875. He was also known as a printmaker in etching. In the mid of nineteenth century, Corot was one of the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France . He was one of the…

Charles Roka was a Hungary Born artist who later got settled in Norway. As you have already seen his Vintage portraits (ladies) , now its time have a look at his childhood series. Check them out below :)

Brenda Burke started to paint at an early age of three years.  Her career has spanned more than half a century, encompassing paintings , portraits , sculpture and printmaking. She has trained in the classical style of the old masters at the renowned Farnham art school just outside of London, Engl…

Édouard Joseph Dantan Self Portrait (1875) Edouard Jospeh Danton was a French Artist and was born on 26 August 1848 and was of Classical Tradition. Art was in the blood of his family. His grandfather was a wood sculptor and his father Antoine Laurent Danton and uncle Jean-Pierre Danton bo…

Alain Senez was born in Paris in 1948 and brought up in Provence. Showing precocious talent for art, Senez entered Aix School of Art at fourteen, going on to win Granet prizes for both painting and sculpture. In 1966 he moved to Paris to study at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, winn…

Jean-François Portaels,was a Belgian painter . He was also the director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Jean Portaels was an extremely prolific and professional artist. He loved  making huge oil paintings adorning the walls of St Jacques-sur-Caudenberg; biblical scenes, such …

This time I am going to share beautiful classical paintings by one of the renowned historical painters Albert Joseph Moore . He was born in the year 1841 and died in 1893. He was very famous for his depiction of female’s which are set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world.�…

Boleslaw Von Szankowski was a Polish Painter who was born in 1873. He was an extremely versatile painter. He later died in the year 1953. He and his art works had been an inspiration for many of the emerging artists. He is one of the best figurative painters I have seen so far. His use of light an…

Jesús Enrique Emilio de la Helguera Espinoza,  Mexican painter, was born to Spanish economist Alvaro Garcia Helguera and Maria Espinoza Escarzarga on May 28, 1910 in Chihuahua, Mexico. He lived his childhood in Mexico City and later moved to Córdoba in the state of Veracruz. His family fled from th…

Beautiful tattoo drawings on classic and modern paintings by Jean-Luc Moerman

Henry Jules Jean Geoffroy was born in France. By the age of 18, he began studying under Eugene Levasseur.   He later went on to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts located in Paris. It was here that Geoffroy had the opportunity to study with Leon Joseph Bonnat, Eugene Adan as well as Bin. Geoffroy …