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Henry Ryland was born in 1856 and lived till 1924. He was a British painter , decorator, book illustrator as well as a designer. He was a Neo-classical / Pre-Raphaelite painter who regularly exhibited at the New Gallery and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors.

Joseph Karl Stieler (1781-1858) was a very famous German artist who was well known for his neoclassical and portrait works. He belonged to the period of Romanticism.

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…

Jacques Louis David was born on 30 August 1748 in France. He was a Neo Classicist Painter and was highly influential. He was one of the most preeminent painters of that era. In the 1780’s his new and different style made him the most cerebral brand of history of painting. He marked a change in ta…

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…

David Ligare was born in 1945 and is an American contemporary realist painter. Since 1978, he has been focusing on painting landscapes, still life’s and figures that are informed by Greco-Roman antiquity. Chief among his stated influences are the aesthetic and philosophical theories of the Greek sc…