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Louis-Simon Boizot was a French artist of the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries. He is known as a sculptor of the neoclassical style. Boizot was widely famous for the production of busts of prominent people of France and multi-figure sculptural compositions of Sevres porcelain.
Louis-Simon Boizot is the most famous representative of the family dynasty of artists. His father Antoine Boizot was a painter and his younger sister, Marie-Louise-Adelaide Boizot, a draftsman and engraver. Louis-Simon Boizot enjoyed the special patronage of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, while the Russian Empress Catherine II personally ordered original porcelain pieces from the master.
Boizot was also often engaged in the manufacture of sculptural decorations for the public buildings of Paris - churches and palaces. He mastered the techniques of processing a variety of materials and created masterpieces not only of marble, but also of porcelain and bronze.
In 1805 Boizot was appointed head of the French National Academy of Arts.
Salvator Rosa was a seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painter. He is also known as an engraver, poet and actor.
Salvator Rosa left a very diverse artistic heritage. He was interested in historical, religious, mythological and fantastic subjects, he painted landscapes, battle scenes, portraits, still lifes. Having joined the naturalists of the Neapolitan school of painting, Rosa, however, showed originality in his treatment of subjects. For example, in his paintings on historical themes he combined realistic images with fantastical composition.
The biography of Rosa himself, full of adventures, subsequently became the subject of legends, books, paintings and musical works.
Works of Salvator Rosa today are represented in many museums and private collections in Europe and Russia.
Charles Towne was an English painter of landscapes, horses and other animals, horse-racing and hunting scenes.
