Cartoonists Rural landscape
Charles D'Oyly was a British public official and painter from Dacca (now Dhaka). He was a member of the Bengal Civil Service based in Calcutta, Dacca and Patna from 1797 to 1838. Although he held senior positions with the East India Company's civil service, he is best known as an amateur artist who published many books featuring engravings and lithographs featuring Indian subject matter.
Harold Brocklebank Herbert was an early 20th century Australian painter and printmaker, an illustrator and cartoonist. A traditionalist, as an art teacher he promoted representational painting, and as a critic was an influential detractor of modernism. He was the first war artist to be appointed for Australia in the Second World War, serving for 6 months with the Australian Infantry Forces in Egypt in 1941 and in the Middle East in 1942. Herbert continued the Australian impressionist style and exercised particular skill with watercolour washes and his etchings, lithographs and cartoons are in an economical, sketchy style.
Angelo Jank was a German animal painter, illustrator and member of the Munich Secession. He was the son of the German painter Christian Jank and specialized in scenes with horses and riders. For many years, he was also employed as an illustrator for the magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus, And he was also an instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts. In addition to his canvases, he painted murals at the Justizpalast and scenes from history at the Reichstag building in Berlin. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Edmond Marie Petitjean was a French painter. He was known for his seascapes and rural landscapes.
Petitjean's paintings are characterized by bright, vibrant colours and free strokes that convey a sense of movement and atmosphere.
Petitjean's work was exhibited widely during his lifetime, including at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants and the Salon d'Autumn in Paris. Like many artists of the period, he also created illustrations and caricatures for periodicals. He was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes for his work.
Harold Septimus Power, usually known as H. Septimus Power or H. S. Power, was a New Zealand-born Australian artist, who was an official war artist for Australia in World War I. He exhibited in 1899 with the Melbourne Art Club and soon after moved to Adelaide where he worked as an illustrator and political cartoonist. In 1904, he was commissioned by the trustees of the Art Gallery of South Australia to paint an animal scene. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Society of Animal Painters. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. After war broke out in the summer of 1914, the Australian government appointed official war artists to depict the activities of the Australian Imperial Force in the European theater of war. Power was appointed in 1917 and was attached to the 1st Division, A.I.F. from September to December of that year and then again in August the following year. Official War Artist during the First World War and was renowned for his depiction of animals, in particular horses, on the field of battle.
Ralph Idris Steadman is a British illustrator best known for his collaboration and friendship with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture books. As well as writing and illustrating his own books and Thompson's, Steadman has worked with writers including Ted Hughes, Adrian Mitchell and Brian Patten, and also illustrated editions of Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island, Animal Farm, the English translation of Flann O'Brien's Gaelic-language classic The Poor Mouth, and most recently, Fahrenheit 451. Steadman has drawn album covers for numerous music artists, including the Who, Exodus, Frank Zappa and Ambrosia, and the lead banner for the gonzo journalism website GonzoToday.com.
Sergey Ivanovich Svetoslavsky (Russian: Сергей Иванович Светославский) was a Russian Ukrainian and Soviet artist of the late 19th - first third of the 20th centuries. He is known as a painter-landscaper and graphic-caricaturist.
Sergey Svetoslavsky in his works created a lyric-epic image of Ukraine. Most of all he was attracted by the urban landscapes of Kiev and rural landscapes around the city. One of his favorite subjects were views of the Dnieper. The master was a member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions and his city landscapes were done mainly in gray-brown tones, which was typical for the Itinerants.
August von Pettenkofen, born August Xaver Carl von Pettenkofen, was an Austrian painter, illustrator and caricaturist.
He studied painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and painted genre works in the Biedermeier style. During the revolution of 1848 Pettenkofen became a war artist and for a long time created watercolors and lithographs depicting Austrian military uniforms. And later in Paris he was drawn to the Barbizon school. The artist's paintings from that period are filled with sincerity and empathy towards the peasants depicted.