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William Matthew Prior was an American folk artist known for his portraits, particularly of families and children.
About 1,500 portraits are attributed to Prior. His works are in many museums and institutions around the United States including the Harvard Art Museums, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery of Art.
George Barret the Younger was a British painter, master watercolorist and landscape painter.
He was the son of the Irish painter George Barret the Elder (1730-1784) and learned painting from his father. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1800 and was one of the first and active members of the Society of Watercolor Painters, which was formed with his own encouragement in 1804. His early works were mainly topographical landscapes in a style similar to his father's watercolors. Later he switched to more romantic compositions with imaginary landscapes.
In 1840, George Barret published The Theory and Practice of Watercolor Painting.
Abraham Bloemaert was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and printmaker from the Golden Age of Dutch painting, one of the founders of the Guild of St. Luke in Utrecht. Bloemart was a caravagist. He painted mainly landscapes, mythological and biblical scenes, and pastoral works.
Erwin Bovin is a German painter and poet. He received his first art education at the School of Applied Arts in Neuchâtel under the direction of William Racine. He took part in the First World War as an interpreter. During this time, he created, among other things, drawings and watercolors depicting the front in the Argonne forest. After the war, he continued to study and worked as an art teacher. In 1932-1942 he lived as a freelance artist. After leaving his position as a teacher, he went to Amsterdam to visit the Rembrandt exhibition there, and then stayed to live in the Netherlands. In addition to landscapes, Bovin painted numerous portraits and family paintings for wealthy Dutch people.
Theodore Penleigh Boyd was a British born Australian artist. Penleigh Boyd was a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty: his parents Arthur Merric Boyd and Emma Minnie Boyd (née à Beckett) were well-known artists of the day, and his brothers included the ceramicist Merric Boyd and the novelist Martin Boyd. Penleigh Boyd is best known as a landscapist with an accomplished handling of evanescent effects of light. A notable influence was artist E. Phillips Fox, who introduced him to plein air techniques when they were neighbours in Paris.
Paul Bril was a prominent Flemish painter, best known for his significant contributions to landscape painting. Born around 1554 in Antwerp, he later moved to Rome, where he became a central figure in the art scene, influencing the Italian and Northern European landscape painting traditions.
Paul Bril's early works were steeped in the Flemish manner, exhibiting a picturesque arrangement of landscape elements with dramatic contrasts of light and dark. His style evolved during his stay in Rome, influenced by the work of Annibale Carracci and Adam Elsheimer. By around 1605, Bril's compositions became more serene and classical, showcasing calmer transitions from foreground to background and embracing pastoral and mythological themes.
Paul Bril's contributions extended beyond his paintings. He was a respected figure in Rome's art community, becoming the first foreign director of the Accademia di San Luca in 1621. His patrons included some of the most influential families in Rome, and his work was sought after by collectors and fellow artists. Bril's influence was profound, impacting future generations of artists, including the Dutch Italianates and genre painters active in Rome.
His works can be found in prestigious galleries worldwide, illustrating his enduring legacy in the art world. For collectors and art and antiques experts, Paul Bril's work represents a significant period in the evolution of landscape painting, blending Flemish traditions with Italian classicism.
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Lilla Cabot Perry, birth name Lydia Cabot Perry, is an American impressionist painter.
Lydia Cabot Perry began painting after her marriage and the birth of her children. Some time spent in Japan and France, where she painted a lot. After meeting Claude Monet, which took place in 1894, the artist sharply changes his style and technique of image. Among other genres, she favoured landscape painting.
André Edmond Alfred Cluysenaar was a Belgian painter. He was especially known for portraits and female figures. He was member of the Cluysenaar family, descendant from a long line of architects who originated in Aachen. He received his first art lessons from his father, then studied with François-Joseph Navez. Initially, he worked as a sculptor, but devoted himself entirely to painting after 1902. He was firmly grounded in the romantic style at first; producing still lifes and genre scenes, but later turned to impressionism and painted mostly female figures, often semi-nude. He also executed monumental ceiling paintings for the City Hall in Saint-Gilles. During World War I, he lived in London where he established a reputation painting portraits of notable people, including the Royal Family, which were done in a more commercial style using Alfred Stevens as a model. Most of these portraits may be seen in the National Gallery.
Jean Augustin Daiwaille was a Dutch portrait painter and lithographer. He studied under Adriaan de Lelie. He was director of the Rijksakademie from 1820 to 1826. After that time, he resided at Rotterdam, where he was very successful in painting portraits. He was an early exponent of lithography during the 1820s, overseeing the installation of a lithographic press at the new Koninklijke Academie, and instructing the students on the use of the technique. He established his own lithographic business in 1826, producing reproductions of his own paintings, and collaborating with other artists such as Barend Cornelis Koekkoek to make copies of their work.
Jacopo Bassano, known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco the Elder, and studying under Bonifazio Veronese in Venice, he painted mostly religious paintings including landscape and genre scenes. He often treated biblical themes in the manner of rural genre scenes, portraying people who look like local peasants and depicting animals with real interest. Bassano's pictures were very popular in Venice because of their depiction of animals and nocturnal scenes. His four sons: Francesco Bassano the Younger, Giovanni Battista da Ponte, Leandro Bassano, and Girolamo da Ponte, also became artists and followed him closely in style and subject matter.
Jules De Bruycker, a Belgian graphic artist and etcher, is renowned for his depictions of Ghent, cathedrals, war scenes, and book illustrations. He achieved technical virtuosity in his prints and was considered one of Belgium's greatest etchers. His work showcased crowds and dramatic lighting, providing an intimate view of daily life in Ghent. De Bruycker's influences ranged from Flemish traditions to artists like Brueghel, Bosch, and Ensor. His later work included prints of cathedrals, figure studies, and sensuous nudes. De Bruycker's art greatly influenced his contemporaries, including Gustave van de Woestijne.
Giuseppe de Nittis was an Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli movement, which emerged at the end of the 19th century as a reaction to the traditional academic style of painting.
Giuseppe de Nittis first studied at the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Paris in 1868, where he was influenced by the Impressionist movement and the work of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. He quickly gained recognition for his ability to skilfully convey light and atmosphere in his paintings.
De Nittes' style can be described as a mixture of realism and impressionism. He often depicted city scenes, landscapes and portraits. His work is characterised by a loose brushwork, vivid colours and a strong sense of observation.
Jean-Joseph Delvin was a Belgian painter who specialized in scenes with animals (primarily horses). He attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where he studied under Théodore-Joseph Canneel, and worked in the studios of Jean Portaels in Brussels. Later, he undertook study trips to France and Spain. For many years, he shared a small workshop in a garden shed with Gustave Den Duyts. In 1883, he was invited to join the secessionist group Les XX, but he resigned only a few years later in 1886. He was also a member of La Libre Esthétique and Kunst van Heden (Art for Today) in Antwerp. At about that time, he began teaching at the Academy in Ghent and later became its Director (1902–1913). Among his many well-known students there were Albert Baertsoen, Gustave De Smet, Frans Masereel, George Minne and Frits Van den Berghe.
Gustave Den Duyts was a Belgian painter, watercolourist, pastelist, etcher and graphic artist, known for his landscapes. His graphic work quickly gained attention. His etchings won him a prize in 1875 in the competition run by the journal "Journal des Beaux-Arts". On the other hand, at the Fifth Exhibition of the Vereniging der Gentsche Kunstoefenaren his painting received criticism because of being too modern. Its indefinite forms forced the viewer to squint in order to make it out and this vagueness of definition is now regarded as a forerunner of Flemish impressionism. Much of his work was townscapes or landscapes with a melancholic feeling, often with a setting sun or a rising moon and typically done in autumn or winter. The landscapes are usually bare, skeletal and stylized, betraying the fact that he was a skilled etcher, but never detailed. Human or animal figures are not sharply defined but appear to dissolve into the background.
Selma des Coudres (Plawneek) a Latvian-born German painter, blended elements of Art Nouveau, Expressionism, and Japonism in her artworks. After studying under Elise Jung-Stilling, she became a teacher and continued her art education with Janis Rozentāls and Wilhelm Purvītis. Selma illustrated books and participated in exhibitions in Riga, Munich, and other locations. Following her marriage to Adolf des Coudres in 1921, she settled in Fürstenfeldbruck, where she co-founded the Kunstverein Fürstenfeldbruck. To sustain herself financially, she focused on portraits and floral still-lifes.
Franz Doll was a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist. Doll specialized in portraiture and landscapes. He created numerous portraits of well-known personalities. Works by the artist are in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich. From 1938 to 1947 he was a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 1928 he was awarded the Art Prize of the City of Munich, in 1930 the Albrecht Dürer Prize of the City of Nuremberg and in 1940 the Goethe Medal. Franz Doll had been a member of the Munich Neue Secession since 1930 and, from 1946, of its successor association, the Neue Gruppe, as well as a founding member of the Association for Original Etchings. Franz Doll was a member of the artist association 7 Munich painters. In 1938 and 1943 he took part in the Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich.
Otto Eerelman was a Dutch painter; best known for his depictions of dogs and horses. He was also a court painter and did several portraits of Wilhelmina, as Princess and Queen. His best known painting, "De paardenkeuring op de Grote Markt op de 28ste augustus", depicts an annual celebration (featuring horses) held to commemorate the lifting of the Siege of Groningen.
Henri-Jacques-Edouard Evenepoel was a Belgian artist whose most important works are associated with Fauvism. The artist debuted a portrait of his cousin (Louise in Mourning) at the 1894 Salon des Artistes Français. He showed four portraits at the Salon du Champ-de-Mars in 1895 and continued to exhibit there until his death. His first solo exhibition came at the Brussels Cercle Artistique (December 1897 – January 1898). Family and friends were the artist's preferred subjects; his full-length portraits, often against a neutral background, show the influence of Édouard Manet and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. His Parisian scenes were influenced by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jean-Louis Forain. Though his early scenes had a somber palette, his paintings while in Algeria (where he first wintered during his solo exhibition) were very different in style, anticipating the bold colours of Fauvism (e.g., Orange Market, Blidah).
Jakob Fischer-Rhein, a German artist, was a talented draftsman, portrait and landscape painter.
After training as a technical draftsman, he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and continued his studies in Munich. During the First World War he was a prisoner of war in France, where he was able to continue painting.
Fischer-Rhein also established himself in America and created impressive works, particularly of the New York skyline.
He was a member of the SA during the Nazi era and was represented at National Socialist exhibitions. After the war he settled in Miltenberg and painted motifs from various cities. Fischer-Rhein considered himself an academic painter and stayed away from modern trends.
LaToya Ruby Frazier is an American visual artist, renowned for her profound work that delves into social justice, cultural change, and the American experience. Born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier utilizes various media, including photography, video, and performance, to explore themes of industrialism, environmental justice, and human rights. Her art, deeply rooted in collaborative storytelling, often portrays her family and community, offering a lens into the lived experiences of working-class families amid societal and environmental challenges.
Her notable series "The Notion of Family" explores her family's life in Braddock, revealing the impacts of industrial decline on the community and environment. This work not only highlights LaToya Ruby Frazier's personal narrative but also serves as a broader commentary on race, class, and the American industrial landscape. Her commitment to social documentation is further exemplified in projects like "Flint is Family," where she immersed herself in Flint, Michigan, to document the water crisis's impact on local families.
LaToya Ruby Frazier's exhibitions span across prestigious venues in the US and Europe, reflecting her influence and recognition in the art world. Her works are part of esteemed collections like The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Frazier's accolades include a MacArthur Fellowship, demonstrating her significant contributions to contemporary art and social activism.
For art collectors and experts, Frazier's work offers a compelling intersection of art, activism, and storytelling, providing insightful perspectives on pressing social issues through the lens of personal and community narratives.
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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Geist was a German Impressionist painter. In 1888, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. With a scholarship from the Grand Ducal Ministry of the Interior, he undertook further studies in Munich, Vienna and Italy. In 1900, he exhibited at the Glaspalast. Although he was officially enrolled at Karlsruhe until 1905, he actually pursued his studies in Stuttgart. He briefly lived in Darmstadt, then returned to Grünberg in 1905 although, as a free-lance painter, he travelled frequently to visit his clients. After 1915 he lived in Wimpfen. World War I hit him very hard; especially the loss of friends such as August Macke and Franz Marc. In response, he abandoned impressionism for a gloomier Academic style.
Han Hsiang-ning is a Taiwanese-American artist. Han has participated in many prominent museum exhibitions. He often uses spray painting and paints photo-realistic street scenes. In 1961, he joined the "Fifth Moon Group". He began abstract form oil painting, and his works first appeared in the magazine Pen Review. In 1963 he began working with roller and stencils on rice paper, still abstract, emphasizing form and space structure. In 1969 he began spray painting works using acrylic paint on canvas, created the "Invisible Image" series. In 1971, in the process of spray gun painting, found how to create different combinations of sprayed color dots, a form of pointillism. In 1971 he continued the spray gun technique, but began using New York city-scenes as a subject and his camera as sketching tool. In 1972 he launched studies on industrial scenes with vivid images. He completed his first self-portrait in 1981. In 1983 he began using brushes to paint watercolor and ink on paper. His subjects being street crowds and bird's eye views of intersections of New York streets.
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch was a German landscape painter and sculptor. Hänsch was born as the son of the sculptor Adolf Hänsch and his wife Johanna (nee Lehmann). He began his artistic training in his father's studio and initially continued it in the workshops of other sculptors before he decided to become a painter. On December 11, 1897, he began studying at the "Royal Academy of Fine Arts" in Berlin. As a freelance landscape painter, he was a member of the “Berlin Artists Association”. Since 1903, Hänsch has taken part in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition as well as in the exhibitions of the Association of Berlin Artists and in the Munich Glass Palace. His colorful painting showed a clear influence of Impressionism. He painted almost exclusively deserted landscapes from all parts of Germany. Paintings depicting human figures were a rare exception, but he did produce some mostly witty self-portraits.
Wilhelm Heise was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity. He earned a living by painting clocks, for which he developed a meticulous technique. In 1925, he participated in the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) exhibition in Mannheim which brought together many leading "post-expressionist" artists, including George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, and Georg Scholz. His painted self-portrait entitled Fading Spring is representative of his style. Heise won the Nuremberg Dürer Prize in 1937.
Louis Christian Hess was an Austrian painter and sculptor of the German Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) during the 1920s. In 1915 Hess exhibited his first works - drawings, tempera and engravings - at the "Turn und Taxishof Galerie" in Innsbruck. After the war, from 1919 to 1924 he attended the Bayerische Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, in the class of Prof. C. Becker-Gundhal. In 1920 Hess attended the first collective exhibition "Ausstellung Junger Münchner - Graphische Kunstwerkstätten" in Munich presented by George Jacob Wolf. In 1928 he became close to Max Beckmann until his exile. Hess participated in the "Sommer Ausstellung des Deutschen Künstler Verbandes AUFBAU - E. V." in Munich and some of his paintings were shown in Berlin. In 1929 he joined the "Juryfreie" movement, becoming its leader until his ban in 1933 by the National Socialist regime. The artistic ostracism practised by Nazism moved Hess to a voluntary exile.
Gussy Erika Edith Hippold-Ahnert, née Ahnert, was a German painter and master student of Otto Dix. The early work of the Dix student, such as the painting Lying Nude from 1931, shows her closeness to Dix's New Objectivity or Verism. She reached her artistic peak in 1932/1933, when she developed a painting style of her own, unmistakable character in the glazing technique taught by Dix. Hippold-Ahnert's late work is closely connected to the works of her husband Erhard Hippold and other artists of this region and time.
Peter Hirsch is a German painter, graphic artist and draftsman as a child private lessons in painting, apprenticeship as a lithographer, studied at the Munich Academy. He loaded exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace and in the Kunstverein, ostracized as "degenerate" in Germany 1933-45 partly active in the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, England, France, Hungary and Switzerland, from 1944 temporarily relocated to the Schliersee, before 1930 -1969 lecturer at the Munich Adult Education Center.
Robert Jobling was a British artist. He first had work accepted by both the Royal Academy and Royal Society of British Artists in 1883. He painted regularly at the fishing village of Cullercoats and later at Staithes. He attained a position of some standing in the Staithes group. His main artistic exposure was in exhibitions in the north of England.
Paul Kayser was a German painter and graphic artist. After training as a painter-decorator, Kayser attended the Schools of Applied Art in Munich and Dresden.
Paul Kayser was a founding member of the Hamburg Artists' Club 1897 and the Hamburg Secession, and a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association and the Altona Artists' Association. His style was decisively influenced by Albert Marquet, whom Kaiser met in 1909.
In 1937, Kaiser's still life was confiscated from the museum in Husum as part of the Nazi "Degenerate Art" campaign.
Dame Laura Knight was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists.
In 1929 she was created a Dame, and in 1936 became the second woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy. Her large retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1965 was the first for a woman. Knight was known for painting amidst the world of the theatre and ballet in London, and for being a war artist during the Second World War. She was also greatly interested in, and inspired by, marginalised communities and individuals, including Romani people and circus performers.
Hermann Kohlmann is a Swiss and German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He painted landscapes, portraits and figures. Kohlmann studied at the Dresden Academy with Richard Müller and Max Feldbauer. In 1934 he received the Hugo Goepfert Prize. In 1937 he became known to the general public through an exhibition at the Dresden Art Salon Emil Richter. He also exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibitions in 1937 and 1938. After serving in the army and being in captivity, he again worked in Dresden. Many of his works show the reconstruction of the city. Kohlmann was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. From 1970 to 1980 he worked as a restorer at the Museum of the History of the City of Dresden.
Lotte Laserstein was a German-Swedish artist and a prominent representative of German realism.
Lotte was a student at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Fine Arts and became an accomplished realist painter, receiving a gold medal from the Academy for her work. Her first exhibition took place in 1930 at a Berlin gallery. Laserstein worked partly in figurative painting, had apprentices, and illustrated anatomy texts to earn money. She also painted portraits of cosmopolitan, emancipated women as well as self-portraits.
The National Socialist regime forced the artist to leave Germany in 1937 and emigrate to Sweden. Her mother died in a concentration camp. Lotte Laserstein lived in Stockholm until the end of her life, creating over five decades of work, in addition to expressive self-portraits, many moving images of other immigrants, rural landscapes and urban scenes in Sweden.
Lotte Laserstein became a member of the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and earned a reputation as a popular and respected portraitist. She has approximately 10,000 works in her oeuvre.
Andronik Grigorievich Lazarchuk (Russian: Андроник Григорьевич Лазарчук) was a Ukrainian and Soviet artist, born on January 15, 1870, in Ukhovetsk, Volhynian Governorate, and passed away on September 6, 1934, in Borzna, Chernihiv region. Known for his contributions to painting, teaching, and cultural activities, Lazarchuk's work primarily featured portraits, everyday scenes, and landscapes.
Lazarchuk began his artistic journey studying icon painting in Kovel and later in the Pochaev Lavra's painting workshop. From 1889 to 1897, he attended the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where he studied under prominent artist Vladimir Makovsky. His artistic style was influenced by his early religious training, which is evident in his detailed and expressive portraits and landscapes.
One of his notable works, "Portrait of a Man," showcases his ability to capture human emotion and character. His other works include small-format paintings like "Reading a Letter" and "Family Group," which highlight his focus on everyday life and personal interactions. Lazarchuk also contributed to the decoration of Ukrainian churches, such as the Holy Trinity Church and the Cave Churches of Pochaev Lavra, and worked as an illustrator for magazines like "Native Land" and "Young Ukraine".
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Henri Lebasque was a renowned French post-impressionist painter, celebrated for his vibrant use of color and light, earning him the nickname "the painter of joy and light." Henri Lebasque's artistic journey began at the École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers, eventually leading him to Paris to study under Léon Bonnat. His interactions with prominent artists like Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Édouard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard deeply influenced his style, particularly his understanding of color theory from Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.
Henri Lebasque was a pivotal figure in the Salon d'Automne, co-founding it in 1903 alongside Henri Matisse. His art evolved significantly after moving to the South of France, where the luminous landscape inspired a transformation in his color palette. His works, which include landscapes, nudes, and domestic scenes, are distinguished by their light-filled and tender representations, capturing the essence of his surroundings.
Henri Lebasque's paintings are held in prestigious museums such as the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy. His piece "Sous la lampe" from 1904 is an example of his work featured in a museum collection.
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Charles Albert Lebourg was a French painter known for his landscapes and seascapes.
Lebourg began his career as a painter in his early twenties, studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was heavily influenced by the Barbizon School, a group of painters who focused on realistic depictions of nature.
Lebourg's paintings often depicted the beauty of the French countryside, including rolling hills, verdant forests, and meandering rivers. He was also known for his seascapes, which captured the movement of the waves and the changing colors of the ocean.
Lebourg exhibited his work at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris and won several awards for his paintings. He was also a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Lebourg continued to paint throughout his life, and his work is held in many major collections, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Johan Thomas Lundbye was a Danish painter and graphic artist known for his landscapes of his native country and depictions of animals.
He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and responded to the call to develop national art by depicting Denmark's characteristic landscapes, monuments and historical sites, as well as its inhabitants.
Lundby's views of mounds, cliffs and coastlines were appreciated - he became one of the national Romantic artists of his generation.
Adolf Luntz was a German painter, etcher, and lithographer, was known for his landscapes and figurative works. Inspired by his architect father, Viktor Luntz, Adolf joined the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1892. After studying in Vienna until 1897, he became a master student of Gustav Schönleber at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts. Luntz accompanied Schönleber on various study trips and designed collectible images for the Stollwerck company in Cologne. He settled in Karlsruhe in 1905 and was a member of the German Artists' Association.
Henry Luyten was a Belgian painter of Dutch origin. He is known for his genre scenes, landscapes and portraits.
Henry Luyten was influenced by the 19th century Hague School and the Barbizon School, as well as 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting.
William Darling McKay is a Scottish artist, known for his landscapes. He came to Edinburgh at the age of 16 and was first noticed ten years later for a series of pastorals, in which figures played an important part. He was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Edinburgh in 1919 and thereafter known as Dr McKay. In 1872, when on a painting excursion to Cadzow Forest, he became increasingly interested in watercolour painting. Best remembered as the author of The Scottish School of Painting (1906) which, although a pioneer work, encompassed the 18th century in a mere eight pages.
Matthias Maris was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer. He initially belonged to the Hague School, like his two brothers, Jacob and Willem, but his later works deviated more and more from that school into a unique style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. Most of the paintings by M. Maris are in museums and private collections in Great Britain and the USA. A great admirer of the artist's talent was Vincent van Gogh.
Xavier Timoteo Martínez was a pivotal figure in the California art scene of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1869, Martínez moved to the United States, where he became a celebrated painter known for his tonalist style, monotypes, etchings, and silverpoint works. His early years were marked by a deep engagement with art, leading him from drawing his classmates in public school to studying pre-Columbian archaeology and painting an oil copy of Titian's "Entombment" at the Liceo de Varones. Martínez's journey to the United States was fostered by the U.S. consul Alexander Coney and his wife, Rosalia LaBastida, who brought him to San Francisco in 1893.
Xavier Martínez's artistic and teaching career flourished in California, where he co-founded the California Society of Artists and taught at the California School of Arts and Crafts. His work was featured in numerous exhibitions, including the Panama Pacific International Exhibition, and his influence extended through his teaching and writings on art history. Xavier Martínez's personal life was intertwined with his artistic journey; he married Elsie Whitaker, with whom he had a daughter, Micaela Martinez DuCasse, who also pursued an artistic career.
Xavier Martínez's legacy is preserved in various museums, reflecting his significant contributions to the Californian and American art landscapes. His work, deeply influenced by his Mexican heritage and his experiences in California, offers a unique perspective on the natural and cultural environments of his time.
For collectors and experts in art and antiques, Xavier Timoteo Martínez's paintings represent a crucial chapter in the history of American art, particularly within the context of the Tonalism movement and the artistic developments in California during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Karl Otto Matthaei was a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist. He completed his training from 1891 to 1900 at the Grand Ducal Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, which was one of the leading landscape school in Germany. His first teacher was Franz Hein from Altona. His first study trips took him to the Karlsruhe area. Around 1894 he lived in the Grötzinger painters' colony in an artist community. In 1895, art students from Karlsruhe founded an artists' colony in Duhnen, Altenwalde and Altenbruch (Cuxhaven), of which Karl Otto Matthaei was a founding member. Karlsruhe was Matthaei's official place of residence until 1916, although this was regularly interrupted by his annual study and painting visits to the North Sea and the Lower Elbe region. He then moved his residence to Bremen. Matthaei was chairman of the Bremen Artists' Association for many years and was made an honorary member in 1924. In 1930 he was appointed Honorary President of the Association of Northwest German Artists.
Ruvim (Ilya) Mazel was a Russian and Soviet artist, illustrator and teacher. He studied painting under Nikolai Roerich and Alexander Benois.
In the "European" period of his life Mazel was strongly influenced by Munich Art Nouveau, and after moving to Ashgabat, Oriental motifs became the main motifs in the artist's paintings.
Frederick McCubbin was a renowned Australian artist, a central figure in the Australian Impressionism movement, and a significant member of the Heidelberg School. Born in Melbourne in 1855, his early life was shaped by the colonial expansion of Australia, fostering a deep appreciation for the Australian landscape that would profoundly influence his art. McCubbin's art education was thorough, studying under notable artists at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, where he later became a drawing master, educating future Australian artists.
Frederick McCubbin is celebrated for his unique depiction of the Australian bush, portraying the everyday life and struggles of settlers and bushmen with authenticity and sensitivity. His works like "Down on His Luck" and "The Pioneer" showcase this theme, highlighting the resilience and heroism of the Australian pioneers. These paintings are not just artworks; they are narratives that encapsulate the spirit of the nation, making Frederick McCubbin a pivotal figure in Australia's art history. His innovative approach to painting, characterized by an intimate connection with the landscape and a nuanced use of light and color, helped forge a distinct Australian art identity.
His paintings are housed in prestigious galleries across Australia, serving as testaments to his lasting impact on the nation's cultural heritage. Collectors and art enthusiasts revere McCubbin not only for his artistic prowess but also for his role in nurturing a unique Australian art narrative.
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Alfred Jacob Miller was an American artist best known for his paintings of trappers and Native Americans in the fur trade of the western United States. He also painted numerous portraits and genre paintings in and around Baltimore during the mid-nineteenth century.