Julio Romero de Torres | Symbolist painter

Julio Romero de Torres (1874-1930) was the son of Rafael Romero Barros, a painter and curator of what was then called the Museum of Painting in Cordoba.

He would be marked by family life which revolved around his father’s studio, the classrooms of the School of Fine Arts and Music Conservatory and the galleries of the museum, located in the same grounds as the family home.

This indisputably conditioned his future and was the backdrop to his first steps as a painter.

At the age of ten he began studying music and painting and was only fourteen and fifteen when he received prizes in the competitions organised by the Provincial School and the Athenaeum.

Ugo Celada | Magic Realism painter

Italian painter Ugo Celada da Virgilio (1895-1995) represented a real point of conjunction between Metaphysics, Magic Realism, New Objectivity and Novecento.

Ugo Celada was born in Mantua, in Cerese.

As a child he drew so well that he managed to convince his father to enrol him, at the age of only twelve, at the Royal School of Applied Art in Mantua, from which he passed, thanks to a scholarship, to the Brera Academy, where he particularly appreciated the lessons of the painter Cesare Tallone, the author of portraits painted with refined brushwork and of a remarkable expressiveness.

Adolfo Feragutti Visconti | Verist painter

Adolfo Feragutti Visconti (1850 in Pura, Canton Ticino - 1924 in Milan) was an Italian / Swiss painter, of eclectic styles and subjects, including orientalist themes, genre works and landscapes.

Orphan of father by the age of 16, Fergutti Visconti enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts when he was 18, where he studied with Luigi Bisi, and made his debut in 1873 as a perspective painter.

Attracted by the work of the Milanese Scapigliatura movement, he was one of the first members of the Famiglia Artistica.

Gustave Caillebotte | Dahlias, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers, 1893

A leader of the impressionist movement - a central exhibitor and organizing force for several of their exhibitions between 1876 and 1882 - Gustave Caillebotte was also an avid gardener.

Like his close friend Claude Monet, with whom he shared gardening expertise and exchanged tips, he created lush, vibrantly colored landscapes and translated them into paint on canvas.

This marvelous addition to the Gallery's singular impressionist collection celebrates his prized dahlias exploding in the foreground in front of his greenhouse and home.

Claude Monet and the Sea

Claude Monet | The Jetty a Le Havre, 1868

Claude Monet | The Manneporte (Étretat), 1883 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monet spent most of February 1883 at Étretat, a fishing village and resort on the Normandy coast.

He painted twenty views of the beach and the three extraordinary rock formations in the area: the Porte d'Aval, the Porte d'Amont, and the Manneporte.