Alphonse Osbert | Symbolist / Pointillist painter

Alphonse Osbert (23 March 1857 - 11 August 1939) was a French* Symbolist painter.

Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, his earliest passion was for the great Spanish masters*, particularly Jusepe de Ribera. A shift away from his academic style took place in the late 1880s under the influence of several acquaintances associated with Post-Impressionism* and Symbolism*.

Eugène Delaplanche | Naturalist sculptor

Eugène Delaplanche (28 February 1836 - 10 January 1891) was a French sculptor, born at Belleville, Seine.

He was a pupil of the neoclassical sculptor Francisque Joseph Duret (French, 1804-1865), gained the Prix de Rome in 1864 (spending 1864-67 at the Villa Medici in Rome), and the medal of honor° in 1878.

Gigino Falconi, 1933 | Surrealist painter

Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo, Italy) and started to paint when he was sixteen years old, at the same time he attended the Technical Institute for Accountants and obtained a diploma in 1952.

Then he graduated at the Art School of Pescara in 1954. The following year he won the Chair Design’s competition and started teaching in a middle school in Giulianova, an activity that he left in 1975 to devote himself entirely to painting. His first solo exhibition was at the Gallery Il Polittico of Teramo in 1961.

Alessandro Sicioldr, 1990 | Visionary painter

Alessandro Sicioldr is an Italian painter and illustrator born in Tarquinia, living and working in Perugia. He works mainly with oil paint, pencils and coloured pencils.

His subjects are surreal images coming from unconscious that he represents using a blend of contemporary and traditional techniques.

Howard Behrens | Palette knife painter

American painter Howard Behrens (August 20, 1933 - April 14, 2014) - the world's most renowned palette knife artist. As a landscape and seascape artist, Behrens has painted the idyllic lakes of Italy to the gardens of New England.

He has had over 150 one-man shows from coast-to-coast since becoming a professional artist in 1980. Behrens was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933. He grew up near Washington, DC. He began drawing at age seventeen after being confined to bed following a sledding accident.