Anne-Louis Girodet | Neoclassical painter

Anne-Louis Girodet [Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson 1767-1824] is a French painter whose works exemplify the first phase of Romanticism in French art.

Girodet began to study drawing in 1773. He later became a student of the Neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée, with whose encouragement he joined the studio of Jacques-Louis David in late 1783 or early 1784.

Girodet won the Prix de Rome 1789 for his Joseph Recognized by His Brothers, which shows the influence of David’s Neoclassicism.

Camille Pissarro | Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain, 1897

Rue Saint-Honoré, dans l'après-midi. Effet de pluie ("Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain") is an 1897 oil painting by Camille Pissarro.

The work was made towards the end of Pissarro's career, when he abandoned his experiments with Pointillism and returned to a looser Impressionist style.

It is part of a series of works that Pissarro made in 1897-98 from a window of the Grand Hôtel du Louvre, looking down across the edge of the Place du Théâtre Français (now the Place André-Malraux) and along the rue Saint-Honoré, portraying the people, carriages and buildings, the trees, fountains and streetlamps, in an early afternoon shower of rain.

Camille Pissarro | Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain, 1897 | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Johan Barthold Jongkind | Landscape painter

Johan Barthold Jongkind (born June 3, 1819, Lattrop, Neth.- died Feb. 9, 1891, Côte-Saint-André, France) painter and printmaker whose small, informal landscapes continued the tradition of the Dutch* landscapists while also stimulating the development of Impressionism*.

Jongkind first studied under local landscape painters at The Hague. In 1846 he moved to Paris and worked under the genre painter* Eugène Isabey and François Picot.

Vytautas Laisonas, 1965 | Magic Realism painter

Lithuanian painter Vytautas Laisonas, born in the village Skrėbiškis-Biržai district, is a member of Lithuania Folk Art Gild since 1991.

A key to his success is his creative ambitious personality and belief that self-analysis leads to perfection. Music, nature, lights, accidental moments are the other things that empower Vytautas to express himself through paintings.

Alexander Saidov / Александр Саидов, 1970 | Fantastic Realism painter

Alexander Saidov / Александр Саидов was born in Pavlovskaya, Krasnodar region. In 1989 he has finished the Krasnodar Art Institute. Since 1995 is a member of The Artist’s Union of Russia. From 1991 is participant of city, regional, zone exhibitions.