Alex Colville | Magic Realist painter

David Alexander Colville, painter (born 24 Aug 1920 in Toronto, Ontario died 16 July 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia). Alex Colville moved with his family to Amherst, NS, in 1929 and studied at Mount Allison (1938-42).

On graduating he joined the army and in 1944 was sent to Europe as a war artist. He returned to Canada late in 1945 and worked in Ottawa on paintings based on his European sketches and watercolours until his demobilization in 1946.

Pino Daeni | Romantic book illustrator

Pino Daeni (November 8, 1939 - May 25, 2010)🎨 considered one of the highest paid book illustrators of his time, he created over 3.000 book covers, movie posters and magazine illustrations.

His paintings are often set on vibrantly sunny beaches on the Mediterranean where he grew up.

His gorgeous figure paintings captured beauty and light in a unique way.

Henry Woods, R.A | Victorian-era painter

Henry Woods RA (22 April 1846 - 27 October 1921) was an British painter and illustrator, and one of the leading Neo-Venetian school artists.

Early life

Henry Woods was born to a middle-class family at Warrington.

His father, William, was a pawnbroker and for some time a town councillor; his mother, Fanny, a shopkeeper. He was the eldest of nine siblings.

Rubens Santoro | Venice painting

Rubens Santoro (October 26, 1859 in Mongrassano, Province of Cosenza, Calabria - December 30, 1941 in Naples) was an Italian painter*.

• Biography

He moved to Naples at 10 years of age, to study literature, but his inclination was painting. He only briefly enrolled at the Neapolitan Academy, instead, real life was his model. His first work was a small and simple genre piece: A Girl who Laughs, exhibited at the Promotrice. Domenico Morelli* took note and encouraged him.

Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter | Part.4

Austrian painter Alois Arnegger* established a reputation as a fine portraitist and landscape artist, and was particularly well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings, especially of Naples, Sorrento and Capri.
Arnegger was born in Vienna on March 9, 1879.