Sir William Fettes Douglas | Victorian painter

Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822-1891) was a Scottish painter and art connoisseur, rising to be President of the Royal Scottish Academy.

He was the eldest son of James Douglas and Martha Brook, grand-niece of Sir William Fettes, bart., the founder of Fettes College; was born on 12 March 1822 in Edinburgh.

On the completion of his education at the High School of Edinburgh, he entered the Commercial Bank of Scotland, in which his father was accountant; but the elder Douglas was an amateur of some talent, and the son devoted the leisure of the ten years he was in the bank"s service to painting and drawing.

Charles Garabed Atamian | Plein Air painter

Charles Garabed Atamian was considered as the artist of life and light, master of landscape, and marine scenes. He was an acute observer of human moods and gesture. The majority of his works are oil paintings and he often depicted beach scenes, especially children playing in the sand.

Charles Garabed Atamian (September 18, 1872 - July 30, 1947) was born to an Armenian family. As a young artist Charles Atamian joined the French Lycée Saint- Benoît in Istanbul in 1880. He then carried on high-school studies in Venice, where he qualified in the teaching of drawing, painting and calligraphy.

Fan Ho / 何藩 | Street photographer

Fan Ho (Shanghai, 1931-2016) photographic⏭ career started at the early age of 14 when given his first Kodak Brownie from his father.

Within the first year he won his first award⏭ in 1949 in Shanghai.

At the age of 18, he acquired his twin lens Rolleiflex with which he captured all his famous work after he moved to Hong Kong with his parents and continued to purse his love for photography.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Cassandra

Rend, rend thy hair, Cassandra: he will go.⁠⁠⁠

Yea, rend thy garments, wring thy hands, and cry

⁠From Troy still towered to the unreddened sky.

See, all but she that bore thee mock thy woe: -

He most whom that fair woman arms, with show

⁠Of wrath on her bent brows; for in this place

⁠This hour thou bad'st all men in Helen's face

The ravished ravishing prize of Death to know.

Irving Ramsey Wiles | The Green Cushion, 1895

Artist: Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948)
Date: 1895
Culture: American⏩
Medium: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper
Dimensions: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Ann M. and Thomas W. Barwick, and Purchase, Ann M. and Thomas W. Barwick Gift, 1994

This watercolor portrays a young woman reclining on an Empire revival-style recamier couch. The woman at leisure was a popular subject in late-nineteenth-century American painting.