Ambrosius Benson (1495-1550)

A painter of religious compositions and portraits, Benson was active in the Low Countries but was of Italian origin.

The first information on the artist dates from 1518 when he became a citizen of Bruges.

The following year he was registered as an independent master in the painters and decorators’ guild in hat city, whose records state that he was originally from Lombardy. Benson first worked as an assistant in the workshop of Gerard David who exercised an important influence over his style and against whom he initiated a court case.

Francisco Ribera Gomez | Romantic ainter

Spanish painter Francisco Ribera Gomez (1907-1990) began in the workshop of his father, Jose Ribera Blázquez, who was influenced by romantic and Madrazo, Rosales or Esquivel, having studied at the Academy of San Fernando with teachers from the likes of Moreno Carbonero, Julio Romero de Torres and Matthew Inurria.

He completed his training after two years of scholarships Paular and El Granada.

His first participation in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid has won awards in 1928 and 1930.

Angelo Barabino | Pointillist / Symbolist painter

Angelo Barabino (Tortona, 1 January 1883 - Milan, 5 November 1950) was an Italian painter, friend and student of Giuseppe Pellizza Volpedo.

He was born in Tortona on 1 January 1883. Barabino attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and studying Volpedo who initiated him to painting in the Divisionism style.

Before World War participated in the National Brera with:

• Robbery;
• The son;
• Wildflowers;
• Alpine sunset.

Pietro Gaudenzi | Genre painter

Pietro Gaudenzi (January 18, 1880 in Genoa - December 23, 1955 in Anticoli Corrado, near Rome) was an Italian painter.

His father, Enrico, was a musician from Bergamo.

He had received early training from the painter Francesco Del Santo in La Spezia, but then moved on to Genoa.

He there studied at the Accademia Ligustica of Genoa, under Cesare Viazzi.

He served in 1899 as an artist for the Genovese newspaper of Il Lavoro.

James John Hill | Victorian painter

James John Hill RBA (1811 - 27 January 1882), known also by his alias J. J. Hill, was an English landscape and portrait painter, known for his many rustic paintings and portraits of Lady Burdett-Coutts.

Early life and career

James John Hill was born sometime in 1811 in Broad Street, Birmingham to Daniel Hill, plater, and Elizabeth Rowlinson, the daughter of a brass founder.