August Hagborg | Naturalist painter

Vilhelm Nikolaus August Hagborg (26 May 1852, Gothenburg - 30 April 1921, Paris) was a Swedish painter who spent most of his life in France.

His father was an Associate Professor. Against the wishes of his parents, he decided on a career in art and, from 1872-1874, he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm with Vicente Palmaroli.

In 1875, he went to Paris to complete his training, but ended by spending most of his life there. Initially, he focused on genre scenes🎨 and imagined historical scenes from 18th century France. Some of them were sent home and one was purchased by King Oscar II.

Paul Gauguin | Post-Impressionist painter | The portraits

The vogue for Paul Gauguin's🎨 work started soon after his death. Many of his later paintings were acquired by the Russian collector Sergei Shchukin.

A substantial part of his collection is displayed in the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage. Gauguin🎨 paintings are rarely offered for sale; their price may be as high as $39.2 million US Dollars.

Saidov Aydemir / Айдемир Саидов, 1979 | Figurative painter

Saidov Aydemir /Айдемир Саидов was born in a family member of the Artists Union of Russia, Honored Art Worker of Kuban, Seyfullah Aydemirovicha Saidov.

In 2000 he graduated from Krasnodar Art College, and in 2006 St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after IE Repin - Academy of Fine Arts Painting workshop O.A.Eremeeva, qualification of a painter.

Paintings by Aydemir are now in museums in Russia as well as in private collections in Great Britain, the USA, Germany, China and several other countries.

Lauri Blank, 1969 | Romantic Figurative painter

Lauri Blank was destined to be a creative soul with a burning passion for art. Raised by an artistic mother who attended design school in NYC, and grandparents that are still performing musicians (well into their 80’s), Lauri was constantly engaged by creativity and artistic expression; the foundation of a future art career.

Her talents were immediately recognized by patrons in Washington D.C. and the Miami area, where she accepted numerous important commissions.

And then in 1999, Lauri’s career would take a different turn, one that resembled one of the masters she studied for most of her life.

Kathy Fincher, 1949 | Romantic realism painter

Kathy Fincher is one of the most licensed children's painters in America. Awarded "Life Time Achievement Award" by the Save the Arts Foundation at their Grammy Awards 2013.

Fincher was born in an artistic family. She entered in the world of drawing, painting and illustration at a very young age. She focuses on painting children using pastels.

She is the proud recipient of the Quintessence award which is given to the America’s best painter and which is organized by "Save the Arts Foundation".