Mattia Preti | Baroque Era painter

Mattia Preti (24 February 1613 - 3 January 1699) was an Italian Baroque artist🎨 who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John.

Born in the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was called Il Cavalier Calabrese (the Calabrian Knight) after appointment as a Knight of the Order of St. John (Knights of Malta) in 1660.

His early apprenticeship is said to have been with the "Caravaggist" Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, which may account for his lifelong interest in the style of Caravaggio🎨.

Thomas Dewing | Tonalist painter

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 - November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century.

Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York. The Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution has a collection of his works.

He was the husband of fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing.

Personal life and education

Thomas was born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents Sophronia Durant and Paul Dewing, and served as a lithographic apprentice until at least 1870 when he was 19 years old.

He later studied at the Académie Julian in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre beginning in 1876.

Mahmoud Said | Pioneer of modern Arab art

Mahmoud Said Bey / حمود سعيد (April 8, 1897 - April 8, 1964) was an Alexandrian judge and modern painter.

Mahmoud Said was born in Alexandria, Egypt; his father, Muhammad Said Pasha, was of Turkish origin and was the former Prime Minister of Egypt.

Queen Farida of Egypt was his niece and she described him as "a quiet, gentle, oppressively timid man".

After receiving his high school diploma, he went on to law school, receiving his degree in 1919.

Filippo Palizzi | Girl on the rock in Sorrento, 1871

Filippo Palizzi (Vasto, Chieti, 1818 - Naples 1899) was an Italian painter.

The Girl on the Rock in Sorrento is in the Balzan Collection in Milan, Italy.

The Barbizons were concerned with light and simple rustic and genre scenes.

Ettore Tito | Genre painter

Ettore Tito (17 December 1859 - 26 June 1941) was an Italian artist, particularly known for his paintings of contemporary life and landscapes in Venice and the surrounding region.

He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and from 1894-1927 was the Professor of Painting there.

Tito exhibited widely and was awarded the Grand Prize in painting at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.