Albert André | Post-Impressionist painter

Benjamin André Albert Marie (24 May 1869 - 11 July 1954), the well-known Post-Impressionist artist and painter of 'intimiste'interiors, still lifes and Parisian scenes, was born in Lyon-.

André spent his childhood vacations in Laudun where his family owned vineyards.

Aged 20 he left for Paris where he studied painting at the Académie Julian.

On the same course were Louis Valtat, Maurice Denis and Pierre Bonnard🎨, and like them he began painting in a Post-Impressionist manner, using the colours, light and subject matter of the mainstream Impressionists🎨 but adding more expression and design.

Pierre-Eugène Montézin | Post-Impressionist painter

Pierre-Eugène Montézin🎨 (1874-1946) was a French artist🎨, who was part of the post-impressionist wave.

Although Pierre-Eugène Montézin was a painter of landscapes, he spent most of his life in Paris.

He loved the open air and the country areas of the Ile-de-France, yet he was born on a narrow street in the French capital.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Montézin see:

• Pierre-Eugène Montézin | Paris painting🎨

Pierre-Eugène Montézin | Painter of Paris

Pierre-Eugène Montézin (1874-1946) was born in the very heart of Paris.

His father was a lace artist, but also a lover of nature who took his young son on expeditions to the country.

These trips were to have a profound effect on his later life and work.

Montézin’s father apprenticed his son to the workshop of a decorator specialising in murals.

However, Montézin also studied under the painter Ernest Quost (1844-1931) and it was Quost together with Montézin’s interest in the Impressionists that persuaded him to embark on a career as a painter.

Virginie Demont-Breton | Genre painter

Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières - 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter🎨.

Her father Jules Breton🎨 and her uncle Émile Breton were both well-known painters.

Through her father she was introduced to other painters- the most influential being Rosa Bonheur who became a role-model and mentor to Virginie. She married the painter Adrien Demont in 1880.

Robert Sarsony, 1938 | Impressionist painter

American artist🎨 Robert Sarsony is a self-taught painter and printmaker who began exhibiting in local shows in New Jersey in 1963. The following year he made his New York debut in a group show at Allied Artists.

From 1969-1974 he did a series of paintings based on book and magazine illustrations - "pop antiques," he calls them - from the 1920s-1940s.

Subjects ranged from silent movie photographs and pictures of important historical events to reproductions taken from period children's books.