Charles Caryl Coleman | Genre painter

Charles Caryl Coleman (1840-1928) was an American artist who lived most of his life in Capri, Italy.

Coleman studied art with Andrew Andrews and W.H. Beard in Buffalo, NY in the 1850s.

Between 1859-1862, Coleman studied in Paris under Thomas Couture, returning during the American Civil War to serve with the Union Army during which he was seriously wounded in South Carolina and recovered in New York City.

Augusto Lovatti | Genre / landscape painter

Born in Rome and active in Naples, Augusto Lovatti (1852-1921) painted various aspects of Capri, Sorrento, Amalfi, also Pompeian subjects, genre scenes, landscapes and seascapes.

Lovatti studied in Rome at the school of Cesare Maccari (1840-1919), then moving away from the capital, perhaps for reasons of a political nature, to move to live and work in Capri from the late 1980s.

Friedrich Paul Nerly | Seascape painter

Friedrich Nerly or Federico Nehrlich (October 26, 1842 - 1919) was an German🎨-Italian painter who specialized in Seascapes.

Nerly was of Prussian nationality. He completed his first studies with his father, a well known Landscape artist.

He later enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, studying under professors Eugene de Blaas🎨, Federico Moja and Pompeo Mariano Molmenti.

From 1862-65 and in 1866, he served in the army. He visited the principal artistic cities of Germany: Düsseldorf, Weimar, Munich, and Dresden.

In 1868, he traveled to Francia, Austria, Dalmatia, and Montenegro, and visited Rome, Naples and Sicily.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Artworks

Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions.

The female figure was one of his primary subjects. However, in 1876, a reviewer in Le Figaro wrote "Try to explain to Monsieur Renoir that a woman's torso is not a mass of decomposing flesh with those purplish green stains that denote a state of complete putrefaction in a corpse".

Yet in characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of colour, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.

Halil Pasha | Impressionist painter

Halil Paşa (1857-1939) was a Turkish painter and art teacher.

He was one of Turkey's first Impressionists.

His family was originally from Rhodes and his father, Selim, was one of the founders of the Turkish Military Academy.

Like many early Western-style Turkish artists, he received his training in technical drawing and painting at the "Mühendishane-i Berrî-i Hümâyûn" (Military School of Engineering, now known as the Istanbul Technical University).