Flemish Art History and Sitemap

Peter Paul Rubens | Old Woman and Boy with Candles, 1616-1617

Flemish painting flourished from the early 15th century until the 17th century, gradually becoming distinct from the painting of the rest of the Low Countries, especially the modern Netherlands.

In the early period, up to about 1520, the painting of the whole area is (especially in the Anglophone world) typically considered as a whole, as Early Netherlandish painting.

This was dominated by the Flemish south, but painters from the north were also important.

Slava Groshev, 1967

Russian painter🎨 Слава Грошев is quite simply an outstanding artist producing masterworks that should grace any serious collection of art. A Moscow native Слава Грошев trained both there and in Montreal, Canada.

Ever since he has been producing work on a range of subjects, including not only religious themes, but more traditional landscapes and realist figure work that often comes with a twist.

Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890)

Auguste Toulmouche was a French painter🎨 known for his luxurious portraits of Parisian women.

Auguste Toulmouche was born in Nantes to Émile Toulmouche, a well-to-do broker, and Rose Sophie Mercier.

He studied drawing and sculpture locally with the sculptor Amédée Ménard and painting with the portraitist Biron before moving to Paris in 1846 to study with the painter Charles Gleyre.

He was said to be one of Gleyre's favored students, and he exhibited his first paintings at the Paris Salon in 1848 when he was just 19.

Hans Thoma | The Twelve Months

Hans Thoma | January

Born in the Black Forest to a family of manual laborers, German painter, Hans Thoma (1839-1924) studied lithography in Basel in 1853, and after 1855 worked in Furtwangen with a miniaturist, painting watches and jewelry cases.

He entered the Karlsruhe Kunstschule in 1858 where his teachers included Ludwig Des Coudres, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, and Hans Canon. His major interest during this period was landscape.

Gustav Pope (1831-1910) | Victorian era painter

Gustav Pope was a British painter🎨 of Austrian origin. Active in the Victorian era, he incorporated several styles on his work, but in his mature style he showed influences of the second wave of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.