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Van der Vaart and Wissing | Queen Anne, when Princess of Denmark,1685


Title: Queen Anne, when Princess of Denmark;
Artists: Willem Wissing (Dutch painter🎨, 1656-1687), Jan van der Vaart (Dutch painter🎨, 1647-1721)
Current location: National Galleries of Scotland.

Queen Anne (1665-1714) - Princess of Denmark, Reigned 1702-1714 - was the last of the Stuart dynasty to occupy the British throne.
Shown here aged eighteen, seductively dressed and posed in a sumptuous interior, her reign was dominated by war with the French and her failure to produce an heir.

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Robert Philipp (1895-1981) | Impressionist painter


Robert Philipp was an American painter🎨 influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his figures, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars.
Noted art critic Henry McBride called Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation.
He was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League of New York for 33 years, the American artist Itshak Holtz was a student of Philipp.

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James Sant RA | Portrait / Genre painter

James Sant CVO RA (1820-1916) was a British painter specialising in portraits and known particularly for images of women and children and artistic exploration of the symbolism of childhood.
He was a member of the Royal Academy.
George Sant and Sarah Sant were also artists and are believed to have been his brother and sister.


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Benjamin Lacombe, 1982 | Pop surrealism painter


Benjamin was born in Paris. In 2001, he attended the école Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris where he pursued his artistic education.
In addition to his studies, he worked as an advertising and animated movie artist before completing his first comic series at the age of 19, along with a few other illustrated books.
His final project «Cherry and Olive», which he has both written and illustrated, became his first children’s book and was published in France by Les éditions du Seuil in March 2006.
The following year, it was released by Walker Books (USA) and nominated one of the top 10 children’s books for the year 2007 in the U.S.A. by the prestigious weekly news magazine Time.

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David Walker, 1976 | Portrait / Street Art


David Walker is a London-based portraitist who creates color-explosive portraits using spray paint in the form of street art.
Working in portraiture and using only spray paint David's ability to capture his subject in his trademark multi-layered style has seen him invited to exhibit all over the world and his work becoming highly collectible.
Using self-enforced constraints such as a 'no brushes rule' David is pushing the medium in his own unique direction and challenging preconceptions.