Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) | Impressionist painter

Lilla Cabot Perry, original name Lilla Cabot, American artist🎨 who emulated the innovations of French Impressionism in her own art.

She was also a major promoter of Impressionism in the United States.

Lilla Cabot was a descendant not only of the Boston Brahmin Cabot family but also of the equally distinguished Lowells.

Frits Thaulow | Pittore di Skagen

Frits Thaulow (1847-1906) è stato un pittore Impressionista Norvegese, noto soprattutto per le sue raffigurazioni naturalistiche del paesaggio.

Frits Thaulow fu tra i pittori più anziani del grande gruppo di artisti che affollò le gallerie norvegesi verso la fine dell'800, questo lo rese un pioniere ed una chiave importante per le generazioni successive alla sua.

Nacque a Christiania nel 1847 da una famiglia di farmacisti, agiati ed economicamente spensierati, tanto da permettergli di spostarsi subito ad una scuola prestigiosa a Copenaghen, dove rimase dal 1870-1872, per poi iscriversi successivamente al Baden School of Art di Karlsruhe.

Léon Bonnat (1833-1922) | Academic painter

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat was a French painter🎨, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1882.

Bonnat won a medal🎨 of honour in Paris in 1869, going on to become one of the leading artists of his day.

Bonnat was quite popular with American students in Paris. In addition to his native French, he spoke Spanish and Italian and knew English well, to the relief of many monolingual Americans.

Yvonne Canu | The Last of Neo-Impressionists

Yvonne Canu (1921-2008) was a French painter, considered part of Neo-Impressionism, who used the techniques of Pointillism in her works.

She was born to French parents in Meknes in Morocco in 1921.

She began her studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, but they were interrupted by World War Two.

Antonio Duarte, 1942 | Figurative painter

Antonio Duarte is an award winning painter from Portugal.

Antonio Duarte was born in Portugal where he graduated from Escola Artes Plasticas of Coimbra and Escola De Belas Artes of Lisbon.

Since graduating he pursued a career as a professional artist in Europe, where his work was shown in many exhibitions in Spain, Portugal and Germany.

Today his paintings form part of private and public collections across Europe.