Raoul Dufy | Fauve painter

French painter in oil and watercolour, illustrator and designer, Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was born at Le Havre. Took a job in commerce but also began in 1892 to attend evening classes at the municipal Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Othon Friesz.

Awarded a scholarship in 1900 and went to Paris where he studied for four years under Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Influenced at first by the Impressionists, then from 1905 by the Fauve style of Matisse and began to work in richer colours.

Giuseppe De Nittis | La Belle Epoque

Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884) was one of the most important Italian painters of the 19th century, whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism.

De Nittis exhibited twelve paintings in the Exposition Universelle of 1878, and was awarded a gold medal.

In that same year he received the Légion d’honneur.

Rob Hefferan, 1968 | Ballet Dancers

Brave, forward thinking and always challenging, British painter Rob Hefferan experiments with themes, moods and styles to create thought provoking visual statements that inspire us to see beyond our limited and cultural frames of reference.

Whether working with chalk pastels, oils or acrylics, Rob’s ability and innate flair see him capture life as it is lived.

His sensitive capacity to see beyond our masks and reveal the touching truth of who we really are is a testament to his deep insight.

F. Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) Landscape / Genre painter

Francis Hopkinson Smith was a United States🎨 author, artist and engineer.

He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards🎨 for his paintings.

Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from the Boys' Latin School of Maryland.

Alix Aymé (1894-1989)

Alix Angèle Marguerite Hava born in Marseille in 1894, studied drawing and music at the Conservatory of Toulouse. A prodigy, gifted in music as well as art, at the age of fifteen she won a gold medal in piano and considered a musical career before becoming a painter.

After her graduation from the Conservatory, she moved to Paris where she became a pupil, and then a colleague, of the important Nabi painter🎨 Maurice Denis.

In 1910 she collaborated with Denis on the decoration of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Later she worked in the Studios of Sacred Art founded by Maurice Denis and Georges Devallières in 1919.