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Julio Vila y Prades (1873-1930)


Julio Vila y Prades was a Spanish painter🎨 and muralist who also worked throughout Latin America.
Against his parents wishes, he began his artistic studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos with Francisco Domingo Marqués and Joaquín Agrasot🎨.
He then went to Madrid and was an assistant in the workshop of Joaquín Sorolla🎨 from 1893-1904.

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Marius Borgeaud | Post-impressionist painter

Marius Borgeaud (1861-1924) was a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter. He was born in Lausanne.

Early life

Borgeaud came from a bourgeois milieu; he attended the Industrial School of Lausanne and did not intend to pursue painting.
As chance would have it, the future gallerist Paul Vallotton was one of his school-mates.
In 1888, he began working in a bank in Marseille and remained there until the death of his father the following year.


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Cuno Amiet | Expressionist painter

Cuno Amiet (1868-1961) is often called the “master of colour” and is seen as a pioneer of modernism in Swiss art; he ranks as one of the most versatile and significant artists of Switzerland.
Cuno Amiet was born in Solothurn and devoted his entire life to art.
After finishing school he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and continued his training with his friend Giovanni Giacometti at the Académie Julian in Paris.


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Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706)

Godfried Schalcken or Gottfried Schalken was a Dutch genre and portrait painter.
He was noted for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight, and painted in the exquisite and highly polished manner of the Leiden fijnschilders.

Life and work

Godfried Schalcken was born in Made, North Brabant, the son of Cornelis Schalcken and Aletta Lydius.


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Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885) | Romantic / Genre painter


Carl Spitzweg was a German🎨 romantic painter, especially of genre subjects🎨. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.
Spitzweg was born in Unterpfaffenhofen, near Munich, Bavaria, the second of three sons of Franziska (née Schmutzer) and Simon Spitzweg.
His father, a wealthy merchant, had Carl trained as a pharmacist.