Albert Anker (1831-1910) | Genre painter

Albrecht Samuel Anker was a Swiss painter🎨 and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.

Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845-48.

Pramod Kurlekar, 1978 | Figurative painter

Born in Satara, Pramod Kurlekar is an professional artist - internationally acclaimed artist from India. He earned a graduate diploma in Art from Kalavishwa Mahavidhyalaya Sangli in the year 2000 with first class.

He had a distinguished sense of color and creativity in his early years. His studies at an art school helped to mold the true artist in him. He has participated in several art events. He took part in a two year fine arts residential program under the great artist Shri. Vasudeo Kamat.

He has received several scholarships during the course of his study. Pramod Kurlekar paintings mainly portrays female subjects and children.

Vladimir Dunjic, 1957 | Abstract/Figurative painter | Page 2

Born in Čačak, Serbian painter Vladimir Dunjić🎨 graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Mladen Srbinović in 1981.

He has been a member of Ulus (The Serbian Association of Fine Arts) since 1982.

He took part in several solo and group exhibitions, both in Yugoslavia and abroad.

Vladimir Dunjic lives and works in Belgrade.

Jean Raoux | Rococo painter

Jean Raoux, French painter, was born at Montpellier.

After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter.

His reputation had been previously established by the acclaimed decorations executed during his three years in Italy on the palace of Giustiniani Solini in Venice, and by some easel paintings, the Four Ages of Man (National Gallery), commissioned by the grand prior of Vendôme.

Julius LeBlanc Stewart | Un americano al Salone di Parigi

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855, Philadelphia - 5 gennaio 1919, Parigi), è stato un artista Americano che ha trascorso la sua carriera a Parigi.

Contemporaneo del pittore espatriato, John Singer Sargent, Stewart è stato soprannominato "il parigino di Philadelphia".

Suo padre, il milionario dello zucchero William Hood Stewart, trasferì la famiglia da Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a Parigi nel 1865, e divenne un illustre collezionista d'arte e uno dei primi mecenati di Marià Fortuny e degli artisti di Barbizon.