Vladimir Makovsky | Academic / Genre painter

Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky / Влади́мир Его́рович Мако́вский (1846-1920) was a Russian painter, art collector and teacher.

Makovsky was the son of collector, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky, who was one of the founders of the Moscow Art School. Vladimir had two brothers, Nikolay Makovsky and Konstantin Makovsky, and one sister, Alexandra Makovsky, all of whom were famous painters.

Vladimir studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, original name Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (born May 12, 1828, London, England-died April 9, 1882, Birchington-on-Sea, Kent) British painter and poet who helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters treating religious, moral, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner. Dante Gabriel was the most celebrated member of the Rossetti family.

Early life and works

After a general education in the junior department of King’s College (1836-41), Rossetti hesitated between poetry and painting as a vocation. When about 14 he went to "Sass’s", an old-fashioned drawing school in Bloomsbury (central London), and thence, in 1845, to the Royal Academy schools, where he became a full student.

Joe Anna Arnett, 1950 | Plein Air painter

Joe Anna Arnett is a master artist on “Passport and Palette” the art instruction and travel series airing on PBS stations across the country. Joe Anna Arnett earned a BFA degree from the University of Texas.

She then worked for Young and Rubicam Advertising in New York as a senior art director working on such accounts as Merrill Lynch and the US Postal Service

She continued her studies in fine art at the Art Students League of New York for several years.

She not only appears on the show, but also produces and writes for the program. In 1997, she became a Master Artist of the Artists in America Show at the Denver Historical Society Museum.

Luis Cohen Fusé (1944-2019) | Figurative painter

Cohen Fusé born in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Studied Ceramics at the School of Fine Arts - Mar del Plata (Argentina). Graduated in Architecture at the Buenos Aires State University.

Studied engraving and lithography at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona.

In 1988 he signed a contract with the Vorpal Gallery of New York. Participates in exhibitions in the USA: New York and San Francisco, and also in Canada..

William Bouguereau | Breton Knitter / La magliaia bretone, 1871

Curiosi di conoscere la lingua, la religione e le tradizioni conservate in modo univoco degli antenati celtici della Bretagna del VI secolo, folle di turisti culturali si sono recati in questa provincia nel nord-ovest della Francia alla fine del diciannovesimo secolo.

William Bouguereau fece il suo primo viaggio con la sua famiglia nell'estate del 1866 e si ritrovò profondamente commosso dal paesaggio costiero della regione e dalle persone distintive, portandolo a tornare ogni estate fino al 1870, spesso in vacanza nella cittadina di Douarnenez.

A luglio, la loro ultima visita è stata interrotta dalla guerra franco-prussiana che ha spinto Bouguereau a tornare a Parigi a luglio per arruolarsi nella Guardia Nazionale, interrompendo la sua carriera artistica.