Alexander Mark Rossi | Genre painter

Alexander Mark Rossi (1840-1916) was a successful British artist, specializing in genre works who flourished in the late 19th century.

He was born on the Greek Island of Corfu, the son of Dr Mark Rossi, an Italian who was one of the three judges presiding over the Ionian Islands during the time of British rule. On a visit to Preston, England in 1866, Rossi met and later married Jane Gillow.

He remained in the United Kingdom thereafter. In the 1870s he moved to London.

Auguste-Émile Pinchart | Genre painter

Auguste-Émile Pinchart, or Émile-Auguste Pinchart (10 August 1842, Cambrai - November 1920, Tunis) was a French painter and designer who is best remembered for his Orientalist scenes.

He began as a student in the workshops of Jean-Léon Gérôme, then signed a contract with the art dealers, Goupil and Cie, to produce drawings for reproduction as prints, creating genre scenes of everyday life that proved to be quite popular.

His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1864.

During the Paris Commune, he became friends with the writer, Émile Bergerat, who recalls in his memoirs that Pinchart occasionally worked as a butcher, to help his fellow artists survive the siege.

Museum Masterpieces

Annie Feray Mutrie (British, 1826-1893) - Cactus | Bonhams

Annie Feray Mutrie was the younger sister of Martha Darley Mutrie. Born in Manchester, both girls studied at the Manchester School of Design under George Wallis. Both artists specialised in still life painting, regularly exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1851-1882.

The naturalistic style of their work was admired by John Ruskin, who in praise of Annie Feray wrote: "All these flower paintings are remarkable for very lovely, pure, and yet unobtrusive colour- perfectly tender and yet luscious, and a richness of petal texture that seems absolutely scented.

Exhibited:

(possibly) Royal Academy, 1866, no. 370;

Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867.

Paul Éluard / Pablo Picasso | Il volto della Pace / Le Visage de la Paix, 1951

"Il volto della Pace" - La poesia di Paul Éluard illustrata da Pablo Picasso

Conosco tutti i luoghi dove abita la colomba

e il più naturale è la testa dell’uomo.

L’amore della giustizia e della libertà

ha prodotto un frutto meraviglioso.

Un frutto che non marcisce

perché ha il sapore della felicità.

Pablo Picasso | Face of Peace, 1950 | Serigraph after a drawing of 1950

Spanish Art History and Sitemap

Spanish art has been an important contributor to Western art and Spain has produced many famous and influential artists including Velázquez, Goya and Picasso.

Spanish art was particularly influenced by Italy and France during the Baroque and Neoclassical periods, but Spanish art has often had very distinctive characteristics, partly explained by the Moorish heritage in Spain (especially in Andalusia), and through the political and cultural climate in Spain during the Counter-Reformation and the subsequent eclipse of Spanish power under the Bourbon dynasty.

Pablo Picasso - Embrace, 1900