Nora Heysen | Portrait / Still-life / War painter

From: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Daughter of renowned landscape painter Hans Heysen, Nora Heysen (1911-2003) established her own reputation as a distinguished portrait and still-life painter, becoming the first woman to win the Archibald Prize and to be appointed an Australian official war artist during the Second World War.

Born at Hahndorf, South Australia, the fourth child of Hans and Selma Heysen, Nora received her earliest art training from her father.

At fifteen she commenced studies at the School of Fine Arts, Adelaide, under F. Millward Grey, where she received a traditional academic training, learning to draw from plaster casts and live models.

Harald Moltke (Danish painter, 1871-1960)

Harald Viggo Moltke was a Danish painter, author and explorer. Among his activities Moltke, participated as draftsman in four Arctic expeditions.

Harald Moltke was born in Helsingør, the son of Oskar Peter August Moltke (1828–82) and Karen Marie Jensdatter (1849-1939). He spent 10 years in North Carolina as a child between 1874 and 1884. After the death of his father, the family returned to Denmark.

In 1889, he began a course of study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, which he completed in 1893.

Frans Hogerwaard | Impressionist painter

Dutch painter Frans (François) Hogerwaard (1882-1921) was known for his (mundane) portraits and figures, and for his landscapes.

Like his brother the painter George Hogerwaard, Frans Hogerwaard was born on Java in the Dutch Indies.

He was educated at the School of Arts and Crafts in Haarlem and then at the Rijksacademie of Amsterdam (1904-1906), where he became close friends with Tjeerd Bottema and Wim de Haas.

Albert Chevallier Tayler | Genre painter

Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925) was an British artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting, but was also involved in the plein air methods of the Newlyn School.

He studied at Heatherley's School of Art, Royal Academy Schools and with avant-garde painters in Paris.

He was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire.

Furcy de Lavault | Still life with flowers

Marie-Albert-Tibule Furcy De Lavault (1847-1915) was a fine painter of landscapes, still lifes and above all, flowers.

Marie-Albert-Tibule Furcy de Lavault was born in Saint-Genis (Charente-Inférieure), France.

He debuted at the Salon of 1880 with Fleurs de Printemps (Spring Flowers) and Nature Morte (Still Life).

These early Salon entries show Furcy de Lavault’s propensities towards the long-established tradition of still lifes and an interest in flowers.