Eilif Peterssen | Skagen painter

Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen (4 September 1852 - 29 December 1928) was a Norwegian painter.

He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits.

Biography

Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway.

He was the son of Jon Peterssen (1814-1880) and Anne Marie Andersen (1812–1887).

He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner.

Hans Gude | Romantic painter

Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825 - August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters.

He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism.

He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Gude's artistic career was not one marked with drastic change and revolution, but was instead a steady progression that slowly reacted to general trends in the artistic world.

Betsy Westendorp de Brias, 1927 | Homage to life

Betsy Westendorp de Brias is a Spanish contemporary painter.

Westendorp is best known for her cloudscapes, her flowers, and her high-society portraits, including those of Spain’s Royal Family - she painted the now-King Felipe VI and his sisters as a child.

In 2021 the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, in partnership with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, De La Salle University Publishing House, and Pioneer Insurance, is honoring Betsy Westendorp de Brias with the artist’s major retrospective entitled, "Passages: Celebrating the Artistic Journeys of Betsy Westendorp".

Ettore Roesler Franz | Vanished Rome / Roma sparita

Ettore Roesler Franz, painter and watercolorist, son of Luigi and Teresa Biondi, was born in Rome on May 11, 1845 and here died on March 26, 1907.

Founder and President of the Society of Watercolor Artists in Rome, he is among the Italian painters of the nineteenth century who most exposed and have established himselves in Italy and abroad.

He can be considered as one of the most valuable examples of the late nineteenth century of Realism genre and among the best Italian watercolourists ever.

Maurice Barraud (Swiss, 1889-1954)

Maurice Barraud (born on February 20, 1889 in Geneva and died on 11 novembre 1954 in the same city), was a Swiss painter and illustrator.

At a young age, Maurice Barraud, together with his brother, Gustave François, who later also established himself as a painter, led a studio for advertising graphics.

He also studied painting and modeling at the École des Beaux-Arts.

In 1914, he moved to painting and, together with his brother, Émile Bressler, Gustave Buchet and others, founded the artist group "Le Falot".