Richard Eurich | Modern painter

Richard Ernst Eurich, OBE, RA (14 March 1903 - 6 June 1992) was an English painter who worked as a war artist to the Admiralty in the Second World War and was also known for his panoramic seascapes and narrative paintings.

These were often invested with a sense of mystery and wonder which have tended to set him apart from mainstream development of art in the twentieth century.

Mabel Alvarez | Impressionist painter

"I want to take all this beauty and pour it out on canvas with such radiance that all who are lost in the darkness may feel the wonder and lift to it" - Mabel Alvarez.

Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985) was one of the rare women artists of her day to receive encouragement at an early age to pursue her talents and passion as a painter.

She received training in Los Angeles from prominent artists Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, whose synchromist compositions and color schemes would have a profound impact on the young Alvarez.

Claude Monet | Vétheuil, 1880

"I have painted the Seine throughout my life, at every hour, at every season...

I have never tired of it: for me the Seine is always new" - Claude Monet

Claude Monet | Vétheuil, 1880 | Sotheby's

The present work depicts Vétheuil, the small village situated sixty kilometres north of Paris on the riverbanks of the Seine, where the artist lived with his wife and children from 1878 until 1881.

Unlike Monet’s previous home of Argenteuil, Vétheuil was further along the Seine and thus slightly out of reach for Parisians escaping the city on a weekend.

As a result, both the village and surrounding countryside had remained largely untouched and the remote setting became the ideal vehicle for Monet’s increasing interest in painting nature en plein air.

Georges Lemmen | Neo-Impressionist painter

Georges Lemmen (1865-1916) was a neo-impressionist painter from Belgium.

He was a member of Les XX from 1888.

His works include The Beach at Heist, Aline Marechal and Vase of Flowers.

Yvonne Serruys studied in his workshop in Brussels from 1892 to 1894.

Donna N. Schuster | Modern impressionisi painter

Donna N. Schuster (born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1883) was an easel painter who created work in the style of modern impressionism using the medium of oil and watercolor.

She focused her work in Wisconsin then later moved to Los Angeles, California where she died in 1953.

Schuster got her education at the Art Institute of Chicago, then later attended Boston Museum School along with Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank W. Benson.