Egor Zaitsev, 1967

Egor Nikolaevitch Zaitsev / Егор Николаевич Зайцев was born in Orel, Russia.

In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Academic School of Memory of 1905, in 1994 - MGAHI, named after V.I. Surikov in the workshop of prof. V. N. Zabelina.

From 1995 to 2001 worked in the Creative Workshop of the Russian Academy of Arts under the guidance of A.P. and S.P. Tkachev.

In 1994 he was admitted to the Ministry of Agriculture.

He was awarded a diploma from the Russian Academy of Arts (1996), a gold medal from the Russian Union of Artists (2002), first prize at the Youth Exhibition and a creative trip to Paris in 2002.

Rein Pol, 1949 | Magic Realism

Rein Pol is a Dutch artist.

Appearances can be deceptive. Everyone knows that. Sometimes though, appearance and reality are so insidiously close together that they can hardly be separated.

The painter Rein Pol addresses this whimsical phenomenon of deceptive reality in paintings showing a peculiar mixture of facts and fiction.

In a number of Pol's paintings, the Blue Angel rumbles past.

Initially, this train roamed only the landscapes of Groningen.

Peter Tom-Petersen | Cityscape painter

Peter Tom-Petersen (5 March 1861 - 27 July 1926) was a Danish painter and graphic artist, known primarily for cityscapes, interiors and other architectural paintings.

His name was Peter Thomsen Petersen until 1920, when he had it legally changed to match his signature: "Tom P.".

Peter Thomsen Petersen was born at Thisted, Denmark.

He was the son of Christian Tullin Petersen and Maren Andrea Thomsen.

His father was a pharmacist.

He attended grammar school in Maribo until 1876.

Thomas Lawrence | The Red Boy, 1825

This portrait of Charles William Lambton - aged six or seven - was commissioned by the boy's father John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, a Whig politician and MP for County Durham.

Popularly known as The Red Boy, it remained in the Lambton family until it was acquired by the National Gallery in 2021.

It is acknowledged as one of Thomas Lawrence's (1769-1830) masterpieces and, a sign of the image's enduring popularity, it was the first painting to be reproduced on a British postage stamp in 1967.

Johann Matthias Ranftl | Genre painter

Johann Matthias Ranftl (Vienna, 1804-1854) was a Viennese Biedermeier painter.

The artist's grandfather came to Vienna from Regensburg, where the painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch was his best man in 1766.

The parents, Johann Baptist Ranftl and Barbara Ranftl, née Kautz, ran an inn on the Favoritner Linien.

Johann Matthias Ranftl himself was born in the suburb of Wieden No. 125.