Désiré Thomassin | Naturalist painter

Désiré Thomassin was an Austrian painter and composer.

His father was the charge d’affaires of the Duchy of Parma in Vienna, his mother was from Regensburg.

After the death of the father in 1867 the remaining family moved to Regensburg.

There he finished his school and attended the local lyzeum for two terms till 1878.

Then he studied music in Munich under Josef Rheinberger (composition) and Max Hieber (violin).

Carl Schlesinger | Genre / Landscape painter

Carl Schlesinger (1825-1893) was a Swiss-German genre and landscape painter.

Schlesinger began his painting apprenticeship in Hamburg, with Gerdt Hardorff and Hermann Kauffmann and continued it in 1844 at the Prague Academy with Christian Ruben.

Konstantinos Kavafis | Candele / Candles / Κεριά

Stanno i giorni futuri innanzi a noi

come una fila di candele accese

dorate, calde e vivide.

Restano indietro i giorni del passato,

penosa riga di candele spente:

le più vicine danno fumo ancora,

fredde, disfatte, e storte.

Matthias Stom | An Old Woman and a Boy by Candlelight | Birmingham Museum

Ludovico Marchetti | Genre painter

Ludovico Marchetti (Rome, 1853-1909, Paris) was an Italian-born painter of genre scenes, who spent most of his life in France.

His artistic education began in the studios of Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish painter who lived in Rome during the 1870s.

Shortly after completing his studies there, in 1878, aged twenty-five, he moved to France, where he would remain for the rest of his life.

Adrien Moreau | Genre painter

Adrien Moreau (1843-1906) was a French genre and historical painter, sculptor and illustrator.

Moreau was born in Troyes in Aube department.

He began his artistic training as an apprentice glassmaker, but left for Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Cogniet and Isidore Pils.