Muriel Barclay | Figurative painter

Scottish painter Muriel Barclay has an unusual arts background.

Born and bred in Glasgow she graduated with a degree from Edinburgh University before heading to London where she initially worked in Jacques O’Hana’s Gallery in London’s Mayfair.

She returned to Glasgow to teach history and raise her family, while at the same time studying Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art and History of Fine Art at the Open University.

Juan Gonzalez Alacreu, 1937 | Impressionist painter

Spanish painter Juan González Alacreu was born in Burriana, Castellón, in 1937. At eight years he took classes in Arts and Crafts and at 16 he won a scholarship to the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia. He worked for years in the illustration for various publishers until he decided to devote himself to painting.

Andrea Kowch, 1986 | Symbolist painter

Andrea Kowch has been described as "a powerful voice emerging, demonstrating a highly sensitive consciousness that informs a culturally-laced Symbolism".

Born in Michigan, she attended Detroit's College for Creative Studies through a Walter B. Ford II Scholarship, and graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2009 with a BFA degree in illustration.

Her paintings, book illustrations, and works on paper are rich in mood, allegory, and precision of medium, reflecting a wealth of influences from Northern Renaissance and American art to the rural landscapes and vernacular architecture of her native Michigan.

Christopher Cart | Figurative painter

"Painting for me is telling stories in paint" - Christopher Cart.

Christopher Cart has painted murals, countless watercolors and oils, portraits in both oils and watercolors and has illustrated many books and periodicals.

A native Mainer his work is also flavored by years in Guadalajara, Mexico and Seattle, Washington.

Cart is currently working on a 14 foot mural to commemorate historic Hallowell of the 1890′s.

And also for his home town of Hallowell, in 2012 he completed a commissioned portrait of Allen Strickland, a major donor to the Hubbard Free Library restoration fund.

William Henry Margetson | Victorian-era painter

William Henry Margetson (1860-1940) is a British painter noted for his pictures of very beautiful girls, typically alone and large on the canvas, and typically with short hair and hats when they are modern subjects.

He studied at the South Kensington Schools, and then at the Royal Academy, exhibiting there from 1885.

He lived at Wallingford on Thames. As well as modern girls and portraits, Margetson also produced a few religious pictures, and some allegorical and classical/ancient ones–for example a Cleopatra, fetchingly attired, with attendants in an Alma-Tadema setting, 1890.

Agnes Slott-Moller ~ Symbolist painter

Agnes Slott-Møller, born Rambusch (10 June, 1862, in Nyboder - June 11, 1937 in Løgismose) was the daughter of the later commander in the Navy Jacob Heinrich Victor Rambusch (1825-1886) and his wife Constantine Juliane born Hansen (1834-1891). She was a Danish painter and sculptor who was influenced by Italian art before the Renaissance, British Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement in his image and style.

Agnes Slott-Møller grew up in a home where she soon became aligned with the interest of Denmark and Danish culture that came to dominate her life and art.

She read books on Danish history, and Adam Fabricius: "Illustrated History of Denmark", which is characterized by Lorenz Frølich drawings, became important for her, as she followed the road marked by the said Frølich and Niels Skovgaard, or even Christian Zahrtmann.

Benvenuto Benvenuti | Divisionist /Neo-Impressionist painter

B>envenuto Benvenuti (Livorno, October 5, 1881 - Livorno, 1959) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes.

He first trained under Lorenzo Cecchi at the School of Arts and Crafts of Livorno.

He was influenced by the Macchiaioli landscape painter, Adolfo Tommasi, who became his close friend.

Dyalma Stultus | Genre / Figurative painter

Dyalma Augusto Federico Stultus (Trieste, 31 October 1901 - Darfo, 24 September 1977) was an Italian painter.

Son of Erminia Stultus and Ralph Pacor he enrolled at Academy of Fine Arts in Venice thanks to a grant obtained from the Municipality of Trieste. In 1922 he organized his first solo exhibition at Ca 'Pesaro. He then went to Trieste and then to Florence in the spring of 1927-1928, and Rome.

In 1930, in 1932 and in 1934 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale as well as in group exhibitions in New York, Budapest, Baltimore and Barcelona.