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Pino Daeni | Romantic book illustrator

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Pino Daeni (November 8, 1939 - May 25, 2010)🎨 considered one of the highest paid book illustrators of his time, he created over 3.000 book covers, movie posters and magazine illustrations.
His paintings are often set on vibrantly sunny beaches on the Mediterranean where he grew up.
His gorgeous figure paintings captured beauty and light in a unique way.

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Henry Woods, R.A | Victorian-era painter

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Henry Woods RA (22 April 1846 - 27 October 1921) was an British painter and illustrator, and one of the leading Neo-Venetian school artists.

Early life

Henry Woods was born to a middle-class family at Warrington.
His father, William, was a pawnbroker and for some time a town councillor; his mother, Fanny, a shopkeeper. He was the eldest of nine siblings.


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Rubens Santoro | Venice painting

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Rubens Santoro (October 26, 1859 in Mongrassano, Province of Cosenza, Calabria - December 30, 1941 in Naples) was an Italian painter*.
  • Biography
He moved to Naples at 10 years of age, to study literature, but his inclination was painting. He only briefly enrolled at the Neapolitan Academy, instead, real life was his model. His first work was a small and simple genre piece: A Girl who Laughs, exhibited at the Promotrice. Domenico Morelli* took note and encouraged him.

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Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter | Part.4

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Austrian painter Alois Arnegger* established a reputation as a fine portraitist and landscape artist, and was particularly well known for his Austrian and Italian scene paintings, especially of Naples, Sorrento and Capri.
Arnegger was born in Vienna on March 9, 1879.


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Anna Razumovskaya | Portraits

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Anna Razumovskaya /Анна Разумовская🎨 is an Russian painter🎨, best known for her classic paintings, romantic figures that carry a sense of elegance and grace.
Born in Rostov-on-Don at the height of the Cold War, Anna was exposed to very different worlds.
She experience the austere world of the communist regime alongside the sophisticated and feminine influence of her fashion-conscious mother.
Anna is a graduate of the Russian State University For Arts, where she was awarded the distinction of high-class artist in 1991.
Subsequently, from 1992-1995, she studied art in Germany, Belgium and Holland.

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Oscar Ricciardi | Capri

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Dorothea Sharp | Plein air painter

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Dorothea Sharp ROI RBA (1874-1955) was a British artist* best known for her landscapes and naturalistic studies of children at play.
  • Life and career
Sharp was born in Dartford, Kent, and began her training aged 21, when, after inheriting £100 from an uncle, she attended the Richmond art school run by C. E. Johnson RI. She went on to study at the Regent Street Polytechnic, where her work was admired by George Clausen and David Murray.


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Pierre Auguste Cot | Springtime / Le Printemps, 1873

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O primavera! gioventù dell'anno!
O gioventù! primavera della vita!!!

O Spring! Youth of the year!
O youth! Springtime of life!!!


Springtime
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Cot (French, Bédarieux 1837-1883 Paris);
Date:1873;
Medium: Oil on canvas;
Dimensions: 84 x 50 in. (213.4 x 127 cm);
Classification: Paintings;
Credit Line: Gift of Steven and Alexandra Cohen, 2012;
Accession Number: 2012.575;
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 827.

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