Henry Woods, R.A | Victorian-era painter

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.

Stendhal: "L'amore è un bellissimo fiore.."

• "La vista di tutto ciò che è estremamente bello, in arte o in natura, richiama con la rapidità del fulmine il ricordo di chi si ama".

• "The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning".

• "Bellezza è una promessa di felicità".

Rubens Santoro | Venice painting

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.

Alois Arnegger | Romantic landscape painter | Part.4

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.

Anna Razumovskaya | Portraits

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.

Oscar Ricciardi | Capri

Dorothea Sharp | Plein air painter

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.

Pierre Auguste Cot | Springtime / Le Printemps, 1873

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.