Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer | Genre / Impressionist painter

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (23 October 1839, The Hague - 4 April 1902, Paris) was a Dutch painter*. He originally worked in the Romantic and Academic styles, but later became an Impressionist*.

He began his artistic studies at the Royal Academy of Art with Salomon Verveer, who taught in the Romantic tradition. His early works were mostly landscapes in the style of the Hague School. His first solo exhibition was in 1861 in Rotterdam.

In 1865, attracted by new trends in art, he went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme* and switched to a more Academic style.

Ettore Aldo Del Vigo, 1952 | Surrealist painter

Ettore Aldo Del Vigo was born in Basel in Switzerland. After graduating in Fine Arts, he worked in a print shop specializing in art books and catalogs, where others could learn from a parent of Surrealism, Max Ernst.

Certainly the most obvious influences in his paintings are classical antiquity and Salvador Dalí.

He later moved to Sardinia where he joined a group of local artists, participating in numerous art competitions. In 1979 states individually.

John White Alexander | Symbolist painter

John White Alexander (1856-1915) was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. He was orphaned at age five and taken in by relatives of limited means. When Alexander left school and began working at a telegraph company, the company's vice-president, former civil war Colonel Edward Jay Allen, took an interest in his welfare.

Allen became his legal guardian, brought him into the Allen household, and saw that he finished Pittsburgh High School.

At eighteen, he moved to New York City and was hired by Harper and Brothers as an office boy in the art department.

He was soon promoted to apprentice illustrator under staff artists such as Edwin A. Abbey and Charles Reinhart.

During his time at Harpers, Alexander was sent out on assignment to illustrate events such as the Philadelphia Centennial celebration in 1876 and the Pittsburgh Railroad Strike in 1877, which erupted in violence.

Daniel F. Gerhartz, 1965 | Ladies and flowers

The Daniel F. Gerhartz’s skillful and technically adept work celebrates the created world, the human form, personal relationships with a connection to landscapes and environments of special importance.

Many of his figures are dressed in dramatic clothing which he often invents for its aesthetic appeal and lyrical quality so as to achieve a sense of other worldliness..

His subjects evoke a timelessness and idealism, yet for the most part Dan has drawn upon his home and community, including family and friends, for subject matter.

Gustave Jean Jacquet | A pupil of Bouguereau

Gustave Jean Jacquet was French painter of portraits, genre and watercolours.

Born in Paris on 25 May 1846 Jacquet lived and worked in Paris. Jacquet was a pupil of Bouguereau and so admiring was he of his tutor that he never sought any other.

Consequently, Jacquet's early work was influenced by that of Bouguereau.

In 1865, Jacquet made his debut at the Salon with an allegory entitled La Rêverie. The following year he submitted paintings detailing life in the 16th, 17th and 18th Century which were small in dimension.

At the same time he began to paint portraits and he sometimes put his subjects in the period costume of the 16th Century as a caprice. Jacquet also painted portraits of children and genre scenes.

In 1875 Jacquet was awarded a medal of excellence and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1879.

Jacquet's artistic career was very successful and he produced many fine paintings which won him his acclaim.

Daniel F. Gerhartz, 1965

Daniel F. Gerhartz was born in Wisconsin where he now lives with his wife Jennifer and their three young children.

His interest in art piqued at an early age when a teenage friend suggested they spend one dreary afternoon drawing.

It was at that moment that he discovered his lifework.

Daniel began his art education at the American Academy of Art in Chicago where he studied in the classical tradition and immersed himself in applications of technique and design.

Juan Gonzalez Alacreu, 1937 | Impressionist /Genre painter

Juan Gonzales Alacreu* is a Spanish painter*, known for working in the Figurative style.

Juan González Alacreu was born in Burriana, Castellón, Spain.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Juan Gonzales Alacreu see:

• Juan Gonzalez Alacreu, 1937 | Impressionist painter ➻

Louis Marie De Schryver | Romantic painter

Louis-Marie de Schryver (1862-1942) was born in Paris, the son of a well-known journalist.

Precociously talented, he exhibited his first works at the Salon, two flower paintings, in 1876 at the age of thirteen. 

The following year he studied briefly with the still life and genre painter Philippe Rousseau.

In 1880 he won a bronze medal at the Sydney World Fair with Lilas.