Michael Sweerts | Boy in a Turban Holding a Nosegay, 1658-1661

Title: Boy in a Turban Holding a Nosegay.

Author: Michiel Sweerts (Flemish Baroque Era painter, 1618-1664).

Date: ca. 1658 - 1661.

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Dimensions: 76.4 x 61.8 cm.

Current location: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain).

Zhao Chun / 赵春, 1970 | Figurative painter

Zhao Chun / 赵春 was born in Shenyang City, Liaoning province, China.

He graduated from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.

He participated in the Hong Kong Return to Art exhibition and won the Silver Medal.

For the 30th anniversary of the China-Japan Peace Treaty, the Seibu Art Museum in Tokyo organized an exhibition of oil paintings by Zhao Chun.

Carne Griffiths, 1973 | Abstract / Portrait painter / Illustrator

Carne Griffiths* is a fine artist and illustrator who makes artwork using tea, vodka, whiskey, brandy and calligraphy ink.

Originally from Liverpool, Griffiths graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone in 1995.

Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Renaissance style painter

Oleg Supereco* is an Russian painter* whose production has been hailed by some critics as the new Michelangelo* and Raphael*.

Supereco was born in Moscow and nowadays lives in Italy.

Vincent van Gogh | Irises, 1890

Title: Irises
Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise)
Date: 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Adele R. Levy, 1958
Accession Number: 58.187
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 825.

In May 1890, just before he checked himself out of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted four exuberant bouquets of spring flowers, the only still lifes of any ambition he had undertaken during his yearlong stay: two of irises, two of roses, in contrasting color schemes and formats.

In the Museum’s Irises he sought a “harmonious and soft” effect by placing the “violet” flowers against a “pink background”, which have since faded owing to his use of fugitive red pigments. Another work from this series, Roses (1993.400.5), hangs in the adjacent gallery. Both were owned by the artist’s mother until her death in 1907. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Venice painting

Oleg Supereco is an Russian painter*, known for working in the Baroque style*. Supereco was born in Moscow in 1974. Nowadays Oleg Supereco lives in Italy.

Oleg Supereco’s production it’s divided into themes: sacred art, portrait and landscape paintings.

Vincent van Gogh | The Sheaf-Binder (after Millet), 1889

Title: The Sheaf-Binder (after Millet).

Date: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September 1889.

Author: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)*.

Medium: oil on canvas.

Dimensions: 44.5 cm x 33.1 cm.

Current location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).

Stephen Darbishire, 1940 | Interiors painter

Stephen John Darbishire was born on 1940. His father was a doctor whose forbears go back to the Norman invasion and include John Bright and more recently the Wordsworthian scholar Helen Darbishire. His mother was an accomplished singer whose family included artists and musicians, notably the celebrated Liverpudlian James Hamilton Hay.

On leaving school Stephen Darbishire trained under Da Fano and obtained a scholarship to the Byam Shaw School studying under Greenham and Garrard.

During his twenties Stephen travelled in Europe and later spent a year as a missionary in West Africa. He then explored the world of popular music where he met his wife Kerry, the great-great-niece of Frederick Delius.