Edward Portielje (1861-1949)

Edward Antoon Portielje (1861-1949) was born in Antwerp on 8 February 1861. He trained under Charles Verlat (1824-90), who had taught at the Antwerp Academy since 1877 and became director of it in 1885.

Like his father, Jan Frederik Pieter Portielje (1829-1908), a Dutchman, Edward Antoon Portielje devoted himself primarily to genre painting. His elder brother, Gerard Jozef Portielje, also made a name for himself as a painter.

Edward Antoon Portielje died in his native Antwerp in 1949.

Edward Portielje | Genre painter

Edward Antoon Portielje (1861-1949) was an Belgian🎨 genre painter.

Portielje was born in 1861 in Antwerp, the son and brother of artists. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp under Charles Verlat. Although Impressionist style🎨 was becoming increasingly fashionable throughout Europe in Portielje’s early years, he maintained the “academic” manner taught in the French🎨 and Belgian🎨 academies and characterized by a high degree of finish. Similarly, he chose genre scenes and anecdotal subject matter long familiar to Dutch audiences.

Bernardo Strozzi | Music players in the Baroque era

Baroque painter** Bernardo Strozzi, named il Cappuccino and il Prete Genovese (c. 1581 - 2 August 1644) was one of the most influential Italian painters of the early 17th century, especially in Genoa and Venice.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Strozzi see:

• Bernardo Strozzi | Baroque painter ⏩
• Bernardo Strozzi | Portraits of composer Claudio Monteverdi ⏩

John Frederick Lewis | Pittore Romantico

John Frederick Lewis (Londra, 14 giugno 1805 - Walton-on-Thames, 15 agosto 1876) è stato un pittore inglese del periodo romantico, conosciuto per i suoi acquerelli orientaleggianti e le sue scene esotiche e dal sapore mediterraneo.

Vissuto in Spagna tra il 1832 e il 1834, si trasferì al Cairo nel 1841 rimanendoci fino al 1850 e producendovi alcuni tra i suoi dipinti più noti, tra cui The Harem of a Mameluke Bey, Cairo: The Introduction of an Abyssinian Slave, meglio noto come The Hhareem.

John Frederick Lewis (1805-1876)

John Frederick Lewis was an British Orientalist painter specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes. Lewis travelled in Spain and Morocco between 1832-1834.

His very careful and loving representation of Islamic architecture, furnishings, screens, and costumes set new standards of realism, which influenced other artists, including the leading French** Orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme** in his later works.

Luca Signorelli | High Renaissance painter

Luca Signorelli, in full Luca d’Egidio di Ventura de’ Signorelli, also called Luca da Cortona (born 1445/50, Cortona, Republic of Florence - died Oct. 16, 1523, Cortona), Renaissance painter**, best known for his nudes and for his novel compositional device.

It is likely that Signorelli was a pupil of Piero della Francesca** in the 1460s.

The first certain surviving work by him, a fragmentary fresco (1474) now in the museum at Città di Castello, shows a strong influence from Piero**.

Anton Raphael Mengs | Neoclassical painter

Anton Raphael Mengs, Raphael also spelled Raffael (born March 22, 1728, Aussig, Bohemia [now Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic]-died June 29, 1779, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), Bohemian painter who was perhaps the leading artist of early Neoclassicism.

Il romanticismo vittoriano di Edmund Blair Leighton

Edmund Blair Leighton ROI (1852-1922) è stato un pittore Inglese di scene di genere storico, specializzato in soggetti Regency e medievali.

La sua arte è associata al movimento Preraffaellita tra la metà e la fine del XIX e l'inizio del XX secolo.

Leighton era un artigiano meticoloso, che produceva dipinti storici altamente rifiniti e decorativi.

Queste erano scene romanzate, spesso di cavalleria e donne in abiti medievali con un fascino popolare.

Sembrerebbe che non abbia lasciato diari e, sebbene abbia esposto alla Royal Academy per oltre quarant'anni, non è mai stato un accademico od un associato.