Honoré Daumier | The Michelangelo of caricature

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Marseilles; He showed in his earliest youth an irresistible inclination towards the artistic profession, which his father vainly tried to check by placing him first with a huissier, and subsequently with a bookseller.

Louis Douzette | Romantic landscape painter

Carl Ludwig Christoph Douzette (September 25, 1834, Tribsees - February 21, 1924, Barth) was a German painter**. When he was seven years old, the family moved to Tribsees Franzburg.

At the age of 14 he left school and went with his father in the house painter teaching. In winter, the father gave him, who had in his youth in Berlin attended the Academy of Fine Arts, the first lessons in drawing. 1852 the family moved to Barth.

Rabindranath Tagore | Tu sei la nuvola della sera…

Tu sei la nuvola della sera che vaga nel cielo

dei miei sogni.

Io ti dipingo e ti modello

con i miei desideri d'amore.

Tu sei mia, solo mia, l'abitatrice dei miei

sogni infiniti! I tuoi piedi sono rosso-rosati

Vladimir Kush | Ray of Hope

Mostafa Keyhani, 1954 | Impressionist painter

Iranian-born Canadian painter Mostafa Keyhani🎨 was born in Iran. It was during his years as a secondary school student that he was encouraged by one of his teachers to pursue his artistic talents.

As a result, Mr. Keyhani🎨 became completely devoted to painting.

Jean Beauduin | Genre painter

Jean Beauduin (1851-1916) was a Belgian painter**, draughtsman and illustrator of genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. Although Belgian by birth, Jean Beauduin would spend much of his life in France where he built a considerable reputation as an oil painter.

He received his artistic training at the Academy of Antwerp.

Charles Kuwasseg | Landscape painter

Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg (1838, Draveil, Essonne - 1904) was a French painter** of the 19th century**. He was influenced by the Barbizon school and created especially landscapes, but also cityscapes and coastal views.

Born in Draveil, Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg was the son of Karl Joseph Kuwasseg, an Austrian born in Trieste on March 16, 1802, and also a renowned painter. His father left for Paris, and took the French nationality. He died in Paris in January 1877.

Initially Charles Euphrasie trained and worked with his father but later became a sailor and travelled the world.

Rupert Bunny | Pastorale, 1893

Title: Pastorale [Sea idyll Pastorale]

Artist: Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864-1947)**

Date: 1893

Style: Impressionism

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 142.0 h x 251.0 w

Current location: National Gallery of Australia

Vicente López y Portaña | Neoclassical painter

Vicente López Portaña (September 19, 1772 - July 22, 1850) was a Spanish painter**, considered one of the best portrait painters of his time.

Vicente López Portaña was born in Valencia on September 19, 1772. His parents were Cristóbal López Sanchordi and Manuela Portaña Meer. Vicente López began formally studying painting in Valencia at the age of thirteen, he was a disciple of father Antonio de Villanueva, a Franciscan monk, and he studied at the Academy of San Carlos in his native city.