Jules-Joseph Lefebvre | Academic painter

Winner of the coveted Prix de Rome in 1861, Lefebvre fulfilled his early promise both as a painter of meticulously executed portraits and as a teacher: during his long career, he earned three Salon medals, was appointed to the French Academy of Fine Arts, and attained the rank of Commander in the Legion of Honor.

A reviewer at the 1881 Paris Salon wrote the following about Jules-Joseph Lefèbvre:

"It is sufficient to just mention his name in order to immediately evoke the memory and the image of the thousand adorable creatures of which he is the father.... Jules Lefèbvre, better than anyone else caresses, with a brush both delicate and sure, the undulating contour of the feminine form".

Henri Matisse | Windows series

Addio | Nâzım Hikmet⏭

L'uomo dice alla donna: ti amo,

come se stringessi tra le palme il mio cuore,

simile a scheggia di vetro che m'insanguina le dita,

quando lo spezzo follemente.

La donna dice all'uomo:

ho guardato nei tuoi occhi,

nel mio cuore,

Lluís Ribas, 1949 | Luminist painter

Lluís Ribas is one of the best known luministas of contemporary Spanish art. His profound knowledge of the secrets of light, shade and opaqueness are present throughout his work. His female forms are classics - brilliantly executed and exquisitely drawn.

His palette contains a wide range of colors which give his paintings their great beauty.

Yuri Krotov, 1964 | Impressionist painter

Юрий Кротов was born in Grivenskaya Cossack Settlement, Krasnodar Territory, situated in a close proximity to the Azov Sea;

1972 - He met a local painter G.A. Polugaev, his future teacher and tutor. His got his first lessons of painting;

1976 - He went to Moscow with his teacher where he entered the Moscow High School of Art under the Surikov Art Institute;

1976-1983 - Years of study in the Moscow High School of Art;

1983-1985 - He served in the Soviet Army.

Théodore Chassériau | Romantic / Neoclassical painter

Théodore Chassériau (born Sept. 20, 1819, Samana, Dominican Republic-died Oct. 8, 1856, Paris), French painter who attained some measure of success in his attempt to fuse the Neoclassicism of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the Romanticism of Eugène Delacroix.

As a boy, Chassériau entered the studio of Ingres, following his master to Rome in 1834. Chassériau’s immediate success at the Paris Salon of 1836 was confirmed three years later by a Venus and his “Suzanne”, both in the Louvre. About 1840, however, he began to grow dissatisfied with the art of Ingres.

Patricia Watwood, 1971 | Figurative painter

Patricia Watwood is an American⏩ figurative painter. Watwood’s paintings explore transformative narratives and mythological archetypes using the human figure. Her oil paintings show traditional methods and a technical rigor that balance perception and conceptual design.

Watwood has exhibited at galleries and institutions worldwide such as Hirschl and Adler and The Forbes Galleries in NYC, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Butler Museum, and the Bruce Museum.

Hu JunDi / 胡峻涤, 1962 | Impressionist painter

Hu Jundi / 胡峻涤 was born in the Jilin province, in Northern China. He graduated from Southwest Chongqing University fine arts department in 1984 and presently resides in Sichuan Leshan area.

He is recognized for his ability to bring forth a sense of delicate serenity and harmony.

He has mastered the fusion of traditional Chinese brush with the unmatched depth of oil painting.

His paintings brilliantly meld eastern and western culture together with complete integrity, the story unfolds as Hu Jundi expresses the poems in his heart through paint on cloth.

Louis Abel-Truchet | Post-Impressionist painter

Louis Abel-Truchet (1857-1918) was a major French painter⏭, etcher and lithographer of his time. He was born in Versailles in Paris and this city was to remain close to his heart throughout his life.

He is well known for his paintings portraying turn of the century life in Paris.

Working mainly in oils his paintings included portraits of elegant young Parisian women, landscapes of the city and scenes depicting everyday life in Paris.

He particularly liked to paint the artists quarter of Monmartre.