John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

James McNeill Whistler, con cui Grimshaw ha lavorato nei suoi studi di Chelsea, ha dichiarato: "Mi consideravo l'inventore dei notturni finché non ho visto le foto di Grimmy al chiaro di luna".

John Atkinson Grimshaw è stato un artista Inglese dell'era vittoriana noto per le sue scene notturne di paesaggi urbani.

Oggi è considerato uno dei grandi pittori dell'era vittoriana, nonché uno dei migliori e più affermati artisti di paesaggi notturni e urbani di tutti i tempi.

È stato definito un "pittore straordinario e fantasioso" dal critico e storico Christopher Wood in Victorian Painting (1999).

L'amore di Grimshaw per il realismo derivava dalla passione per la fotografia, che alla fine si sarebbe prestata al processo creativo.

George Richmond | Painter and miniaturist

George Richmond RA (28 March 1809 - 19 March 1896) was an English painter and portraitist. In his youth he was a member of The Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake.

Later in life he established a career as a portrait painter, which included painting the portraits of the British gentry, nobility and royalty.

He was the son of Thomas Richmond, miniature-painter, and was the father of the painter William Blake Richmond as well as the grandfather of the naval historian, Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond.

A keen follower of cricket, Richmond was noted in one obituary as having been "an habitué of Lord's since 1816".

Metal sculpture

There are two families of metals: ferrous and non ferrous. All ferrous metals contain iron. Non ferrous metals include aluminium, zinc and copper and its alloys, for example bronze.

Metals can be hammered without breaking or cracking them in order to shape them, they can also be melted and used in moulds or made into wire and modelled - this makes them ideal media for sculptors to work with.

The use of bronze for making cast sculpture is very ancient, and bronze is perhaps the metal most traditionally thought of as a sculptural medium.

Paul Hedley, 1947 | Figurative painter

Paul Hedley spending his childhood in Chatham, Kent. He studied art at Medway College of Art from 1966-68, and then later at Maidstone College of Art where he was awarded the Diploma in Art and Design.

Paul Hedley has been painting ever since he can remember. An education based on traditional art techniques of drawing and painting plus the influence the French artists Edgar Degas 1834-1917 and Edouard Vuillard 1868-1940 have influenced the development of his art works.

Paul Verlaine | Art Poétique / L'Arte Poetica, 1882

Arte poetica /Art Poétique fu scritta dal poeta simbolista francese Paul Marie Verlaine (1844-1896) nel 1882, mentre era in carcere in Belgio.

Il titolo richiama l'analogo poemetto del poeta latino Orazio, assunto, nei secoli, come la migliore sintesi della visione classicista del poetare.

La celebre lirica di Verlaine, riscrivendo le regole della poesia, fu subito considerata Il Manifesto della nuova scuola Simbolista.

Edgar Degas - Young Girl Reading on the Floor

Gottfrid Kallstenius | Romantic painter

Gottfrid Samuel Nikolaus Kallstenius (13 July 1861 - 26 May 1943, Nacka) was a Swedish painter.

Gottfrid Kallstenius was born at Västervik, Sweden. His brother Evald Gustaf Götrik Kallstenius (born 1868) was a zoologist and member of the ill-fatedBjörling–Kallstenius Expedition. After preparatory studies with Edvard Perséus, he was admitted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1884 and graduated in 1888 after receiving two medals for his work.

In 1891, he married the painter Gerda Roosval.

Shortly after, he was awarded a travel scholarship and they spent a summer in Paris, completing their educations.

The Saliga, 1901-1909

Ewelina Ladzinska | Abstract Figurative painter

Ewelina Ładzińska, polish painter, is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts. Painting becomes a pretext for the creative process, women in the case of Ładzińskiej are the epitome of the elements, trying to harness the seemingly opposite colors are included in the amazing coherent whole feminine features.

The artist can show the inside of their models, using the expression, which can be read in each line left to stain or color.

Suspended somewhere between abstraction and chaotic perception, touch, gaze and the individual characteristics of the concrete, unambiguous assessment of escape.

Emma Ciardi (1879-1933) | Impressionist painter

Emma Ciardi (1879-1933), Italian painter🎨 born in Venice🎨, daughter of the painter Guglielmo Ciardi and the sister of Beppe Ciardi.

Studied with her father, who taught her to paint directly from nature. Partly through her admiration for Guardi, began to paint Venetian views and the gardens of the great Italian villas with their fountains, statues, cypresses etc., animating these scenes with imaginary figures in elegant eighteenth-century costumes.