William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Academic painter

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, (1825-1905), French painter, a dominant figure in his nation’s Academic painting during the second half of the 19th century.

Bouguereau entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1846 and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1850. Upon his return to France from four years’ study in Italy, he attracted a wide following with his mythological and allegorical paintings, although his portrait paintings are perhaps held in higher esteem today.

Thomas Reis | Figurative painter

American Award winningv painter Thomas Reis began work as senior art director for JP Morgan Chase in New York City, shortly after receiving his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993.

Two years later, he was illustrating for nationally-known publications, including Time magazine, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, Business Week, TV Guide, Barron's, Forbes and Smart Money.

Corporate clients have included MGM, Dupont and Colgate. Throughout his career, Reis has also worked as a fine artist, producing work with all the refinement that one would expect from a classically trained painter.

His paintings are represented in numerous permanent and private collections throughout the United States. Tom currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. (Text provided courtesy the Museum of Arts and Sciences.)

John Keats | La dolcezza di quel viso

Lo sfavillio del suo sguardo splendente

E quel seno, terrestre paradiso.

Mai più felice sarà la vista mia,

Ché ha perso il visibile ogni sapore:

Perduto è il piacere della poesia,

L'ammirazione per il classico nitore.

Michael Wilkinson - British sculptor

Mostafa Keyhani, 1954 | Cityscape painter

Mostafa Keyhani🎨 is an Iranian-born Canadian painter, known for work in the Impressionist style🎨. Born in Iran, Keyhani now lives in Toronto with his family.

For biographical notes and other works by Mr. Keyhani see:

• Mostafa Keyhani, 1954 | Impressionist | Plein air painter.

Frédéric Soulacroix | Academic painter

The son of the well known painter and sculptor Charles (Montpellier, 1825-Firenze, 1899) and of Giacinta Diofebo, Charles Joseph Frédéric Soulacroix (1858-1933) lived until spring 1863 in Rome and later in Boulogne-sur-Mer (where his father Charles was painting the frescoes of the local cathedral), in Paris and, since 1870, in Italy in Firenze.

In 1873, at 15, Frédéric enters the “Accademia di Belle Arti” of Firenze and in Octobre 1876 is admitted to the “Scuola di Pittura”.

1890: June the 6th, he marries in Florence Julie Fernande Blanc. They live in Piazza Donatello, 21 in a charming house with rear garden they acquire. Firenze sees the birth of four boys: Olivier, George, Gabriel and a girl, Amélie Florence.

Chen Yongle / 陳永樂, 1944

Chinese painter🎨 Chen Yongle is a leading artist of what is today called the Yunnan Art School. He is among the few contemporary Chinese printmakers who can claim a series of international exhibitions.
The artist works in the technique of reduction woodblock prints - printed with thick oil-based colors.
Chen Yongle's works remind in technique and style of Hao Ping, another Yunnan Art School representative.

Zoey Frank, 1987 | Figurative painter

American painter Zoey Frank was born in Boulder, Colorado. Her early inclination to create was developed by a primary and secondary education in the Waldorf school system.

After studying Renaissance art at the age of thirteen she knew she wanted to pursue a career as an artist, and began to daydream about being an apprentice in Raphael’s🎨 studio in the 1500s.

Zinaida Serebriakova | Realist painter

Зинаида Евгеньевна Серебрякова 1884-1967, was the first female Russian painter of distinction, as a master of portrait, genre scenes from the life of peasantry.

She was born near Kharkov into one of Russia's most refined and artistic families.

In 1900 she entered the art school founded by Princess M. K. Tenisheva.

She studied under Repin in 1901, and Braz between 1903-1905.

Between 1902-1903 she spent time in Italy, and from 1905-1906 she studied in Paris.

At the outbreak of the October Revolution in 1917 Serebriakova's life suddenly changed.

Zinaida Serebriakova | Self-Portrait in a Scarf, 1911