Edmund Blair Leighton, il Preraffaellita

Leighton (Londra, 1853-1922) fu figlio dell'artista Charles Blair Leighton.

Frequentò l'University College School e successivamente la Royal Academy of Arts.

Nel 1885 si sposò con Katherine Nash dalla quale ebbe un figlio ed una figlia.

Dal 1878 al 1920 espose le sue opere alla Royal Academy con cadenza annuale.

Ivan Alifan Jdanov, 1989

Ivan Alifan Jdanov, Russian-born Canadian painter, currently living in Canada. He attended the OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, and is son of the very talented Russian painter Anna Razumovskaya🎨.

Ivan recently participated in the Los Angeles International art fair, and had his work shown alongside Malcolm Liepke🎨 and Jeremy Lipking🎨.

Whether it is beautifully rendered charcoal drawings, of the colorful, brushy, and energetic paintings, Ivan is an extremely talented artist.

Peder Severin Krøyer | Impressionist painter

Peder Severin Krøyer (23 July 1851 - 21 November 1909) portrayed the life of the artists.

Scenes such as walking along the beach, dining together, and the magnificent atmosphere of the evenings in the moonlight was Krøyer’s chosen motifs.

Krøyer was 14 years old when he first enrolled to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

He was quite talented as an artist, and he was respected as a portrait painter, which by this time was a very prestigious genre.

Piero della Francesca | Early Renaissance painter

Piero della Francesca, original name Piero di Benedetto dei Franceschi, (born c. 1416/17, Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence, Italy - died October 12, 1492, Sansepolcro), painter whose serene, disciplined exploration of perspective had little influence on his contemporaries but came to be recognized in the 20th century as a major contribution to the Italian Renaissance.

The fresco cycle The Legend of the True Cross (1452-66) and the diptych portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, and his consort (1465) are among his best-known works.

Johan Christian Dahl | Romantic painter

Born in Bergen Norway and trained at the Copenhagen Academy, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (1788-1857) nonetheless spent most of his working career in Germany.

He is thus claimed by all three schools for their own, although it was his influence on the latter that was more important, as from 1824 until his death he held the senior professorship of art at the Dresden Academy.

His memories of his homeland, however, provided him with themes that he reused throughout his career, but it was his attention to nature and use of the plein-air sketch that earned him the Dresden appointment in preference to Friedrich.

Camille Claudel, Debussy and La Valse, 1891

Created at the height of her artistic career, Camille Claudel's🎨 La Valse, is a stunning example of the sophistication and skill of the young sculptress.

This dynamic rendering of a couple in movement, with its detailed and complex treatment surface and form, is considered among her best sculptures.

Claudel created La Valse near the end of her 10 year love affair with Auguste Rodin🎨, a passionate relationship filled with conflict, hard work, disputes and ultimately disappointment. One of her most erotic sculptures, Claudel presented her dancers naked in the first version, which has sadly since disappeared.

Piero della Francesca | The lives of the artists, Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1568)

Piero della Francesca (1422-1492)

Truly unhappy are those who, laboring at their studies in order to benefit others and to make their own name famous, are hindered by infirmity and sometimes by death from carrying to perfection the works that they have begun.

And it happens very often that, leaving them all but finished or in a fair way to completion, they are falsely claimed by the presumption of those who seek to conceal their asses’ skin under the honorable spoils of the lion.

And although time, who is called the father of truth, sooner or later makes manifest the real state of things, it is none the less true that for a certain space of time the true craftsman is robbed of the honor that is due to his labors; as hap happened to Piero della Francesca of Borgo a San Sepolcro.

Trisha Lambi, 1962 | Figurative painter🖌

Trisha Lambi🎨: "I am an Australian painter🎨 born in Warwick, a small country town in Queensland. I was raised on a farm as part of a large, happy family.

My earliest memories are of drawing and reading for my maiden aunts when I was about 4 or 5 while my brothers and sisters were having a great time playing outside!
I still love to draw and read - the maiden aunts didn't put me off..

Light on form is my inspiration.

My latest work represents a fusion of the figurative into landscape using strong lighting and moody palettes to provide dramatic narratives.

After school I started a Bachelor of Visual Arts however the lure of money and independence proved too strong and I joined the workforce.