Leonid Afremov | The "Impressionist" Lovers

Leonid Afremov (1955-2019) was a Russian-Israeli modern impressionistic artist who worked with palette knives and oils.

Over the last 25 years, he developed his own personal style and technique which differentiates him from other artists. He painted mainly city scenes, vintage cars, seascapes, cats playing jazz and flowers.

Afremov was born in Vitebsk, the same town where Marc Chagall began his artistic career. He developed his passion for painting in the USSR until 1990.

Sir John Everett Millais | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet PRA (1829-1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7).

Charles Edward Hallé (1846-1914) | Genre painter

Charles Edward Hallé, sometimes given as Edward Charles Hallé, was an English painter🎨 and gallery manager.

He was a painter of history scenes, genre scenes🎨 and portraits.

Hallé was the son of Sir Charles Hallé, the German-born pianist and orchestra conductor, who emigrated to England during the revolution of 1848. His younger sister was the sculptor and inventor Elinor Hallé CBE.

William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941)

William McGregor Paxton was an American painter and instructor who embraced the Boston School paradigm and was a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists.

He taught briefly while a student at Cowles Art School, where he met his wife Elizabeth Okie Paxton, and at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston.

Paxton is known for his portraits, including those of two presidents - Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge - and interior scenes with women, including his wife.

His works are in many museums in the United States.

Vladimir Dunjić, 1957 | Abstract / Figurative painter

Vladimir Dunjić🎨 - Serbian painter - graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Mladen Srbinovic in 1981.

He has been a member of ULUS, the Serbian Association of Fine Arts, since 1982. Vladimir Dunjić🎨 has also taken part in several solo and group exibitions, both in Yugoslavia and abroad. He works and lives as a free lance artist in Belgrade.

James Van Fossan, 1964 | Figurative painter

James Van Fossan resides in Eagle, Colorado.

Since leaving the corporate world to focus on his art full time ten years ago, the self taught Van Fossan has come to command some of the highest recognitions in realism. His 2012 painting, Magnum Opus, claimed the coveted Chairman's Choice Award in the 2012/2013 International Art Renewal Center Salon, as well as the Best of Show prize for the The Collection Beaux-Arts Réaliste International Competition (Montreal, Canada) in 2014.;

Jacob Dhein, 1978 | Modern Impressionist painter

San Francisco artist Jacob Dhein was interested in art as a child. Crayons and colored pencils were his tools of expression. He spent hours intricately crafting drawings of comic book heroes and animals. By the time he graduated from high school, one of his drawings was exhibited on the wall of a local bank. It wasn’t until he was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh that he decided to take a drawing class.

He found this so compelling that he continued with sculpture and painting. During this time he met several accomplished and influential artists who encouraged him to pursue a career in art.

Ignatov Sergey, 1961 | Improvizionism style painter

Ignatov Sergey Vladimirovich /Игнатов Сергей Владимирович is an Russian Artist🎨, known for working in the Improvizionism style.

- "I was born in the capital of ancient Rus - the beautiful city of Vladimir. The happy childhood passed in Belgium - the city of Brussels, and in Germany - the city of Bonn. There my parents worked through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Of course this fact fully influenced the formation of my personality and perception of the modern world.