Antonio Rotta (1828-1903) | Genre painter

Antonio Rotta was an Italian painter🎨, mainly of genre🎨 subjects.

Rotta was born on 28 February 1828 in Gorizia in the Kingdom of Illyria.

He enrolled at the Accademia Reale di Belle Arti of Venice, where he studied under Ludovico Lipparini.

His early genre paintings of Venetian scenes were followed by a number of religious and history paintings, among them Tiziano istruisce "Irene di Spilimbergo" ("Titian teaching Irene of Spilimberg").

Raoul Dufy | Fauve painter

French painter in oil and watercolour, illustrator and designer, Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was born at Le Havre. Took a job in commerce but also began in 1892 to attend evening classes at the municipal Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Othon Friesz.

Awarded a scholarship in 1900 and went to Paris where he studied for four years under Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Influenced at first by the Impressionists, then from 1905 by the Fauve style of Matisse and began to work in richer colours.

Giuseppe De Nittis | Impressionist painter | Page 2

Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884) was one of the most important Italian painters🎨 of the 19th century, whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism.

De Nittis exhibited twelve paintings in the Exposition Universelle of 1878, and was awarded🎨 a gold medal.

In that same year he received the Légion d’honneur.

F. Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) Landscape / Genre painter

Francis Hopkinson Smith was a United States🎨 author, artist and engineer.

He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards🎨 for his paintings.

Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from the Boys' Latin School of Maryland.

Alix Aymé (1894-1989)

Alix Angèle Marguerite Hava born in Marseille in 1894, studied drawing and music at the Conservatory of Toulouse. A prodigy, gifted in music as well as art, at the age of fifteen she won a gold medal in piano and considered a musical career before becoming a painter.

After her graduation from the Conservatory, she moved to Paris where she became a pupil, and then a colleague, of the important Nabi painter🎨 Maurice Denis.

In 1910 she collaborated with Denis on the decoration of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Later she worked in the Studios of Sacred Art founded by Maurice Denis and Georges Devallières in 1919.

Firmin Girard (1838-1921) Academic painter

Marie-François Firmin-Girard, known as Firmin-Girard, was a painter of history, religious subjects, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes and flowers.

Firmin-Girard entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at the tender age of 16 before continuing his studies at Gleyre’s atelier.

He made his debut at the Paris Salon at the age of 21 where his choice of exhibits showed him to be a talented young man, however as yet to find a defining style.

John Pitre, 1942 | Visinoary / Surrealist painter

Educated in the fine arts at the prestigious Art Students League in New York City, John Pitre, evolved to become a master of Fantasy and Surrealism🎨. Pitre has been a significant influence in the art world for over thirty years, and carries the distinction of being one of the most widely published artists in modern history.

Andrei Belichenko / Maria Boohtiyarova | Figurative painters

Andrei Belichenko / Андрей Беличенко and Maria Boohtiyarova / Мария Бахтиярова are two contemporary Russian artists, known for working in the Figurative style.

Andrei Belichenko (Karaganda, Kazakhstan, 1974) is a graduate of the Republican Art School in 1990, and after school - the Academy of Arts. Andrei studied in the Graphic Department of the Academy of Arts.