Luigi Chialiva (1841-1914) | Naturalist painter

Luigi Chialiva was born in Caslano in the Italian speaking Canton of Ticino, in Switzerland in 1842, the son of Abbondio Chialiva.

He studied in Berne and graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich whereupon he worked with Gottfried Semper, the architect who designed, amongst other buildings, the Dresden Opera and Zurich Railway Station.

Chialiva then moved to Milan to study at the School of Art, and with Carlo Mancini (1829-1910).

John Singer Sargent: "Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh!"

• "Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire".

• "I do not judge, I only chronicle".

• "Mine is the horny hand of toil".

• "No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with".

Francis Luis Mora | America's First Hispanic Master

Francis Luis Mora (1874-1940) was a Uruguayan-born American🎨 figurativ painter.

Mora worked in watercolor, oils and tempera. He produced drawings in pen and ink, and graphite; and etchings and monotypes.

He is known for his paintings and drawings depicting American life in the early 20th century; Spanish life and society; historical and allegorical subjects; with murals, easel painting and illustrations. He also was a popular art instructor.

Happy Birthday Artemisia Gentileschi !!

Artemisia Gentileschi, (born July 8, 1593, Rome, Papal States [Italy] - died 1652/53, Naples, Kingdom of Naples), Italian painter, daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, who was a major follower of the revolutionary Baroque painter, Caravaggio.

She was an important second-generation proponent of Caravaggio’s dramatic realism.

A pupil of her father and of his friend the landscape painter Agostino Tassi, she painted at first in a style indistinguishable from her father’s somewhat lyrical interpretation of Caravaggio’s example.

Stanisław Żukowski (1873-1944) | Impressionist painter

Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky (Polish: Stanisław Żukowski, Russian: Станислав Юлианович Жуковский) was a Polish🎨-Russian painter🎨, and a member of Mir Iskusstva.

Zhukovsky was born in Yendrikhovtsy (Jędrzychowice), Grodno Province.

He was a student of Isaac Levitan🎨 and a graduate of the Moscow School of Painting.

Eric Fortune | Pop Surrealist painter

Eric Fortune is an artist based out of Columbus, Ohio.

He received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design where he was honored with the Outstanding Senior Award🎨 upon graduation.

His work continued to garner acclaim with the acceptance into such prestigious annual competitions as The Society of Illustrators NY and LA as well as Spectrum and others.

He was the Artist Guest of Honor for ConGlomeration and was recently awarded🎨 the Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist of 2009.

Józef Mehoffer (1869-1946) | Symbolist painter

Józef Mehoffer was a Polish painter🎨 and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.

Mehoffer was born in Ropczyce, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, as well as in Paris at the Académie Colarossi among others.

Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880) | Romantic painter

Anselm Feuerbach, (born September 12, 1829, Speyer, Bavaria [now in Germany] - died January 4, 1880, Venice, Italy), one of the leading German painters🎨 of the mid-19th century working in a Romantic style of Classicism.

Feuerbach was the son of a classical archaeologist and the nephew of the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach.

After studying art at the Düsseldorf Academy and in Munich, he went twice to Paris, where he worked in the studio of Thomas Couture🎨 and was influenced by Gustave Courbet🎨 and Eugène Delacroix🎨.