Paul Dubois (1829 -1905) | Figurative sculptor

Paul Dubois was a French sculptor🎨 and painter from Nogent-sur-Seine. His works were mainly sculptures and statues and he was also a portrait painter.

Paul Dubois was born on the 18 July 1829 in Nogent-sur-Seine, France.

He began studying law to please his father who practiced as a notary, but gave this up in order to train as a sculptor; his enthusiasm for this possibly fanned by the admiration he had for the work of his great-uncle Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.

When making his debut at the Paris Salon in 1857 he did so under the name Dubois-Pigalle.

Giovanni Paolo Pannini | Baroque painter

Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (1691-1765) was a painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the vedutisti ("view painters").

As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities.

Among his most famous works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti), and his vedute - paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome.

Giuseppe Muscio, 1955 | Hyperrealist painter

Italian painter Giuseppe Muscio was born in Orta Nova, a small town situated in the historical and cultural region of Apulia.

"I was fascinated by the majestic landscape around me and realised that I was born to be an artist and painter.

If I close my eyes, I still can smell the perfume of the rows of vines, the fragrance of the olives and the almonds.

Юрий Обуховский, 1965 | Romantic Realism painter

Юрий Обуховский / Yuri Obukhovsky work in the genre of landscape in oil painting and watercolors, continuing and developing the traditions of Russian realistic school, or rather its direction "Romantic Realism".

Юрий Обуховский was born in Perm.

Albert Henry Krehbiel | Impressionist painter

Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873-1945) was the most decorated American painter ever at the French Academy, winning the Prix De Rome, four Gold Medals and five cash prizes.

He was born in Denmark (Iowa) and taught, lived and worked for many years in Chicago.

In 1879, he moved with his family to Newton, Kansas, where his father was a prominent Mennonite layman, prosperous carriage and buggy maker, and later a co-founder of Bethel College.

Johan Laurentz Jensen | Floral Still Life painter

Johan Laurentz Jensen (1800-1856), Danish painter🎨, was born in Gjentofte, near Copenhagen. He began his formal art training at the age of 14, studying under Fritzsch at the Copenhagen Academy, where he won medals in 1817-1818.

In 1822 Jensen moved to France to study porcelain manufacturing in Sevres, where Crown Prince Christian Frederick of Denmark had recommended him.

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".