Antonino Leto | Genre painter

Antonino or Antonio Leto (1844 in Monreale, Sicily - 1913 in Capri, Italy) was an Italian painter, painting mainly genre / landscape subjects in an impressionistic style.

In 1861, sponsored by his uncle, he moved to study in Palermo under L. Barba and Luigi Lojacono.

He adopted the style and subject matter of Filippo Palizzi.

In 1864, he moved to Naples where he was attracted to the Scuola of Resina style of painting fostered by Giuseppe De Nittis. He took lessons from Adriano Cecioni. He painted both in oil, tempera, and watercolor.

Ivan Kramskoi | Portrait / Genre painter

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi / Kramskoj / Kramsky, Ива́н Никола́евич Крамско́й (8 June 1837 in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh gubernia, Russia - 5 April 1887 in Saint Petersburg) was an Russian realist painter of Ukrainian origin.

A graduate (1863) and faculty member (1869-87) of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, he was one of the founders and ideologists of the Peredvizhniki.

In the 1850s he visited Kharkiv, and in 1871 he worked in Khotin village in the Sumy region.

He made frequent trips to the Crimea.

Marilyn Simandle, 1946 | Watercolor painter

Marilyn Simandle🎨 is a master Signature Member of Oil Painters of America (OPAM), a Signature member of the American Watercolor Society, Plein-Air Painters of America (PAPA) and the California Art Club.

She has numerous articles in magazines such as Southwest Art and Art of the West.

In 1996, her first book on Watercolor painting was published by North Light and since, a second book is available entitled "Contagious Enthusiasm".

Bruno Walpoth, 1959 | Wooden sculptor

Italian Figurative sculptor🎨 Bruno Walpoth, who carved these incredibly lifelike wooden sculptures, comes from a long lineage of woodcarvers.

Hailing from a family of wood sculptors, Walpoth simultaneously honors a centuries-old tradition and modernizes it for the 21st century.

Drawing from his ancestry along with contemporary ideas inspired from other forms of art, Walpoth transforms his blocks of wood into detailed sculptures of the human body.

Arthur Sarnoff (1912-2000) | Illustrator

Arthur Saron Sarnoff🎨 was a prolific illustrator for many American magazines and advertising artist.

Sarnoff was known for illustration and paintings, which were whimsical and attention getting because of their reflection of many aspects of American culture - product consumption, domestic life, sports, celebrities and musical entertainment.

Sarnoff was born in Brooklyn and studied at the Industrial School and the Grand Central Art School in New York City.

Among his teachers were John Clymer and Andrew Wyeth.

Francis O'Toole | Figurative painter

Francis O'Toole is a Dublin based artist, who has studied in Florence, Italy.

At 17 Francis was involved in an industrial accident which very nearly claimed his life. After spending over a year in hospital and rehabilitation, Francis spent a number of years confused about what path to take in life, this lead to him straying into the wrong group of people and encountering a dark world of up and coming criminals.

One day out of concern for her son Francis' mother suggested he paint, at first Francis believe this to be silly, but slowly began to enjoy this activity.

Alexi Zaitsev / Алексей Зайцев, 1959 | Impressionist painter

Alexi Zaitsev is an impressionist painter and this imposes special requirements on his works.

It is crucial to find an appropriate view, get scent of the color, light and shade, select and blend incompatible hues of paint, since false strokes are particularly clearly seen in the works of impression creators.

Fabio Cipolla (1852-1935) | Genre painter

Fabio Cipolla was an Italian painter🎨 who was trained in Rome, where acquired considerable skill in the study of the figure to be composed in refined genre scenes, he also devoted himself to the landscape painting.

With studies of oriental figures he made his first appearance at the exhibitions in Milan in 1879 and in Turin in 1880, and in the following years he developed the adoption of a mannered narrative realism on genre subjects.