Léon Cogniet | Romantic painter

Léon Cogniet (1794-1880) was a French🎨 history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred notable students.

He was born in Paris. His father was a painter and wallpaper designer.

In 1812, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-arts, where he studied with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.

Georges Maroniez | Marine / Genre painter

Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez (1865, Douai - 1933, Paris) was a French painter, specializing in landscapes with figures.

Education and first works

Maroniez was the son of an industrialist who owned a sugar refinery in Montigny-en-Ostrevent. He displayed artistic talent at an early age, but - although not discouraged - was expected to pursue a more professional career.

Accordingly, he studied law, and afterwards served as a magistrate in, successively, Boulogne-sur-Mer (1891), Avesnes-sur-Helpe (1894) and Cambrai (1897).

Malvina Hoffman | Figurative sculptor

One of America's foremost sculptors, Malvina Hoffman (1885-1966)🎨 studied with the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin🎨 from 1910 until his death in 1917 and is recognized by some as "America's Rodin🎨".

Hoffman is perhaps best known for her monumental bronze series, "The Races of Mankind", commissioned in 1930 by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.

Hoffman first won acclaim for her bronze sculpture of Russian dancers Anna Pavlova🎨 and Mikhail Mordkin and also studied under two other sculptors, Gutzon Borgium of Mount Rushmore fame and Herbert Adams.

Denis Chernov, 1978 | Figurative Pencil painter

Denis Chernov was born in Sambir, Lviv province, Ukraine. He lives and works in Kharkiv after graduating from Kharkiv Art College, in 1998, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (Chair of Graphic Art), in 2004.

He regularly participates in artistic exhibitions, both in Ukraine and abroad.

Most of Denis Chernov’s artworks are kept in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Italy, England, Spain, Greece, France, USA, Canada and Japan. Some works have been sold at 'Christie's.

Slava Korolenkov, 1958 | Impressionist painter

Вячеслав Короленков is an Russian painter, known for work in the Figurative Impressionist style.

Korolenkov was born in the small city of Tula, not far from Moscow.

Influenced by Russian artists such as impressionist Konstantin Korovin🎨 and Nicolai Fechin, Korolenkov maintains that his greatest teacher is every sunny day that gives him a chance to breathe, smile, and chat with family and friends.

Enric Serra i Auqué | Romantic painter

Enric Serra i Auqué (1859-1918) was born in Barcelona where he later attended art school.

Due to a scholarship, he was able to move to Rome in 1879 where he studied at the Accademia di San Luca.

Soon, Serra established himself as a painter in Rome, recorded first sales success and received several commissions for the Vatican.

In 1895 he opened a studio in Paris, which became a meeting point for young Spanish artists.

Myron Barlow | Genre / Figurative painter

Myron G. Barlow (1873-1937) was raised in Detroit, Michigan and remained deeply associated with that city even after he moved to France, where he lived for most of his life.

His artistic career began during his teen years, when formal art training at the Detroit Museum School and at the Chicago Art Institute.

He then traveled to Europe and enrolled in the Ecole des Beau-Arts, Paris in the atelier of Jean-Leon Gérome.

Thomas Ehretsmann, 1974 | Narrative painter

French painter🎨 and illustrator Thomas Ehretsmann was born in Mulhouse, France.

He completed his studies at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg in 1998 and has led a successful career in illustration for over a decade. Notably, his work has been featured in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Elle Magazine and various European and American books and journals.

In 2009, he spent several months in Norway studying with the internationally recognized painter, Odd Nerdrum🎨. He received a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators of New York in 2011, and a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators West in 2013.

His works have been exhibited at Gallery Brulee in Strasbourg and at Gallery l’Oeil du Prince in Paris.