Albert Anker (1831-1910) | Genre painter

Albrecht Samuel Anker was a Swiss painter🎨 and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.

Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845-48.

Pramod Kurlekar, 1978 | Figurative painter

Born in Satara, Pramod Kurlekar is an professional artist - internationally acclaimed artist from India. He earned a graduate diploma in Art from Kalavishwa Mahavidhyalaya Sangli in the year 2000 with first class.

He had a distinguished sense of color and creativity in his early years. His studies at an art school helped to mold the true artist in him. He has participated in several art events. He took part in a two year fine arts residential program under the great artist Shri. Vasudeo Kamat.

He has received several scholarships during the course of his study. Pramod Kurlekar paintings mainly portrays female subjects and children.

Vladimir Dunjic, 1957 | Abstract/Figurative painter | Page 2

Born in Čačak, Serbian painter Vladimir Dunjić🎨 graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Mladen Srbinović in 1981.

He has been a member of Ulus (The Serbian Association of Fine Arts) since 1982.

He took part in several solo and group exhibitions, both in Yugoslavia and abroad.

Vladimir Dunjic lives and works in Belgrade.

Jean Raoux | Rococo painter

Jean Raoux, French painter, was born at Montpellier.

After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter.

His reputation had been previously established by the acclaimed decorations executed during his three years in Italy on the palace of Giustiniani Solini in Venice, and by some easel paintings, the Four Ages of Man (National Gallery), commissioned by the grand prior of Vendôme.

Julius LeBlanc Stewart | Un americano al Salone di Parigi

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855, Philadelphia - 5 gennaio 1919, Parigi), è stato un artista Americano che ha trascorso la sua carriera a Parigi.

Contemporaneo del pittore espatriato, John Singer Sargent, Stewart è stato soprannominato "il parigino di Philadelphia".

Suo padre, il milionario dello zucchero William Hood Stewart, trasferì la famiglia da Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a Parigi nel 1865, e divenne un illustre collezionista d'arte e uno dei primi mecenati di Marià Fortuny e degli artisti di Barbizon.

Bessie Davidson | An Australian Impressionist in Paris

Bessie Ellen Davidson (1879-1965) was an Australian painter🎨 known for her impressionist, light-filled landscapes and interiors.

Davidson was born on 22 May 1879 in North Adelaide, South Australia, to a family of Scottish and English origin.

In 1904, after her mother's death, she went to Europe to study art in company with Preston.

They spent the first few months in Munich, where Davidson studied briefly at the Künstlerinner Verein, before moving on to Paris.

There she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, under René-Xavier Prinet🎨, where she met and began a lifelong friendship with Philippe Besnard's future wife, Germaine Desgranges. She also took classes with Raphael Collin, Richard Miller and Gustave Courtois.

Hendrick ter Brugghen | Baroque painter

Hendrik Terbrugghen (1588-1629), Dutch painter, among the earliest northern followers of the Italian painter Caravaggio.

In the early 1590s Terbrugghen’s family moved to Utrecht, a strong Roman Catholic centre, where he studied with Abraham Bloemaert.

Terbrugghen reportedly spent 10 years in Italy, having arrived in Rome about 1604, and thus could have had direct contact with Caravaggio, who left Rome in 1606.

Jackie Morris, 1961 | Children's book Illustrator

Jackie Morris is a British🎨 writer and illustrator. She was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal🎨 in 2016 and won it in 2019 for her illustration of "The Lost Words", voted the most beautiful book of 2016 by UK booksellers.

"I was born in Birmingham and lived there until at the age of four my parents moved away to Evesham. Here I grew up and remember little of those times. I do know that from at least the age of six I wanted to be an artist.

I watched my dad drawing a picture of a lapwing, making a bird appear on a piece of paper using only a pencil, and I thought it was some magic that made this happen. So there and then I decided to learn how to conjure birds from paper and colour.

I went to school in Evesham to Prince Henry's High School and I remember walking to school past shop fronts above which elegant buildings grew. I used to get told off at school for drawing and dreaming. Now I get paid to do both".