Pierre Jean Edmond Castan | Genre painter

Pierre Jean Edmond Castan (1817-1892) was a French painter.

Born in Toulouse in Haute-Garonne, Castan quickly turns to the drawing, and follows the teaching of Drolling in Paris.

He is then a pupil of neoclassical painter François Pascal Simon Gérard (1770-1837), and begins in the Salon of French Artists in 1868.

Sir William Rothenstein | Portrait painter

Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer and writer on art.

Emerging during the early 1890s, Rothenstein continued to make art right up until his death.

Though he covered many subjects - ranging from landscapes in France to representations of Jewish synagogues in London - he is perhaps best known for his work as a war artist in both world wars, his portraits, and his popular memoirs, written in the 1930s.

More than two hundred of Rothenstein's portraits of famous people can be found in the National Portrait Gallery collection.

Rodica Toth Poiata, 1960 | Figurative painter

Rodica Toth Poiata is a contemporary Romanian painter who was born in Brasov.

Graduated: Plastic Arts University, Timisoara.

Affiliations: Romanian Plastic Artists Union (UAPR).

Participant at various personal, group, national and international shows.

She was professor of art at high-school in Brasov and Sulina (where he resided for six to seven years), after which it was established in Bucharest.

Raffaello Celommi | Genre / seascape painter

Raffaello Celommi (19 April 1881 - 3 March 1957) was an Italian genre and seascape painter.

He was born in Florence to the painter Pasquale Celommi and his Florentine mother, Giuseppina Giusti.

Within a few months, he developed respiratory ailments, and his mother moved to Roseto degli Abruzzi, a sea-side town in the province of Abruzzo, hoping the marine air would benefit him.

His childhood nickname was Felluccio.

Nikoletta Kiraly, 1978 | Palette knife painter

Nikoletta Király was born in Debrecen, Hungary. Her drawing talent was recognised at a very early age.

She moved near Lake Balaton with her family in her elementary school years and finished her high school education in Keszthely.

During these years she became the student of the painter Eörs Dókus, who started her on the rocky journey of oil painting.

Joseph Caraud | Genre painter

Early in his career Joseph Caraud (1821-1905) was inspired, like many other artists, by Italy and Algeria, basing his early Salon entries on his experience in these countries.

But as his career progressed he became more interested in anecdotal, genre scenes in which elegant women in their luxurious clothing with sumptuous patterning recalled the eighteenth-century style and rendering of details found in paintings by Fragonard, Greuze, and Watteau.

Joseph Caraud was born on January 5th, 1821 in Cluny, in the Saône-et-Loire region of France.

Carl Kronberger | Genre painter

Carl Kronberger (or Karl Kronberger; March 7, 1841 – October 27, 1921) was an Austrian painter.

Carl Kronberger was born in Freistadt, Upper Austria, on March 7, 1841.

He was the son of a landlord.

In 1869 he went to Munich and received his formal training with Hermann Dyck, Hermann Anschütz and Johann Georg Hiltensperger at the Academy of Munich.

Edgar Maxence | Symbolist painter

Edgard Maxence (1871-1954) was a French Symbolist painter.

He was taught by Elie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He is a contemporary of Henri Evenepoel, Jules Flandrin, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, Léon Printemps, Georges Rouault and other notable alumni from this famous school.

He exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1894 until 1939, and was active on the salon's committees and juries.