Mabel Alvarez | Impressionist painter

"I want to take all this beauty and pour it out on canvas with such radiance that all who are lost in the darkness may feel the wonder and lift to it" - Mabel Alvarez.

Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985) was one of the rare women artists of her day to receive encouragement at an early age to pursue her talents and passion as a painter.

She received training in Los Angeles from prominent artists Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, whose synchromist compositions and color schemes would have a profound impact on the young Alvarez.

Claude Monet | Vétheuil, 1880

"I have painted the Seine throughout my life, at every hour, at every season...

I have never tired of it: for me the Seine is always new" - Claude Monet

Claude Monet | Vétheuil, 1880 | Sotheby's

The present work depicts Vétheuil, the small village situated sixty kilometres north of Paris on the riverbanks of the Seine, where the artist lived with his wife and children from 1878 until 1881.

Unlike Monet’s previous home of Argenteuil, Vétheuil was further along the Seine and thus slightly out of reach for Parisians escaping the city on a weekend.

As a result, both the village and surrounding countryside had remained largely untouched and the remote setting became the ideal vehicle for Monet’s increasing interest in painting nature en plein air.

Georges Lemmen | Neo-Impressionist painter

Georges Lemmen (1865-1916) was a neo-impressionist painter from Belgium.

He was a member of Les XX from 1888.

His works include The Beach at Heist, Aline Marechal and Vase of Flowers.

Yvonne Serruys studied in his workshop in Brussels from 1892 to 1894.

Donna N. Schuster | Modern impressionisi painter

Donna N. Schuster (born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1883) was an easel painter who created work in the style of modern impressionism using the medium of oil and watercolor.

She focused her work in Wisconsin then later moved to Los Angeles, California where she died in 1953.

Schuster got her education at the Art Institute of Chicago, then later attended Boston Museum School along with Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank W. Benson.

E. Charlton Fortune | Impressionist painter

Euphemia Charlton Fortune (1885-1969) was an American Impressionist artist from California.

She was trained in Europe, New York and San Francisco.

She painted many portraits as well as landscape views of California and European sites.

In midlife she turned to liturgical design. She signed her paintings "E. Charlton Fortune", which helped conceal her gender.

Eleuterio Pagliano | Romantic /genre painter

Eleuterio Pagliano (1826-1903) was an Italian painter of the Romantic period as well as an activist and fighter of the Risorgimento.

Pagliano was born in Casale Monferrato in the Kingdom of Sardinia and studied at the Brera Academy in Milan until 1848.

He initially trained with Giuseppe Sogni, then under the neoclassic painter Luigi Sabatelli.

He began his artistic career with paintings in a distinctly Neoclassical style, but very quickly he was won over to Romanticism, as championed then in Milan by Hayez and Tranquillo Cremona. He painted the Death of Luciano Manara.

Bloomsbury Group | Art History and Sitemap

Bloomsbury is the name commonly used to identify a circle of intellectuals and artists who lived in Bloomsbury, near central London, in the period 1904-1940.

In 1905, a group of writers and intellectuals began to meet at the London home of the artist Vanessa Bell and her writer sister Virginia Woolf to share ideas and support each other’s creative activities… their meetings continued for the next three decades.

They were in revolt against everything Victorian and played a key role in introducing many modern ideas into Britain.

Roger Fry | A london garden

Duncan Grant | Post-Impressionist painter

Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was born at Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire, the son of Major Bartle Grant and Ethel McNeill.

His childhood was spent in India.

He returned to Britain in 1893.

Although his family intended him to have an army career, he took up painting at the encouragement of the French painter Simon Bussy, entering the Westminster School of Art, London, in 1902.