Vincenzo Sguera, 1950

- "When 18 years old, in 1968, I joined the Architecture Faculty of Florence (Italy) and graduated with the maximum in 1977.

In those 9 years in Florence I alternated study and work, as an artist, advertising illustrator, comics designer and advertising art director.

Once the obligations of military service and University were fulfilled, I opened a Studio for advertising, illustration, fashion and product design, then entering into business with the company "NEXT" in 1982".

Dave Coulter | Cityscape painter

Dave Coulter is a British artist who specializes in cityscapes.

As part of the Northern Art movement, his particular focus is on painting the streets of Manchester and Salford.

In his paintings, he captures the dynamic movement of the multifaceted cities that have been the inspiration for many painters before him.

Dave Coulter is, in essence, as much a part of the North as the scenes he paints.

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933)

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers and foliage, with children.

He was a cousin of James Hornell. His contemporaries in the Glasgow Boys called him Ned Hornel.

Hornel was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, of Scottish parents, and he was brought up and lived practically all his life in Scotland after his family moved back to Kirkcudbright in 1866.

Karl Wilhelm Bauerle (1831-1912)

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle - (also: Carl Bauerle/Bowerley) - (1831-1912) was a German painter who achieved international fame as a portrait painter at German courts and later at the British one Court of Queen Victoria.

Little has been published about Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle.

He emigrated to Ohio, learned to engrave from an uncle in Cincinnati, then returned to Stuttgart to pursue a career as a children's portraitist and genre painter (his patrons included Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Queen Victoria, Edward Prince of Wales).

Childe Hassam | Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890

Throughout his career, Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935) made several extended trips to Europe, where he was inspired by the sights and the many artists he met there.

A Back Road, completed the year after his first European tour, demonstrates a compositional daring and freedom of brushwork that were still unusual in American art of this period.

Influenced by the work of the nineteenth-century French Barbizon School, Hassam emphasized heavy brushstrokes and intense lighting effects.

Childe Hassam | Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890 | Brooklyn Museum

Scottish Art History and Sitemap

Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times.

It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art.

The earliest examples of art from what is now Scotland are highly decorated carved stone balls from the Neolithic period.

From the Bronze Age there are examples of carvings, including the first representations of objects, and cup and ring marks.

Stanley Cursiter | Post-Impressionist painter

Bessie MacNicol (1869-1904)

Scottish painter Elizabeth MacNicol was born in Glasgow on the 17 July 1869 to a schoolmaster and his wife.

She attended Glasgow School of Art from 1887 until 1892 before travelling to Paris to study at the Academie Colarossi.

On her return to Scotland, MacNicol took on a studio in St Vincent Street and became closely associated with the circle of Glasgow Boys.

Marcos Rey, 1978 | Realist painter

Marcos Rey is a self-taught Spanish painter born in the Galician city of Vilagarcía de Arousa, Spain.

He has devoted his life to painting professionally for more than ten years.

Drawing was always a very important part of his life since he was a child.

At 26 years old he started making commissions, as he mastered his technique helped by books and his own artistic intuition.