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Peter Fiore, 1955 | Abstract Landscape painter
Peter Fiore is an American landscape painter who is best known for painting light and his striking use of color. Previously, he worked as a professional illustrator where he collaborated on thousands...
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Simeon Nijenhuis, 1969 | Impressionist painter
Simeon Nijenhuis is transforming reality, creating a metaphor, for him the main function of the visual arts. Simeon is also someone who paints from his feeling. From his inner urge he depict topics...
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Édouard Manet | Le déjeuner sur l'Herbe, 1863 | Art in Detail
Rejected by the jury of the 1863 Salon, Manet exhibited Le déjeuner sur l’herbe under the title Le Bain at the Salon des Refusés (initiated the same year by Napoléon III) where it became the principal...
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Daniel Courbois | Romantic Impressionist painter
Daniel Courbois belongs to one of the finest Impressionist painters in France. His paintings are on show at Gallery France which is located in Beynac et Cazenac. Dordogne, France.Daniel Courbois...
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Rex Preston, 1948 | Abstract Landscape painter
Born in Yardley, Birmingham, Rex Preston is one of Britain's leading landscape artists. He trained at Newcastle under Lyme School of Art and then Derby College of Art. Rex Preston has lived in...
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Rembrandt | Portrait of an Old Man, 1645 | Art in Detail
In this painting, Rembrandt turned his attention to the subject of old age, a recurring theme in his work that was also the focus of a large number of self portraits. The identity of the figure in the...
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Diane Millsap | Cityscape painter
Diane Millsap is a full-time, professional artist. Born in Southern California, and raised in the Chicago area, she and her husband now live in rural northern Illinois. She received her formal art...
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Fernando Fader | Post-impressionist painter
Fernando Fader (April 11, 1882 - February 25, 1935) was a French-born Argentine painter of the Post-impressionist school.Fernando Fader was born in Bordeaux, France in 1882. His father, of Prussian...
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Dario de Regoyos | Plein air painter
Darío de Regoyos y Valdés was born in Ribadesella (Asturias) in 1857 and died in Barcelona in 1913. He spent his childhood and teenage years in Madrid. He began his artistic training in 1877 as a pupil...
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Lucien Fontanarosa | Post-Impressionist /Expressionist painter
Lucien Fontanarosa (1912-1975) was born to Italian parents in Paris where his father worked as a tailor. Fontanarosa grew up in Paris and also in Padua, Italy. He showed interest in art as a child, and...
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Laura Knight | Avant-Garde painter
Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) was one of the most popular and pioneering British artists of the twentieth century. Her artistic career took her from Cornwall to Baltimore, and from the circus to the...
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Rembrandt | Self-Portrait, 1658 | Art in Detail
Of the many self-portraits Rembrandt painted over a lifetime, this is perhaps the greatest, not only for its poignant revelations of the self, but for his sure handling of paint. The initial effect on...
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Archibald Thorburn | Naturalism wildlife painter
Archibald Thorburn (31 May 1860 - 9 October 1935 Hascombe, Surrey) was a Scottish /British animal painter and bird illustrator, painting mostly in watercolour.He regularly visited Scotland to sketch...
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Stanhope Forbes | Plein Air /Genre painter
Tate, London / Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947) Painter of realistic genre, frequently in the open air, historical subjects and landscapes. Born 18 November 1857 in Dublin, son of a railway...
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Thomas Gainsborough | The Mall in St. James Park, 1783 | Art in Detail
National Gallery, London /Thomas Gainsborough was, with Reynolds (his main rival), the leading portrait painter in England in the later 18th century. The feathery brushwork of his mature work and rich...
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Thomas Gainsborough | Rococo Era /Romantic painter
Tate, Britain / The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, the fifth son of a cloth merchant. He was apprenticed at the age of thirteen to a London...
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Rembrandt | The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1668 | Art in Detail
In the Gospel According to Luke (15: 11-32), Christ relates the parable of the Prodigal Son. A son asks his father for his inheritance and leaves the parental home, only to fritter away all his wealth....
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Danny Ferland, 1975 | Portrait painter
Danny Ferland was born in Quebec City, Quebec. He was self taught for many years before discovering the magnificence of figurative art during a European trip in 2002. Seeing the historical artworks in...
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Camille Lambert | Post Impressionist painter
Camille-Nicolas Lambert (1876-1963) was born in Arlon, Belgium in 1874. He was a student of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Liége and Anvers.He won the second place Prix de Rome in 1898, and third place...
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François Boucher | The Four Seasons | The Frick Collection
Source: The Frick Collection, New York | - The son of a painter, François Boucher (1703-1770) was born in Paris and trained first with his father, then briefly with François Lemoine.In 1723 he won the...
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