Mark Lancelot SYMONS - Madonna and Child with Angels - 1925

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Vojtech Preissig

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Vojtěch Preissig (1873 – 1944) was a graphic designer and painter who designed wallpapers, typefaces, and posters. 

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Friedrich August von Kaulbach : Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna

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Friedrich August von Kaulbach (2 June 1850, Hannover – 26 July 1920, Munich, Germany) was a German portraitist and historical painter. He was the son of Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Kaulbach (1822–1903), the court painter at Hannover, and the great nephew of Wilhelm Kaulbach, another prominent member of the Kaulbach family of artists. He learned to paint from his father, and later was a student of August von Kreling at the arts and crafts school Nuremberg, the predecessor institution of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. He sought to emulate the artist Hans Holbein.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

William Llewellyn : Waterbaby

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Sir (Samuel Henry) William Llewellyn (1858–1941) was a notable English painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and served as President of the Royal Academy from 1928 to 1938.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Vittorio Reggianini


Vittorio Reggianini (Italian, 1858-1938) was born in Modena, Italy and he did his training at the city’s Accademia di Belle Arti where he subsequently became a professor. The artist’s best works were genre subjects which depicted the life of elegant ladies and gentlemen of the late 18th century.