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  • Georges Seurat (December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891)

    25th Sep 2019

    Georges Seurat (December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891)

    Georges Seurat was a painter, best known for his unique take on painting. This well-established painter developed a painting style known as the pointillist painting method otherwise known as neo-im…

    Published by Therese Myles

  • Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921)

    17th Sep 2019

    Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921)

    Abbott Handerson Thayer was an American naturalist and teacher who painted portraits of mostly figures, animals and landscapes. He is also well recognized today for his paintings of ethereal angels…

    Published by Therese Myles

  • Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

    17th Sep 2019

    Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

    This famous French Impressionist portrayed a very wide range of subjects- notably landscapes, still life paintings, and other domestic scenes, as well as a very large amount of portraits. Berthe Mo…

    Published by Therese Myles

  • Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)

    17th Sep 2019

    Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)

    Alfred Sisley was an incredibly famous expressionist painter who was born in Paris on October the 30, 1839 from the family of a well-to-do businesswoman, and when he was growing up he was preparing…

    Published by Therese Myles

  • Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)

    16th Sep 2019

    Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)

    Chaim Soutine was born Jewish in Germany in 1843 as the tenth of 11 children in an extremely poor family and was beaten for drawing- which was forbidden, as he was Jewish. Soutine offered to draw a…

    Published by Therese Myles

  • Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827)

    16th Sep 2019

    Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827)

    Charles Wilson Peale is best known for his portraits of the American Revolution, and founder of the first ever major museum in the early United States, but realistically, painting was only one face…

    Published by Therese Myles

  • Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec (1864-1901)

    16th Sep 2019

    Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec (1864-1901)

    Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec is an especially eccentric individual. As an aristocratic, alcoholic dwarf with a louche, devil- may-care lifestyle, Toulouse- Lautrec found his art style in ways that we…

    Published by Therese Myles

  • William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)

    19th Jul 2019

    William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)

    William Merritt Chase was born in Indiana in 1849, and he was the oldest of six children. When he was only twelve years old, his father tried to bring him into the women's shoe business, but Chase had…

    Published by Elizabeth Goodman

  • Pieter Brugel, the Elder (1515- 1569)

    19th Jul 2019

    Pieter Brugel, the Elder (1515- 1569)

    Pieter Bruegal is considered one of the greatest Flemish painters of the 16th century, famous for his landscapes that were vigorous, and witty, often with scenes of peasant life that are particular…

    Published by Elizabeth Goodman

  • Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

    19th Jul 2019

    Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

    Thomas Gainsborough is an English painter that gained his fame in the field of portraits. His career echoes the opportunities that were becoming apparent to a painter in this time period, as self-port…

    Published by Elizabeth Goodman

  • Atkinson Grimshaw

    11th Jul 2019

    Atkinson Grimshaw

    When he was 24 years of age, Atkinson Grimshaw (born John Atkinson Grimshaw) decided to follow his heart, and left his job as a clerk in order to become a painter. Born in 1836, this English man wa…

    Published by Elizabeth Goodman

  • Jean-Léon Gerome

    11th Jul 2019

    Jean-Léon Gerome

    Born in 1824, the French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme was and is still able to captivate numerous of individuals with his works.At the age of 18, he decided to marry Marie Goupil, the daug…

    Published by Elizabeth Goodman