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Frank Dicksee (Francis Bernard Dicksee) (1853–1928, Engand)

Medievalist paintings

Frank Dicksee was a prominent English Victorian painter and illustrator. The son of Thomas Francis Dicksee, a noted painter of Shakespearean characters, he is best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in his own time.

His style was not fully within other popular modes of the time, such as Pre-Raphaelism or Neoclassicism, and can be seen as a fusion of various methods and aesthetics of his time, including later in life utilising post-Romantic techniques such as lighter brushwork and softer shades.

Gaetano Previati (1852–1920, Italy)

Paintings

Gaetano Previati was an Italian Symbolist painter whose work fell into the Divisionist style of Neo-Impressionism.

Vladimir Orlovsky (Владимир Донатович Орловский) (1842-1914, Russia/Ukraine)

Vladimir Orlovsky was a Russian/Ukrainian realist landscape painter.

Frank Dicksee (Francis Bernard Dicksee) (1853–1928, Engand)

Illustrations to ‘Romeo & Juliet’, Sir Cassell & Company Limited, London, 1884

Frank Dicksee was a prominent English Victorian painter and illustrator. The son of Thomas Francis Dicksee, a noted painter of Shakespearean characters, he is best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in his own time.

His style was not fully within other popular modes of the time, such as Pre-Raphaelism or Neoclassicism, and can be seen as a fusion of various methods and aesthetics of his time, including later in life utilising post-Romantic techniques such as lighter brushwork and softer shades.

Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819–1895, Engand)

Characters from Shakespeare

Thomas Francis Dicksee was an English painter, primarily a portraitist and painter of historical, genre subjects — often from Shakespeare. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1841 until the year of his death. His brother John Robert Dicksee was also a painter, and his children, Frank and Margaret likewise became painters. In The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Herbert Dicksee is given as his son also, but according to the City of London School, where Herbert taught, he was the son of John Robert Dicksee.

Kim Cogan (1977, United States)

Still lifes

Cogan is best-known and most prolific as a painter of America’s urban environment, focusing on lesser-depicted areas rather than landmarks. His style is realist, but with very limited brushstrokes, which seperates it considerably in technique from contemporary academic realism - though the accuracy of lighting means that from middle-distance his images have a photographic quality.

http://kimcogan.com

Marie Egner (1850-1940, Austria)

Landscapes

Marie Egner was an Austrian painter of landscapes and still lifes, working in a style influenced by impressionism.

Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910, Germany)

Landscapes 2

Achenbach was a German landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school. His style is central to 19th century German landscape painting, and defined the post-Friedrich period moving from Romanticism to Realism.

Albert von Keller (1844–1920, Germany)

Figures and scenes

Keller was a German historical and genre painter, popular in his time as a society portraitist. Over his fairly long life, unlike a lot of artists who found their style at odds with modernistic trends, he appears to have adapted quite easily to the altering artistic priorities at the end of the 19th Century. In some of his work can be found elements of symbolism and expressionism.

Thomas Cole (1801–1848, United States)

Mythological and idealised landscapes

Thomas Cole was an American artist known for his landscape and history paintings. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole’s work is known for its romantic portrayal of the American wilderness.

Liu Dan (劉丹, 刘丹) (1953, China)

Ink figure drawings

Liu Dan is a Chinese artist working in a variety of styles, landscape, traditional figurative drawing, literati subjects, flowers and abstractions.

http://www.alexandramunroe.com/why-ink-the-art-of-liu-dan/

Hans Makart (1840–1884, Austria)

Oil paintings 2

Makart was an Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. He is most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other artists of the Vienna Secession, but in his own era considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna, attended with almost cult-like adulation. The appeal of this ‘Makartstil’ is in its aestheticism, a movement that was also experiencing popularity in England and France. Nowadays he is widely considered one of Austria’s finest artists, and has historically been compared to Rubens within his home country.

Anshelm Schultzberg (1862-1945, Sweden)

Landscapes 2

Schultzberg was a Swedish landscape painter, specialising in snowscapes.

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (1823–1906, Belgium)

Female portraits

Alfred Stevens was a Belgian artist, known for his paintings of elegant modern women.

Portraits of Rosina Ferrara

Rosina Ferrara (1861–1934) was an Italian girl from the island of Capri, who was a muse and friend of numerous expatriate artists including John Singer Sargent, Frank Hyde, Charles Sprague Pearce, Charles Caryl Coleman, Alfred Stevens, and George Randolph Barse, whom she later married.

Thomas Dewing (1851–1938, United States)

Oil paintings 3

Thomas Dewing was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. His style was influenced by the English aesthetic movement, which prioritised beauty and sensual qualities opposed to traditional moral or narrative considerations. His art became known for an extreme refinement of style, as well as its characteristic dream-like haze and detachment.

George Inness (1825–1894, United States)

Forests and glades

Inness was an American landscape painter, recognised during his lifetime as “the father of American landscape painting”. Initially influenced by the Hudson River School, after study in Europe, his style found itself aligned with the realist Barbizon school, with elements of Impressionism and Tonalism. He is best-known for his ethereal landscapes, often blanketed in mist or low-sun.