BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS

William RANKEN Covent Garden 1930

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William Ranken (1881-1941) est un peintre et esthète britannique qui a surtout peint des portraits de l'aristocratie et de la haute société britannique, ainsi que les demeures de ses relations mondaines et des paysages.

William Ranken (1881-1941) was an Edwardian painter.

Diana ARMFIELD Nasturtiums, Late Flowering

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Diana Armfield (née en 1920) est une artiste britannique.

Diana Armfield (born 11 June 1920) is a British artist. She is known for landscapes, and has also painted portraits, literary subjects and still lifes. She has a particular interest in flower paintings.

James ARCHER - The Death of King Arthur 1860

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James Archer (1823-1904) est un peintre écossais, célèbre comme portraitiste.

James Archer (1823-1904) was a Scottish painter of portraits, genre works, landscapes and historical scenes.

Alois Hans SCHRAM Poster of the Jubilee Expo Vienna 1898

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Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) est un artiste autrichien.

Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) was an Austrian Art Nouveau artist.

Alois Hans SCHRAM Making Music

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Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) est un artiste autrichien.

Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) was an Austrian Art Nouveau artist.

Alois Hans SCHRAM Springtime with Friends 1890

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Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) est un artiste autrichien.

Alois Hans Schram (1864-1919) was an Austrian Art Nouveau artist.

RAPHAEL Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary 1516

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Raphaël, nom francisé de Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) est un peintre et architecte italien de la Renaissance.

Raffaello Sanzio (1483(1520) known as Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Franz Xaver WINTERHALTER Princess Alice, later Grand Duchess of Hesse 1861

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) est un peintre académique et lithographe allemand, ayant vécu principalement en France. Il fut le portraitiste attitré du gotha européen durant le deuxième tiers du 19e siècle.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture.

Emile HOETERICKX Elegant at the Garden Playing at the Croquet 1881

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Emile Hoeterickx (1858-1923) est un peintre belge.

Emile Hoeterickx (1858-1923) was a Belgian painter.

Federico ZANDOMENEGHI Hairstyle

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Federico Zandomeneghi (1841-1917) est un peintre impressionniste italien.

Federico Zandomeneghi (1841-1917) was an Italian Impressionist painter.

Frederick C. FRIESEKE In the Afternoon

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Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) est un peintre impressionniste américain.

Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight. He is especially known for painting female subjects, both indoors and out.

Ernst Ferdinand OEHME Procession in the Fog 1828

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Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1797-1855) est un peintre saxon du mouvement romantique allemand.

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1797-1855) was a German Romantic painter and illustrator who specialized in moody landscapes with architectural elements.

Kurt OPITZ 1921

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N.C. WYETH The Alchemist 1937

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Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945) connu sous le pseudonyme N. C. Wyeth, est un artiste et illustrateur américain. Élève de l'artiste Howard Pyle, il devint l'un des principaux illustrateurs de son époque.

Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators.

Jan VAN EYCK St. Jerome in his Study

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Jan van Eyck (vers 1390-1441) est un peintre né dans les territoires soumis à l'autorité du prince-évêque de Liège Jean de Bavière (1390-1417), qui devient son protecteur. Il est célèbre pour ses portraits d’un réalisme minutieux. Ses tableaux les plus connus sont Les époux Arnolfini et la Vierge du Chancelier Rolin. Il termina par ailleurs le fameux retable de L'Agneau mystique, commencé par son frère Hubert van Eyck. Il est l'un des premiers artistes qui signèrent leurs œuvres.

Jan van Eyck (c.1390-1441) was a Flemish/Netherlandish painter active in Bruges. He is often considered one of the founders of Early Netherlandish painting school and one of the most significant representatives of Northern Renaissance art.