Giuseppe Mentessi was an Italian painter born on 29 September 1857 in Ferrera, Italy. Mentessi grew up in a peasant family and suffered the tragedy of his father’s death in 1862. Despite the hardships, his mother managed to sponsor his formal art education. Mentessi first attended drawing classes at the Civico Ateneo and then furthered …
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Elin Danielson-Gambogi was a Finnish painter born on September 3, 1861, in Noormarkku, Finland. Elin grew up on the family farm in Ilmasoki, which failed due to a period of famine. Following the bankruptcy of the family, Elin’s father committed suicide. Elin returned to Noormarkku with her mother and two sisters. In 1876, …
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Edward Cucuel was an American painter born on 6 August 1875 in San Francisco, California. At 14, Edward’s artistic talents manifested, and he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. At the same time, he worked as an illustrator for The Examiner newspaper. Three years later, Edward relocated to Paris to continue his education. In France, …
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Eduard Gaertner was a German painter born on 2 June 1801 in Berlin, Germany. Gaertner started receiving art lessons in Kassel at the age of ten. In 1814, he started an apprenticeship at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory, spanning six years. After receiving complete training, Gaertner went to the studio of Carl Wilhelm Gropius for four …
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Henriette Ronner-Knip was a Dutch painter best known for her animal paintings depicted in Romanticist style. Knip was taught art at eleven years old by her Neo-Classical painter father, Joseph Augustus Knip. Born on the 31st of May, 1821 in Amsterdam to a family of artists, Knip started to seriously paint in 1835. Three years …
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Henry Sandman was a Canadian artist. Born in the year 1842, he pursued a painting career against the wishes of his father. In 1880 he became one of the Royal Canadian Academy’s first members. Sandman later toured France and England. In 1881 he went to Boston in order to complete portrait commissions. Sandman intended to …
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Manel Anoro was born on 13 June 1985 in Barcelona, Spain, to a salesman and a dressmaker. On his birthdays, he would receive a box of colored pencils as a gift, with which he expressed his passion for art. Manel enjoyed drawing and painting, but everyone but his mother disregarded his artistic ability. Manel first …
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Remedios Varo was a Spanish-born Mexican best known for her surrealistic paintings of otherworldly beings taking part in the occult or magic arts. Varo studied in Madrid’s Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1924 when she was 15 years old. She received her drawing teacher diploma in 1930. Born on the 16th …
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Robert Reid was a muralist and Impressionist painter born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He was known for his bold and colorful paintings of figures and landscapes, and was dubbed a “decorative Impressionist” by one critic for the decorative quality of his work. He received his artistic training at the Philips Academy, the Boston Museum School, the …
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Troy Acker is an American Impressionist painter best known for his landscapes and figures. Acker is a self-taught painter who was initially a political cartoonist during the 1970s with the Washington DC Business Journal but decided to dabble in painting “for pleasure”. Acker has only pursued painting for more than a decade. Born in 1945, …
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