Eero Järnefelt was the son of General Alexander Järnefelt and Baroness Elisabeth Järnefelt (née Clodt von Jürgensburg). Several of his eight siblings also became well-known: Kasper, a literary critic. Arvid, a judge and writer. Armas, a composer and conductor. Aino, wife…
George Clausen was born in London on 18 April 1852, the son of a decorative artist of Danish descent. From 1867 to 1873, he attended the design classes at the South Kensington…
James Ensor was a man with many faces. Born in Ostend, Belgium in 1860, he was the son of an English father and a Flemish mother. He grew up in a house…
Elin Danielson was born in the small village of Noormarkku, near the city of Pori in Western Finland. At the age of 15, she moved to Helsinki and started studying in the Academy of Fine Arts where her teachers…
Arthur Streeton (1867–1943) was an Australian landscape painter and a key figure in the Heidelberg School, an Australian art movement associated with Impressionism. Streeton’s works are known for their depictions of the…
The son of Ransford Watson and Susan Mohr, Homer Watson was born on January 14, 1855 in the village of Doon (now part of Kitchener), Ontario. He received his first set of…
Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942) was a prominent English artist, celebrated for his contributions to the Impressionist movement and his influential role in the British art scene during the late 19th and early…
Rozentāls was born in Bebri Farmstead, Saldus parish, Courland Governorate in the Russian Empire. He was the son of a blacksmith. He received the basic education at H.Krause’s Elementary School in Saldus…
Ancient Greece Painters Agatharchus Antiphilus Apelles Apollodorus (painter) Aristides of Thebes Cimon of Cleonae Echion (painter) Euphranor Eupompus Melanthius Panaenus Parrhasius Pausias Polyeidos (poet) Polygnotus Protogenes Theon of Samos Zeuxis Potters Andokides…
