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Belgian painter Evariste Carpentier started in an academic style. During his time in France, he was infulenced by the French Realists, the naturalism of painters like Jules Bastien-Lepage and Jules Breton, the Barbizon painters and the move toward what would become Impressionism and eventually, Luminisim. In many of his stylistic experiments, he was undoubtedly influenced…

WhenI first wrote about contemporary American painter Jeremy Lipking back in 2006, I was struck in particular with his subtle and masterful understanding of value, and its relationship to color. That impression has only been reinforced by the work I’ve seen from Lipking since then. His figures and faces, along with an occasional still life…

The rich, vibrant colors; the loose, confident brushstrokes; the painterly surface and broken color, the translucent sparkle of water on the skin of swimming children; the brilliant wash of sunlight defining a billowing sail; the sparkling daubs of suggested wavelets; the dappled corners of a summer garden; the saturated shadows of sun bathed cloth and…

Alexandre Cabanel was a French Academic classical painter who showed notable skill at drawing at the age of 11 and entered the École des Beaux-Arts at 17. He quickly began exhibiting at the Paris Salon. He was renowned as a portrait painter as well as a painter of historic, religious and classical subjects, and eventually…

Albert Edelfelt was born to a Swedish family living in Finland in the mid 19th Century. He found art training resources limited at the Imperial University in Helsinki, and went to the Antwerp Academy of Art to study historical painting for six months and then moved to Paris, where he found his artistic horizons broadened.…

Julian Alden Weir, more commonly called J. Alden Weir, was one of the wonderfully diverse group of artists that get lumped together under the catch-all heading of “American Impressionists”. Weir was a member of The Ten American Painters, a loosely tied group of painters in New York and Boston who broke away from the Society…