Emilie Guillaumot-Adan (1833-1930) ~ Au soleil, 1917 ✿

Émilie Guillaumot-Adan (1833-1930) Peintre pastelliste française. Elève de Lefebvre et T.Robert-Fleury.

 Au soleil, 1917
Pastel sur papier collé sur toile
Collection du Petit Palais, Paris

Paul de La Boulaye (1849-1926) ✿

Paul de La Boulaye (1849-1926), by his full name Charles Antoine Paul Georgette of Buisson de La Boulaye is a French painter. A pupil of Bonnat, he specializes in genre scenes, portraits, and history and religious painting.

Jean François PORTAELS (1818-1895)✿

Jean François PORTAELS (1818-1895)was a Belgian orientalist painter. He was also the director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Jean Portaels was an extremely prolific and professional artist. He loved  making huge oil paintings adorning the walls of St Jacques-sur-Caudenberg; biblical scenes, such as The Daughter of Sion Reviled (in the Brussels Gallery), The Death of Judas, The Magi travelling to Bethlehem and The Drought in Judaea; genre pictures, such as A Box in the Theatre at Budapest (Brussels Gallery), portraits of officials and of high society, Oriental scenes and. He also loved to draw and paint beautiful pictures of exotic female figures and exotic life.

Berthe MORISOT (1841-1895) ~ Woman with a Fan ✿

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895) was a impressionist painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.

Steven KENNY ✿ part.2

Steven Kenny is a Surrealist and Magic Realisc artist, was born in 1962 in Peerskill, New York, and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, with a European Honors Program year abroad in Rome. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the U.S. and Europe. Recent shows include Dreamland: American Explorations into Surrealism in Santa Barbara, California, and Venus and the Female Intuition in Denmark, the Netherlands, and France.

Ray CAESAR ✿ part.2

Ray Caesar is an English digital surreal artist who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. 

Ray Caesar's portraits frequently involve childlike creatures with physical deformities and grotesque elements set against a fairy tale backdrop of darkness and sexual innuendos. In his creations he merges elements of decorative styles and architectural ages, mixing Art Decò, Victorian style and visual codes from the early 1900s. 

Duffy SHERIDAN ✿

Duffy Sheridan is a Realistic Figurative painter, 1947.  Has been painting since he was a child at the knee of his father who was a highly regarded artist. He is entirely self-taught and is driven by the spirituality of his work as a member of the Baha'i Faith. He is highly influenced by his emphasis on achieving the highest spiritual levels possible in his work.