Heinrich SCHLIMARSKI ✿

Heinrich Hans Schlimarski (Olomouc, 1859 - Hainburg, 1913) was a Czech portrait, genre and history painter and pastellist.

Arthur SARNOFF ✿

Arthur Sarnoff (1912-2000) was an American illustrator. Sarnoff was born in Brooklyn, New York and He studied at the Industrial School and the Grand Central School of Art in New York City, student of John Clymer and Andrew Wyeth. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators and exhibited widely including the National Academy of Design.

Louise De HEM ✿

Louise De Hem (10 December 1866, Ypres - 22 November 1922, Forest) was a Belgian painter. She was a skilled, highly successful portrait painter. She painted in oil and pastels, however preferring the latter technique.

Maurice QUENTIN DE LA TOUR ✿

Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour.

Danielle RICHARD ~ Canadian Painter ✿

Danielle Richard is a Canadian painter born in Quebec City, Canada. Danielle Richard is known for painting hyperrealistic portraits of females involved in various activities. She works with different mediums, such as oils, acrylic, and pastels. Over the years, pastel has turned out to be the artist’s favorite medium.

Francois DE RIBAUPIERRE ✿

François de Ribaupierre (1886-1981) was a Swiss painter, sculptor and glassmaker, born in Clarens, Switzerland. François de Ribaupierre attended the Geneva School of Fine Arts (1902-1905), then the Royal Academy of Monaco (1905-1906).

Moses SOYER ✿

Moses Soyer (1899-1974) was an American social realist painter. He was born as Moses Schoar and both he and his identical twin brother, Raphael, were born in Borisoglebsk, Tambov, a southern province of Russia.

Oleg SERGEEV, 1956 ✿

Oleg Sergeev is a Russian painter, pastelist, and sculptor. Oleg Sergeev was born in 1956 in Russia, where he graduated from the Moscow Central Art School of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Janet CUMBRAE STEWART ✿

Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart (23 December 1883 – 8 September 1960) was an Australian painter. She was born at Brighton, Victoria, youngest of the ten children of Francis Edward Stewart, an early settler of Gladstone, Queensland, and his wife Agnes, née Park, of Wellington, New Zealand. She spent the 1920s and 1930s painting in Britain, France and Italy. Cumbrae Stewart studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School, where she was taught by Lindsay Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin.

Philippe SWYNCOP ~ Spanish Beauty ✿

Philippe Swyncop (1878-1949) was a Belgian painter, etcher, illustrator and designer of posters from the first half of the twentieth century. He was the older brother of Charles Swyncop, whom he trained as a painter.

Anna DE WEERT ✿

Anna De Weert, born Cogen (27 May 1867 – 12 May 1950) was a Belgian painter in the Luminist style. Weert was born in Ghent, her family were prosperous with a high regard for nature, art and in particular watercolours.

Mary CASSATT ~ Mother and Child ✿

Mary Cassatt (Pittsburgh, 22 maggio 1844 – Château de Beaufresne, 14 giugno 1926) è stata una pittrice statunitense che visse in Francia dove diventò amica e allieva di Degas, esponendo le proprie opere insieme a quelle degli artisti del movimento impressionista. Cassatt realizzò molti dipinti che ritraggono la vita sociale e privata delle donne della sua epoca, ponendo una particolare attenzione all'intimo legame che si realizza tra le madri e i loro bambini.

Vicente Romero REDONDO ~ Spanish Pastel ✿

Vicente Romero Redondo is a Spanish figurative painter and educator, best known for his pastel depictions of graceful girls at solitary moments in romantic surroundings, adorned in crafty clothing. Vicente was born in Madrid in 1956.

Le Thi LUU ✿

Le Thi Luu - Lê Thị Lựu (1911-1988) was a Vietnamese woman painter. She was one of the rare notable female alumni of Victor Tardieu's École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in Hanoi.

Antoine CALBET ✿

Antoine Calbet (1860-1944) French painter of portraits and genre scenes, he showed himself to be a talented watercolorist and became known as an illustrator. Antoine Calbet moved to Paris and joined the Fine Arts where he was a pupil of Michel, Alexandre Cabanel and the genre painter Edouard Antoine Marsal.

Armand BERTON (1854-1917) ✿

Armand Berton (Parigi, 1854 – Parigi, 1917) è stato un pittore, illustratore e incisore francese nato a Parigi nel 1854. Dopo aper studiato alla Scuola delle Arti Decorative con Laemlein, entra nel 1875 nell'ateliers di Cabanel e d'Yon alla Scuola di Belle Arti.

Anna AIRY (1882-1964) ✿

Anna Airy (6 June 1882 – 23 October 1964) was an English painter, pastel artist and etcher. Born in London, married to the painter Geoffrey Buckingham Pocock. Studied at Slade School of Fine Art, 1899–1903, under Henry Tonks, Fred Brown and Philip Wilson Steer.

Armand BERTON ✿

Armand Berton (Paris, 1854- Paris - 1917) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator.

Cunde WANG, 1939 ✿

Cunde Wang  王存德 Chinese artist was born in 1939 in Beijing. In 1955 he studied in high school at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1959 teaches at the School. In 1962 studying at the Central Academy of Art and Design. In 1967 worked in the field of textile design and packege for factories and institutions. In 1982 he taught at the Beijing Institute of Industrial Design. In 1988 moved to live in Australia, where he continued and developed their creativity and now teaches courses on creating portraits in pastel.

Cunde WANG ~ Portraits ✿

Cunde Wang  王存德 is a Chinese artist was born in 1939 in Beijing.
In 1955-1959 he studied in high school at the Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1959-1962, teaches at the School.
In 1962-1967 studying at the Central Academy of Art and Design.
In 1967-1982 worked in the field of textile design and packege for factories and institutions.
In 1982-1987, he taught at the Beijing Institute of Industrial Design.
In 1988 moved to live in Australia, where he continued and developed their creativity and now teaches courses on creating portraits in pastel.