Blog

Born in 1594 as Jacopo Robusti in Venice, Italy, Tintoretto is considered a master of 16th century Venetian painting. He apprenticed with Titian and studied the styles of many of Italy’s most prominent painters, including Michelangeo. Tintoretto favored oil paintings using rich colors and loose brushwork, as well as painting figures in motion and using opposing forces to create a deep pictorial space. To do this effectively, he would create small figures made from clay or wax to use as a m …

Juan Martinez Abades is among the most famous Spanish artists in history. He was born in 1862 in Asturias and died in 1920 in Madrid. Cultural studies of European art sometimes ignore Spanish artists, despite all of the talented Spanish artists that have shaped art history. Juan Martinez Abades attended the Escuela Especial de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado in Madrid. José Grajera was one of his teachers, and perhaps the instructor that had the most profound influence on him as an artist.In some w …

Edwin Deakin became famous as an American landscape painter. He was born in Sheffield, England on May 21, 1838 and developed an early interest in ancient castles, old churches and romantic ruins. Edwin received his only art training as an apprentice to a company that specialized in the technique of japanning. From the age of 12 he learned to paint small landscape pictures onto furniture and wooden boxes.Deakin had established himself as an architectural artist by the time he was 18 and ma …

American artist E. L. Henry was born Edward Lamson Henry on January 12, 1841 in Charleston, South Carolina. He moved to New York after being orphaned at the age of 7 and lived there with his cousins. In Philadelphia, where Hentry attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he first came to know his lifelong friend William Kulp, a professional antiquarian who helped him to develop a strong interest in collecting antiques.In 1856 Henry continued his art education under the painter Corot …

Francis Campbell Bolleau Cadell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on April 12, 1883. As an artist he was known as F. C. B. Cadell. Between 1899 and 1902 he studied art at the Academie Julien in Paris and his earliest works show how he was mainly influenced at that time by the French Impressionists.Cadell was left-handed and the President of the Royal Scottish Academy attempted to persuade him to paint with his right hand, arguing that an artist of any worth uses the right hand for painting. …