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Corrado Giaquinto was born in Italy in 1703 and is considered to be one of the foremost painters of the Rococo art movement. He was born in the city of Molfetta to very religious parents. Art was a early passion of Corrado's and he achieved his first apprenticeship very early in life, studying under the artist Saverio Porta. By 1724 Corrado had outgrown his home city of Molfetta and he left, travelling to the Italian city state of Naples. In Naples Corrado was able to study under the famo …

Cornelius Kriegoff was a famous Dutch Canadian painter who lived and worked during the nineteenth century. He was born in 1815 in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Little is known of his early life, but he is known to have been accepted into the German Academy of Fine Arts in the year 1830. He would spend a further six years in Germany before immigrating to the New World and settling in New York City within the United States of America. He joined the United States Army in 1837 and …

Egon Schiele was born in Austria in the year of 1890. He is considered to be an integral part of the Figurative art movement and also later in his life the beginnings of the Expressionism art movement. Schiele is one of the most famous and influential painters of the twentieth century. He was born the son of a railway master and Czech woman, it what was then called Lower Austria. Due to his father's profession the young Egon spent a great deal of time around trains, causing him to become …

Sir Francis Grant was a Scottish portrait artist born in 1803. He was a wealthy middle son of a Scottish Lord, born in Perthshire, Scotland. His father died in 1818 and Sir Francis inherited a small fortune with which he used to set out to begin his career. Sir Francis first tried his hand at becoming a lawyer but soon quit in favour of painting. He taught himself to paint and soon became very adept at doing portrait work. Other than a brief period of study with fellow painter Alexander N …

Julius Garibaldi Melchers was an American artist. He was one of the leading American proponents of naturalism. He won a 1932 Gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.There is a painting by Gari Melchers entitled The Nativity. Joseph is seated leaning forward. His large carpenter hands are folded together. His elbows are resting on his thighs. He looks down with tired eyes at the baby in front of him. Now, finally, all things are still.Every depiction I’ve ever seen about the …