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Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (11 May 1823 – 24 August 1906) was aBelgian painter After the death of his father in 1837, Stevens left middle school to begin study at theAcadémie Royale des Beaux-Artsin Brussels, where he knewFrançois Navez, the Neo-Classical painter and former student ofJacques-Louis Davidwho was its director and an old friend of Stevens’s grandfather. Following a traditional curriculum, he drew from casts of classical sculpture for the first two years, and then drew from live models. In 1843, Stevens went toParis, joining his brother Joseph who already was there. He was admitted to theÉcole des Beaux-Arts, the most important art school in Paris. Although it is said that he became a student of its directorJean Auguste Dominique Ingres, this is likely not true.  An early picture by Stevens, The Pardon or Absolution (Hermitage, St. Petersburg), signed and dated 1849, shows his mastery of a conventional naturalistic style which owes much to 17th-century Dutchgenre painting. Like the Belgian painter and friend with whom he stayed in Paris,Florent Joseph Marie Willems (1823-1905), Stevens carefully studied works by painters such asGerard ter Borch andGabriel Metsu.
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Johann Heinrich Vogeler (* 12 December 1872  † 14 June 1942 )   A German painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, educator, writer and Socialist.The versatile artist is above all through his works of Art Nouveau, known time.   Vogeler was revolutionary, a pacifist and utopian and his life was long, regardless of its own bitter experience, in search of the earthly paradise where all the people live in harmony.   He died in tragic circumstances in Soviet exile.
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Nicolaes Maes, also known as Nicolaes Maas (January 1634 – November 24, 1693 (buried)) was aDutch Golden Age painter of genre and portraits. In his best period, from 1655 to 1665, Maes devoted himself to domestic genre on a smaller scale, retaining to a great extent the magic of colour he had learnt from Rembrandt. Only on rare occasions did he treat scriptural subjects, as in Hagar’s Departure, which has been ascribed to Rembrandt. His favorite subjects were women spinning, or reading the Bible, or preparing a meal. He had a particular fascination with the subject of lacemaking and made almost a dozen versions on this subject.
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Hugues Merle (1823–1881) was a Frenchpainter. He mostly depicted sentimental or moral subjects. He has often been compared withWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau.  The Lunatic of Etretat Hugues Merle was born in 1823 in Saint Martin. He studied painting withLéon Cogniet. Merle started exhibiting at theSalon (Paris)in 1847. He received second class prices in 1861 and 1863.  In 1866 he was made Chevalier of theLegion of Honor. Hugues Merle became a friend ofPaul Durand-Ruel’s in the early 1860s.Durand-Ruelhad started buying paintings by Merle in 1862 and introduced Merle to William-Adolphe Bouguereau.  Merle would then often be compared to Bouguereau and even “became a considerable rival of Bouguereauin subject and treatment”.
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Luis Ricardo Falero SPANISH   1851 - 1896 THE PLANET VENUS Duke of Labranzano, was aSpanishpainter. He specialized in female nudes andmythologicalandfantasysettings. Most of his paintings contained at least one female nude or topless nude. His most common medium wasoil on canvas. Falero was born inToledoand originally pursued a career in theSpanish Navy, but gave it up to his parent’s bitter disappointment. He walked all the way toParis, where he studied art, chemistry and mechanical engineering. The experiments that he had to conduct in the latter two were so dangerous, however, that he decided to focus on painting alone. After Paris, he studied in London, where he eventually settled. Falero had a particular interest inastronomyand incorporated celestial constellations into many of his works, such as “The Marriage of a Comet” and “Twin Stars”. His interest and knowledge of astronomy also led him to illustrate the works ofCamille Flammarion. In 1896, the year of his death, Maud Harvey sued Falero forpaternity. The suit alleged that Falero seduced Harvey when she was 17 first serving as his housemaid, and then model. When he discovered she was pregnant, he dismissed her. She won the case and was awarded five shillings per week in support of their child. Falero died atUniversity College Hospital, London, at the age of 45.
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Luis Ricardo Falero (1851 – December 7, 1896), Duke of Labranzano, was a Spanish painter. Witches Sabbath 1880  He specialized in female nudes and mythological and fantasy settings. Most of his paintings contained at least one female nude or topless nude. His most common medium was oil on canvas. Witch A witch is a person who practices witchcraft. A Warlock is not a male witch, Warlock means traitor or devil. The stereotypical witches are commonly portrayed as wicked old women who have wrinkled skin, pimples, and pointy hats. They wear clothes that are black or purple. They also have warts on their noses and sometimes long claw-like fingernails. The belief in witchcraft is in many cultures worldwide. Witches have often been seen outside accepted cultures and faith. As a consequences, people often made witches feel unwanted in their societies.
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Gaetano Bellei       Italian Painter, 1857-1922 The teacher Gaetano Bellei was born in Modena in 1857, died in the same city in March 1922. A pupil of Adeodatus Malatesta and teammate Giovanni Muzzioli.At twenty-four he won the retiree could say nothing that allowed him to travel to Rome to study for some time. During this period he painted the picture over the long run, a work still regarded as his masterpiece.He was later to Florence, where he took part in the local exhibitions.He returned to his native city and taught as an adjunct professor at the Institute of fine arts. Gentle artist, fresh and bright palette, was executor of the readiness and ease.It was also good.He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy in 1822. He left many paintings among which, over the long run, deserve special mention the Annunciation, Poletti Gallery in Modena, Italy.II portrait of n. d. Marga Zuccoli-Nasi;The Virgin Mother;The four seasons.
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The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1741–1825). Since its creation, it has remained Fuseli’s best-known work. With its first exhibition in 1782 at theRoyal Academy of London, the image became famous; an engraved version was widely distributed and the painting was parodied in political satire. Due to its fame, Fuseli painted at least three other versions of the painting. Interpretation of The Nightmare have varied widely. The canvas seems to portray simultaneously a dreaming woman and the content of her nightmare. Theincubusand the horse’s head refer to contemporary belief and folklore aboutnightmares, but have been ascribed more specific meanings by some theorists. Contemporary critics were taken aback by the overt sexuality of the painting, which has since been interpreted by some scholars as anticipating Freudian ideas about the unconscious.
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Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914) “Twilight fantasies” An English painter who worked in a style influenced by Pre-Raphaelitismand Aestheticism. Some of his best known works are Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train of Stars. Hughes was the nephew ofArthur Hughes. He often used watercolour/gouache. He was elected ARWS in 1891, and chose as his diploma work for election to full membership a mystical piece inspired by a verse byChristina Rossetti’s”Amor Mundi”. He experimented with ambitious techniques and was a perfectionist; he did numerous studies for many of his paintings, some of which turned out to be good enough for exhibition.
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Mihály Zichy   “Falling Stars” A significant representative of Hungarian romantic painting. During his law studies in Pest from 1842, he attended Jakab Marastoni’s school as well. InVienna he was Waldmüller’s pupil in 1844. “Life Boat”, his first major work, comes from this time. On Waldmüller’s recommendation, he became an art teacher in St. Petersburg. He swore allegiance to freedom by painting the portrait of Lajos Batthyány, the first Hungarian prime minister, in 1849. From 1850 onwards, he worked as a retoucher, but he also did pencil drawings, water colours and portraits in oil. The series on the Gatsina hunting ordered by the Russian tsar raised him to a court artist. He founded a society to support painters in need. “Autodafé” on the horrors of Spanish inquisition was painted in 1868. He travelled around Europe in 1871, and settled down inParis in 1874. He painted “Queen Elisabeth is Laying Flowers by the Coffin of Ferenc Deák” on Treffort’s order. “Drinking Bout of Henry III”, his next large scale picture came from 1875. “The Victory of the Genius of Destruction” painted for the Paris Exhibition was banned by French authorities because of its daring antimilitarist message. He left Paris in 1881 and returned to St. Petersburg after short stays in Nizza, Vienna and Zala (village). From this time onwards, he was mostly engaged in illustrations (“The Tragedy of Man” by Madách, 1887, and twenty-four ballads of János Arany, 1894–98).
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