Inspirational Artists: Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas in the...
Inspirational Artists: Cezanne
Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work is highly characteristic and clearly recognisable. He used...
Inspirational Artists: Oscar-Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet is regarded as the founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the...
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883) was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Manet was born in Paris into...
Inspirational Artists: James Tissot
The scenes of Victorian ladies in their finery alongside seam on a bustling River Thames may appear to gloss over the dirt and reality...
Inspirational Artists: Mary Cassatt
Cassatt was born in Pennsylvania into an upper-middle-class family that viewed travel as integral to education; she spent five years in...
Inspirational Artists: William Stott
William Stott was born in 1857, the son of an Oldham cotton mill owner. Stott had a style very similar to that of the Glasgow Boys, and...
Inspirational Artists: Gustave Caillebotte
When visiting the Musee d’Orsay one of the paintings that strikes you is Gustave Caillebotte’s ‘Les raboteurs de parquet’ (The Floor...
Inspirational Artists: The English Watercolour - Russell Flint
Sir William Russell Flint RA (1880 - 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolour paintings...
Inspirational Artists: Anders Zorn
Anders Leonard Zorn early works were often brilliant, luminous watercolours but he then switches to oils and throughout his life he was a...
