Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846-1909)

Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846-1909), French painter who studied under Bouguereau.

Gustave Jean Jacquet, A Portrait of a Noble Lady

Gustave Jean Jacquet, La Coquette

Gustave Jean Jacquet, Welcome

Gustave Jean Jacquet, Wistful Thoughts, 1878

Francisco Soria Aedo (1898-1965)

Francisco Soria Aedo (1898-1965), Spanish painter. If you’ve ever done an art history course or perused an art history book you might well have gained the impression that the story of 20th century art was the story of the triumphant march of modernism, that once Cubism appeared schools of art like Pre-Raphaelitism and the academic style were swept into the dustbin of history. In fact many 20th century painters refused top have any truck with modernism and clung stubbornly to the ideal that art is supposed to inspire us rather than to demoralise us, that art should be about beauty and truth rather than ugliness and misery. Painters such as Francisco Soria Aedo. Modernist critics did their best to expunge the names of such artists from the historical record but today, thanks to the internet, they are being slowly but surely rediscovered.

Mary Young Hunter

Mary Young Hunter was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. This is very obvious in The Bow in the Cloud, inspired by Millais. I confess I know nothing about this very obscure early 20th century artist.

Mary Young Hunter, Dreaming by a Pond, 1903

Mary Young Hunter, The Bow in the Cloud, 1906

Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805-1867)

Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805-1867), German painter. A representative of the Düsseldorf school of painting, an offshoot of the Romantic movement.

Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Mathilde Wesendonck, 1850

Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Torquato Tasso et les deux Léonore, 1839

Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920)

Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920), German painter.

Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Allegory of Autumn, 1900

Friedrich August von Kaulbach, In Arcadia

Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Tocher des Dichters Ludwig Ganghofer, 1895

Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Germania, 1914

Henry Courtney Selous (1803-1890)

Henry Courtney Selous (1803-1890), English painter.

Henry Courtney Selous, The Love Letter

Henry Courtney Selous, Birth of Venus, 1852

Henry Courtney Selous, Venetian Scene

Michel Simonidy, (1870-1933)

Michel Simonidy, (1870-1933), Romanian painter.

Michel Simonidy, A Fair Venetian

Michel Simonidy,  La source

Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942)

Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942), French painter.

Jacques-Émile Blanche, Portrait of Donna Olga Caracciolo dei Duchi di Castelluccio, 1889

Jacques-Émile Blanche, Desiree Manfred face a son Miroir, 1914

John White Alexander (1856-1915)

John White Alexander (1856-1915), American painter.

John White Alexander, Memories, 1903

John White Alexander, Woman in a Red Dress

John White Alexander, June, 1911

John White Alexander, A Ray of Sunlight (The Cellist), 1898

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830-1896)

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830-1896), British painter.

Frederic Leighton, Bather

Frederic Leighton, The Garden of the Hesperides, 1892

Frederic Leighton, Venus Disrobing for the Bath

Frederic Leighton, The feigned death of Juliet, 1856-58

Frederic Leighton, Perseus and Andromeda, 1891

Ernest Normand (1859–1923)

Ernest Normand (1859–1923), English history and orientalist painter influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.

Ernest Normand, Evil Sought

Ernest Normand, Pygmalion et Galatée, 1881

Ernest Normand, Bondage, 1890

Ernest Normand, Esther Denouncing Haman, 1888

Ernest Normand, Queen Vashti deposed, 1890

Ernest Normand, The White Slave, 1894

Ernest Normand, The Bitter Draught of Slavery, 1885