Albert Edelfelt - In the Nursery [1885]

Albert Edelfelt (July 21, 1854 - August 18, 1905) was a Finnish-Swedish painter. He married Baroness Ellan de la Chapelle in 1888 and they had one child. Edelfelt was selected as the main motif in a recent Finnish commemorative coin celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth. The reverse shows an embossed face of the artist.

[Oil on canvas, 73 x 109 cm]

Albert Edelfelt - Laundresses [1893]

[Oil on canvas, 97 x 128 cm]

Henri Le Sidaner - The Italian Boutique [1924]

Henri Le Sidaner (Port Louis, Mauritius, August 7, 1862 – July 1939) was an Intimist painter born to a French family. In 1870 he and his family settled in Dunkirk. Le Sidaner received most of his tutelage from the Ecole des Beuax-Arts under the instruction of Alexandre Cabanel but later broke away due to artistic differences. He travelled extensively throughout France and also visited many cities around the globe such as London, New York, Venice and Paris as well as some small villages throughout Europe.

Richard Haley Lever - Chelsea, England [c.1900-10]

Richard Haley Lever (Adelaide, Australia, 1875 – Mount Vernon, New York, 1958) was known for his town-shore landscapes and still-life painting in a style that combined impressionism with vivid colours and strong lines of realism - post impressionism. In his use of colour, he was deeply influenced by Vincent van Gogh. He freely explored numerous styles based on impressionism but was never locked into any particular style.

[Oil on canvas, 16.51 x 23.81 cm]

Jose Villegas y Codero - A Mystical Apparition [1900]

Jose Villegas y Codero (Seville, 1844 – Madrid, November 9, 1921) was a Spanish painter. His subjects were varied – historical, folklore and anecdotal. His brushwork was loose and spontaneous. Among his influences were Fortuny, Madrazo, and Eduardo Rosales.

[Oil on canvas, 52.71 x 80.65 cm]

Morris Graves - Wheelbarrow [1934]

Morris Cole Graves (Fox Valley, Oregon, August 28, 1910 – Loleta, California, May 5, 2001) was an American expressionist painter. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, he founded the Northwest School. Graves' early work was in oils and focused on birds touched with strangeness, either blind, or wounded, or immobilized in webs of light. In later years and especially at the end of his notable career, Graves returned to sculpture, originally created forty years earlier, and received critical acclaim for his Instruments of a New Navigation, works inspired by NASA and space exploration. Morris Graves died the morning of May 5, 2001 at his home in Loleta, hours after suffering a stroke.

[Oil on canvas, 79.0 x 89.1 cm]

Thomas Eakins - William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River [1908]

This is one of several paintings in which Thomas Eakins (American, 1844 – 1916) provided an imaginary glimpse of the Philadelphia sculptor William Rush carving The Water Nymph and Bittern, which was installed in PhIladelphia's Centre Square In 1809. Although Eakins's initial motives came from a desire to restore Rush's name to the history of American art, his primary focus on the back of a strongly highlighted nude model also calls into play issues about traditional methods of art instruction. Rush was a founder of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Eakins taught for many years until 1886, when he was dismissed in a controversy about his allowing female students to attend life classes.

[Oil on canvas, 91.30 x 121.50 cm]