Édouard Adam was Le Havre’s leading ship portraitist and worked at the port for over fifty years. His extensive body of work is an education on the evolving ...
Born in Antwerp, Jacob Huysmans was a distinguished Flemish portrait painter and a direct rival of Sir Peter Lely. He moved to England following the Restorat...
Frank Wasley was a masterful English painter of maritime scenes and predominantly known as a watercolourist.
Born in Peckham, London, Wasley’s early years we...
Samuel Owen was an accomplished British marine watercolourist who served in the Royal Navy.
Born in the leafy village of Hillingdon, Middlesex, Owen’s father...
Jean Baptiste Discart was a renowned Italian painter, typically associated with exquisite depictions of the vibrant streets of Tangiers.
Born in Modena, Ital...
Hermann Weiß was an accomplished German painter, professor, and history writer.
Born in Hamburg, Weiß trained initially at the Berlin Academy of Arts under J...
Franz Werner von Tamm was an internationally-renowned German still life painter who worked predominantly in Rome and Vienna.
Born in Hamburg, von Tamm first ...
English landscape painter, John Berney Crome, was an important member of the Norwich School of Painters and the son of John ‘Old’ Crome, one of its founders....
William Lee RI was an accomplished English watercolourist with a particular specialism for wholesome family scenes.
During the early to mid-Victorian period,...
