Armando Montaner Valdueza

Armando Montaner Valdueza (Spanish, 1871 - 1960) studied in the city of Valencia, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos. He was a disciple of Francisco Domingo Marqués, Gonzalo Salvá and José Vilar Torres. During his stay in Madrid he attended Joaquín Sorolla's workshop. He specialized in portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. His portraits are characterized by a conventional realism from which he would later move away in favor of a more personal painting.

His training followed the Luminist tradition of Spanish plastic at the time. At the same time, his facet as a portraitist introduced him to worldly and elegant environments that allowed him to travel through Europe and, later, through Latin America. He promoted Spanish painting in Buenos Aires, where he received commissions for official portraits and painted various works that earned him different national and international awards. His exhibitions garnered recognition from critics and the public.

Bill Angresano

Bill Angresano (American, 1955 -). Bill Angresano's career as a professional painter and illustrator has spanned 30 years now. He has worked extensively in the areas of pre-production art for advertising and film, and paperback book cover paintings for romance and western novels. He is a portrait artiist, and has painted landscapes and genre scenes for various clients. His work can also be found on the HBO television network and in Madison Square Garden where he has created sports art for posters.

Mr. Angresano is a graduate of Rutgers University. He studied with professional painters at the Salmagundi Club, the Art Students League, and the Reilly League of Artists in New York City. He is the recipient of the Salmagundi Club's award for the best landscape for artist 1999, the Frank Vicent Dumont award for Excellence in Portraiture, the Knickerbockers artists Honorable Mention for the Portraiture and the Ogden Pleissner Memorial Award for Watercolor.

His work has been in many national shows and can be found in the National World Museum in California, the Bergen County Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Boxing Hall of Fame, along with numerous corporate and private collections.

Maurice Molarsky

Abram Molarsky (American, 1880 - 1955) was an American Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artist, known primarily as a landscape painter and a colorist. His work is characterized by rich hues and strong, textured brushwork.

Born in a Jewish family in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), he immigrated with his family to the United States in 1887. In 1889 he began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His teachers included William Merritt Chase, Thomas Anshutz and Cecilia Beaux. Abram Molarsky and his younger brother Maurice Molarsky,[4] who was also a student at the Pennsylvania Academy, went to Paris to continue their artistic studies in 1906. Abram returned to Philadelphia in 1908, where he married artist Sarah Ann Shreve.

In 1913, Molarsky had his first solo show at the Doll & Richards Gallery in Boston, where he and his wife had settled. "Molarsky's color is delicate, refined and harmonious," wrote critic William Howe Downes, who had authored books about American painters Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent.

Throughout his career, Molarsky showed at many galleries and museums, including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Montclair Art Museum and the Newark Museum. In New York, he was represented by the Milch Gallery. In addition to doing his own work, Molarsky taught plein air painting, watercolor and pastel to students in Nutley for many years.

Philip Wilson Steer

Philip Wilson Steer (British, 1860 - 1942)

Philip Wilson Steer OM (28 December 1860 – 18 March 1942) was a British painter of landscapes, seascapes plus portraits and figure studies. He was also an influential art teacher. His sea and landscape paintings made him a leading figure in the Impressionist movement in Britain but in time he turned to a more traditional English style, clearly influenced by both John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, and spent more time painting in the countryside rather than on the coast. As a painting tutor at the Slade School of Art for many years he influenced generations of young artists.

Steer was born in Birkenhead, in Merseyside, the son of a portrait painter and art teacher, Philip Steer (1810–1871) and his wife, Emma Harrison (1816-1898). When Steer was three years old the family moved to Whitchurch near Monmouth from where, after a period of home schooling, he attended the Hereford Cathedral School. After finding the examinations

Nelson Shanks

John Nelson Shanks (December 23, 1937 – August 28, 2015) was an American artist and painter. His best known work is probably his portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, completed in 1996. The painting was first shown at Hirschl & Adler Gallery in New York City, April 24 to June 28, 199

Shanks had been on the faculty of the Memphis Academy of Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design and Studio Incamminati and was a resident of Andalusia, Pennsylvania. He was an honorary member of the American Society of Classical Realism Guild of Artists.

Shanks was a painter, teacher and art historian influential in the revival of Classical Realism in the United States. His portraits of royalty, politicians and celebrities added to his international profile as one of the foremost contemporary figurative painters. Shanks' philosophies and skills were shared through his teaching at various public and private institutions. In 2002, he founded Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife, Leona Shanks; an academy dedicated to the study, practice and spread of realist art using the philosophy and techniques espoused by Shanks.

Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl

Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl (American, 1855-1932)

Born in Passau, Bavaria.  Studied art at the Art Academy of Munich.  In United States since 1880.  Settled in Boston until his death. 

His father (also named Ignaz) was a teacher who wrote several books on linguistics and related subjects. After finishing school, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he studied under Johann Leonhard Raab and Wilhelm von Diez.

In 1880, he visited his sister in Boston and decided to settle there himself. He quickly assimilated into the city's cultural life and became a friend of Sylvester Koehler, the first curator of prints at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He was known as the "Meissonier of Boston", because of his many portraits of the "Boston Brahmins" and their families, and was one of the founders of the Guild of Boston Artists. Most of his works are in private collections.

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (British, 1870 - 1951)

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (also sometimes spelt 'Wilfried') RA (1870 – 11 May 1951) was an Impressionist British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932.

Wilfried von Glehn (he changed his name in May 1917 was born in Sydenham in south-east London. After schooling at Brighton College with his brother Louis, he studied art at the South Kensington School of Art, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was then hired by Edwin Austin Abbey and John Singer Sargent to assist them on their Boston Public Library mural project at Morgan Hall (c.1890–1893).

De Glehn would exhibit his own work first in Rome in 1894 and then in Paris in 1895; he was also elected an Associetaire of the Société des Artistes Français. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896.

Wilfrid and Jane de Glehn, depicted by John Singer Sargent at the Villa Torlonia, Frascati.

De Glehn met American-born artist Jane Erin Emmet (1873–1961) in New Rochelle, New York in 1903, and they were married there the following year. Following their wedding, the couple honeymooned in Cornwall, England and vacationed in Paris and Venice and made a permanent home in London. However, they travelled extensively, often accompanying Sargent on his trips through Europe. When World War I intervened, husband and wife joined the staff of a British hospital for French soldiers, Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, Haute-Marne, France in January 1915. The following year, de Glehn was commissioned and served with the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was seconded to the front in Italy in 1917. In May 1917 his family shed the Germanic 'von Glehn' surname. Because of his fluent French, he spent the last part of the war as an interpreter. After the war, de Glehn held solo exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries and in New York (1920). For the next decade the two would spend summers in Cornwall and winters in France.

De Glehn is also considered one of the most distinguished artists to have lived in Wiltshire. He died in 1951, at the age of 80, at his home, The Manor House in Stratford Tony, to which he had moved in 1942. His home was the subject of several paintings, as was his previous residence, the Old Rectory in Wilton.

Ben Lustenhouwer

Ben Lustenhouwer 1951

was born and grew up in Soest, The Netherlands, 1951.

In 1990, I moved to Spain with my wife, the sculptress Helma Vanrens, and our daughter Karen. We first settled in Paterna and later in village called Chelva.

For over 25 years, my working life has been filled almost daily, with portrait commissions. In recent years an idea grew that I should share my portrait painting experiences and knowledge. Ultimately this is what I did. About ten years ago I started teaching and later, making video tutorials.

Since then much has changed. In the past I found myself only behind the easel. Now part of the day I also spend behind a computer. I am in touch with people from all over the world who want to learn portrait painting. Every few days I write my blog posts and in addition, sometimes for weeks on end I am filming and editing videos. When I started this portrait-painting-internet project I had no idea that it would become such a success. Nor had I expected that I would enjoy it so much. It gives me great satisfaction to be able to help others improve their painting skills.

Lennart Anderson

Lennart Anderson (August 22, 1928 – October 15, 2015) was an American painter. His work has been featured at several major museums, including his first major show at the Delaware Art Museum in 1992. He taught on the art faculties of several universities, including Brooklyn College, the Pratt Institute, Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, he studied at Cass Technical High School, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Art Students League of New York under Edwin Dickinson. Anderson was inducted as a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1977 and made an Associate of the American Academy of Design in 1982. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship (1983), the National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, and in 1961 was awarded the Rome Prize.

His paintings and drawings are included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Cleveland Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art;[5] and the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection.

Lennart Anderson (American, 1928 - 2015)