Spanish painter Joaquim Sorolla i Bastida (1863 – 1923) was born in Valencia. He worked in the Impressionist manner, and as much as I generally detest Impressionism I quite like his work.
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Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823-1903) was something of a multi-national artist. She was born in France, her mother was English, and the family moved to the United States in the 1840s. She ended her life in England.
Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Elaine, 1870
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) was a painter and designer, and even designed clothes. And he claimed to have invented the pinup.
Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, Ophelia.
Robert Burns (1869-1941) was born in Edinburgh and studied in Paris and London. He worked within the art nouveau style. A very obscure artist!
Robert Burns, Diana and her Nymphs, 1926
Tadeusz Styka (1889 – 1954) was born in Poland and emigrated to the US in 1929. He achieved considerable success with portraits of jazz age celebrities such as the actress Pola Negri.
Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889)was mentioned in passing in our brief discussion on Gaston Bussière, who was one of his pupils. Cabanel was a French academic painter, and he has most of the strengths and weaknesses of that type of painter. Enormously popular during his lifetime, he suffered complete popular and critical eclipse in the 20th century.
He had the distinction of inspiring the single silliest passage in the whole of Bram Dijkstra’s Idols of Perversity, the “nymph with the broken back” passage.
Alexandre Cabanel, Albayde, 1848
Alexandre Cabanel, Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners, 1897
Alexandre Cabanel, Phedre
