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Emmanuel Benner-1879-Hunters in Wait

Emmanuel Benner is one of the foremost painters of the figure, and one of the greatest masters of the nude in particular, who exhibit at the Paris Salon. He was born at Mulhausen, in Alsace, and studied under Pils in Paris. His pictures, which, like “A Study,” are usually very simple in subject, possess an extraordinary naturalness of color, and are equally lifelike in modeling and spirit.

Like his twin brother, the distinguished artist Jean Benner, Emmanuel Benner commenced his life as a designer for the mills and factories of Mulhouse in Alsace, where he was born in 1836. At the age of thirty, having amassed some means by strict economy, he devoted himself entirely to art, his masters in painting being Eck, Henner, a fellow Alsatian; and Leon Bonnat. He at first painted pictures of still life, portraits, and genre subjects, and commenced exhibiting at the Salon in 1868. In 1875 he struck out in a new direction, and his masterly paintings of the nude won him immediate favor. The character of his art has been sufficiently adverted to in Part I. of this work. Benner won his first Salon medal in 1881, with a picture very similar in character to “The Sleeper,” which was entitled “Le Repos.”

Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family. In 1582, Annibale, his brother Agostino, and his cousin Ludovico Carracci opened a painters’ studio, initially called by some the Academy of the Desiderosi (desirous of fame and learning) and subsequently the Incamminati (progressives; literally “of those opening a new way”). While the Carraccis laid emphasis on the typically Florentine linear draftsmanship, as exemplified by Raphael and Andrea del Sarto, their interest in the glimmering colours and mistier edges of objects derived from the Venetian painters, notably the works of Venetian Oil Painter Titian, which Annibale and Agostino studied during their travels around Italy in 1580-81 at the behest of the elder Caracci Lodovico. This eclecticism was to become the defining trait of the artists of the Baroque Emilian or Bolognese School.

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Hans von Marées (24 December 1837 – 5 June 1887) was a German painter. He mainly painted country scenes in a realistic style.

Von Marées was born in Elberfeld, Germany. At age 16, he was sent to the Berlin Academy. In 1857, he moved to Munich.

In 1869, he visited France, the Netherlands and Spain. He served in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) and then lived in Berlin and Dresden for a while. In 1873, he decorated the library walls of the newly built Naples Zoological Institute in Italy. The next year, he moved to Florence.

He died in Rome at the age of 49 and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery there.

Merry Joseph Blondel-The Death of Hyacinthus

Merry-Joseph Blondel (Paris, July 5, 1781 – Paris, June 12, 1853) was a French neo-classic painter.

After a first training in the Dilh et Guerhard porcelain factory, he later was a painting student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He won in 1803 Price of Rome with his painting Enée portant son père Anchise. He lived in Villa Médicis, in Rome, Italy, from 1809 to 1812, and won a gold award for his painting Mort de Louis XII. He then started a career as an interior decorator (Fontainebleau Castel, Brongniart Palace, Louvre Museum, Sénat).

Edward Burne Jones-The Garden of Pan

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet (28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company. Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in England; his stained glass works include the windows of St. Philip’s Cathedral, Birmingham, St Martin’s Church in Brampton, Cumbria, the church designed by Philip Webb, All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge and in Christ Church, Oxford.

Burne-Jones’s early paintings show the heavy inspiration of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but by the 1860s Burne-Jones was discovering his own artistic “voice”. In 1877, he was persuaded to show eight oil paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery (a new rival to the Royal Academy). These included The Beguiling of Merlin. The timing was right, and he was taken up as a herald and star of the new Aesthetic Movement.

Georg Pauli - Bathing Men

Georg Vilhelm Pauli (Jönköping 2 July 1855 – Tullinge, Stockholm County 28 November 1935) was a Swedish painter.

Pauli studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1871-75 and 1878-79, and studied and worked in France and Italy for several years during the 1870s and 1880s. He studied naturalist in- and outdorr painting, influenced by the painting of Bastien-Lepage. In 1887, he married Swedish painter Hanna Hirsch (1864-1940).

Around 1890, he moved towards a symbolist and synthetist style. Having met cubism in Paris in 1911, he apprenticed himself to André Lhote and moved towards a cubist style, which he again abandoned this in the 1920s. He had a life-long interest in classical motifs, mythology and symbolism which was often reflected in his paintings.

Since the 1890s Pauli specialized in monumental paintings, decorating walls in the Gothenburg Museum (the current Gothenburg City Museum), the new Stockholm Opera House, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and many other public institutions. He is represented with several paintings and many drawings in Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

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