1530-1597
Flemish Lucas Van Valkenborch Galleries Related Paintings of Lucas Van Valkenborch :. | Portrait of Hira Singh,Favorite of the Sikh Leader Ranjit Singh | Warrior | The Wolvs Sniffed Along the Trail,but Came No Nearer (mk43) | The British Fleet entering Havana,21 August 1762 | Mr and Mrs William Hallett (The Morning Walk) | Related Artists:
Knut Ekwall was a Swedish painter, 3 April 1843 in Säby (Småland province), Sweden - 4 April 1912 in Säby.
Ekwall studied from 1860-1866 at the Academy of Arts in Stockholm, with emphasis on xylography (designing woodcut printing blocks) and drawing.
He became a pupil of the painter Ludwig Knaus in Berlin.
In 1870, Ekwall established himself as an artist in Munich in Germany and later worked in Leipzig.
His works during this period were primarily for magazine illustrations, and were reproduced as engravings.
He returned to Sweden and died there at the age of 69.
Suzanne ValadonFrench Post-Impressionist Painter, 1865-1938
French painter and artist's model. She led a lonely childhood in Paris as the daughter of an unmarried and unaffectionate maid, seeking refuge from her bleak circumstances by living in a dream world. While residing in the Montmartre district of Paris, she became an artist's model, working in particular with those painters who frequented the Lapin Agile. From 1880 to 1887, for example, she sat regularly for Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, posing for both the male and female figures in the Sacred Wood (1884-6; Lyon, Mus. B.-A.). She also modelled for Renoir, Luigi Zandomeneghi, Th?ophile Steinlein, Jean-Louis Forain, Giuseppe De Nittis and Jean-Jacques Henner. No longer able to tolerate the passive role of the model,
Jochem de Vriespainted The Zaandam shipping company Claes Tan en Zns Greenland farer Zaandam whaling in 1772