Manuel Ocaranza
(1841 - 1882)

 

 Manuel Egidio Ocaranza was a Mexican painter, related to costumbrism. Considered one of the first modern artists in Mexico in the 19th century. Part of his work is exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Mexico City.

Wikipedia only in Spanish:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Ocaranza

The love of the Humming Bird
1869
Oil on canvas
100 x 145 cm
Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

 <b>Federico Zandomeneghi</b>
(1841 - 1917)
 

Federico Zandomeneghi was an Italian Impressionist painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Zandomeneghi

Maiden with a bunch of flowers
1903
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Metropolitana "Corrado Giaquinto”, Bari, Italy

Vlaho Bukovac
(1855 - 1922)
 

Vlaho Bukovac was a Croatian painter and academic. His life and work were eclectic, for the artist pursued his career in a variety of locales and his style changed greatly over the course of that career. He is probably best known for his 1887 nude Une fleur (A Flower), which he created during his French period and which received attention in various reviews and publications during his lifetime. Bukovac was the court painter for Obrenović dynasty, Karađorđević dynasty and Petrović-Njegoš dynasty. In Zagreb, he is probably best known as the painter of the 1895 theatre curtain in the Croatian National Theatre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaho_Bukovac

Mrs Richard Le Doux
1892
Oil on Canvas
111 x 200 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

 

The Artist visited the home of the Le Doux family in Marfield, West Derby, Liverpool both in 1891 and 1892. On the second occasion he stayed for a month and painted Mrs Richard le Doux as well as her husband. Mr Le Doux owned a considerable collection of his work, including another seated portrait of Mrs Le Doux, all of which are now lost, except this piece. This painting was shown in the Paris Salon where is was extensively reviewed.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(1796 - 1875)
 

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot

 

The Crown of Flowers
1865 - 1870
Oil on Canvas
64,8 x 43,2 cm
Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, Maryland.
https://collection.artbma.org/objects/38286/the-crown-of-flowers

Tom Roberts
(1856 - 1931)
 

Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Roberts

Mrs L. A. Abrahams
1888
Oil on canvas
41 x 36 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
https://digital.nga.gov.au/archive/exhibition/roberts/default.cfm%3Firn=267106&bioartistirn=24504&mystartrow=37&realstartrow=37&mnuid=srch&viewid=2.html

 

Roberts painted a number of ‘friendship’ portraits – his "Smike Streeton age twenty-four", of 1891 which he retained until his death, is the most famous – but this painting is unique in his oeuvre. Its genre format and intimate ‘cabinet’ size were perfect for his homage to friendship: three cups and saucers have been laid out on the Japanese tray, and he has even scraped away the sitter’s hat, originally included, to make her seem more ‘at home’ in his interior.

Lilla Cabot Perry
(1848 -1933)

Lilla Cabot Perry was an American artist who worked in the American Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the United States. Perry's early work was shaped by her exposure to the Boston School of artists and her travels in Europe and Japan. She was also greatly influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophies and her friendship with Camille Pissarro. Although it was not until the age of thirty-six that Perry received formal training, her work with artists of the Impressionist, Realist, Symbolist, and German Social Realist movements greatly affected the style of her oeuvre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilla_Cabot_Perry

Lady With a Bowl of Violets
1910
Oil on Canvas
102,2 x 76,2 cm
NMWA. National Museum of Women in the Arts
https://nmwa.org/art/collection/lady-bowl-violets/

Painted after the Perry family returned from Tokyo, this composition features a Japanese woodblock print and simple floral arrangement behind the sitter’s head. The artist dramatically cropped both the print and flowers in a manner reminiscent of traditional Japanese art. Such art also inspired the curious and daring compositional emptiness of the left side of the picture.

 Ettore Tito
(1859 - 1941)
 

Ettore Tito was an Italian artist particularly known for his paintings of contemporary life and landscapes in Venice and the surrounding region. He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and from 1894 to 1927 was the Professor of Painting there. Tito exhibited widely and was awarded the Grand Prize in painting at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. In 1926 he was made a member of the Royal Academy of Italy. Tito was born in Castellammare di Stabia in the province of Naples and died in Venice, the city which was his home for most of his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Tito

Light blue
1909
Oil on canvas
85 x 50 cm
Collezione Fondazione Cariparma

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
(1618 - 1682)
 

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively realistic portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars constitute an extensive and appealing record of the everyday life of his times. He also painted two self-portraits, one in the Frick Collection portraying him in his 30s, and one in London's National Gallery portraying him about 20 years later. In 2017–18, the two museums held an exhibition of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomé_Esteban_Murillo

The Flower Girl (Murillo)
1665-1670
Oil on canvas
120 × 98 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection/151-200/the-flower-girl/

Frederick Carl Frieseke
(1874 - 1939)
 

Frederick Carl Frieseke was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Carl_Frieseke

Girl in Blue Arranging Flowers
1915
Oil on canvas
81,5 × 816 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/41251

 Francesco Hayez
(1791 - 1882)

Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Hayez

Portrait of Countess Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini as a Child
1858
Oil on canvas
133.5 cm × 110 cm
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan

Hayez decided to use some photographs of the countess for this portrait, to avoid long poses. Despite the reassuring closeness of the little girl's mother in the photos used by the artist, the expression of the little countess revealed a sense of discomfort and bewilderment that Hayez decided to preserve in his portrait. Thus he gave to the painting an unconventional realistic freshness compared with the conventional canons of his time for child portraiture. The child is holding several flowers and one of them lies in the floor. Behind her there is a vase with a large amount of flowers, which was not very appreciated by the critics back then.

Louis Janmot
(1814 - 1892)
 

Anne-François-Louis Janmot was a French painter and poet. Janmot has been seen as a transitional figure between Romanticism and Symbolism, prefiguring the French part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; his work was admired by Puvis de Chavannes, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Janmot

Flower of the Fields
1845
Oil on wood
103 × 83 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Larousse Encyclopedia describes this work as "well-balanced". However, it is unclear if the painting is the portrait of a woman known by Janmot, but the clothes she wears do not comply with her time, but recall the portraits of the Italian Renaissance. This may be a painting of flowers, as this type of art was very popular in Lyon in the 19th century. Another theory is that the young woman is the goddess Flora and is in thought about the transience of time.

Edwin Long
(1829 - 1891)
 

Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was a British genre, history, biblical and portrait painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Long

The Daughters of Our Empire. England: The Primrose
1887
Oil on canvas
127 x 83,8 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12021

Gustave Doré
(1832 - 1883)
 

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Doré

Flower Sellers of London
About 1875
Oil on Canvas
134 x 221 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/flower-sellers

 

Gustave Doré stayed in London intermittently between the years of 1868 and 1873. During this time he made studies of flower girls by the Royal Exchange, painting them paradoxically with French baskets. Doré’s biographer stated that he “was touched by the sad beauty to be found in poor street flower sellers”, a sympathy that can perhaps be felt in this painting. Doré’s works highlighted the gulf between high society and the grim life of the poor in the capital city.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(1841 - 1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir

Woman with a Parasol in a Garden
1875
Oil on canvas
54,5 x 65 cm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/renoir-pierre-auguste/woman-parasol-garden

In Woman with a Parasol in a Garden, Renoir’s language is wholly impressionistic: in a setting lacking a visible horizon, the flowers and shrubs are created with tiny dabs of colour, providing a constant interweaving of textures around the two small figures. The woman, whose parasol shades her from the sun, stands close to the man as he leans down, perhaps to pick a flower, hinting at an intimate relationship.
Contrary to what one may think, this canvas was not painted in the countryside but in the garden of Renoir’s new studio in Montmartre. His friend George Rivière recalled: ‘As soon as Renoir entered the house, he was charmed by the view of this garden, which looked like a beautiful abandoned park.

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
(1755 - 1842)
 

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply as Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élisabeth_Vigée_Le_Brun

Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, seated, in blue coat and white dress, holding a book in her hand
1788
Oil on canvas
271 x 195 cm
Palace of Versailles

Eastman Johnson
(1824 - 1906)
 

Jonathan Eastman Johnson was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His later works often show the influence of the 17th-century Dutch masters, whom he studied in The Hague in the 1850s; he was known as The American Rembrandt in his day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Johnson

Gathering Lilies
1865
Oil on board
47 x 38,7 cm
National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.140910.html

A solitary woman is shown bending down to pick the flower of a water lily from the surface of a tranquil pond with her right hand while holding other flowers in her left. Johnson perfectly captured the graceful elegance of her motion as she balances on the log and turns to grasp the stem of the flower. By using a close vantage point looking slightly downward and eliminating a view toward a distant horizon, he created an intimate environment of the pond and its banks, establishing the woman as the focus of the image.

 George Dunlop Leslie
(1835 - 1921)
 

George Dunlop Leslie RA was a British genre painter, author and illustrator. His early works, such as Matilda (1860) showed the strong influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, but he settled into a more academic, aesthetic, style of painting with the aim of showing "pictures from the sunny side of English domestic life". He often used children as subjects and his work was praised by John Ruskin for its portrayal of the "sweet quality of English girlhood". One of his pictures, This is the Way we Wash our Clothes was used as a poster in an advertising campaign for soap. Despite its apparently trivial subject matter, however, Leslie's work was highly regarded by critics of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dunlop_Leslie

Sun and Moon Flowers
1889
Oil on Canvas
72 x 72 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London Corporation

 

This painting depicts the view from the artist’s drawing room window in his house at Wallingford on Thames. Beyond his garden, on the opposite riverbank, one can see a lush meadow. Leslie claimed that the entire work was painted from life. The sunflowers are intended to symbolise devotion to art. The title’s “moonflowers” refers to the two young women depicted. Some argue, however, that the moonflowers are the paler blooms in the girls’ arrangements although, of course, such flowers do not actually exist. One of the girls is the artist’s friend whilst the other is a model the artist frequently featured in his work.

Frederic Leighton
(1830 - 1896)
 

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA, known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter in an academic style. His paintings were enormously popular and expensive, during his lifetime, but fell out of critical favour for many decades in the early 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leighton

Mrs. James Guthrie
1864 to 1865
Oil on canvas
210 x 138 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5016

Edgar Degas
(1834–1917)
 

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist, and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
1865
Oil on canvas
29 x 36 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436121

The juxtaposition of the prominent bouquet and the off-center figure, gazing distractedly to the right, exemplifies Degas’s aim of capturing individuals in seemingly casual, slice-of-life views. The sitter is probably the wife of the artist’s schoolboy friend Paul Valpinçon; Degas immensely enjoyed outings to their country house, Ménil-Hubert, and the dahlias, asters, and gaillardias in the bouquet would suggest a late summer visit. The painting was preceded by a pencil drawing of the woman, also dated 1865

Edward Poynter
(1836 - 1919)
 

Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet GCVO, PRA was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy. He became best known for his large historical paintings such as Israel in Egypt (1867; Guildhall Art Gallery, London), followed by St George for England (1869), a mosaic for the Central Lobby of the Palace of Westminster, depicting St George and the Dragon and perhaps culminating with The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon (1884–90; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Poynter

Psyche in the Temple of Love
1882
Oil on canvas
50,7 x 66,3 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Cupid, having fallen in love with Psyche, brought her to a beautiful palace where he visited her every night but never during the day. In this painting she is amusing herself by playing with her usual attribute, the butterfly. Both Psyche and the butterfly symbolise the human soul and Poynter has wittily suggested the connection by having Psyche entice the butterfly into the palace with a flower. The doves of Venus, Psyche’s great enemy, fly ominously in the background.

 Dominik Skutecký
(1849 - 1921)
 

Dominik Skutecký (14 February 1849, Gajary – 13 March 1921, Banská Bystrica) was a Slovakian painter of Jewish ancestry. Alternate forms of his name include David, Domenico, Döme, Skutezky, Skuteczky and Skutetzky. He specialized in landscapes, portraits and genre scenes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominik_Skutecký

The Painter of Flowers
1913-16
Oil on Canvas
Stredoslovenska galeria / Central Slovak Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

The painting represents the painter´s youngest daughter Karola in the authentic environment of his studio in the family villa in Banská Bystrica. Karola Skutecká – Karvašová studied painting, as one of Skutecký´s children. She particularly devoted to creation of floral still-lifes and portraits.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(1526 - 1593)
 

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi, was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo

Rudolf II of Habsburg as Vertumnus
1590
oil on panel
70x 58 cm
Skokloster Castle, Sweden
https://samlingar.shm.se/object/BD10473C-4D1B-4D89-82D9-4ADD890B7941

Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus, the Roman god of the seasons, growth, plants and fruit. The portrait is meant as an imperial allegory, corresponding with Arcimboldos series of the seasons, with the Emperor here seen as ruler of them all. The variety of flowers and fruits from all season signify that a golden era has returned under the Emperors rule.

Rembrandt van Rijn
(1606-1669)
 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art. It is estimated Rembrandt produced a total of about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and two thousand drawings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

Flora (Saskia as Flora)
1634
Oil on canvas
125 x 101 cm
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+Paintings/43371/

Flora reflects Rembrandt’s mood in the happiest period in his life, soon after his move from Leyden to Amsterdam. Fortune was smiling on the artist, his fame was growing, he was young, in love and had just celebrated his marriage to Saskia van Uylenburgh.
His life was blooming: it is no coincidence that the image of Flora, the ancient goddess of spring and flowers, appeared in Rembrandt’s paintings and drawings of this period and the artist invariably invested her with the features of his young wife.

Alfred Stevens

(1823 - 1906)
 

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens was a Belgian painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women. In their realistic style and careful finish, his works reveal the influence of 17th-century Dutch genre painting. After gaining attention early in his career with a social realist painting depicting the plight of poor vagrants, he achieved great critical and popular success with his scenes of upper-middle class Parisian life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stevens_(painter)

Autumn Flowers
1867
Oil on canvas
73 x 94 cm.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

 Samuel Fisher
(1859 - 1939)

Samuel Melton Fisher [also known as S. Melton Fisher] was born in London, England on 20 January 1859 and studied at Lambeth School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1876 to 1881. In 1881 he was awarded a gold medal and a travelling scholarship enabling him to continue his studies in Paris. He subsequently lived in Italy for ten years, where he painted several Venetian scenes. Fisher exhibited at the Royal Academy in London every year between 1878 and (posthumously) 1940. He also exhibited at Baillie Gallery, Fine Art Society, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Society of British Artists, Ridley Art Club, and Royal Institute of Oil Painters vin London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Royal Hibernian academy in Dublin; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; and at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.

https://artuk.org/discover/artists/fisher-samuel-melton-18591939

The Clerkenwell flower makers
1896
Oil on Canvas
158 x 107 cm
Te Papa, Museum of New Zealand
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/41096

 Claude Monet
(1840 - 19260)
 

Oscar-Claude Monet  was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in 1874 (the "exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crozier_(Scottish_artist)

Under the Poplars
1887
oil on canvas
73× 92 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam
https://sammlung.museum-barberini.de/en/MB-Mon-23_claude-monet-under-the-poplars

 

In this carefree summer scene, Claude Monet celebrates the intensely brilliant red of the poppies. The leisurely attitude of the children, surrounded by flowers and grasses, emphasize the graceful lightness. The impasto of the surface, composed of spontaneous brushstrokes, reflects the shimmering colors of the sun-filled moment.

Childe Hassam
(1859 - 1935)
 

Frederick Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, oils, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs over the course of his career, and was an influential American artist of the early 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childe_Hassam

At the Florist
1889
93 x 137,5 cm
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, U.S.

 

Hassam was one of a group of American painters who travelled to Paris to learn the new Impressionist style firsthand. This picture was the last he painted in France before returning home to the States.

 <b>Anna Petersen</b>
(1845 - 1910)
 

Anna Sophie Petersen was a Danish painter. Although she showed some promise as an artist, specifically in genre painting, she struggled to find a place in the male-dominated Danish art world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work fell out of fashion and she was largely forgotten until the end of the 20th century when the Hirschsprung Collection and Statens Museum for Kunst acquired some of her more important works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Petersen

Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse
1884
Oil on canvas
110 x 121 cm
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

 

In Anna Petersen’s day women were not allowed to vote, nor to enrol at the Academy of Fine Arts. The artist has shown this woman engaged in thought rather than labour, thereby manifesting how women are independent, thinking beings in their own right.

Alexey Harlamov
(1840 – 1925)
 

Alexei Alexeievich Harlamov was a Russian painter, who usually signed his name in the Latin alphabet as Harlamoff. Harlamoff became a guest student at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1854. Three years later he was awarded a second class silver medal for a drawing.
In 1862 Harlamoff was awarded a second class silver medal for a sketch, and he enrolled with the historical painter Alexey Tarasovich Markov. In 1863 he was awarded two first class silver medals, for a drawing and for a sketch. In 1865 he presented his large scale painting Ananias before the Apostles, but did not win the competition for a second class gold medal. The next year however he did win this award, for his painting Baptizing of the Kiever. He completed his studies in 1868, winning a first class gold medal for his Return of the Prodigal Son, and was granted a scholarship from the academy to study in Paris in 1869.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Harlamoff

Girl selling Flowers
date unknown

Oil on canvas
Fabergé Museum, St. Petersburg

Carl Spitzweg
(1808 - 1885)
 

Carl Spitzweg was a German romantic painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Spitzweg

The Flower Friend
Ca. 1855-1860
Oil on canvas
38 x 30 cm
Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering

The man in the foreground has discreetly turned his back on the lovers on the upper left, while attending to his garden, wearing an elegant dressing gown and a foldable cap on his head. In addition to the wonderful rose bush he also grows ivy and coltsfoot, and even has a pot with an agave cactus.