Jan Brueghel the Younger
(1601 - 1678)

 

Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger) was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder, and grandson of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, both prominent painters who contributed respectively to the development of Renaissance and Baroque painting in the Habsburg Netherlands. Taking over his father's workshop at an early age, he painted the same subjects as his father in a style which was similar to that of his father. He regularly collaborated with leading Flemish painters of his time.

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

The bad shepherd
1616
Oil on panel
73,7 x 104 cm
Private collection

Vincent van Gogh
(1853 - 1890)

 

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. Not commercially successful, he struggled with severe depression and poverty, eventually leading to his suicide at age thirty-seven.

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

Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep
1884
Oil on canvas
66,3 x 128,6 cm
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
http://www.museosoumaya.org/

Anton Mauve

(1838 - 1888)

 

Anthonij "Anton" Rudolf Mauve was a Dutch realist painter who was a leading member of the Hague School. He signed his paintings 'A. Mauve' or with a monogrammed 'A.M.'. A master colorist, he was a very significant early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh.

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

 

The Return of the Flock, Laren

C.1886-87

Oil on canvas

Philadelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/102977

 Rosa Bonheur
(1822 - 1899)

 

Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century

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

The Highland Shepherd
1859
Oil on canvas
49 x 63 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Winslow Homer
(1836 - 1910)

 

Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.
Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively in watercolor, creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre, primarily chronicling his working vacations.

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

Shepherdess Tending Sheep
1878
Watercolor over graphite with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, thick, rough textured paper
29 x 50 cm
Brooklyn Museum
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2807

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
(1803 - 1862)
 

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer. He concentrated on extensive wooded landscapes in summer and winter, a theme deducted from the four season series. Like other Romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich, Koekkoek painted the motif of tiny figures within imposing, majestic natural environments to contrast humble humanity with the greatness of creation.

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

A shepherd and his flock in a wooded landscape
1851
Oil on panel
39,5 x 50 cm
Private collection
https://www.simonis-buunk.com/artwork/barend-cornelis-koekkoek-painting-a-shepherd-and-his-flock-in-a-wooded-landscape/8700/

 A new month, a new theme:

Elizabeth Jane Gardner
(1837- 1922)

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. She studied in Paris under the figurative painter Hugues Merle (1823–1881), the well-known salon painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911), and finally under William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). After Bouguereau's wife died, Gardner became his paramour and after the death of his mother, who bitterly opposed the union, she married him in 1896. She adopted his subjects, compositions, and even his smooth facture, channeling his style so successfully that some of her work might be mistaken for his. In fact, she was quoted as saying, "I know I am censured for not more boldly asserting my individuality, but I would rather be known as the best imitator of Bouguereau than be nobody!"

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

The Shepherd David,
ca. 1895;
Oil on canvas,
60 1/2 x 41 3/8 in.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20005
https://nmwa.org/art/collection/shepherd-david/