Emile Claus
(1849 - 1924)

 

Emile Claus was a Belgian painter.  He trained at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts with, amongst others, the landscape painter Jacob Jacobs. During his training, Claus attracted the attention of and found favour with the local upper middle class.
Artistically and financially, Claus soon prospered. The Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts purchased one of his works, and The Picknick (1887), his well-known painting showing a farmer’s family watching the Sunday outing of the urban bourgeoisie on the opposite bank of a small river (the Lys), was bought by the Belgian Royal Family.

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

Waterloo Bridge, zon en regen. Maart
1916
Oil on canvas
102 x 127 cm
KMSK (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
https://fine-arts-museum.be/nl/de-collectie/emile-claus-waterloo-bridge-zon-en-regen-maart

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)

 

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 before 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/Claude_Monet

Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog
1903
Oil on canvas
65,3 x 101 cm
Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+Paintings/28490

John Constable
(1776 – 1837)

John Constable RA was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".
Constable's most famous paintings include Wivenhoe Park (1816), Dedham Vale (1821) and The Hay Wain (1821). Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful. He became a member of the establishment after he was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 52. His work was embraced in France, where he sold more than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school.


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

Gillingham Bridge, Dorset
1823
Oil on canvas
32,1 x 51,4 cm
TATE
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-gillingham-bridge-dorset-n01244

Carl Larsson
(1853 - 1919)

 

Carl Olof Larsson was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot (Midwinter Sacrifice), a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.

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

The Bridge in Grez / Medieval
1885
Watercolor
54,5 x 76,5 cm
Private collection (Sold by Bukowskis)
https://www.bukowskis.com/auctions/556/59-carl-larsson-bron-i-grez-medeltid?locale=en

Frederick Morgan
(1847 - 1927)

Frederick Morgan ROI was an English painter of portraits, animals, domestic and country scenes. He became known for his idyllic genre scenes of childhood.

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

Not of the fold
C. 1881
Oil on canvas
111 x 176 cm
Private collection (Italy)

Canaletto
(1697 - 1768)

Giovanni Antonio Canal (commonly known as Canaletto), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Painter of city views or vedute, of Venice, Rome, and London, he also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci), although the demarcation in his works between the real and the imaginary is never quite clearcut. He was further an important printmaker using the etching technique. In the period from 1746 to 1756 he worked in England where he painted many views of London and other sites including Warwick Castle and Alnwick Castle. He was highly successful in England, thanks to the British merchant and connoisseur Joseph "Consul" Smith, whose large collection of Canaletto's works was sold to King George III in 1762.

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

Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames
1747
Oil on canvas
95,9 x 127,6 cm
Yale Centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4994

Bernardo Bellotto
(1721 - 1780)

Bernardo Bellotto was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the renowned Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto. This caused some confusion, however Bellotto’s work is more sombre in color than Canaletto's and his depiction of clouds and shadows brings him closer to Dutch painting.
Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views.

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

Dresden From the Right Bank of the Elbe Below the Augustus Bridge
1748
133 x 237 cm
The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden)
https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/135387