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Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French rococo artist whose charming and graceful paintings show his interest in theater and ballet, he is probably best known for his fetes gallants. Watteau painted scenes of love and intrigue in dreamy parklands that could have come out of medieval tapestries. Their deliberately precious, unreal atmosphere, the most magical concoction of rococo art, is in many ways a reinvention of the medieval culture of courtly love. But in Watteau the longing knights, tamed unicorns and lofty ladies have given way to a mythology at once more personal, less resolved and dangerously erotic.

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Francisco de Goya, consummately Spanish artist whose multifarious paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Like Velazquez, Goya was a Spanish court painter whose best work was done apart from his official duties. He is known for his scenes of violence, especially those prompted by the French invasion of Spain.

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Frans Hals (1582-1666) was the first great artist of the 17th-century Dutch school and is regarded as one of the most brilliant of all portraitists. Almost all his works are portraits and even those that are not (some genre scenes, and an occasional religious picture) are portrait-like in character. He was considered by some as second in the Netherlands only to Rembrandt, he displayed extraordinary talent and quickness in his art.

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters in the art history.

He was initially successful as a portrait painter, and the self portraits he made throughout his life provide us with a remarkable pictorial autobiography.

Rembrandt, however, probably thought of himself primarily as a history painter, and this type of work is represented in the collection by ‘Belshazzar’s Feast‘, ‘The Woman taken in Adultery‘ and a number of other paintings of religious subjects.

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Many of Velazquez’s early works are influenced by Caravaggio. But later on, the Caravaggio elements are simply one of the many ingredients in Velazquez’s unique style. Los Borrachos (The Drunkards) (1629) and Joseph’s Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob (1630) are among Velazquez’s most Caravaggio-like paintings.

From the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Velázquez’s artwork was a model for the realist and impressionist painters, in particular Édouard Manet

Alfred Sisley, the son of English parents, was born in Paris. Sisley was strongly influenced by Corot. In 1862, he studied under Charles Gleyre along with the fellow Impressionists Monet and Renoir. He fist exhibited in the Salon of 1866, then again in 1868 and 1870. The three students became the strong leaders of the movement. Sisley often painted landscapes of the Sienne, Loire, and the Thames Rivers and focused on light in the clouds and reflections. Due to lack of sales channel, Sisley’s work was not appreciated until his death. He died in Moret-sur-Loing in 1899.

Like Gauguin, Cezanne (1839-1906) began as an Impressionist, or maybe a pseudo-Impressionist. He exhibited in the first and third Independent Exhibitions of Impressionist Painters, but early on the believed that Impressionist Paintings were too airy and superficial. He said, “I wanted to make of Impressionism something solid and enduring, like the art in museums.” Instead of fleeting, light-as-air impressions, Cezanne chose to make forms look solid; he did this by rendering them with thick slabs of color instead flecks of paint. Also, he wasn’t interesting in chasing motion with quick flicks of this brush, but in painting solid things anchored firmly to the ground.

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