Waterside with Canadian Paul Peel 1860-1892

Paul Peel (Canadian-born artist, 1860-1892) The Young Botanist 1888-90

Paul Peel was a Canadian academic painter. Having won a medal at the 1890 Paris Salon, he became one of the first Canadian artists to receive international recognition in his lifetime.

Paul Peel (Canadian-born artist, 1860-1892) The Beach at Normandy c.1887

Paul Peel (Canadian-born artist, 1860-1892) The Young Gleaner 1888

Waterside with Frenchman Claude Monet 1840-1926

Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) Camille Monet on the Beach at Trouville 1870

Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) River Scene at Bennecourt 1868

Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) On the Beach at Trouville

Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) Garden at Sainte-Adresse

Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) The Beach at Trouville 1870

Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) The Regatta At Sainte-Adresse 1867

Waterside with Frenchman Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Children on the Seashore Guernsey 1883



Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) On the Beach, Figures under a Parasol 1898

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) By the Seashore 1883

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Children on the Seashore Guernsey 1883

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Figures on the Beach 1890s

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Two Little Girls at the Beach

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) The Beach at Purnic

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Young Girls on the Beach 1898

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) By the Water

"Women Artist" Painting Flowers as Symbols - Clara Peeters 1594-1657

Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)

Clara Peeters (1594-c 1657) was not painting portraits as were most women painters born in the 1400-1500s.  Peeters is the best-known female Flemish artist of this era and one of the few women artists working professionally in 17C Europe, despite restrictions on women's access to artistic training and membership in guilds. Peeters was among the earliest specialist painters of still lifes and flowers, working while this genre was still emerging. Fewer than ten paintings of flowers produced in the Netherlands can be dated before 1608, when she painted her first recorded work.

Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)

She was baptized in Antwerp in 1594, & married there in 1639. Her earliest dated paintings, from 1607-1608, are small, detailed images representing food & drink. At the time that Clara Peeters was painting, religious imagery was forbidden in the Dutch Reformed Protestant Church.  Artistic symbols  were developed to make coded references to life, death, & religion, so her paintings conveyed a meaning to her patrons of much more than objects in a still life. Each painting would be a visual puzzle to be decoded by the viewer.  

Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)

Some speculate that the skill with which this teenage artist executed her painting suggests that she may have been trained by a master painter. Although there is no documentary evidence of her education, some scholars theorize that Peeters may have been a student of Osias Beert, a still-life painter from Antwerp.  By 1612, the 18-year-old artist was producing large numbers of painstakingly rendered still lifes displaying symbols in groupings of metal goblets, gold coins, & exotic flowers.

Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)

Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)

Women by Swedish painter Anders Leonard Zorn 1860–1920

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Martha Dana 1899


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Emma Zorn, Lasande 1887


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs John Crosby Brown c 1900


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs Walter Bacon


Anders Leonard Zorn Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (Virginia Purdy) 1897


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Queen Sophia 1909

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920)

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) A Musical Family 1905

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Bedouin girl 1886

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Bottling Beer 1890

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Castles in the Air 1885

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Dalecarlian girl from Rättvik 1880

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Dalecarlian Girl Knitting. Cabbage Margit, 1901

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Emma Zorn in the Paris Studio

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Frances Cleveland 1899

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Fru Lisen Samson, nee Hirsch, Arranging Flowers at a Window 1881

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Girl in an Orsa Costume

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Girl playing mandolin 1884

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Home Tunes 1920

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice 1894

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Kuver Maja

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Kvinde fra Mora, 1916

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Lace-making in Venice 1894

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Lacy Seam 1894

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Lady with fur cape 1887

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Madame Clara Rikoff 1889

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mademoiselle Antoinette May 1890

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Margit 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Martha Liebermann 1896

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Midnight 1891

 Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mona 1898

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mora Marknad

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Morakulla

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs. Lucy Turner Joy 1897

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs. Potter Palmer 1893

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs. Veronica Heiss 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Night Effect. 1895

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Old Anne, 1887

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Ols Maria 1918

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Omnibus 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Our Daily Bread  The artist's mother 1886

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Painter Alice Miller 1887

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Peeling Potatoes 1916

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Edith Palgrave Edward

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Elizabeth Sherman Cameron 1900

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg 1894

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Lisen Lamm 1885

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Mme Ashley 1920

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Mrs. Eben Richards

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Reveil

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Roseta Mauri 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Sommarnöje 1886

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Sunday morning 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The Bride

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The cigarette smoker 1892

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The Girl from Älvdalen 1911

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The Letter 1892

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The misses Salomon 1888

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Woman getting dressed 1893

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920)


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs Symons 1888

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) In Scotland (Mrs. Symons), 1887

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Gunnlod, 1893

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) A Kitchen Maid 1919

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor & printmaker in etching. In 1887, Zorn had received a request from the management of the Uffizi in Florence, to paint a self-portrait for their collection. It was not until 1888, that he completed this, and left the following reflections:

"I had by then never painted a portrait in the studio, because of the strange lighting and due to all the people disturbing me, but for my portrait, this could fit... It should be done in oils, and so I began trying. Of course, my vanity would portray me as a man capable of much more than painting, and suiting enough I was working on a bust of Emma in clay, so I let that lump of mud get in there as well."

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Self Portrait 1888