Swiss artist Félix Edouard Vallotton 1865-1925 paints traditional Portraits

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1884 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Artist's Mother

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1886 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Juliette Lacour

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1886 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Artist's Parents

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1892 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Invalid

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1902 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Workshop with my Wife

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1904 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) womn Reading at the Window

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1906 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Melot Martha wife of Alfred Natanson

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1907 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Gertrude Stein

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1908 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Gabrielle Valloton

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1908 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Mrs Hasen

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1909 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) At the Cafe

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1911 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Coquettery

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1911 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Seated Black Woman

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1911 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Young Woman with Yellow Scarf

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1912 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Children of Hans and Lisa Hanloser

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1913 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Yellow Sheet

Swiss artist Félix Edouard Vallotton 1865-1925 paints rather non-traditional andscapes

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1913 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Rising Tide

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1895 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Moonlight

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1915 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) the sheaves

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1921 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) View of Cagne from Horseback

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1922 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Part of the Town of Pont-Audemer

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1917 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Verdun

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1920 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Alyscamps morning sun

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1923 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) A Vallon Landscape

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1922 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Family of Trees

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1925 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Landscape Rocamadour

William Merritt Chase 1849-1916 - His daughter Alice

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase in the Mirror


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) Mrs William Merritt Chase and Cosy (Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase) 1895


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase 1898


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase 1902


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase 1902


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase, Shinnecock Hills 1902


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase with Russian Wolfhound 1903

And a few cats by Suzanne Valadon 1865-1938

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Two Cats

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Study of a cat in 1918

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Bouquet and a Cat 1919

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) and Louison Raminou, 1920

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) sitting on a cloth Raminou 1920

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Miss Lily Walton with Raminou 1922

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) and Raminou pitcher with skin tones in 1932

Fashion! - Swiss artist Jakob Emanuel Handmann 1718-1781 paints Turquerie

Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781)  Unknown lady 1775


Jakob Emanuel Handmann was the 9th child of Johann Jakob Handmann, a baker in Waldenburg, & his wife Anna Maria Rispach. Between 1735 & 1739, he apprenticed in Schaffhausen with the painter & stucco plasterer Johann Ulrich Schnetzler. The young artist then traveled to Paris, Rome & Naples. In Paris, he worked at the studio of Jean Restout II. In 1742, Handmann worked in France with Hörling Handmann painting the heads of the sitters. Later he worked in the studios of Marco Benefial & Pierre Subleyras in Rome. There he produced commercial copies of masterpieces from the Classical Antiquity & Renaissance periods.  By June 1746, he was back in Switzerland; and in 1747, he settled down in Basel, where he opened his own studio.

Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Philippine Fellenberg

Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Lady in Turkish dress 1775

Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Swiss artist, 1718-1781) Catherine Augusta Lerber Sturler

Fashion! - Frenchman Antoine de Favray 1706-1792 paints Turquerie + Knights & Ladies of Malta

Antoine de Favray (French painter, 1706-1792) Maltese Women


Antoine de Favray was a French painter best known for His portraits of the Ottoman Empire. In 1738, he was Mentioned as a private pupil of Jean-François de Troy II, who was then director of the Académie de France in Rome. In 1739, Antoine de Favray was registered as a student at the Académie. In 1744, the artist left Rome for Malta, remaining there for much of the rest of His career Devoting himself primarily to portraiture & amp; genre painting. His portraits of women talking together in relaxed situations are Particularly important, Because most women in the Ottoman Empire Remained almost Exclusively Within Their family settings or among other women. Already he had lived a long life, When He wrote to Chevalier de Turgot in 1788, " In spite of my weak sight, a heavy hand and an exhausted imagination, I always spend my time making something or other ... Years pile upon each other, Which does not pain me, on the contrary. For this century is the century When things happen. It is near its end and so am I, luckily " 

Antoine de Favray (French painter, 1706-1792) Annette Comtesse de Vergennes in Turkish Gown

Antoine de Favray (French painter, 1706-1792) Turkish Women

Antoine de Favray (French painter, 1706-1792) Portrait of a family, c 1760

Antoine de Favray (French painter, 1706-1792) grecques Dames en costume intérieur dans un jardin

Antoine de Favray (French painter, 1706-1792) Ladies of the Knights of Malta With Their Maid Servants

Antoine de Favray (French painter, 1706-1792) Dames de Malte if faisant visits in 1763

Antoine de Favray (French painter, 1706-1792) Officers of the Knights of Malta

Antoine de Favray (French painter, 1706-1792) Malta Interior (Gentlemen Only)

Simeon Solomon, English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905

Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Night 1890


Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) was born into a prominent Jewish family in England. He was the 8th & last child born to merchant Michael (Meyer) Solomon & artist Catherine (Kate) Levy. Solomon was a younger brother to painters Abraham Solomon (1824–1862) & Rebecca Solomon (1832–1886). His first exhibition was at the Royal Academy in 1858, where he continued to exhibit until 1872. In addition to literary paintings favored by the Pre-Raphaelite school, Solomon's subjects often included scenes from the Hebrew Bible & genre paintings depicting Jewish life. In 1873 his career was cut short, when he was arrested in a public urinal in London & charged with attempting to commit sodomy & was fined. He was was arrested again in 1874 in Paris, after which he was sentenced to spend 3 months in prison. In 1884 he was admitted to the workhouse, where he continued to paint; however, his talent was blighted by alcoholism. Twenty years later in 1905, he died from complications of his alcoholism.


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Dawn


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Marguerite 1866


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Mother of Moses 1860


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Love Dreaming by the Sea 1871


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Beatrice


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Autumn


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Toilette of a Roman Lady 1869


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Priestess Offering Poppies


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Bacchus


Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Allegorical Self Portrait 1873Simeon Solomon (English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1840-1905) Self Portrait 1860