artist
Winslow Homer:In 1860, Winslow Homer made his first paintings at the National Academy of Design in New York. From the late 1870s, Homer began to devote his summers exclusively to direct painting from nature in watercolor.
gustave courbet: French painter Gustave Courbet went against mid-19th century Romanticism and led the Realism movement toward the beauty of everyday life.
James Whistler:James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born on July 11, 1834, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was educated in St. Petersburg, Russia, then attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. Establishing himself as a painter in Paris and London.
Jules Breton:Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting.
Ilya Repin:Ilya Repin was a Russian realist painter and sculptor originating from the Kharkov region of present day Ukraine. A member of the free-thinking society of Peredvizhniki artists, Repin's works of realism became a model imitated by "Socialist Realist" artists of the Soviet Union. His works expressed great psychological depth and brilliantly exposed tensions within the existing social order.