Still Lifes by Edith Isabel Barrow (British, d. 1930) Victorian Painter

Edith Isabel Barrow, Still Life

Edith Isabel Barrow

Isabel Barrow was a painter of flowers, interiors, portraits and landscapes.
She studied at the South Kensington Art School after winning a scholarship.
She painted numerous flower paintings and one was acquired by Queen Mary, and series of Westminster Abbey interiors was purchased by the Empress Frederick of Germany.
The painter extensively exhibited at the Royal Society of British artists, at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham.
Her health deteriorated after an operation for cancer in 1926. She was buried in Combe Martin churchyard in an unmarked grave, a pauper's plot.

Women in Painting by French Artist Leopold Franz Kowalski (1856-1931)

La Main Chaude

Reading

Italian Painter Gennaro Befani (1866-1949)

The Parasol. Italian Painter Gennaro Befani

Jeunesse 1922

Italian Landscape Painter Alessandro La Volpe (1819-1887)

Harbor View of Naples

The talented landscape painter Alessandro La Volpe was born in Lucera, Italy, where his father was employed by the Royal College. Upon graduation, the young Alexander moved to Naples, the important European city at the time. There he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. At the age of about 30, in search of experience, he travels to Sicily Egypt, where he paints many landscapes revealing precise compositional skills.

Palazzo Donna Anna with Vesuvius in the background

Soon La Volpe moved to Florence where he co-founded the "School of the Romantic Landscape," the so-called "School of Staggia" (1852-1855).
La Volpe was also a talented watercolorist, his meticulous technique based on the English traditions.
Later in life La Volpe moved to Rome, where he died suffering, probably, of mental illness.
His paintings are kept in private collections and major museums in the world, particularly in England.

Dutch Painter Paul Arntzenius (1883-1965)

Paul Arntzenius. A Village, 1914

Paul Arntzenius. Still Life, 1943