Lu Cong, American artist

Born in Shanghai, in 1978, Lu Cong immigrated to the US at the age of 11. He graduated from the University of Iowa with degrees in Biology and Art in 2000, but chose to pursue portrait art over medicine. The artist was recognized by a number of art publications as a notable emerging artist between 2003 and 2007 and since then he has developed a distinctive look that many has regarded as an original approach to figurative realism. (lucong.com)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) French academic painter

"William Bouguereau is unquestionably one of history's greatest artistic geniuses. Yet in the past century, his reputation and unparalleled accomplishments have undergone a libelous, dishonest, relentless and systematic assault of immense proportions. His name was stricken from most history texts and when included it was only to blindly, degrade and disparage him and his work. Yet, as we shall see, it was he who single handedly opened the French academies to women, and it was he who was arguably the greatest painter of the human figure in all of art history." (Damien Bartoli, artrenewal.org)

The Grape Picker, 1895

Bacchante

Pastels by Paul Knight (British)

Jan van Eyck (c. 1390 –1441) Flemish Painter

Jan van Eyck, Rolin Madonna

Jan van Eyck, Paele Madonna

Jan van Eyck, Lucca Madonna

Jan van Eyck, The Virgin and Child Reading

Jan van Eyck, Madonna at the Fontain

Roberto Liang (Taiwan)