Auguste Toulmouche 1829-1890 Frankrijk

Lippert: The Young Apprentice. But if course it is the reflection of the older man which grabs the attention, not the apparent and superficial subject of the picture. re-blogged from blastedheath

I would venture to say, "They owe it all to Loomis." Before Sundblom, before Anderson, before Joyce Ballentyne, Gil Elvgren and before a host of other practitioners of "the old school style", there was Loomis. William Andrew Loomis was born in Syracuse, New York in 1892 and studied under the legendary George Bridgeman at the Art Student's League in New York City. By 1915, at age 23, he was already working in a Chicago art studio. Apart from a 20-month stint in the army during WW One, he…

Leopold Schmutzler (1864-1940) was a Bohemian-born German painter, specialized in portraits, figures and Rococo-style genre scenes. His style was gene