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  🖌️🎨 Evelyn De Morgan-Pickering (1885-1919) was an English innovative artist, a follower of the Pre-Raphaelites, the wife of the famous ceramic artist William de Morgan (a friend of William Morris), and the niece of the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Spencer Stanhope. Style: Pre-Raphaelism, Symbolism. Subject and objects: portraits, nudes, genre, mythological, literary and allegorical scenes. Evelyn was a feminist who challenged male chauvinism and class prejudices, a pacifist and a spiritualist. Despite the obvious influence of her uncle, the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Spencer Stanhope, she managed to create an original pictorial world, in the center of which she placed female images. Mysticism, allegory, spiritualism are the obvious interests of the artist. Her style is also noted: unique plasticity, proportions of figures, clearly defined lines of outfits, carefully painted draperies, color scheme with a predominance of complex crimson, burgundy and pink tones - all this makes he...

  🖌️🎨Félix Vallotton (French: Félix Vallotton, 1865-1925) was a Swiss artist and printmaker. He is best known for his woodcuts. Vallotton was born into a conservative middle-class family in Lausanne. He studied at the Collège Cantonale, graduating with a degree in classical studies in 1882. That same year, he moved to Paris to study art with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie Julian. He spent much time at the Louvre, admiring the works of Holbein, Dürer, and Ingres, artists who remained models for Vallotton throughout his life. In 1885, at the age of 20, he painted a portrait of Monsieur Ursenbach, as well as his first self-portrait, which received an honorable mention in 1886 at the Salon des artistes français. He gained European fame for his woodcuts, examples of which he found in the works of Rembrandt and Millet. In the winter of 1888-1889, Vallotton and his cousin traveled through Austria and Italy. In 1890, he returned to his parents' house and, hav...