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The Nymphs, 1881, oil on canvas by Henri Pierre Picou, Italian, 1824-1895. Private Collection.

Picou was a student of Paul Delaroche in Paris and created historical, allegorical, genre, religious scenes, and large murals. He was honored with the Prix de Rome and was considered the most fashionable artist at the close of the 19th-century.

The Three Bears from the Project Gutenberg eBook of English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel. Illustration by Arthur Rackham, English book illustrator, 1867-1939.

It’s nice the bears have portraits of people on their walls as people might have bears.

The Poor Man’s Store, 1885, oil on canvas and wood by John Frederick Peto, American, 1854-1907. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusettes, USA.

The store doesn’t carry items desired by the wealthy but is interesting in its own right. Having studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Peto used the trompe d’oeil style of painting giving the composition a greater three-dimensional feel.

He earned his living as a photographer, sculptor, and artist, but sank into obscurity after 1889.

Homeward Bound, 1851, oil on canvas by Sidney Richard Percy, English, 1821-1886, artist and amateur photographer. Private Collection.

Percy was part of the Williams family of painters in the 19th-century. He and other family members formed the core of the Barnes School in southwest London and Percy was recognized as a gifted landscape artist distinguished for color and a sense of space.

Under the Pont des Arts, Paris, 1910, oil on canvas by Julius Paulsen, Danish, 1860-1940. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Amateurs, between 1865 and 1868, by Honoré Daumier, French, 1808-1879. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

The Amateurs is a work of black crayon with watercolor heightened with white gouache on cream and slightly textured wove paper. The artist awaits an enthusiastic response from his visitors and may or may not get it.

Daumier was a printmaker, caricaturist, painter and sculptor who commented on social life in France in the 19th century.

A Watermill and a Ruined Arch, A Man In a Small Boat In the Foreground, pen and brown ink on paper by Flippo D’angeli or DeLiagno called Filippo Napoletano, Italian, 1587-1629. At auction at Sotheby’s.

Napoletano was known for his landscapes, genre drawings, and diverse etchings.

Extensive Rhine Landscape, oil on panel by Dionijs Verburgh, Dutch, 1655-1722. Private Collection.

Verburgh was known for his extensive landscapes viewed from a height and containing many elements.

Frog Prince, 1909, illustration by Arthur Rackham, English book illustrator, 1867-1939, for a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

To meet your Prince Charming, you have to kiss a lot of frogs -- er -- as the saying goes.

Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects, 1869, oil on canvas by James Tissot, French, 1836-1902. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Tissot studied in France before moving to London where he changed his name from James Jacques Joseph Tissot to James Tissot. An artist and illustrator, he was successful in Paris society with his genre scenes.

Romantic Scene, 1851, oil on canvas by Henrik Weber, Hungarian, 1818-1866. Private Collection.

Weber studied in Hungary and Austria and painted genre as well as historic scenes.

Storm, 1890, oil on canvas by William MacTaggart, Scottish, 1835-1910. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Of the Glasgow School, MacTaggart and other artists concentrated on open air painting which a new concept and popular in the 1800s.

Bird Nesting, 1837, oil on canvas by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, German, 1816-1868. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. USA.

Leutze was known as a history artist. He studied at the Düsseldorf School of painting and later became an American citizen. His best-known work is Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Cologne Cathedral, 1869, oil on canvas by James Webb, English, 1825-1895. City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, England.

Webb was noted for marine scenes as well as landscapes.

Landscape in Spring, 1587, oil on canvas by Lucas van Valkenborch, Flemish, 1530-1597. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

The Palace of Coudenberg in Brussels is the background. It was the seat of government from the 11th century to its destruction in 1731. Valkenborch was a member of a family of painters and this painting is part of his four seasons folio.

Landscape 1837, oil on canvas by Richard Dadd, English, 1817-1886. York Museums Trust, York, England.

Dadd murdered his father in 1843 and spent the rest of his life in asylums. Encouraged to paint, he produced subjects of fairies and fantasy. He was forgotten for years, but his work was revived in 1970 and was the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Britain, London, England, in 1974. -- Paraphrased from The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, Oxford University Press.

Huntsman Feeding His Dogs, 1652, oil on panel by Cornelius Saftleven, Dutch, 1607-1681. Private Collection.

Saftleven painted genre scenes, landscapes, and satirical pictures of animals dressed as theologians and jurists.

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