Posts in Category: january 19

Valentin Serov

On January 2, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, january 19, Russian

Valentin Alexandrovich Serov, January 19, 1865–December 5, 1911, was a Russian painter and draftsman.

He studied privately with Ilya Repin and entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1880, where he studied under Pavel Chistyakov. Serov exhibited with the Peredvizhniki and was associated with the World of Art circle.

From 1897 to 1909 he taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; his students included Pavel Kuznetsov, Nikolai Sapunov, Martiros Saryan, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. His works are held principally by the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, as well as other Russian and international collections.

Guido Cagnacci

On January 1, 2026 - 17th Century, Italian, january 19

Guido Cagnacci, January 13, 1601 – 1663, was an Italian Baroque painter born in Santarcangelo di Romagna. By 1618 he was studying in Bologna, and in the early 1620s he lived in Rome; his training connected him with Ludovico Carracci and Guercino.

By the mid-1620s Cagnacci had returned to Romagna, where he worked for religious and aristocratic patrons in Rimini, Forlì, Faenza, and neighboring towns. Around 1649 he moved to Venice, adopted the name Guido Canlassi da Bologna, and worked chiefly for private patrons.

In 1658 Cagnacci moved to Vienna, where he worked at the court of Emperor Leopold I and produced major late paintings including The Death of Cleopatra and The Conversion of Mary Magdalene. He died in Vienna in 1663.

Paul Cézanne

On March 27, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, january 19

Paul Cézanne, January 19, 1839–October 22, 1906, was a French painter born in Aix-en-Provence. He studied drawing in Aix and attended the Académie Suisse in Paris, where he met Camille Pissarro. He also copied paintings in the Louvre.

Cézanne worked with Pissarro in the Paris region and associated with Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other Impressionist painters. He participated in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. Ambroise Vollard organized his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1895. Cézanne continued working in Provence and died in Aix-en-Provence.

His paintings and watercolors are held by the Musée d’Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery in London, the Barnes Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Museum, among other collections.