painters

So I've been commissioned to write an article about some of the most important and underrated women painters in the world so I'm looking for recommendations. However, before any fellow female painter forumites want to suggest themselves, the requirement for the article is specifically, women who...

I have for some time been interested in the architecture of ancient Egypt, and some well known watercolorists of their time, who have depicted these structures since the late 1800's, namely David Roberts, and Hector Horeau, there are others, such as Edward Lear, who penned the “Owl and the Pussy...

Does anyone know any facts about the painter Friedrich Bloch? Google isn't bringing up much by way of what I want. Firstoff, I am reading a book of short stories by Jeffrey Archer - fiction, naturally. However, one of his stories is about the life of Friedrich Bloch and his patron, Hans...

And why? (I've specifically limited this to painters so it will be apples-to-apples comparisons.) I was just watching some of the hysteria over on the thread in SInCE about Thomas Kincaid. Wow, people take their art pretty seriously here. I've never been one to get overly excited about art...