
Félix Thiollier :: Emma Thiollier painting on top of one of the towers of Notre Dame, photographed by her father, 1907. Paris, Musée d’Orsay / src: ArtBlart
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On the flagpole :: W. E. Mackney, the bell repairman in London, paints a flagpole erected
to celebrate the opening of the Empire Pool in the Wembley Arena, London,
January 1, 1936. (Ward / Fox Photos / Getty Images) / src: ilpost.it

G.C Clutton :: Painter and illustrator Ethel King colouring a mounted preserved specimen of a Queensland Groper in 1926 [Australian Museum]
In 1925 the Australian Museum was commissioned by the Fijian government to prepare fish specimens for an exhibition in The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in Dunedin. The instructions that came with the fish were to have them mounted on a pedestal and painted in natural colors.
Source and more info about this painter: Australian Museum

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:: Picasso posing as the Artist, with Jean Marais as his Model, ca. 1944 / src: iphotocentral

Master of abstract art: 150th anniversary of Wassily Kandinsky’s birth. With his abstract paintings, Kandinsky revolutionized art history.