16th May
The ‘Baroness with a Brush’ Tamara de Lempicka was born on the 16th May 1898. In Paris during the Roaring Twenties she became part of the city’s bohemian life. 
Although clearly influenced by Cubism she became a leading exponent of the Art Deco style and real favourite of the Hollywood set.
This blog is part of a year long project to discuss an artist born on each day of the year.
If you want to know which Artist was born on your Birthday? A month by month, day by day calendar of famous artists born each day of the year is just HERE!
The Russian Artist Viktor Vasnetsov was born on May 15th 1848. He specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered the co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic modernist painting and a key figure in the Russian revivalist movement.
Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker born on this day in 1727 and founder member of the Royal Academy. 
He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. His a light palette and easy strokes became the method from then on. 
He preferred landscapes to portraits, and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator, was born on this day in 1828. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 along with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. These young men were to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. 
His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. Rossetti’s personal life was closely linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris.
Salvador Dalí was born on this day in 1904 and was a
prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. What is left to say! Known the world over as an artist who brought the subconscious to us through his adherence to realism.
In 1922 Dalí began studying at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid with a crowd that were to be later distingushed in their own fields, namely Pepín Bello, Luis Buñuel, and Federico García Lorca. Wow what a team!
Konstantinos Parthenis was a distinguished Greek painter born, in Alexandria, on
this day in 1878. His cosmopolitan background (Italy, Vienna, Paris) seems to have played a role in the development of his eclectic style. 
