Illustrationintheworld

  Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (22 October 1879 – 29 September 1959) was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape. He studied design at the Manchester School of Art and art at the Slade School of Art. Smith studied under Henri Matisse in Paris and acquired an interest in Fauvism. During World War I, he was wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele. In 1949, Smith was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in 1954. He married Gwen Salmond and their relationship broke up when he entered into an affair with Vera Cuningham. Smith lived, worked, and exhibited in England and France.

  Charles Lucien Léandre (Champsecret, July 22, 1862 - Paris, May 24, 1934) was a French painter and lithographer. He was also an excellent draftsman and a well-known caricaturist. The son of a career officer (who was also mayor of his commune all his life), Charles Léandre moved from Normandy to Paris at the age of sixteen, where he was welcomed in 1878 by the painter Émile Bin, who became his teacher. Two years later he enrolled at the Paris School of Fine Arts and was assigned to the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel. He won competitions and prizes, for antique drawing in 1883 and for atelier work in 1884 and 1886. In 1882 he passed the competition to teach drawing as professor of the schools of the city of Paris and taught until 1897. In that same year he was admitted to exhibit at the Salon of French artists with the painting "Fanchon la tricoteuse" (Fanchon working Knitted). At the Universal Exhibition of 1889 he received a bronze medal for a large canvas: "The moth...