Sentence examples for painters from inspiring English sources

But this breezy resort on Holland's North Sea coast is better known as an artists' retreat, its moody seascapes, endless dunes and extraordinary light attracting painters, writers and architects who have been leaving their mark on this laid-back and likable village since the 1900s.

Admire the work of the "Bergen School" of painters at Museum Kranenburgh (kranenburgh.nl) or take a stroll among the distinctive thatched "Amsterdam School" villas of the Park Meerwijk neighbourhood.

This is an encounter between two mighty painters.

The stories that follow are based on interviews with four successful young British artists – working as actors, poets, playwrights, painters – who grew up in Muslim communities.

Ion Ciornihac aims to be on one of them, though, if his mate Cornel Mihai, flush with a bit of cash after working in building supplies in New York, succeeds in getting a small agency off the ground to bring painters, plasterers and tilers to work on UK building sites.

Rubens and His Legacy applies a simplistic theory and smashes as much evidence as it can into its rigid, short-sighted argument that Rubens is the fons et origo of almost everything painters have ever done.

Nearby Trouville-sur-Mer, across the Touques river, has sandy beaches and belle époque architecture, and Honfleur, a 30-minute drive east, is an attractive fishing port depicted by several impressionist painters, some of whose works are in the Eugène Boudin museum, in a former 19th-century chapel.

By the time Antony became widely known in 2005 with his Mercury prize-winning second album, I Am a Bird Now, he had spent 15 years in Manhattan as one of a startling, inter-generational constellation of dancers, painters, film-makers, musicians and performance artists, mostly clustered on the Lower East Side.

"We did a massive amount of improvisation informed by what we had read and what we knew had to be dramatised," Leigh says, and adds that the actors were all painters themselves: "We went out of our way to say, 'OK, where are the actors who can paint?' There are quite a lot of them around.

While the others had mostly come through the Royal Academy Schools, Calais-born Brown had attended the academies of Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp, where he had absorbed the realism and fine detail of the early Flemish and Dutch painters.

A great death, as it were, among a city of great births: the painters William Rothenstein and David Hockney, the composer Frederick Delius, the writer JB Priestley, the physicist and Nobel laureate Sir Edward Appleton – to name only a few of the many eminent baby Bradfordians.