Edgar Maxence (French symbolist painter)

Le Livre de Paix, (The Book of Peace) 1913

Serenity - 1912

Edgar Maxence (born in Nantes, 1871, died in La Bernerie-en-Retz, 1954), was a French Symbolist painter. He was taught by Elie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Read more here

Cy Twombly 1928-2011

Cy Twombly's

Roma apartment

by 

Horst P. Horst

for Vogue in 1966 via here

Anna & Michael Ancher’s house

Anna & Michael Ancher

Photo via here

Danish painter Michael Peter Ancher (1849 - 1927) He joined the growing society of artists in Skagen in 1874, known as "The Skagen Painters" Anchers paintings are classics and he is one of Denmark's most popular artists. The paintings are often concerned with the heroics of the fishermen and lifeboats crews. more info here
Michael Ancher came from a classic training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and he found it difficult to adjust to Scandinavian painting's modern breakthrough, the "Skagen school". His marriage to Anna Ancher did, however, introduce him to the naturalistic concept of undecorated reproduction of reality and its colours. 

Raised-panel doors painted with bird portraits in the early 20th century by  Michael Ancher. Photo by Andreas von Einsiedel for "The World of Interiors".