Melville Holmes
Melville Holmes was born in San Francisco in 1950 and began his painting career at the age of nine. In his early twenties a clear vision for his work came to him. Meliville wanted to rediscover the sense of timelessness found in certain Old Master works. He traveled twice to Europe in order to study the look of Old Master paintings up close and his own approach derives from the Venetian Renaissance method of applying multiple layers of transparent, colored glazes and opaque enamels. Holmes’s subjects include still life, landscape, architecture, portrait, and figure painting.
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| The Old Isabella Room |
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| Three Exotic Vessels |
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| Fritz Bachmeyr
Fritz Bachmeyr was born in Munich Germany and discovered his natural talent for drawing after being enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy at the age of twelve. He studied under the guidance of Italian, German and Austrian old-master painters such as Karl Stutz, Herbert Lieber, and Antonio Brazzo. In his twenties Fritz became fascinated with American painters and spent a decade studying them, focusing on the European influence on their techniques. Fritz has produced many heirloom paintings which were greatly influenced by the American masters ranging from John Singleton to John Singer Sergeant to Albert Bierstadt. In his fifties, Fritz became fascinated with the French Barbizon period. He visited the county of Barbizon outside of Paris and lived several months in the same environment as his 19th Century counterpart painters. Fritz now resides in Spokane Washington and paints local landscapes as well as the old classics.
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| Perfect as a Rose |
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| Victorian Family Outing on Horse |
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