1- George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. He became interested in Theosophy and was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.
2- Odilon Redon (1840 – 1916) was a French Symbolist draughtsman, printmaker, and painter, best known today for his dreamlike paintings, which leaned toward abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to Surrealism. He was friends with Edouard Schuré and frequented occult bookshop owned by Edmond Bailley, a Theosophist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6XXTE2Jd98 https://brooklynrail.org/2005/11/artseen/beyond-the-visible-the-art-of-odilon-red/
3- José Villegas ( 1844 – 1921) was a Spanish painter of historical, genre and costumbrista scenes, inspired by the works of the Orientalist painters. He attended the Centro de Estudios Teosóficos of Seville, active in the calle Sierpes, which gathered young intellectuals who combined civic engagement with metaphysical aspirations. Villegas absorbed symbols, readings, and ideas from this environment.
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6- Reginald W. Machell (1854-1927) was an English painter whose best-known work is The Path. He joined the Theosophical Society after meeting Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in London, and later moved to the Point Loma community, where he painted, wrote, and designed furniture.
7- Hermann Schmiechen (22 July 1855 – c. 1923 or 1925) was a German portrait painter and Theosophist. From 1884 to 1895 he was a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1901, Schmiechen, returning into Germany, settled in Berlin and joined the German section of the Theosophical Society.
9- Fernand Khnopff (1858 – 1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter and one of the founding members of the avant-garde group Les XX in 1883. His paintings often depict isolation, desire, and the dual image of woman as femme fatale and angelic ideal, a recurring theme in symbolist art. Khnopff had close ties to British Pre-Raphaelitism, befriending Edward Burne-Jones and other British artists, and from 1895 was Brussels correspondent for the art journal The Studio. Khnopff moved in Jean Delville’s Theosophical circle.
10- Jan Toorop (1858 – 1928) was a Dutch painter who worked in various styles, including Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and Pointillism. His early work was influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. In 1905, he converted to Catholicism and began producing religious works. He also created book illustrations, posters, and stained glass designs. Artists like Piet Mondrian—who worked closely with Toorop in Domburg—were explicitly and heavily inspired by Theosophy during their spiritual evolutions.
https://www.theartstory.org/definition/theosophy-and-art/
https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/theosophy-and-art/
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a Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. Burne-Jones worked with William Morris as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co in the design of decorative arts
https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1980/october/theosophy/
b John William Waterhouse (1849 – 1917)
c Gaetano Previati ( 1852 – 1920)
d Luigi Russolo ( 1885 – 1947)
e José Clemente Orozco (1883 – 1949)
f Arthur Lismer (1885–1969).
g- Alphonse Osbert (1857 – 1939) was a French Symbolist painter. A shift away from his academic style took place in the late 1880s under the influence of several acquaintances associated with Post-Impressionism and Symbolism. Osbert abandoned naturalistic painting in favour of a Pointillist technique like that employed by Seurat and Signac. His signature style consists of ghostlike Muses in mysterious landscapes bathed in the unearthly light of a sun or moon, rendered with abundant use of the colour blue. In the 1890s he was associated with Joséphin Péladan and his order, the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross.
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