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FirstService Brands operates six franchise networks which provide services to primarily residential customers, with a total of 1935 franchises . The six networks are Paul Davis Restoration, CertaPro Painters, California Closets, Pillar to Post Home Inspectors, Floor Coverings International, First Onsite and College Pro Painters. [10]
On April 1, 2007; Ardizzone began a CertaPro Franchise in Glenview, Illinois. The Franchise, CertaPro Painters of the North Shore, has been accredited by the Better Business Bureau since September 2009. The franchise is still owned by Ardizzone as of March 2023, marking 15 years in the painting business. [3] [4]
In October 2008, Driven Brands of Charlotte, North Carolina, a holding company which owns Meineke Car Care Centers, Inc. as well as Econo Lube and other auto service related concerns, purchased Maaco outright from Martino's family after his death in January 2008. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Corel Painter – a program that emulates natural media – paint, crayons, brushes etc (formerly Fractal Painter). Corel Photo Album – A sophisticated program for organizing digital photographs, inherited from Jasc Software. Corel Photo-Paint – A bitmap graphics program comparable to Adobe Photoshop, bundled with the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.
William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American painter and instructor who embraced the Boston School paradigm and was a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists. He taught briefly while a student at Cowles Art School , where he met his wife Elizabeth Okie Paxton , and at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston.
Jack Vettriano OBE (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951 [2]) is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting The Singing Butler became a best-selling image in Britain. Early life
Octavio Ocampo (born 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a Mexican surrealist painter. He grew up in a family of designers, and studied art from early childhood. At art school, Ocampo constructed papier mache figures for floats, altars, and ornaments that were used during carnival parades and other festivals. In high school ...
Under Leighton's influence, he began as a painter of classical scenes; then "he turned to the more profitable pastures of portrait painting, and genre pictures of pretty women and children." [ 1 ] In 1874, he married the youngest daughter of novelist Charles Dickens , who as Kate Perugini [ 2 ] pursued her own artistic career, sometimes ...