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Abbott Handerson Thayer
Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) was an American painter and naturalist known for ethereal paintings of angels, women, and children, and for his pioneering theory of animal camouflage.
Adolph Menzel
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) was a German painter and printmaker, regarded as the leading German artist of the second half of the 19th century and known for his Frederick the Great scenes.
Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur
Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur (1880–1958) was a Belgian painter who settled in Bali in 1932, known for impressionist paintings of Balinese women, especially his wife, the dancer Ni Pollok.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, born Axel Waldemar Gallén, was a Finnish painter who gave the Finnish epic Kalevala its visual form, with works like The Defence of the Sampo.
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), German-American landscape painter of the Hudson River and Rocky Mountain schools, trained in Düsseldorf, painted monumental Yosemite and Rocky Mountain vistas after western survey trips from 1859, and set a $7.32M auction record in 2008.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917), American visionary painter of New Bedford and New York, known for small moonlit seascapes and literary subjects, Society of American Artists co-founder, Armory Show exhibitor, and victim of widespread forgery.
Aleksander Gierymski
Aleksander Gierymski, full name Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski, was a Polish painter of Realism and a precursor of Impressionism, born in Warsaw in 1850 and died in Rome in 1901.
Alexander Ivanov
Alexander Ivanov (1806–1858) was a Russian painter best known for The Appearance of Christ to the People, one of the best-known works in Russian art.
Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) was a French academic painter and leading figure of official 19th-century French art, best known for The Birth of Venus (1863) and his society portraits.
Alexei Savrasov
Alexei Savrasov (Алексей Кондратьевич Саврасов, 1830–1897) was a Russian landscape painter and teacher, born and died in Moscow, whose The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) founded the lyrical Russian landscape.
Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was a British landscape painter, born in Paris to English parents, who spent almost his whole life in France and helped found Impressionism.
An Jung-sik
An Jung-sik (안중식, pen name Simjeon, 1861–1919) was a Korean painter who served as the last official court painter of the Joseon dynasty and trained the first generation of modern Korean painters.
Anders Zorn
Anders Zorn (1860–1920) was a Swedish painter, etcher, and sculptor who became one of Europe's leading portrait painters, painting three US presidents including Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt.
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767–1824), usually known as Girodet-Trioson, was a French history and portrait painter, a pupil of Jacques-Louis David whose imaginative, emotionally charged works anticipated Romanticism.
Aoki Shigeru
Aoki Shigeru (青木繁, 1882–1911) was a Japanese yōga painter of Meiji Romanticism, best known for A Gift of the Sea of 1904, the first Western-style painting named an Important Cultural Property.
Arkhip Kuindzhi (Архип Иванович Куинджи)
Arkhip Kuindzhi (Архип Иванович Куинджи), Greek-origin Russian/Ukrainian landscape painter (c. 1842–1910), famed for luminous works like Moonlit Night on the Dnieper, Academy professor, philanthropist, Kuindzhi Society founder.
Arnold Böcklin
Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), Swiss Symbolist painter of Die Toteninsel (Isle of the Dead), five versions; trained in Düsseldorf, worked in Rome and Florence; patronized by Schack and Gurlitt; revived by the Surrealists.
Arthur Wesley Dow
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922) was an American landscape painter, printmaker, and art educator based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, whose composition method from Japanese prints influenced Georgia O'Keeffe and American art schools.
Ary Scheffer
Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), Dutch-born French Romantic painter from Dordrecht, trained under Guérin in Paris; drawing master to Louis-Philippe's children; known for Faust, Paolo and Francesca, and religious works; his rue Chaptal studio is now the Musée de la Vie romantique.
Asher Brown Durand
Asher Brown Durand (1796–1886) was an American engraver and landscape painter of the Hudson River School, called the dean of American landscape painting after Thomas Cole's death in 1848.
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841–1895), French Impressionist painter and the only woman in the 1874 first Impressionist exhibition at Nadar's studio; married Eugène Manet, painted women and children in pastel color with rapid, unfinished-looking brushwork.
Branwell Brontë
Branwell Brontë (Patrick Branwell Brontë, 1817–1848), English painter, poet, and only brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, known for the Pillar Portrait and Gun Group of his sisters, his failed careers, and his death at 31.
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Danish-French Impressionist painter born on Saint Thomas, called the father of Impressionism; the only artist in all eight Impressionist exhibitions and mentor to Monet, Cézanne, and Gauguin.
Caroline Weldon
Caroline Weldon (1844-1921), born Susanna Karolina Faesch in Switzerland, was a Brooklyn-based artist and Indigenous rights advocate who served as Sitting Bull's secretary, translator, and advocate at Standing Rock in 1889-1890 and painted four portraits of him; the subject of the 2018 film Woman Walks Ahead, not the painter Caroline Weld.
Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), German Romantic landscape painter born in Greifswald, based in Dresden; famous for Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Monk by the Sea, The Sea of Ice, and the Rückenfigur; rediscovered by the 1906 Berlin Jahrhundertausstellung.
Cassandra Austen
Cassandra Austen (Cassandra Elizabeth Austen, 1773–1845) was a British watercolorist and the older sister of Jane Austen, known for the only authenticated portraits of Jane.
Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux (Eliza Cecilia Beaux, 1855–1942) was an American society portraitist of Philadelphia, often compared with John Singer Sargent; first woman to teach full-time at the Pennsylvania Academy, 1896 Paris Salon honoree, painter of Edith Roosevelt and Clemenceau.
Cesare Pascarella
Cesare Pascarella was an Italian painter and dialect poet from Rome, 1858 to 1940, first known for donkey paintings and later for Roman-dialect sonnets like Villa Gloria.
Charles M. Russell
Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) was an American painter and sculptor known as the "Cowboy Artist" for his paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and wildlife of Montana.
Childe Hassam
Childe Hassam, born Frederick Childe Hassam (1859–1935), was an American Impressionist painter celebrated for New York street scenes, New England coastal views, and the Flag series of 1916–1919.