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Claude Monet
Claude Monet (1840–1926), French Impressionist painter and founder of the movement named after his 1872 Impression, soleil levant; settled at Giverny in 1883 and painted more than 250 Water Lilies works.
Death of Vincent van Gogh
Death of Vincent van Gogh: the Dutch painter, shot on 27 July 1890 near Auvers-sur-Oise, died 29 July at the Auberge Ravoux, aged 37. Long accepted as suicide; Naifeh and Smith's 2011 biography and a 2020 forensic reevaluation contest it.
Đura Jakšić
Đura Jakšić, born Georgije Jakšić, was a Serbian painter, poet, and dramatist, one of the leading figures of Serbian Romanticism in both art and literature, active from the 1850s until his death in 1878.
Eastman Johnson
Eastman Johnson, born Jonathan Eastman Johnson, was an American genre and portrait painter known as the "American Rembrandt," famed for Negro Life at the South and 300 portraits.
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, 1834–1917), French realist painter and founding impressionist exhibitor, famed for about 1,500 dancer works, pastels, monotypes, photography, and Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (1832–1883), French painter of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and Olympia, whose flat technique and contemporary subjects scandalized the Salon and pioneered modern painting without joining the Impressionist exhibitions.
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Norwegian painter and printmaker of The Scream, Symbolist and precursor of Expressionism; four Scream versions on cardboard, experimental mixed-media technique, bequest forming Oslo's Munch Museum collection.
Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898), English Pre-Raphaelite painter and decorative artist, Morris & Co.'s foremost stained-glass designer, famed for Arthurian paintings, the Grosvenor Gallery, and the Adoration of the Magi tapestry.
Edward Hicks
Edward Hicks (1780–1849) was an American Quaker minister and self-taught folk painter of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, known for his many Peaceable Kingdom paintings, which were rediscovered in the 1930s.
Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873), Victorian Britain's foremost animal painter, portraitist of Queen Victoria, and designer of the Trafalgar Square lions; known for The Monarch of the Glen and The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner.
Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862), English Pre-Raphaelite painter, poet, and model, Ophelia sitter, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ruskin's £150-a-year protegee, only woman in the 1857 PRB exhibition.
Emanuel Leutze
Emanuel Leutze, full name Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816–1868), was a German-born American history painter known for Washington Crossing the Delaware and a Capitol mural.
Eugène Boudin
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), Honfleur-born French marine and beach painter, precursor of Impressionism, nicknamed "king of skies" by Corot, teacher of Monet, first Impressionist exhibition 1874.
Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863), French Romantic painter and muralist, leader of French Romanticism; painted Liberty Leading the People, Death of Sardanapalus, Women of Algiers; worked at Saint-Sulpice; studio-museum at 6 rue de Fürstenberg, Paris.
Eugène Fromentin
Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876) was a French painter and writer, known for Orientalist paintings of Algeria, the psychological novel Dominique (1863), and the art criticism classic Les Maîtres d'autrefois.
Evelyn De Morgan
Evelyn De Morgan (Mary Evelyn Pickering, 1855–1919), English allegorical painter trained at the Slade; married ceramicist William De Morgan in 1887; spiritualist, suffragist, pacifist themes; often but contentiously grouped with the Pre-Raphaelites.
Fei Danxu
Fei Danxu (费丹旭, 1801 or 1802–1850) was a late Qing Chinese painter celebrated for slender, elegant women set in landscapes, paired with Gai Qi as the Gai-Fei school.
Felix Moscheles
Felix Moscheles, full name Felix Stone Moscheles (1833–1917), was an English painter and peace activist who chaired the International Arbitration and Peace Association from 1897.
Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was a Swiss-born painter and printmaker who worked in Paris, best known for bold black-and-white woodcuts of the 1890s and tense paintings of interiors, nudes, and landscapes.
Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) was a Swiss Symbolist painter known for his compositional doctrine of parallelism and monumental allegorical works, admired by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.
Fernand Khnopff
Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921) was a Belgian Symbolist painter, draftsman, sculptor, and photographer whose mysterious portraits and dreamlike interiors influenced Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession.
Fitz Henry Lane
Fitz Henry Lane, born Nathaniel Rogers Lane and long known as Fitz Hugh Lane, was an American marine painter and printmaker from Gloucester, Massachusetts, celebrated for luminous harbor scenes in the Luminist style.
Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), born in Calais, was an English painter closely tied to but never a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; he taught Rossetti, painted The Last of England and Work, and created the Manchester Town Hall murals.
Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras
Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras (1759–1833) was a Mexican painter, architect, and sculptor in the Bajío region, best known for the church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Celaya.
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828), Spanish painter and etcher, court painter to Charles III, Charles IV, and Ferdinand VII; creator of Los Caprichos, The Disasters of War, The Third of May 1808, and the Black Paintings.
Francisco Laso
Francisco Laso (Francisco Laso de los Ríos, 1823–1869) was a Peruvian painter, writer, and politician who first made indigenous people the protagonists of Peruvian painting, pioneering indigenismo.
Frédéric Bazille
Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), Montpellier-born French painter of early impressionism, Gleyre studio friend of Monet, Renoir and Sisley, Salon exhibitor 1866-1870, killed at Beaune-la-Rolande in the Franco-Prussian War.
Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), leading Hudson River School landscape painter trained by Thomas Cole; creator of Niagara, The Heart of the Andes, and Olana. Distinct from the later painter F. Edwin Church (1876–1975).
Frederic Leighton
Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton of Stretton (1830–1896), was a British painter and sculptor who led the Royal Academy from 1878 and painted Flaming June (1895).
Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington (1861-1909), American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer of the Old West; created 22 bronze subjects including The Broncho Buster and over 3,000 works; an easterner from Canton, New York, not a westerner, unrelated to Remington Arms.