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Fujishima Takeji
Fujishima Takeji (藤島武二, 1867–1943) was a Japanese Western-style oil painter, a leading figure of Meiji romanticism who received the first Order of Culture in 1937.
George Bellows
George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925), American realist painter of the Ashcan School; known for boxing paintings like Both Members of This Club and Dempsey and Firpo, New York urban scenes, and Maine seascapes; died at 42 of appendicitis.
George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) was an American painter and Missouri politician, known as "the Missouri Artist" for genre scenes of river boatmen and election-day crowds.
George Catlin
George Catlin (1796–1872) was an American self-taught painter, author, and showman who traveled the frontier in the 1830s recording Native American life in his Indian Gallery, now held by the Smithsonian.
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) was an English painter and sculptor, among the most successful British artists of the 19th century, known for portraits of the Victorian elite.
George Inness
George Inness was an American landscape painter, born in Newburgh, New York, in 1825, who moved from Hudson River School detail toward the hazy style called Tonalism.
Georges Seurat
Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859–1891), French painter, founder of Neo-Impressionism and originator of pointillism, using dots of pure color; creator of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte and seven large canvases of modern Parisian life.
Gevorg Bashinjaghian
Gevorg Bashinjaghian (Գևորգ Բաշինջաղյան) was an Armenian painter, born in Signakhi, Georgia in 1857, who founded landscape painting in Armenian art and painted Lake Sevan and Mount Ararat.
Grigory Myasoyedov
Grigory Myasoyedov (Григорий Мясоедов), 1834 to 1911, was a Russian realist painter who co-founded the Peredvizhniki, drafted their charter, and painted peasant life in works like The Zemstvo Dining.
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), Austrian symbolist painter and first president of the Vienna Secession; known for the golden phase works The Kiss and the Beethoven Frieze and the University of Vienna Faculty Paintings scandal.
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) was a French Impressionist painter, collector, and patron, known for Paris Street; Rainy Day and The Floor Scrapers, and for the Caillebotte bequest that forms the core of the Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist collection.
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), French painter and leader of Realism; born Ornans, died La Tour-de-Peilz. Known for A Burial at Ornans, the 1855 Pavilion of Realism, palette-knife impasto, and imprisonment after the 1871 Paris Commune.
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) was a French Symbolist painter known for jewel-like mythological and biblical works such as Oedipus and the Sphinx, and for teaching Matisse and Rouault in Paris.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) was a French painter, lithographer, and poster artist who depicted the nightlife of Montmartre, Paris, turning performers like La Goulue and Jane Avril into celebrities.
Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), called Le Douanier, French self-taught painter and Paris octroi toll collector; exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1886; famed for about 20 jungle paintings like The Sleeping Gypsy, painted from Parisian sources without ever leaving France.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American painter who settled in Paris in 1891 and won international acclaim for his religious paintings, including The Banjo Lesson.
Hermenegildo Bustos
Hermenegildo Bustos, born José Hermenegildo de la Luz Bustos Hernández, was a self-taught Mexican painter of Purísima del Rincón, Guanajuato, known for portraits of his community.
Hishida Shunsō
Hishida Shunsō (菱田春草, 1874–1911) was a Japanese Nihonga painter who, with Yokoyama Taikan, developed the lineless mōrōtai technique and painted Fallen Leaves and Black Cat.
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and graphic artist who became the leading political and social caricaturist of nineteenth-century France, publishing thousands of lithographs in Le Charivari.
Huang Binhong
Huang Binhong (黄宾虹) was a Chinese landscape painter, art historian, and educator, one of the masters of modern Chinese painting, known for his dense, layered-ink late landscapes.
Ilya Repin (Илья Ефимович Репин)
Ilya Repin (Илья Ефимович Репин, Ілля Юхимович Рєпін, 1844–1930), Ukrainian-born realist painter of the Peredvizhniki; painted Barge Haulers on the Volga, Ivan the Terrible and His Son, and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks; taught Serov and Kustodiev; died at Penaty, Kuokkala.
Isaac Levitan
Isaac Levitan (Исаак Ильич Левитан, 1860–1900) was a Russian realist landscape painter, called the "singer of Russian nature," whose mood landscapes include Above Eternal Peace and March.
Ivan Aivazovsky (Հովհաննես Այվազովսկի)
Ivan Aivazovsky (Հովհաննես Այվազովսկի, 1817-1900), born Hovhannes Aivazian in Feodosia, Crimea, was an Armenian-Russian marine painter of about 6,000 works, academician, Main Naval Staff painter, and founder of the Feodosia gallery.
Ivan Kramskoi
Ivan Kramskoi was a Russian painter and portraitist who led the 1863 Revolt of the Fourteen against the Imperial Academy of Arts and organized the Peredvizhniki traveling exhibitions.
Ivan Shishkin
Ivan Shishkin, also Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Иван Иванович Шишкин), was a Russian realist landscape painter of forests, known for Rye and Morning in a Pine Forest.
J. M. W. Turner
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), English Romantic landscape and marine painter famed for luminous light and atmosphere; Royal Academician at 26, creator of the Liber Studiorum and the 1856 Turner Bequest at Tate.
Jacek Malczewski
Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929) was a Polish symbolist painter and draftsman, regarded as the father of Polish symbolism and a central figure of the Young Poland movement.
James Ensor
James Sidney Ensor, also known as Edouard Ensor, was a Belgian painter and printmaker and founding member of Les XX, known for his grotesque art and monumental work.
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was an American painter and printmaker who worked in London and Paris, led the Aesthetic movement's art for art's sake, and painted Whistler's Mother.
James Tissot
James Tissot (Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1836–1902), French painter and etcher of Nantes, famed for Parisian and Victorian high-society genre scenes, his London exile after 1871, Kathleen Newton, and his late illustrated Life of Christ.