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Jan Jacob Lodewijk ten Kate
Jan Jacob Lodewijk ten Kate (1850–1929) was a Dutch painter of landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and genre pieces, and son of the poet Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate.
Jan Matejko
Jan Matejko, born Jan Alojzy Matejko, was a Polish painter, 1838 to 1893, who founded Poland's national school of historical painting in Kraków with over 300 canvases.
Jan Toorop
Jan Toorop (Johannes Theodorus Toorop, 1858–1928) was a Dutch-Indonesian painter and graphic artist, born in Java, whose Symbolist and Art Nouveau work shaped Dutch art around 1900.
Jang Seung-eop
Jang Seung-eop (장승업), known by his sobriquet Owon, was a Korean court painter of the late Joseon dynasty (1843–1897), one of the leading painters of the nineteenth century.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), French Neoclassical painter, David's foremost pupil; Prix de Rome 1801, Grande Odalisque, Vow of Louis XIII, line-versus-color rival of Delacroix, later Roman Academy director and Senator.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) was a French landscape painter whose oil sketches and soft late souvenirs made him one of the most popular painters of his time.
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), French Realist and Barbizon School painter of peasant life, creator of The Gleaners, The Sower, and The Angelus; trained under Delaroche, based in Barbizon from 1849, a key influence on Van Gogh and modern art.
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), French academic painter, sculptor, and École des Beaux-Arts professor known for Orientalist scenes like The Snake Charmer, Pollice Verso, and The Death of Caesar, and for opposing the Impressionists.
Joaquín Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923), Valencian Spanish painter of sunlight and beach scenes; creator of the 14-canvas Vision of Spain at the Hispanic Society of America, New York, and namesake of the Museo Sorolla in Madrid.
John Constable
John Constable (1776–1837), English landscape painter of the Suffolk Stour Valley, known for The Hay Wain, his Hampstead cloud studies of 1820–23, and his rivalry with Turner.
John Crome
John Crome (1768–1821), known as Old Crome, was an English landscape painter and etcher of Norwich who founded the Norwich School and painted local scenes like Mousehold Heath.
John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais (1829–1896), English painter and cofounder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848; painted Ophelia, Isabella, and Christ in the House of His Parents; later RA President and baronet.
John Frederick Kensett
John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872) was an American landscape painter and former engraver, a leading second-generation Hudson River School artist best known for luminist scenes of Newport and Lake George.
John La Farge
John La Farge (1835–1910), American painter, muralist, and stained-glass pioneer of the American Renaissance; inventor-patentee of opalescent glass windows, Trinity Church Boston decorator, Tiffany's rival, and author of An Artist's Letters from Japan.
John Martin (painter)
John Martin was an English Romantic painter who created vast, apocalyptic scenes. His major works, including The Last Judgement, were celebrated for their dramatic scale and detail.
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), American expatriate portraitist of the Edwardian era, trained with Carolus-Duran in Paris; his 1884 Madame X scandal drove him to London, and he later painted watercolors and Boston murals.
John Trumbull
John Trumbull (1756-1843), American painter of the Revolution, aide to Washington, creator of the Capitol Rotunda's four history paintings including Declaration of Independence, and founder of Yale's Trumbull Gallery, the first American college art museum.
John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) was a British painter known for images of women from classical myth and Victorian poetry, including The Lady of Shalott (1888).
José Agustín Arrieta
José Agustín Arrieta (1803–1874) was a Mexican painter who spent his career in Puebla, known for costumbrista scenes of everyday life and dining-room still lifes.
José María Velasco
José María Velasco, full name José María Velasco Gómez, was a Mexican landscape painter and naturalist whose views of the Valley of Mexico became images of national identity.
Josef Mánes
Josef Mánes (1820–1871) was a Czech painter and printmaker from Prague, best known for the calendar plate of the Prague Astronomical Clock and his folkloric works.
József Rippl-Rónai
József Rippl-Rónai (1861–1927) was a Hungarian painter and member of the French post-impressionist group Les Nabis, known for his reduced-palette Paris interiors and brightly colored "corn" paintings.
Ju Lian
Ju Lian (居廉, 1828–1904) was a Chinese bird-and-flower painter of the late Qing dynasty who, with his cousin Ju Chao, laid the foundations of the Lingnan School.
Juan Luna
Juan Luna y Novicio (1857–1899), Filipino painter born in Badoc, won the 1884 Madrid gold medal for Spoliarium, joined the Propaganda Movement, and served as a revolutionary diplomat; also known for Death of Cleopatra and Hymen, oh Hyménée!.
Jules Bastien-Lepage
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884), French naturalist painter of Damvillers, Meuse; pupil of Cabanel. Known for Les Foins, Saison d'Octobre, Joan of Arc; Zola's 'grandson of Courbet and Millet'; Legion of Honour 1879; influenced the Glasgow Boys.
Julio Ruelas
Julio Ruelas (1870–1907) was a Mexican Symbolist painter, printmaker, and illustrator born in Zacatecas, regarded as Mexico's leading representative of symbolism and a precursor of modernismo.
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), German Nazarene painter and illustrator from Leipzig; painted the Munich Residenz Nibelungen frescoes and the 240-woodcut Bibel in Bildern; directed the Dresden Gemäldegalerie.
K. Venkatappa
K. Venkatappa (ಕೆ. ವೆಂಕಟಪ್ಪ) was an Indian painter, sculptor, and veena player from Mysore who trained under Abanindranath Tagore, painted watercolor landscapes and mythological scenes, and is memorialized in Bangalore's Venkatappa Art Gallery.
Karl Bodmer
Karl Bodmer (Johann Carl Bodmer, 1809–1893) was a Swiss painter known for watercolors of Plains Indian peoples made on a Missouri River expedition from 1832 to 1834.
Karl Bryullov
Karl Bryullov (Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в), born Karl Brulleau, was a leading Russian academic painter whose The Last Day of Pompeii (1833) won him broad European fame.