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Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin (Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and printmaker who abandoned a Paris stockbroker career, pioneered Synthetism with bold non-naturalistic color, and spent his final years in Tahiti and the Marquesas.
Paul Signac
Paul Signac (1863–1935) was a French painter who, with Georges Seurat, founded Neo-Impressionism, applying small dots of pure color that blend in the viewer's eye.
Peder Severin Krøyer
Peder Severin Krøyer, known as P.S. Krøyer (1851–1909), was a Danish painter and central figure of the Skagen Painters, celebrated for his blue-toned 'blue hour' beach scenes.
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) was a French painter and lithographer, a founding member of the Nabis known for intimate domestic interiors, nudes, and landscapes in luminous, intensely worked color.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) was a French painter who dominated large-scale mural decoration in late 19th-century France and became a principal forerunner of Symbolism.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), French Impressionist painter born in Limoges, trained as a porcelain painter, showed in the 1874 first Impressionist exhibition, painted over 6,000 works, and kept painting through severe rheumatoid arthritis until his death at Cagnes-sur-Mer.
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823) was a French painter and draughtsman known for soft, sculptural modeling of light, a favorite of the Napoleonic imperial family and a precursor of Romanticism.
Raden Saleh
Raden Saleh, full name Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman, was an Indonesian painter trained in Europe from 1829, best known for The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro (1857).
Raja Ravi Varma (രാജാ രവി വർമ്മ)
Raja Ravi Varma (രാജാ രവി വർമ്മ), 1848–1906, Kerala-born painter of Travancore, fused European academic oil realism with Hindu mythology and founded the 1894 Ravi Varma Press in Bombay, whose oleographs shaped Indian popular and cinematic imagery.
Raphaelle Peale
Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825) was an American painter of Philadelphia, eldest surviving son of Charles Willson Peale, regarded as the first professional still-life painter in the United States.
Rembrandt Peale
Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860) was an American portrait painter and son of Charles Willson Peale, best known for painting George Washington more than 79 times, including the "porthole" likeness bought by Congress in 1832.
Robert S. Duncanson
Robert S. Duncanson (Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1821–1872) was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, praised in his day as the best landscape painter in the West.
Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur (Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, 1822–1899), French Realist animal painter and sculptor; Salon debut 1841, The Horse Fair 1853, first woman awarded the Legion of Honor (1865), lived at Château de By near Fontainebleau.
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880) was an American landscape painter of the Hudson River School's second generation, remembered as a leading figure of American Luminism and a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sarah Biffin
Sarah Biffin (1784–1850), English portrait miniaturist born without arms or legs (phocomelia), painted with her mouth; exhibited at the Royal Academy, held royal appointments, rediscovered with record sales since 2019.
Saturnino Herrán
Saturnino Herrán (Saturnino Efrén de Jesús Herrán Guinchard, 1887–1918) was a Mexican painter from Aguascalientes known for La ofrenda and Nuestros dioses, whose work made him a precursor of Mexican muralism.
Shibata Zeshin
Shibata Zeshin (柴田是真, 1807–1891) was a Japanese maki-e master, lacquer artist, and painter known for urushi-e, lacquer painting on paper, and appointed the first Imperial Household Artist in 1890.
Stanisław Wyspiański
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907) was a Polish playwright, poet, painter, and stained-glass designer active in Kraków, a leading figure of Young Poland whose drama Wesele remains a fixture of the Polish stage.
Ștefan Luchian
Ștefan Luchian (1868–1916) was a Romanian post-impressionist painter, a disciple of Nicolae Grigorescu best known for his flower paintings, which he continued after paralysis by tying the brush to his wrist.
Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon (Marie-Clémentine Valadon, 1865–1938), French self-taught painter and former Montmartre artists' model; mother of Maurice Utrillo; known for frank male and female nudes such as The Blue Room (1923); Centre Pompidou retrospective 2025.
Suzuki Kiitsu
Suzuki Kiitsu (鈴木其一, 1796–1858) was a Japanese painter of the late Edo period who led the final generation of the Rinpa school, known for works like Morning Glories.
Sylvester Shchedrin
Sylvester Feodosievich Shchedrin (Сильвестр Щедрин) was a Russian landscape painter, 1791–1830, who spent his mature career in Italy, painting views of Rome and Naples directly from nature and influencing the Neapolitan Posillipo school.
Takeuchi Seihō
Takeuchi Seihō, real name Tsunekichi (竹内栖鳳, 1864–1942), was a Japanese nihonga painter of Kyoto who modernized Japanese-style painting, was paired with Yokoyama Taikan, and received the first Order of Culture in 1937.
Tani Bunchō
Tani Bunchō (谷文晁, 1763–1840) was a Japanese painter of the late Edo period who worked in Edo and is regarded as the leading figure of Kanto literati painting.
Théodore Chassériau
Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), French painter and printmaker born in Saint-Domingue; Ingres's pupil who fused Ingres's line with Delacroix's color; known for the Cour des Comptes murals, The Tepidarium, and the 1844 Othello prints.
Théodore Géricault
Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), French Romantic painter of The Raft of the Medusa (Salon 1819, Louvre), self-taught via copying the Louvre, painter of horses, shipwreck drama, and portraits of the insane.
Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), English-born American landscape painter based in Catskill, New York; founder of the Hudson River School. Known for The Course of Empire, The Oxbow, and The Voyage of Life.
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, and influential teacher who worked in Philadelphia, known for uncompromising portraits, rowing scenes, and The Gross Clinic.
Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was an English portrait painter who dominated British portraiture in the early nineteenth century and served as President of the Royal Academy.
Thomas Sully
Thomas Sully was an English-born American portrait painter based in Philadelphia, the leading romantic portraitist in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.