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Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853–1919) was a Hungarian painter who began painting at about age 41 after working as a pharmacist, producing around 90 works including The Lonely Cedar.
Tom Roberts
Tom Roberts (1856–1931), English-born Australian painter of the Heidelberg School, known for Shearing the rams, Bailed up, the 1901 Big Picture, and proposing a national portrait gallery.
Tomioka Tessai
Tomioka Tessai (富岡鉄斎, 1837–1924) was a Japanese painter of Kyoto known as the last literati painter, producing about 20,000 works in a career of roughly seventy years.
Toyohara Kunichika
Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周, 1835–1900) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, the leading designer of kabuki actor prints from the late Edo period through the Meiji era.
Uroš Predić
Uroš Predić (Урош Предић; 1857–1953) was a Serbian academic realist painter, trained in Vienna, who made over 1700 works and is considered one of the last great Serbian icon painters.
Valentin Serov (Валентин Александрович Серов)
Valentin Serov, also known as Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov, was a Russian painter and stage designer who became a leading portraitist of Russia's Silver Age. He taught modernists like Saryan.
Vasily Perov
Vasily Perov (Василий Перов) was a Russian critical realist painter of genre scenes and portraits, a founding member of the Peredvizhniki who taught at the Moscow School.
Vasily Polenov
Vasily Polenov, also known as Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov, was a Russian Peredvizhniki painter known for lyrical landscapes like Moscow Courtyard (1878) and his cycle From the Life of Christ.
Vasily Surikov (Василий Иванович Суриков)
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (Василий Иванович Суриков), 1848–1916, Russian historical painter from Krasnoyarsk; creator of The Morning of the Streltsy Execution, Menshikov in Beryozovo, Boyarina Morozova, and The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak.
Vasily Tropinin
Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin (Василий Тропинин) was a Russian portrait painter who spent half his life as a serf, becoming an academician and Moscow's leading portraitist.
Vasily Vereshchagin (Василий Васильевич Верещагин)
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Василий Васильевич Верещагин), 1842–1904, Russian battle painter, writer, and ethnographic collector; creator of the Turkestan, Balkan, and 1812 series, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, died on the battleship Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur.
Viktor Vasnetsov
Viktor Vasnetsov (Виктор Михайлович Васнецов, 1848–1926) was a Russian painter who founded the national-romantic trend, known for Bogatyrs, Alenushka, and the frescoes of St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev.
Vilhelms Purvītis
Vilhelms Purvītis (1872–1945) was a Latvian landscape painter and art teacher, the first rector of the Art Academy of Latvia, best known for iconic paintings of snowy winters and early spring.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter; nearly 900 paintings in a ten-year career, Arles ear incident 1888, death at Auvers 1890, fame via Johanna van Gogh-Bonger.
Vittorio Reggiani
Vittorio Reggiani, a title variant for the Italian painter Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1938), born in Modena and a professor at its academy; costume genre painter of Empire-style interiors, Florentine silks-and-satins school, works in Mainz Museum.
Vladimir Makovsky
Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (Владимир Егорович Маковский, 1846–1920) was a Russian genre painter and leading member of the Peredvizhniki, known for small narrative scenes of Moscow life.
Vlaho Bukovac
Vlaho Bukovac, born Biagio Faggioni, was a Croatian painter from Cavtat who trained in Paris and led the founding of modern Croatian painting in Zagreb in the 1890s.
Wang Yiting
Wang Yiting (王一亭, 1867–1938) was a Chinese painter, businessman, and Buddhist philanthropist in Shanghai, a leading figure of the Shanghai School of painting alongside Wu Changshuo.
Washington Allston
Washington Allston (1779–1843) was an American painter and poet, born in South Carolina and trained in London, who led romanticism into American painting; his unfinished masterpiece Belshazzar's Feast is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt (1827–1910), English painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Millais and Rossetti; known for The Light of the World, The Scapegoat, and Holy Land travels.
William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) was an American painter and one of the era's most influential art teachers, known for portraits, still lifes, and Impressionist landscapes of urban parks and the Shinnecock Hills.
William Michael Harnett
William Michael Harnett (1848–1892) was an Irish-born American painter who led American trompe l'oeil still-life painting, depicting pipes, books, and currency with such realism that viewers felt they could grasp them.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), French academic painter of La Rochelle, Salon favorite, Prix de Rome 1850, Académie des beaux-arts 1876, painter of Naissance de Vénus and Les Oréades.
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), American painter and illustrator, Harper's Weekly Civil War correspondent, Cullercoats and Prouts Neck marine painter, famed for watercolors and The Gulf Stream.
Wu Changshuo
Wu Changshuo (1844–1927) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, seal carver, and poet of the late Qing and early Republican period, the leading figure of the later Shanghai school.
Wu Youru
Wu Youru (吴友如, died about 1893) was a Chinese painter of the late Qing dynasty and founding chief painter of the Dianshizhai Pictorial in Shanghai.
Zacharie Vincent
Zacharie Vincent (Telari-o-lin) was a Huron-Wendat painter and war chief at Wendake, Quebec, one of the first Indigenous artists in Canada to adopt European easel painting.
Zahari Zograf
Zahari Zograf (Захари Зограф, 1810–1853) was a Bulgarian painter and icon painter from Samokov whose murals at Rila and other monasteries and first easel portraits founded Bulgarian secular painting.
Zhao Zhiqian
Zhao Zhiqian (赵之谦, 1829–1884) was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and seal carver of the late Qing dynasty, a forerunner of the Shanghai School who influenced Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi.