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Bartholomeus Spranger
Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor from Antwerp who became court painter to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague and the leading creator of rudolfine Mannerism.
Bartolomé Bermejo
Bartolomé Bermejo, born Bartolomé de Cárdenas, was a Spanish painter of the 15th century, active at Valencia, Daroca, Zaragoza, and Barcelona in the Crown of Aragon.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617/1618–1682), Sevillian Spanish Baroque painter, leading artist of 17th-century Seville; known for soft, vaporous religious works, Immaculate Conceptions, and genre scenes of beggar children.
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, also recorded as Basilio de Santa Cruz Puma Callao, was a Peruvian painter of Quechua origin from Cusco and a leading master of the colonial Cuzco School.
Benjamin West
Benjamin West (1738–1820) was an American-born painter who settled in London, became historical painter to George III, and served as the Royal Academy's second president.
Benozzo Gozzoli
Benozzo Gozzoli, properly Benozzo di Lese (c. 1420/21–1497), Florentine Renaissance fresco painter trained with Fra Angelico; Magi Chapel at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Montefalco, San Gimignano, and Pisa Camposanto cycles.
Bernard van Orley
Bernard van Orley, also Barend or Bernaert van Orley, was a Netherlandish painter and tapestry designer in Brussels who served as court painter to Margaret of Austria.
Bernardo Bitti
Bernardo Bitti (1548–1610) was an Italian Jesuit painter and sculptor from Camerino who reached Lima in 1575 and introduced Mannerism to Peru, helping found the Cuzco school.
Bernardo Strozzi
Bernardo Strozzi, called il Prete genovese, was an Italian Baroque painter and etcher born in Genoa around 1581, regarded as the leading Genoese painter of his era.
Bichitr
Bichitr was an Indian Mughal court painter active from about 1610 to 1660 who served the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and painted allegorical miniatures.
Canaletto
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768), Venetian veduta painter of Venice, Rome, and London views; trained as a scene painter, patronized via Joseph Smith, linked to the camera obscura, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1765.
Caravaggio
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi, was an Italian Baroque painter who trained in Milan and worked in Rome. He is known for painting from posed models and his intense use of light.
Carel Fabritius
Carel Fabritius (1622–1654) was a Dutch painter and Rembrandt pupil who worked in Delft, best known for The Goldfinch; he died in the 1654 Delft gunpowder explosion.
Carle Van Loo
Carle Van Loo, born Charles-André Vanloo (1705–1765), was a French history and genre painter of a family of painters, named Premier peintre du roi in 1762.
Carlo Crivelli
Carlo Crivelli was an Italian Renaissance painter, born in Venice around 1430–1435 and died in Ascoli Piceno in 1494 or 1495, who made signed altarpieces in tempera and gold in the Marche.
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) was a French painter and decorator who served as First Painter to Louis XIV, founded the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and painted the Hall of Mirrors ceiling at Versailles.
Charles Willson Peale
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) was an American portrait painter and naturalist best known for his portraits of George Washington and for founding Peale's Museum in Philadelphia.
Chen Chun
Chen Chun (陈淳, courtesy name Daofu, sobriquet Baiyang Shanren, 1483–1544) was a Ming dynasty Chinese painter from Suzhou, celebrated for freehand ink flower painting and traditionally paired with Xu Wei.
Chen Hongshou
Chen Hongshou (陈洪绶, 1599–1652) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher of the late Ming and early Qing, known for figure paintings whose distorted, archaizing forms were called strange and startling.
Chen Rong (painter)
Chen Rong (陳容, sobriquet Suoweng) was a Southern Song dynasty literati painter who became China's most celebrated painter of dragons, famous for the Nine Dragons handscroll.
Chöying Dorje
Chöying Dorje (ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རྡོ་རྗེ, 1604–1674) was the Tenth Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school, and one of the most original artists in Tibetan art history.
Cimabue
Cimabue (Cenni di Pepi, Florence, documented 1272, died Pisa 1302), Florentine painter of the Santa Trinita Maestà and Assisi frescoes, who led Italian painting from the Byzantine maniera greca toward naturalism and taught Giotto.
Clara Peeters
Clara Peeters was a Flemish still-life painter based in Antwerp, active from 1607 into the early 1620s, known for breakfast and banquet pieces and hidden self-portraits in reflective vessels.
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain, born Claude Gellée, was a French painter, draftsman, and etcher who spent nearly his whole career in Rome and became one of the great masters of landscape painting.
Correggio
Correggio, born Antonio Allegri, was an Italian Renaissance painter named after his native town near Reggio Emilia, famous for his illusionistic dome frescoes in Parma.
Cui Zizhong
Cui Zizhong (崔子忠, originally Cui Dan, died 1644) was a Chinese figure painter of the late Ming dynasty, paired with Chen Hongshou as "Nan Chen, Bei Cui."
Daswanth
Daswanth was a Hindu painter at Akbar's Mughal court, active from the mid-1560s until his death in 1584, remembered as a leading master of early Mughal painting.
David Teniers the Younger
David Teniers the Younger (David Teniers II, 1610–1690), Flemish genre painter of Antwerp and Brussels, son of David Teniers the Elder, court painter and curator to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, and publisher of the Theatrum Pictorium (1660).
Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1599–1660), Spanish Baroque painter of Seville, court painter to Philip IV from 1623, creator of Las Meninas (1656), trained under Francisco Pacheco and made two Italian journeys.
Dieric Bouts
Dieric Bouts (c. 1410/1420–1475) was an early Netherlandish painter of Leuven, known for the Altarpiece of the Last Supper and the Justice of Emperor Otto III panels.