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Ding Yunpeng
Ding Yunpeng (丁云鹏, 1547–after 1628) was a Chinese painter of the late Ming dynasty from Xiuning, Anhui, best known for Buddhist and Daoist figures and fine-line baimiao drawing.
Dmitry Levitzky
Dmitry Levitzky (1735–1822) was a leading Russian portrait painter of the era of Catherine the Great and head of the portrait class of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Domenichino
Domenichino, born Domenico Zampieri (1581–1641), was an Italian Baroque classicist painter of the Bolognese school, known for his Saint Cecilia frescoes in Rome and his cathedral work in Naples.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico Ghirlandaio, born Domenico Bigordi, was a Florentine painter of 1449–1494 whose frescoes, including the Tornabuoni Chapel cycle, portrayed citizens of his day; Michelangelo trained in his workshop.
Domenico Veneziano
Domenico Veneziano, born Domenico di Bartolomeo da Venezia in Venice about 1410, was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Florence, known for luminous color and perspective in landscape.
El Greco (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος)
El Greco (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, 1541–1614), Cretan-born painter of the Spanish Renaissance; trained in Byzantine icons, Venice, and Rome; settled in Toledo, painting The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and elongated, visionary religious works.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), French portrait painter, official painter to Marie Antoinette from 1779 with about 30 portraits of the queen, Académie member 1783, twelve-year European exile after 1789, author of the Souvenirs (1835–1837).
Enguerrand Quarton
Enguerrand Quarton, also spelled Charonton, was a 15th-century French painter active in Provence, known for the Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and the Coronation of the Virgin.
Filippo Lippi
Filippo Lippi (c. 1406–1469), Florentine Carmelite friar and Early Renaissance painter. Known as Fra Filippo Lippi; father of Filippino Lippi. Masaccio-influenced style; Prato Duomo fresco cycle (1452–65); Medici patron; scandal with Lucrezia Buti.
Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico (Guido di Piero, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, c. 1395-1455) was a Dominican friar and early Renaissance Florentine painter of altarpieces, frescoes, and miniatures, famed for the San Marco convent frescoes, the Niccoline Chapel, and beatification in 1982.
Fra Bartolomeo
Fra Bartolomeo (1472–1517), also written Fra Bartolommeo and known before his religious profession as Baccio della Porta, was an Italian painter and Dominican friar, one of the leading Florentine painters of the early 16th century.
Francesco Guardi
Francesco Guardi (1712–1793) was an Italian painter, born and died in Venice, known above all for his atmospheric vedute, or view paintings, of the city.
Francisco de Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) was a Spanish Golden Age painter best known for religious pictures of monks, nuns, and martyrs and for his still lifes.
François Boucher
François Boucher (1703–1770), Paris-born French Rococo painter, draughtsman, and decorator. Prix de Rome 1723; First Painter to the King and Académie director 1765; chief patron Madame de Pompadour; ~1,500 prints after his works.
François Gérard
François Gérard (1770–1837) was a French neoclassical painter, born in Rome, who served as court portraitist under Napoleon I and first painter to Louis XVIII.
Frans Floris
Frans Floris, born Frans de Vriendt (about 1516 to 1520, died 1570), was a Flemish painter who led Romanism in sixteenth-century Antwerp, running a workshop of more than 100 pupils.
Frans Hals
Frans Hals (c. 1582/83-1666), Haarlem Dutch Golden Age painter of portraits and genre scenes, master of loose visible brushwork and laughing sitters, five civic guard group portraits, rediscovered by the Impressionists.
Frans Snyders
Frans Snyders, also spelled Frans Snijders, was a Flemish painter of Antwerp, born in 1579 and died in 1657, known for animal still lifes, hunting scenes, and market and pantry pictures.
Fyodor Rokotov
Fyodor Rokotov (Фёдор Степанович Рокотов, 1735/36–1808) was a leading Russian portrait painter, creator of the intimate chamber portrait and the 1772 Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya.
Gabriel Metsu
Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, born in Leiden and active in Amsterdam, best known for refined domestic genre scenes such as The Sick Child.
George Romney (painter)
George Romney (painter), 1734–1802, English portraitist rivalling Reynolds and Gainsborough; painted Emma Hamilton over 60 times; left 1,719 catalogued portraits and 18 surviving cartoons.
George Stubbs
George Stubbs (1724–1806) was a British painter and anatomist best known for his accurate portraits of horses and for The Anatomy of the Horse (1766).
Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), Lorraine Baroque painter of candlelit nocturnes and austere daylight genre scenes; Caravaggesque, forgotten until Hermann Voss's 1915 rediscovery; about 40 autograph works, 18 signed, 2 dated.
Georgios Klontzas
Georgios Klontzas (Γεώργιος Κλόντζας) was a Greek painter, scribe, and scholar of the Cretan school who worked in Candia, Crete, in the late sixteenth century.
Gerard David
Gerard David was a Netherlandish painter, born about 1455 in Oudewater and died in 1523 in Bruges, where he led the city's school after Memling died in 1494.
Gerard ter Borch
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681) was a Dutch painter of portraits and genre scenes, based in Deventer, known for small interior pictures of elegant figures and his 1648 Treaty of Münster group portrait.
Gerard van Honthorst
Gerard van Honthorst (Gerrit van Honthorst, 1592-1656), Utrecht Caravaggist nicknamed Gherardo delle Notti for candlelit night scenes; court painter to Charles I, Christian IV, and the Dutch House of Orange.
Gerrit Dou
Gerrit Dou (Gerard Dou) was a Dutch painter who founded the Leiden school of fijnschilderij. His small, detailed works, developed as Rembrandt's first pupil, were highly valued.
Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), American portrait painter from Rhode Island, trained under Benjamin West in London and painted over 1,100 portraits; his unfinished 1796 Athenaeum portrait of George Washington appears on the U.S. one-dollar bill.
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo 1511–Florence 1574), Italian Mannerist painter, architect and writer; designed the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor, founded the Accademia del Disegno (1563), and wrote the Lives (1550, 1568), the founding text of art history.