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Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert (1733–1808), French landscape painter and etcher called "Robert des Ruines"; trained in Rome with Panini and Piranesi, court artist and royal garden designer, Louvre curator after imprisonment in the Revolution.
Hugo van der Goes
Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440–1482) was a Flemish painter, probably born in Ghent, who combined the styles of Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden.
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Hyacinthe Rigaud, born Hyacinthe Rigau y Ros, was a French painter (1659–1743) who became the leading portraitist of Louis XIV's court, known for the 1701 Louis XIV portrait.
Isoda Koryūsai
Isoda Koryūsai (磯田湖龍斎) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the mid-Edo period, active from 1764 to about 1789, who became one of the most popular beauty painters in Edo.
Itō Jakuchū
Itō Jakuchū (伊藤若冲, 1716–1800) was a Japanese painter of the middle Edo period, a Kyoto vegetable wholesaler who retired to paint and became famous for vivid bird-and-flower works.
Ivan Argunov
Ivan Petrovich Argunov (1720s–1802) was a Russian serf painter, a founder of the Russian school of portrait painting who portrayed Empresses Elizabeth and Catherine II.
Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678) was a Flemish Baroque painter and tapestry designer of Antwerp who, alongside Rubens and Van Dyck, ranked among the three great Flemish masters of the seventeenth century.
Jacob van Ruisdael
Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/29–1682), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter, most versatile of his generation; 694 paintings, 13 etchings; pupil Hobbema; influenced Constable and Turner.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), French Neoclassical painter, Prix de Rome 1774, Convention deputy who voted Louis XVI's death, First Painter to the Emperor 1804, exiled to Brussels as regicide in 1816.
James Thornhill
James Thornhill (1675/1676–1734) was an English decorative history painter who executed the Painted Hall at Greenwich and scenes inside the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Jan Brueghel the Elder, nicknamed "Velvet Brueghel," was a Flemish painter of landscapes, flowers, and allegories, active in Antwerp, court painter to Archduke Albert, and a close collaborator of Rubens.
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Jan Davidsz. de Heem, born Johannes van Antwerpen (1606–1684), was a Dutch still-life painter famed for sumptuous flower and banquet pieces painted in Leiden and Antwerp.
Jan Lievens
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and printmaker who worked closely with Rembrandt in Leiden and later painted for courts in London and Antwerp.
Jan Steen
Jan Havicksz Steen (1626–1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Leiden best known for humorous genre scenes of chaotic households; "a Jan Steen household" remains a Dutch saying for a disorderly home.
Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck (Johannes de Eyck), Netherlandish court painter to Philip the Good (1425–1441), master of layered oil technique, completed the Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, painted the Arnolfini Portrait, signed nine works with motto 'Als ich kan'.
Jan van Goyen
Jan van Goyen (Jan Josephsz. van Goyen) was a Dutch painter of landscapes and marine views, a pioneer of naturalistic, tonal landscape painting in the 1600s.
Jean Fouquet
Jean Fouquet (c. 1415–1420 Tours – 1478/1481) was the leading French painter and illuminator of the 15th century, court painter to Charles VII and Louis XI, famed for the Melun Diptych, the Hours of Étienne Chevalier, and his fusion of Flemish realism with Italian Renaissance space.
Jean Pucelle
Jean Pucelle (Jehan Pucelle), who died in Paris in 1334, was a French manuscript illuminator whose Paris workshop pioneered grisaille figures and three-dimensional settings, and who illuminated the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux.
Jean Siméon Chardin
Jean Siméon Chardin (Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1699–1779) was a French painter of still lifes and domestic genre scenes, admitted to the Académie royale in 1728, treasurer from 1755, admired by Diderot, a model for Manet, Cézanne, and Morandi.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) was a French painter of moralizing domestic scenes and portraits of children, born in Tournus, whose Village Marriage of 1761 was praised by Diderot.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) was a French animal painter, tapestry designer, and illustrator who recorded the hunts of Louis XV, directed the Beauvais tapestry manufactory, and illustrated La Fontaine's Fables.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), French Rococo painter, draftsman, and printmaker from Grasse; Prix de Rome 1752, painter of The Swing and Progress of Love, who worked for private patrons and died in poverty after the Revolution.
Jing Hao
Jing Hao (荊浩, also Hongguzi) was a Chinese landscape painter and theorist of the late Tang and Five Dynasties, a founder of the Northern landscape school.
Joachim Patinir
Joachim Patinir, also Patenier or Patinier, was a Netherlandish painter active in Antwerp, one of the first artists to make landscape the principal element of a painting.
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), Dutch Golden Age painter of Delft known as the 'Sphinx of Delft'; only about 35-37 paintings attributed, including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Milkmaid, and View of Delft, rediscovered by Thoré in the 19th century.
John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) was an American-born painter, the leading portraitist of Britain's North American colonies who moved to London in 1774 and painted history scenes like Watson and the Shark.
John Smibert
John Smibert (1688–1751) was a Scottish-born portrait painter, the first academically trained artist to build a portrait career in colonial America, settling in Boston in 1729.
John White (colonist and artist)
John White was an English watercolourist and cartographer who painted the earliest surviving European images of Indigenous Americans and governed the 1587 Roanoke "Lost Colony".
Joos van Cleve
Joos van Cleve, also recorded as Joos van der Beke, was a Netherlandish painter who ran one of Antwerp's most productive workshops, leaving more than 300 paintings.
Joseph Ducreux
Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802) was a French portraitist, pupil of La Tour, First Painter to Marie-Antoinette, famous for expressive self-portraits and the 2009 Archaic Rap meme.