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Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright of Derby was an English painter, born and based in Derby, whose candlelit pictures of science and industry made him the painter of the Industrial Revolution.
Josetsu
Josetsu (如拙) was a Japanese Zen painter-monk active in the early 1400s at the Shokoku-ji in Kyoto, best known for the National Treasure painting Catching a Catfish with a Gourd.
Joshua Johnson (painter)
Joshua Johnson was an American portrait painter in Baltimore and the earliest known professional African American painter in the United States, active from about 1795 to 1824.
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), leading English portraitist of the 18th century and first President of the Royal Academy from 1768; knighted 1769, principal painter to George III 1784, author of the Discourses on Art.
Juan de Flandes
Juan de Flandes was a Netherlandish painter documented in Spain between 1496 and 1519 who served Queen Isabel la Católica of Castile and later supplied large altarpieces across Castile.
Juan Rodríguez Juárez
Juan Rodríguez Juárez (1675–1728) was a Novohispano painter of Mexico City known for portraits, religious works, and early casta paintings; with his brother Nicolás he led the era's stylistic renewal.
Juan Sánchez Cotán
Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560–1627) was a Spanish Golden Age painter who created the characteristic Spanish still life, the bodegón, before becoming a Carthusian lay brother.
Judith Leyster
Judith Leyster (1609–1660) was a Dutch painter of lively genre scenes. She joined the Haarlem Guild of St Luke in 1633 and was rediscovered in 1893.
Jusepe de Ribera
Jusepe de Ribera, also José de Ribera, called Lo Spagnoletto (1591–1652), Spanish painter and etcher active in Naples; Caravaggesque tenebrism, Spanish viceregal patrons, Certosa di San Martino and San Gennaro commissions, The Clubfoot (1642).
Kaihō Yūshō
Kaihō Yūshō (海北友松, 1533–1615) was a Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods, known for forceful ink painting and reduced-brush figures, who founded the Kaihō school.
Kamal al-Din Behzad
Kamal al-Din Behzad (کمالالدین بهزاد), c. 1455–1535, was a Persian miniature painter who led the royal workshops of Herat and Tabriz and shaped Persian, Mughal, and Ottoman art.
Kanō Sanraku
Kanō Sanraku (狩野山楽, 1559–1635) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school who inherited the grand mural style of his teacher Kanō Eitoku and founded the Kyoto branch, the Kyō-Kano.
Kanō Sansetsu
Kanō Sansetsu (狩野山雪, 1589/1590–1651) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school who led the second generation of its Kyōto branch, known for bold decorative paintings like Old Plum.
Kanō Takanobu
Kanō Takanobu (狩野孝信, 1571–1618) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school who led its Kyoto house and painted the oldest surviving Kenjō no shōji screens.
Kanō Tan'yū
Kanō Tan'yū (狩野探幽, 1602–1674), personal name Morinobu, was a Japanese painter of the early Edo period who served the Tokugawa shogunate as its official painter and founded the Kajibashi branch of the Kanō school.
Kanō Yasunobu
Kanō Yasunobu (狩野安信, 1613–1685) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school, youngest brother of Kanō Tan'yū, who founded the Nakabashi branch in Edo and served the Tokugawa shogunate.
Katsukawa Shunshō
Katsukawa Shunshō (勝川春章, 1726–1792) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of Edo who founded the Katsukawa school and transformed kabuki actor prints by depicting each actor's actual facial features.
Kim Myeong-guk
Kim Myeong-guk (김명국, born 1600, death year unknown) was a Korean court painter at the Royal Bureau of Painting, regarded as the peak of the Korean Zhe school.
Kun Can
Kun Can (髡残, 1612 to about 1673) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and landscape painter of the early Qing dynasty, one of the Four Monks alongside Shitao and Bada Shanren.
Lavinia Fontana
Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter of Bologna and Rome, one of the first European women to sustain a long professional career on public commissions, including altarpieces.
Le Nain brothers
The Le Nain brothers, Antoine, Louis, and Mathieu, were French painters born in Laon and active in 17th-century Paris, best known for sober, dignified scenes of peasant life.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (Lionardo di Ser Piero da Vinci, 1452–1519), Italian Renaissance painter, engineer and scientist from Vinci; painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper; at most fifteen paintings survive, and Salvator Mundi's attribution remains disputed.
Levni
Levni, whose real name was Abdülcelil Çelebi, was the leading Ottoman miniaturist of the early 18th century, best known for the Surname-i Vehbi festival book.
Li Tang
Li Tang (李唐, c. 1049–1130) was a Chinese court painter of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, first of the Four Masters of the Southern Song academy.
Lin Liang
Lin Liang (林良) was a Chinese court painter of the Ming dynasty who served from about 1465 and founded the bold ink freehand school of bird-and-flower painting.
Lorenzo Lotto
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556 or 1557) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who worked mainly outside Venice, in Treviso, Bergamo, and the Marches.
Luca Giordano
Luca Giordano, nicknamed Luca Fa presto, was a prolific Neapolitan Baroque painter (1634–1705) who served as court painter to Charles II of Spain from 1692 to 1702 and shaped Neapolitan painting into the eighteenth century.
Luca Signorelli
Luca Signorelli, born Luca d'Egidio di Ventura and called Luca da Cortona, was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona, celebrated for the Last Judgement frescoes at Orvieto Cathedral.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder (Lucas Cranach der Ältere, 1472–1553), German Renaissance painter and printmaker born in Kronach, court painter to the Saxon Electors at Wittenberg from 1505, chief artist of the Reformation and friend of Luther.
Luis de Morales
Luis de Morales, called El Divino, was a Spanish Renaissance painter who worked in Badajoz, Extremadura, becoming the leading Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century.