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Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely, born Pieter van der Faes (1618–1680), was a Dutch-born Baroque portrait painter who became the leading portraitist in England, defining the Restoration court under Charles II.
Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Flemish Baroque painter and diplomat of Antwerp; ran a workshop of about 25 assistants producing roughly 2,000 works; court painter to Archdukes Albert and Isabella, knighted by Charles I, married Hélène Fourment in 1630.
Petrus Christus
Petrus Christus (c. 1410/1425–1475/76) was a Flemish painter who settled in Bruges in 1444 and became its leading painter between Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling.
Philippe de Champaigne
Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674), Brussels-born French Baroque painter, court portraitist of Richelieu and Louis XIII, founding member of the 1648 Royal Academy, and leading painter of Jansenist Port-Royal.
Philips Wouwerman
Philips Wouwerman was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Haarlem, active from 1639 to 1668 and best known for small paintings of horses in battle scenes.
Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca, born Piero di Benedetto de' Franceschi, was an Italian early Renaissance painter and mathematician from Sansepolcro, Tuscany, known for masterful perspective and works like The Flagellation of Christ.
Piero di Cosimo
Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) was an Italian Renaissance painter of Florence, known for inventive mythological panels, religious altarpieces, and portraits; he trained under Cosimo Rosselli.
Pieter Aertsen
Pieter Aertsen, called Lange Pier for his height, was a Dutch painter from Amsterdam (c. 1508–1575) who pioneered monumental market and kitchen scenes, notable for his 1551 Meat Stall.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, also known as Brueghel the Elder, was a Netherlandish painter of the Northern Renaissance, known for landscapes and peasant scenes, who died in 1569.
Pieter Claesz
Pieter Claesz (1596/97–1660) was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter who spent his career in Haarlem and became its leading painter of breakfast and vanitas still lifes.
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) was a Flemish painter, sculptor, architect, and tapestry designer active in Antwerp and Brussels who ran one of the largest workshops in the Southern Netherlands.
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter born in Rotterdam in 1629, known for sunlit domestic interiors and view-through-doorway compositions painted in Delft.
Pietro Longhi
Pietro Longhi, born Pietro Falca (1701 or 1702 to 1785), was a Venetian Rococo painter best known for small genre scenes of everyday Venetian life.
Pietro Lorenzetti
Pietro Lorenzetti (c. 1280, Siena – probably 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school and elder brother of Ambrogio, whose Passion cycle at Assisi is among the major achievements of fourteenth-century Italian painting.
Pietro Perugino
Pietro Perugino (Pietro Vannucci, c. 1450–1523), Umbrian Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel's Delivery of the Keys, master of workshops in Florence and Perugia and teacher of Raphael, called Italy's best painter around 1500.
Pinturicchio
Pinturicchio (Pintoricchio), born Bernardino di Betto (Perugia 1454, Siena 1513), Umbrian Renaissance painter who worked with Perugino in the Sistine Chapel, frescoed the Vatican Borgia Apartment for Alexander VI, and painted the Piccolomini Library in Siena.
Pisanello
Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio Pisano) was an Italian painter and medallist, born by 1395, who invented the Renaissance cast portrait medal and led the International Gothic style in Italy.
Pontormo
Pontormo, the working name of Jacopo Carucci (1494–1556), was a Florentine painter and principal founder of Mannerism, best known for the Capponi Chapel Deposition in Florence and the Visitation at Carmignano.
Qian Xuan
Qian Xuan (钱选) was a Chinese painter and poet of Wuxing who refused to serve the Mongol Yuan court and became a leading early Yuan literati painter.
Qiu Ying
Qiu Ying (仇英) was a Ming dynasty Chinese painter of humble origins, one of the Four Masters of Ming, known for blue-green landscapes and fine figure painting.
Quentin Matsys
Quentin Matsys, also spelled Massys (1466–1530), was a Netherlandish painter born in Leuven and active in Antwerp, regarded as the founder of the Antwerp school.
Rachel Ruysch
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) was a Dutch painter of flower still lifes who worked in Amsterdam and served as court painter in Düsseldorf, with patrons paying over 1,000 guilders.
Raphael
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483–1520), Urbino-born High Renaissance painter, designer and architect for Popes Julius II and Leo X; Vatican Stanze frescoes, Sistine tapestry cartoons, St Peter's architect; died Good Friday 1520, buried in the Pantheon.
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669), Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker from Leiden and Amsterdam; 314 etchings, The Night Watch (1642), large workshop, subject of the Rembrandt Research Project attribution studies.
Robert Campin
Robert Campin, accepted by most art historians as the Master of Flémalle, was a Flemish painter active in Tournai who founded realistic oil painting alongside Jan van Eyck.
Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier van der Weyden, born Rogier de le Pasture, was a Flemish painter of Early Netherlandish painting, town painter of Brussels from 1435 until his death in 1464.
Rosalba Carriera
Rosalba Carriera (1673 or 1675, Venice – 1757, Venice) was a Venetian painter who made pastel portraiture a serious genre, beginning with miniatures on ivory and serving royal clients from Paris to Vienna.
Rosso Fiorentino
Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, 1494–1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter, born in Florence, known for the Volterra Deposition and for leading the decoration of Fontainebleau.
Şahkulu
Şahkulu (died 1556) was an Ottoman court painter who headed the imperial painting atelier of Topkapı Palace under Süleyman the Magnificent and founded the saz style.
Sakai Hōitsu
Sakai Hōitsu (酒井抱一, 1761–1828) was a Japanese painter, haiku poet, and art scholar from a daimyo family who established the Edo Rinpa school and revived Ogata Kōrin's art.