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Anders Zorn

Anders Zorn (1860–1920) was a Swedish painter, etcher, and sculptor who became one of Europe's leading portrait painters, painting three US presidents including Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt.

André Derain

André Derain (1880–1954) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, a foremost practitioner of Fauvism who later worked with Braque and Picasso and returned to classical tradition.

Andrea del Sarto

Andrea del Sarto, born Andrea d'Agnolo (1486–1530), was a leading Florentine painter of the early 16th century whose works include the Madonna of the Harpies in the Uffizi.

Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter and engraver, one of the foremost north Italian artists of the fifteenth century, famous for his experiments with perspective and classical themes.

Andreas Ritzos

Andreas Ritzos, also recorded as Rico or Rizo (c. 1421–1492), was a Greek icon painter of the Cretan School in Candia, Crete, and the dominant painter there after 1450.

Andrei Rublev (Андре́й Рублёв)

Andrei Rublev (Андре́й Рублёв), also known as Andrey Rublyov, was a Russian monk and icon painter active ca. 1360–1430. He is remembered for his icon of the Old Testament Trinity.

Andrew Levitas

Andrew Levitas, American artist and filmmaker, creator of Metalwork Installations photography, writer-director of Lullaby (2014) and Minamata with Johnny Depp, co-founder of Cygnet Gin; distinct from the psychiatrist Andrew Stephen Levitas.

Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009), American realist painter of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Cushing, Maine; creator of Christina's World (1948) and the secret Helga Pictures, trained by his father N.C. Wyeth.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola, 1928–1987), American Pop artist from Pittsburgh known for Campbell's Soup Cans, celebrity portraits, screenprinting, the Factory, avant-garde films, and the Velvet Underground.

Ang Kiukok

Ang Kiukok was a Filipino painter of Chinese descent who fused cubism and expressionism in works of suffering and crucifixions, named National Artist in 2001.

Angelica Kauffman

Angelica Kauffman (Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807) was a Swiss Neoclassical painter and a founding member of the Royal Academy in London in 1768, one of only two women.

Angelos Akotantos

Angelos Akotantos (Άγγελος Ακοτάντος) was a Greek icon painter active in Venetian-ruled Crete in the first half of the fifteenth century and the earliest documented painter of the Cretan School.

Anita Magsaysay-Ho

Anita Magsaysay-Ho (1914–2012) was a Filipino modernist painter and the only woman among the Thirteen Moderns, known for post-Cubist depictions of Filipino women working in farms, markets, and homes.

Anita Malfatti

Anita Malfatti was a Brazilian painter and pioneer of modern art in Brazil, whose 1917 solo exhibition in São Paulo sparked the controversy that fueled Brazilian modernism.

Anjolie Ela Menon

Anjolie Ela Menon, born in 1940 in Burnpur, West Bengal, is an Indian figurative painter and muralist known for oil paintings on Masonite that received the Padma Shri in 2000.

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767–1824), usually known as Girodet-Trioson, was a French history and portrait painter, a pupil of Jacques-Louis David whose imaginative, emotionally charged works anticipated Romanticism.

Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci is an Italian painter from Bologna, known for reforming Italian art away from Mannerism and Caravaggio. He also directed the influential Farnese Gallery ceiling in Rome.

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer (born 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor of monumental Neo-Expressionist works on German history, myth, and the Nazi past, using lead, ash, and sediment of electrolysis; based in France since 1992.

Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Flemish Baroque painter born in Antwerp, Rubens's pupil, court painter to Charles I as Principal Painter, knighted, and the dominant influence on English portraiture for nearly three centuries.

Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau, full name Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), was a French painter and draftsman born in Valenciennes who created the fête galante genre and became the seminal figure of the French Rococo.

Antoine-Jean Gros

Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), French painter and David pupil, painter of the Napoleonic epic with works like Bonaparte at Arcole, Jaffa, and Eylau; a forerunner of Romanticism.

Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee

Antoinette Eno Pinchot Bradlee (1924–2011), also known as Tony Pinchot and Antoinette Pinchot Pittman, was an American ceramicist, jeweler, and painter, second wife of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and sister of murdered painter Mary Pinchot Meyer.

Anton Losenko

Anton Pavlovich Losenko (Антон Павлович Лосенко, 1737–1773) was a Russian history painter regarded as the founder of Russian historical painting, known for Vladimir and Rogneda (1770).

Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779) was a German-Bohemian painter, the leading early Neoclassicist, whose fresco Parnassus in Rome and work for Charles III of Spain shaped European classical revival.

Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479) was an Italian painter from Messina who adopted Netherlandish oil technique and transformed Venetian portraiture during his documented stay in Venice, 1475 to 1476.

Antoni Tàpies

Antoni Tàpies i Puig (1923–2012) was a Spanish painter from Barcelona, a leading figure of European Art Informel known for thick, wall-like paintings of marble dust and glue.

Antonio Berni

Antonio Berni (1905–1981) was an Argentine painter, printmaker, and sculptor born in Rosario, a leading social realist known for his Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel series.

Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Antonio del Pollaiuolo, born Antonio Benci, was an Italian Renaissance goldsmith, sculptor, painter, and engraver in Florence, known for the Battle of the Nudes engraving.

António Ole

António Ole, born António Oliveira in Luanda in 1951, is an Angolan multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and film on Angolan history and contemporary society.

Antonis Mor

Antonis Mor, also Anthonis Mor or Antonio Moro, was a Netherlandish portrait painter, court portraitist to the Habsburgs, who died in Antwerp in 1576 or 1577.