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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-Antoine Houdon
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) was a French sculptor, born in Versailles, who became the leading portrait sculptor of the European Enlightenment, best known for busts of Voltaire and George Washington.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), French Neoclassical painter, David's foremost pupil; Prix de Rome 1801, Grande Odalisque, Vow of Louis XIII, line-versus-color rival of Delacroix, later Roman Academy director and Senator.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875) was a French sculptor and painter, regarded as the leading sculptor of Napoleon III's Second Empire, known for Ugolino and His Sons and The Dance.
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-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) was a French landscape painter whose oil sketches and soft late souvenirs made him one of the most popular painters of his time.
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), French Realist and Barbizon School painter of peasant life, creator of The Gleaners, The Sower, and The Angelus; trained under Delaroche, based in Barbizon from 1849, a key influence on Van Gogh and modern art.
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.
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), French academic painter, sculptor, and École des Beaux-Arts professor known for Orientalist scenes like The Snake Charmer, Pollice Verso, and The Death of Caesar, and for opposing the Impressionists.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), American neo-expressionist painter, began as the graffiti writer SAMO© with Al Diaz, broke through at New York/New Wave 1981, and set a $110.5 million auction record in 2017.
Jean-Michel Frank
Jean-Michel Frank (1895–1941) was a French interior decorator and furniture designer known for minimalist interiors of spare forms and unusual materials, an approach his contemporaries called "poor luxury."
Jean-Paul Goude
Jean-Paul Goude (born 1940) is a French illustrator, photographer, and director of spectacles. Not to be confused with namesakes; known for Esquire art direction, Grace Jones imagery, and the 1989 Revolution Bicentennial parade in Paris.
Jeanloup Sieff
Jeanloup Sieff (1933–2000) was a French photographer of Polish descent known for black-and-white fashion photography, portraits, nudes, and dance pictures, including a famous 1971 nude portrait of Yves Saint Laurent.
Jeanne Hébuterne
Jeanne Hébuterne was a French painter known for her self-portraits and portraits of friends. Her work, which included about 25 paintings, remained in private hands until 2000.
Jeanne Paquin
Jeanne Paquin (1869–1936), born Jeanne Marie Charlotte Beckers, was a French couture designer who founded and led the House of Paquin in Paris from 1891, becoming the first woman to gain international celebrity in fashion.
Jed Johnson (designer)
Jed Johnson (1948-1996), American interior designer and Warhol partner, decorated Andy Warhol's East 66th Street townhouse, founded Jed Johnson Associates, designed White Birch Farm, died on TWA Flight 800.
Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons (born 1955, York, Pennsylvania) is an American artist known for kitsch-to-high-art sculpture: Rabbit ($91.1M record, 2019), Balloon Dog ($58.4M, 2013), Puppy, and the 2014 Whitney retrospective; Gagosian represents him since 2025.
Jeff Smith (cartoonist)
Jeff Smith (born 1960) is the American cartoonist behind Bone, self-published via Cartoon Books 1991–2004, later RASL, Tüki Save the Humans, and Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil.
Jeff the Land Shark
Jeff the Land Shark, also known as Jeffrey, is a Marvel Comics character, a small four-legged shark created by Kelly Thompson, first appearing in West Coast Avengers in 2018.
Jeff Thomas (model)
Jeff Thomas (Jeffrey Robert Thomas, 1987/1988 – March 8, 2023) was an American model, actor, and influencer with London agency AMCK Models and One Popsicle art consultancy; he died in Miami at 35.
Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall (born 1946, Vancouver) is a Canadian photographer known for large-scale backlit lightbox transparencies and staged 'cinematographic' pictures such as The Destroyed Room and Dead Troops Talk, distinct from documentary street photography.
Jeffrey Gibson
Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972) is an American multidisciplinary artist of Choctaw and Cherokee descent who combines Indigenous materials, text, and popular culture across painting, sculpture, and performance.
Jennifer Meyer
Jennifer Meyer is an American fine jewelry designer who founded her eponymous Los Angeles brand in 2005; self-taught, known for 18k gold leaf motifs, Good Luck necklaces, 2012 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund runner-up, fragrance since 2022.
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer, born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio, is an American conceptual artist known for Truisms, anonymous one-liners from 1977–79 shown on posters, T-shirts, and LED signs, first on Times Square's Spectacolor board in 1982.
Jeram Patel
Jeram Patel (1930–2016) was an Indian abstractionist known for black ink drawings and for pioneering blowtorch-burnt plywood works, and a founding member of Group 1890.
Jeremiah Brent
Jeremiah Brent, American interior designer and TV host, founder of Jeremiah Brent Design (LA and NYC, founded 2011), husband of Nate Berkus, star of Queer Eye, Nate & Jeremiah By Design, and Say I Do.
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann (1934–2022) was an American photographer and University of Florida professor known for seamless surrealist black-and-white images assembled from several negatives in the darkroom.
Jessica Mulroney
Jessica Mulroney (née Brownstein, born 1980) is a Canadian fashion stylist, bridal consultant, and brand strategist, face of Kleinfeld Canada, close friend and unofficial stylist of Meghan Markle, and Shoebox Project co-founder.
Jessie M. King
Jessie M. King, full name Jessie Marion King, was a Scottish illustrator and designer of the Glasgow Style, known for dreamlike book illustrations and designs for Liberty & Co.