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Josh Kirby
Josh Kirby (Ronald William Kirby, 1928–2001), British illustrator from Liverpool who painted over 400 science fiction and fantasy covers, the first Discworld covers for Terry Pratchett, and posters for Return of the Jedi and Life of Brian.
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.
Josie Trinidad
Josie Trinidad is a Filipino-American storyboard artist and director at Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2004, co-head of story on Zootopia, head of story on Ralph Breaks the Internet, director of Zootopia+, and co-director of the 2026 feature Hexed.
Jourdan Dunn
Jourdan Dunn (born 1990) is a British model from west London, scouted in Primark and signed to Storm. First Black model to walk Prada in over a decade (2008), British Fashion Awards Model of the Year 2008 and 2015, Vogue Italia Black Issue cover model.
Jowo Mikyo Dorje
Jowo Mikyo Dorje (ཇོ་བོ་མི་བསྐྱོད་རྡོ་རྗེ), also called Jowo Chungwa, is one of Tibet's two most sacred Buddha statues, enshrined in Lhasa's Ramoche Temple and traditionally brought by the Nepalese princess Bhrikuti as dowry to Songtsen Gampo.
Jowo Shakyamuni
Jowo Shakyamuni, also known as Jowo Rinpoche, is a Buddha statue in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, regarded as the holiest image in Tibetan Buddhism.
József Rippl-Rónai
József Rippl-Rónai (1861–1927) was a Hungarian painter and member of the French post-impressionist group Les Nabis, known for his reduced-palette Paris interiors and brightly colored "corn" paintings.
JR (artist)
JR (born 1983) is a pseudonymous French photographer and public artist, called the French Banksy, creator of Portrait of a Generation, Face 2 Face, Women Are Heroes, Inside Out, and Faces, Places; distinct from musicians named JR.
Ju Lian
Ju Lian (居廉, 1828–1904) was a Chinese bird-and-flower painter of the late Qing dynasty who, with his cousin Ju Chao, laid the foundations of the Lingnan School.
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 Gris
Juan Gris (José Victoriano González Pérez, 1887–1927), Spanish painter in Paris and leading master of Synthetic Cubism; Bateau-Lavoir neighbor of Picasso, Kahnweiler contractee, died aged 40.
Juan Luna
Juan Luna y Novicio (1857–1899), Filipino painter born in Badoc, won the 1884 Madrid gold medal for Spoliarium, joined the Propaganda Movement, and served as a revolutionary diplomat; also known for Death of Cleopatra and Hymen, oh Hyménée!.
Juan Martínez Montañés
Juan Martínez Montañés (1568–1649) was a Spanish Baroque sculptor and altarpiece architect in Seville, called the "God of Wood" and portrayed by Velázquez around 1635.
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.
Judd Winick
Judd Winick, American cartoonist and screenwriter, Real World: San Francisco cast member, author of Pedro and Me, DC writer of Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Red Hood, and creator of the Hilo graphic novels.
Judith and Holofernes
Judith and Holofernes is a bronze sculptural group by Donatello showing the biblical heroine raising her sword over the Assyrian general, one of his last works, completed in 1464.
Judith beheading Holofernes
Judith beheading Holofernes: the climactic scene of the Book of Judith, also called Judith Slaying Holofernes, in which the Jewish heroine decapitates the Assyrian general; famously painted by Caravaggio (1599) and Artemisia Gentileschi (1612-13, c. 1620).
Judith Beheading Holofernes (Caravaggio)
Judith Beheading Holofernes (Giuditta e Oloferne), Caravaggio's oil on canvas of about 1599-1602 in Palazzo Barberini, Rome, shows Judith cutting the throat of the Assyrian general Holofernes; first owned by banker Ottavio Costa and widely copied by Caravaggisti.
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.
Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Naples)
Judith Slaying Holofernes (Giuditta decapita Oloferne), c. 1612–13, Artemisia Gentileschi's earlier beheading scene, oil on canvas 159 × 126 cm, Museo di Capodimonte Naples, inv. Q 378; companion to the c. 1620 Uffizi version.
Juergen Teller
Juergen Teller, born 1964 in Erlangen, Germany, is a German photographer based in London known for a raw, flash-lit, unglamorous style and campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Celine, and Vivienne Westwood.
Jules Bastien-Lepage
Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884), French naturalist painter of Damvillers, Meuse; pupil of Cabanel. Known for Les Foins, Saison d'Octobre, Joan of Arc; Zola's 'grandson of Courbet and Millet'; Legion of Honour 1879; influenced the Glasgow Boys.
Jules Chéret
Jules Chéret (1836–1932), French painter and lithographer called the father of the modern poster and "roi de l'affiche"; perfected three-stone color lithography, created the "Chérette", made over 1,000 Belle Époque posters, and gave his name to the Nice fine-arts museum.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), British photographer born in Calcutta, took up photography at 48 on the Isle of Wight; known for soft-focus close-up portraits of Darwin, Herschel, and Tennyson and V&A ties.
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel (born 1951, Brooklyn) is an American Neo-Expressionist painter and filmmaker known for his plate paintings of broken crockery on putty-covered panels, and for directing Basquiat, Before Night Falls, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu is an American painter, born in Addis Ababa in 1970, known for large-scale layered abstract paintings that combine architectural drawings, maps, and calligraphic marks.
Julio Ruelas
Julio Ruelas (1870–1907) was a Mexican Symbolist painter, printmaker, and illustrator born in Zacatecas, regarded as Mexico's leading representative of symbolism and a precursor of modernismo.
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), German Nazarene painter and illustrator from Leipzig; painted the Munich Residenz Nibelungen frescoes and the 240-woodcut Bibel in Bildern; directed the Dresden Gemäldegalerie.