painters
| A. V. Ilango (born March 17, 1950) is an Indian painter. He was born in Gobichettipalayam, a small town in Tamil Nadu. |
| Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 - June 22, 1928) was an early American illustrator, graphic artist, and comics writer. He was also well known as a painter. Frost's work is well known for its dynamic representation of motion and sequence. Frost is considered one of the great illustrators in the "Golden Age of American Illustration". |
| A. B. Jackson was an African American painter. |
| Alfred Joseph Casson, OC (May 17 1898 - February 20 1992) was a member of the Canadian group of painters, the Group of Seven. He joined the group in 1926 after an invitation from Franklin Carmichael. Casson is best know for his depiction of landscapes, forests and farms of southern Ontario, and being the youngest member of the Group of Seven. |
| Ralf Winkler, alias A.R. Penck (born 5 October 1939) is a German painter, printmaker and sculptor. |
| A. Ramachandran [http://www.artoframachandran.com] is a renowned Indian painter, born in 1935 in Attingal, Kerala. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, the highest honour in art conferred by the Government of India; three years later, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honour, for outstanding service to the nation.[1] |
| Alexander Young Jackson, CC , CMG (born October 3, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec, died April 5, 1974 in Kleinburg, Ontario) was a Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven. |
| A Picture of Britain is a 2005 BBC television documentary series presented by David Dimbleby, which describes the British landscape and the art which it has inspired. In each of the six 1-hour episodes Dimbleby explores a different British region and discusses the ways that its landscape and culture have influenced painters, poets and composers. |
| A Thing of Beauty is a novel by author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1956, with the alternate title of Crusader's Tomb. It tells the story of Stephen Desmonde, an English painter who struggles for recognition in a conventional world, sacrificing everything for his passion for art. The title is a reference to John Keats' 1818 poem, Endymion, which begins, "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." |
| Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1898 – February 3, 1979) was an American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Aaron Draper Shattuck (1832-1928) was an American painter of the White Mountain School. He was born in Francestown, New Hampshire. A second-generation artist affiliated with the Hudson River School, Shattuck differed from most of his contemporaries in that he never studied abroad, and appears to have spent his entire life in New England. |
| Aart Kemink (1914-2006) (variant names Arie Kemink, Art Kemink, Art Kamink) was a Dutch-Canadian painter, born in 1914 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. |
| Aasta Hansteen, (born December 10, 1824 - April 13, 1908), was a Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist. |
| Abati is a surname and may refer to: *Joël Abati (born 1970), French handball player *Niccolò dell'Abbate (1509 or 1512-1571), Italian painter |
| Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, as shown by the fact that his paintings are in the most important U.S. art collections. |
| Abby Jackson (born 1982) is a British artist, Stuckist painter, writer and art activist. |
| The Abd-el-Tif prize was an award for painter artists. Decreed on contest, it was created in 1907 under the impulse of Leonce Bénédite, conservative of the Museum of Luxembourg and Claude Jonnart, general governor of Algeria, in order to make it possible to young talented artists to remain one year or two, sometimes more, with the expenses of the State in the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers. |
| The abduction and murder of Jakub Fiszman (1956–1996) was a crime that took place in Eschborn, Germany, in 1996. The investigation and trial of the perpetrators, house painter Rainer Körppen and his son Sven Körppen, produced substantial public and media attention, including TV documentaries. In the 2000s, it also spawned a series of lawsuits related to the privacy of the perpetrators. |
| Abed Abdi (born February 1942, Haifa, Mandate Palestine) is an Arab Israeli painter, graphic designer, sculpturer and lecturer of the arts. |
| Adah Isaacs Menken (15 June, 1835 - August 10, 1868) was an American actress, painter and poet. |
| Abdul Qadir Al Rassam,عبد القادر الرسام), 1952 - 1882), was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He was the first well-known painter in modern Iraq and the leader of realism school in Iraq. He studied military science and art at the Military College, Istanbul, Turkey, (then the capital of the Ottoman Empire) from 1904. |
| Abdulcelil Levni, or shortly known as Levni, (b. Abdulcelil Çelebi, late 17th century, Edirne – d. 1732, Istanbul) was an Ottoman court painter and miniaturist. |
| Abdullah Gërguri (1931-1994) was a Kosovo Albanian painter, an important artist in restoration and conservation of the icons and frescoes. Gërguri was born in the village Sibofc of Podujevo, in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. |
| Abdul Rahman Chughtai (1899–1975), is a painter from Pakistan. |
| Abel Salazar (19 July 1889, Guimarães - 29 December 1946, Lisbon), was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher and painter who worked and lived in Porto. |
| Abidin Dino, (March 23 1913 – December 7 1993) was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter. |
| Abner Dubic (born 1944) is a Haitian painter. Born in Léogane, Dubic has exhibited his works in the United States and France. His works are sold in galleries in New York City, Chicago, and Paris. |
| Abolhassan Sadighi (Persian استاد ابوالحسن خان صدیقی Ostād Abolhassan khān Sadighī) (1894 – 1995) was one of the most prominent Iranian sculptors and painters and was known as the Master Sadighi. |
| Abraham Begeyn (ca. 1637, Leiden - Jun 11 1697, Berlin) was a Dutch painter of landscapes and cattle in the manner of Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem. |
| Abraham Bloemaert (1566, Gorinchem - January 27, 1651, Utrecht), was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving. |
| Abraham Brueghel (1631-1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous family of artists. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Younger, the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the great-grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. |
| Abraham Govaerts (Antwerp, 1589–9 September 1626) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo. He became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1607–1608, and subsequently trained several other painters in including Alexander Keirincx. |
| Abraham Janssens (or Jansens) van Nuyssen (c. 1567/1576 - 1632) was a Flemish painter. |
| Abraham Mauricio Salazar is a Nahuatl Indian living in Oaxaca, Mexico. For most of his life, Salazar has been working as a farmer, painter, and teacher. His primary medium is papel amate, a folk craft tradition that the Nahuatls have used for over two millennia. The painting style takes its name from the medium that is used – “papel amate”, paper that is made from the bark of the ficus tree. |
| Abraham Storck (or Sturckenburch) (bapt. Apr 17 1644, Amsterdam - buried Apr 8 1708, Amsterdam) was a Dutch landscape and maritime painter of the Baroque era. |
| Abraham Walkowitz (March 28, 1878 - January 27, 1965) was an American painter grouped in with the Early American Moderns working in the Modernist style. He was born in Siberia, Russia and emigrated with his mother to the United States in his early childhood where he studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean Paul Laurence. |
| Abraham Willaerts (ca. 1603, Utrecht - October 18, 1669, Utrecht) was a Dutch Baroque painter, mostly of marine and harbor scenes. |
| Abraham Hendriksz van Beijeren (ca. 1620 The Hague - March 1690 Rotterdam) was a Dutch Baroque era painter. He was little regarded in his day but is now considered one of the greatest of still-life painters. Van Beijeren (alternatively spelled "Beyeren") lived in a succession of Dutch towns. Born in The Hague, the artist also lived in Delft, Amsterdam, Alkmaar and Gouda. In 1678 he settled in Rotterdam, where he died in 1690. |
| Abraham van Diepenbeeck (bapt. May 9 1596, 's-Hertogenbosch - May-Sept. 1675, Antwerp) was an erudite and accomplished Dutch painter of the Flemish School. |
| Abraham van der Waeyen Pieterszen (May 14 1817 - April 16 1880) was a Dutch-born painter, trained in Antwerp. From 1844 Pieterszen worked as a deacon, later as a preacher for the Protestant Union of Belgium in Antwerp, Brussels, Mecheln and Leuven, finally in Maria-Horebeke. |
| Abram Belskie was born on March 24, 1907 in London, England and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a painter and started classes at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1926. Prize money allowed him to study on the Continent. Upon his return to Glasgow, he opened his own studio. He also worked as an assistant to other sculptors and taught at the Glasgow School of Art. |
| The Acheloos Painter (active around 525 - 500 BCE. in Athens) was a Greek vase painter of the black-figure style. He received his name after a representation of the fight of the river God Acheloos and Herakles on Amphora F 1851 in the Berlin Antique collection. |
| Achenbach is a German surname and may refer to: *Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910), German painter *Joel Achenbach, American journalist *Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905), German painter *Timo Achenbach (born 1982), German footballer *Max Alvary (1856-1898), originally Maximilian Achenbach, German tenor |
| Achille Calici (born c. 1565) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, and early Baroque. He was born in Bologna. He was a pupil first of Prospero Fontana, then of Lodovico Carracci. He painted the two laterals of the high altar in the church of San Michele Arcangelo at Bologna, representing St. Michael, and the angel Raphael and Tobias. |
| Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (February 6, 1800 – December 23, 1857) was a French painter and lithographer. His father was a civil employee of the navy and student of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Louis Lafitte (1770–1828). |
| Achille Emperaire (1829 - 1898) was a French painter and a friend of Paul Cézanne's. |
| The Achilles Painter, working from the 460s to the 420s BC, is the pseudonym of an Attic Greek vase-painter of outstanding quality (see Pottery of Ancient Greece), whose refined figure of Achilles on a red-figure amphora of ca. 450–445 BCE in the Vatican Museum inspired Sir John Beazley to name its anonymous draftsman the "Achilles Painter." The Vatican amphora is thus the namepiece of the "Achilles Painter". |
| Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt ("Ad" Reinhardt) (December 24, 1913–August 30, 1967) was a painter, writer, and pioneer of conceptual and minimal art. He was also a critic of abstract expressionism. Reinhardt's earliest exhibited paintings avoided representation, but show a steady progression away from objects and external reference. |
| Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while almost entirely unknown to English readers. |
| Adalgisa Nery (October 29, 1905 – June 7, 1980) was a Brazilian poet, journalist and politician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Adalgisa Maria Feliciana Noel Cancela Ferreira, the daughter of a civil servant. In 1922 she married Ismael Nery (1900–1934), a painter and poet who introduced Adalgisa to a circle of Brazilian artists and intellectuals that included Manuel Bandeira, Jorge de Lima and Murilo Mendes. |
| Adam Brooks (b. July 3, 1979) is a Canadian painter, filmmaker, and musician. |
| Adam Cvijanovic (b.1960, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a painter based in New York City. He paints large-scale views of city suburbs onto Tyvek sheeting, which can be easily transported from place to place. |
| Adam Emory Albright (1862 - 1957) was a painter of figures in landscapes. He was born in Monroe, Wisconsin and spent his working life in the Chicago area, dying at Warrenville, Illinois. |
| Adam Friedrich Oeser (February 17 1717 in Bratislava - March 18 1799 in Leipzig) was a German etcher, painter and sculptor. He worked and studied in Bratislava (student of Georg Raphael Donner in sculpture) and Vienna at the Vienna Academy (painting). In 1739 he went to Dresden, painted portraits, scenes for the Royal opera, and mural paintings in Castle Hubertsburg (1749), and removed to Leipzig in 1759. |
| Adam Marczyński (1908–1985) was a Polish painter. He died in Kraków. Marczyński came into his own as an artist of post-war Kraków. |
| Adam Saks (born 1974 in Copenhagen) is a Danish painter who lives and works in Berlin. |
| Adam Willaerts (July 21 1577, London - April 4 1664, Utrecht ) was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. |
| Adam de Coster (c. 1586–1643) was a Flemish Baroque painter working under the influence of Caravaggism. Originally from Mechelen, he is listed in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke as a master in 1607–1608. Although there is no information regarding a trip to Italy, his early adoption of the strong chiaroscuro and use of half-length figures illuminated by "candlelight" suggests that he might have made this journey. |
| Adam van Noort (1561–1641) was a successful Antwerp painter and draughtsman in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the teacher to both Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens, the latter of whom became his son-in-law. Van Noort was dean of the Guild of St. Luke from 1597 until 1602. He collaborated with Marten de Vos on the decorations for the Joyous Entry of Archduke Ernest of Austria in 1594, and painted numerous small paintings of religious subjects. |
| Adel Nassief is a Coptic painter with special interest in Coptic art. He has some work on the external wall of a Coptic church in Paris and some work in Egypt in Cairo modern art museum and in Coptic churches in Damanhour and Alexandria. |
| Adolf Born (born June 12 1930) is a Czech painter and illustrator, caricaturist and film-maker. |
| Adolf Hölzel (13 May 1853 – 17 October 1934) was a German artist/painter. His style developed from Impressionism to expressive modernism. |
| Adolf Kašpar (born 27 December 1877 in Bludov, died 29 June 1934 in Železná Ruda), was a Czech painter and illustrator. |
| Adolf Seel (1 March, 1829–14 February, 1907) was a German painter. He enjoyed training at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. |
| Adolf Wissel (19 April 1894 – 17 November 1973) was a German painter. He was one of the official artists of Nazism. |
| Adolf Ziegler (Bremen, 16 October 1892 – Varhnalt, 18 September 1959) was a German painter and politician. He was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of "Degenerate art", made by most of the German modern artists. He was the favoured painter of Hitler. |
| Adolfas Valeška (b. March 15, 1905, near Vilkaviškis; d. May 11, 1994 in Kaunas, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter, stage designer, and museum director who worked in Lithuania and in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter. He was born Felice Adolfo Muller on March 29, 1862 at Airolo, in the Ticino in Switzerland, into a prominent patrician family whose lineage descended from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne and Doge Pietro Orseolo of Venice, and by the 18th and 19th centuries included mercenaries, lawyers, hoteliers and businessmen. |
| Adolfo Cristobal Winternitz, Adolf Gustav Winternitz(-)Wurmser (October 20, 1906, Vienna – June 17, 1993, Lima) was an Austrian-Peru Jewish painter. |
| Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 - March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor. |
| Adolph Northen (also credited as Adolf Northen, Adolf Northern or Adolph Northern) (November 6 1828 - May 28 1876) was a 19th century German painter. He was born in Münden, Hannover and was a pupil of Düsseldorf Painting Academy. |
| Adolph Tidemand (1814-1876) was a Norwegian painter who was born in Mandal in 1814. At this time there were no art schools in Norway, so he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark at the age of 18 to attend the art academy. He studied there for five years and then began a journey to Italy to study further. But when Tidemand came to Düsseldorf, Germany, he liked it so much that he settled down there. |
| Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14 1824 - June 29 1886) was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists. |
| Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (January 24, 1901 – June 17, 1968) was an influential Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer. |
| Adolphe-Léon Willette (1857–1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer. |
| Adolphe Yvon (1817 - 1893) was a French painter known for his paintings from the Napoleonic Wars. |
| The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi. It is signed and dated at 1496. It is housed in the Uffizi of Florence. |
| The Adoration of the Magi is a panting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, from 1462. |
| The Adoration of the Shepherds , sometimes still known as the Allendale Nativity or "Adoration", after a former owner, is a painting by the Italian painter of the Renaissance, Giorgione, in about 1500. The attribution is now usual, although not universal. It is certainly a Venetian painting of that period. It is displayed in the National Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C., United States. |
| Adriaen Brouwer (1605, Oudenaarde - January 1638, Antwerp) was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century. |
| Adriaen Hanneman (1603-1671) was a seventeenth-century Dutch painter best-known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Anthony Van Dyck. |
| Adriaen Isenbrandt (between 1480 and 1490 – Bruges, July 1551), also known as Adrien Ysenbrandt, was a Flemish Northern Renaissance painter, who specialized in religious subjects and devotional paintings. His name is also spelled as Isenbrant, Ysenbrant, Ysenbrandt or Hysebrant. He is believed to be the anonymous Master of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin. |
| Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger (1587, Antwerp- buried July 7 1658, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and engraver of the Baroque period. Adrien the elder was born to a family of artists of Flemish origin from Antwerp. They probably moved to Amsterdam in 1589, because they were protestants. Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger and his brothers became painters. Adriaen the Younger was a pupil of Pieter Isaacsz and Frans Badens in Amsterdam. |
| Adriaen van Ostade (bapt. Adriaen Hendricx December 10 1610 – bur. May 2 1685) was a Dutch genre painter. |
| Adriaen van Utrecht (Antwerp, 1599–1652) was a celebrated Flemish Baroque still life painter of the Antwerp school. |
| Adrian van de Velde (bapt. Nov 30 1636, Amsterdam – bur. Jan 21 1672, Amsterdam), was a Dutch animal and landscape painter, son of Willem van de Velde, the elder and brother of William van de Velde, the younger, the marine painter. |
| Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589, Delft – Nov 12 1662, The Hague) was a Dutch Baroque painter. He lived in Middelburg from 1614 and was influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Elder. He worked as a book illustrator and print designer. Van de Venne moved to The Hague and joined the Guild of Saint Luke in 1625, taking the position of dean in 1637. |
| Adriaen van der Cabel (1631, Ryswick - June 16, 1705, Lyon) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch school. He grew up in the small town of Rijswijk, in the western Netherlands. This town was also the hometown of Edin, another Dutch painter from the area. Cabel was also know as Adri'tje |
| Adriaen van der Werff (Kralingen, Jan 21 1659 – Rotterdam, Nov 12 1722) was an accomplished Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. His brother, Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722), was his principal pupil and assistant. |
| Adrian Dingle (1911-22 December 1974) was a painter whose career was based in Canada. He was also a creator of comic books during the 1940's. |
| Adrian Heath (1920–1992) was a 20th century British painter. |
| Adrian Henri (April 10, 1932 – December 21 2000) was a British poet and painter. |
| Adrian Jones (1845 - 1938) was an English sculptor and painter who specialized in animals, particularly horses. He was born in Ludlow, Shropshire and initially studied at the Royal Veterinary College; he subsequently joined the army as a veterinary officer, attaining the rank of Captain. It was after leaving the army in 1890 that he embarked on his artistic career. |
| Adrian Grant Morris (May 18 1929 – December 06 2004) was a British painter. He was sent to Vermont, USA during World War II. He worked in a minimal style of his own. He was active in the Chelsea art and social scenes of the 1960s, and a friend of Yoko Ono. His career includes a one-man show in 1955, and several group shows. Morris disliked selling his paintings and did not belong to any school, yet he was admired by other artists. |
| Adrian Searle is the chief art critic of The Guardian newspaper in Britain, and has been writing for the paper since 1996. Previously he was a painter. He curates art shows and also writes fiction. |
| Adriano Palladino (c. 1610-1680) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born and active in Cortona, although he was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome. |
| Adrien Taunay the younger was a French painter and draftsman. He was born in Paris in 1803, the son of history and genre painter Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1755-1830). Adrien moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1816, accompanying his father, who was a member of the French Artistic Mission. Adrien was the junior draftsman aboard the French vessel of exploration "Uranie", commanded by Captain Louis de Freycinet. |
| Adrienne King (born 4 February 1960) is an American actress and painter. |
| Adèle Kindt (16 December 1804–1884) was a Belgian painter, the leading female painter of the 1820s to 1840s. |
| Adélaïde-Gillette Dufrénoy, née Billet (1765-1825) was a French poet and painter from Brittany. |
| Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (April 11, 1749 – April 24, 1803) was a French history and portrait painter. |
| Aegidius Sadeler (sometimes written Egidius, or Gilles) (c. 1570 - 1629) was a Flemish baroque era painter and engraver; the best (Hind) of a notable dynasty of engravers, who were also significant as dealers and distributors of prints. He spent most of his career based in Prague where Emperor Rudolf II commissioned many of his works. |
| Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (October 20, 1620 - November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594–1651/52), he is especially known for his views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon. |
| Alan Davie (born 1920) is a painter and musician. He was born in Skinflats, Falkirk and studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1930s. An early exhibition of his work came through the Society of Scottish Artists. He also has a great love for Cornwall. |
| Aleksandr Davydovich Drevin (, 3 July 1889, Cēsis, Latvia – 26 February 1938, near Moscow) was a Russian painter. |
| Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov (16th May 1910 - 15th March 1972) was an acclaimed Socialist realism painter in the post-war Soviet Union. His meticulous and almost photo-real style was highly popular but courted controversy among art critics and other artists. |
| Afro Basaldella (March 4, 1912 in Udine–July 24, 1976 in Zurich) was an Italian painter. He was generally known by the single name Afro. |
| Agatharchus (Gr. Ἀγάθαρχος) was a self-taught painter from Samos who lived in the 5th century BC. He is said by Vitruvius to have invented scene-painting, and to have painted a scene (scenam fecit) for a tragedy which Aeschylus exhibited. Hence some writers, such as Karl Woermann, have supposed that he introduced perspective and illusion into painting. |
| Aghinetti, also called Guccio del Sero, was an Italian painter, active in Florence, active in 1331, He had a nephew, exiled Maestro Gurcio, who died in 1409. |
| Agnes Martin Barley (born October 5, 1970 in Jacksonville, Florida), is a minimalist abstract painter. |
| Agnes Boulton was a successful "pulp fiction" writer in the 1910s, later the wife of Eugene O'Neill. Prior to their marriage, she wrote for such magazines as Breezy Stories, Snappy Stories, and Young's Magazine. Boulton was born in 1891, 1892, or 1893 (depending on your source) in England, the daughter of Cecil and Edward W. Boulton (a painter), but grew up in Philadelphia and later in West Point Pleasant, New Jersey. |
| Agnes Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was a Canadian-American painter, often referred to as a minimalist, although she considered herself an abstract expressionist. |
| Agni Yoga, also called the "Teaching of Living Ethics" or (in Russian) the Живая этика (Zhivaya etika), is an esoteric teaching founded by the Russian painter Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Konstantinovitch Rerikh) and his highly adept empathic wife, Helena Roerich (Elena Ivanovna Rerikh). Inspired by the Vedic traditions, as well as by Buddhism and writings of H.P. |
| Agnolo Gaddi (born c. 1350, active 1369-1396, died 1396) was an Italian painter. He was the son of the painter Taddeo Gaddi. |
| Agostino Aglio (1777-1857) was an Italian painter, decorator, and engraver. |
| Agostino Apollonio was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Sant'Angelo in Vado, and painted around mid-1530s. He assisted his uncle Luzio Dolci. He lived in Castel Durante. |
| Agostino Beltrano (active in 1646, died in 1665) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period in his native city of Naples. He was a pupil of Massimo Stanzione, the uncle of his wife. He is said to have murdered his 36 yr old wife and painter, Aniella di Beltrano (also known as Aniella di Rosa), in a fit of jealousy. |
| Agostino Bonisoli (1633 - 1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Cremona. He was the pupil of the slightly older painter Giovanni Battista Tortoroli, and later working with Luigi Miradoro. He painted a Life of St. Anthony for the church of San Francesco in Cremona. He painted in the style of Paolo Veronese. |
| Agostino Campanella (active 1770) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born in Florence. He engraved several prints representing historical and biblical subjects. |
| Agostino Carlini (1718?-August 1790) was an Italian sculptor and painter, who was born in Genoa but settled in England. |
| Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (August 16, 1557 - March 22, 1602) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci. |
| Agostino Ciampelli (1578-1640) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He trained with Santi di Tito in Florence, and painted in Rome under Clement VIII, including a Crucifixion for Santa Prassede and a Saint Giovanni Gualberto in its sacristy; Angels on the walls above the choirstalls in the apse of Santa Maria in Trastevere; frescoes of the Stoning of Saint Vitale in San Vitale and further frescoes in the little church of Santa Bibiena; and The Visitation in Sant Stefano di Pescia. |
| Agostino Cornacchini (August 27,1686-1754) was an Italian sculptor and painter of the Rococo period, active mainly in Rome. |
| Agostino Lamma (1636- 1700) was an Italian painter, active in Venice and specializing in battle paintings. He was trained under Antonio Calza, and his Siege of Vienna by the Turks, painted in the style of Mattias Stom. He died in Venice. |
| Agostino Masucci (c. 1691 - 19 October, 1758) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period. |
| Agostino Mitelli (March 16, 1609 - August 2, 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period as a painter of quadratura. He was born in Battidizzo, near Bologna. He died in Madrid, while working for the court of Philip IV of Spain. He was a pupil of Gabriele Ferrantini(degli Occhiali), Girolamo Curti, and colleague of Michelangelo Colonna in Bologna. Examples of his quadratura can be found at Bologna, Parma, Modena, Florence, Rome, and Genoa, testifying to the popularity of the style. |
| Agostino Scilla (August 10, 1629-May 31, 1700) was an Italian painter, paleontologist, geologist, and pioneer in the study of fossils. |
| Agostino Tassi (1578‑1644) was an Italian painter, mostly of landscapes and seascapes. |
| is a Japanese painter in the nihonga style of watercolour painting. |
| Agustino Da Vaprio was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was living in Pavia in the 15th century, and was one of the artists employed by Ludovico Sforza in Milan, in 1490. He is the author of an altar-piece in San Rimo, Pavia, a Virgin and Child with Saints and donor, dated 1499. |
| Agustín Esteve y Marqués (May 12, 1753 – 1830) was a Spanish painter. |
| Agustín Ibarrola (born 1930) is a Spanish painter and sculptor. |
| Agustín Leonardo was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. |
| Ahn Gyeon, was a painter of the early Joseon period. He was born in Jigok, Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do. He entered royal service as a member of the Dohwaseo, the official painters of the Joseon court, and drew Mongyu dowondo (몽류도원도) for Prince Anpyeong in 1447. |
| Ai Xuan (艾軒, 1947 - ) is a Chinese painter born on November 11, 1947 in Zhejiang Jinhua. |
| Aidan Hughes is a commercial artist. He was born in 1956 in Merseyside, England, and was trained as an artist by his father, himself a landscape painter. |
| Ai-Mitsu (Japanese: 靉光) was a Japanese artist and painter. He is usually identified as a Surrealist although he also painted works that can be classified in other styles and genres. |
| Aimo Maggi (31 May, 1756 - 9 December, 1793) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic periods, mainly active in his natal city of Brescia. |
| Aimé Morot was a French painter. He was born in 1850 at Nancy and died in 1913 at Dinard. He was the son-in-law of Jean-Léon Gérôme. |
| Aina Onabolu (1882-1963) was a pioneering Nigerian modern arts teacher and painter who was an important figure in the introduction of arts into the curriculum of secondary schools in the country. He was also the major figure in Nigeria that promoted the drawing of environmental forms in a verisimilitudinous style and was known for his early modern work in portraiture. |
| Ainslie Roberts (12 March 1911 – 28 August 1993) was an Australian painter, photographer and commercial artist. He is best known his for interpretations of Aboriginal legends in his Dreamtime books, written in collaboration with ethnologist/anthropologist Charles Mountford. |
| Ajaz Anwar is a distinguished painter of Pakistan. He was a teacher at National College of Arts Lahore. His watercolour paintings show the grandeur of the old buildings and the cultural life in Lahore. |
| Aki Kuroda (黒田アキ or 黒田明比古, born in Kyoto, October 04 ,1944) is a Japanese artist, painter, based in Paris, France. |
| Akseli Gallen-Kallela (April 26 1865 – March 7 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic (illustration, below). His work was considered very important for the Finnish national identity. |
| Alfred Leslie Buell (1910–1996) was an American painter of pin-up art. He was born in Hiawatha, Kansas in 1910, and grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma. He attended some classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, which, in concert with a trip to New York City, decided him on a career in art. |
| Al Feldstein (born October 24, 1925) is an American painter of Western wildlife and an influential author-editor who wrote, drew and edited for EC Comics, followed by a lengthy career as the editor of Mad. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2003. |
| Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. |
| Ala Bashir is an Iraqi plastic surgeon, sculptor, and painter. After gaining attention for his work treating soldiers during the Iraq-Iran War, Bashir became a medical counselor to Saddam Hussein. For more than 15 years, Bashir served the former dictator closely, a time period that is chronicled by the History Channel DVD "Saddam's Doctor: An Insider's Story." |
| Alain is a surname, and may refer to * Jehan Alain (1911-1940), French organist and composer * Alain Perdomo (still alive) dominican republic ones * Phil Alain (born 1968), Canadian painter |
| Alain Lestié is a French painter and writer, born in Hossegor in 1944. |
| Alan Marshall Clark is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised (co-written by Jeremy Robert Johnson). |
| Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (June 12, 1824, Anizy-le-Château - June 4, 1887, Sèvres) was a French sculptor and painterfrom . He was the father of Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse. |
| Albert Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 - July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator noted for his portraits of children. |
| G. Albert Aurier (1865 - October 51892) was a poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism. |
| Paul-Albert Bartholomé (1848 in Thiverval-Grignon, Yvelines, France – 1928 in Paris), was a French painter and sculptor and is inhumed in the 4th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery. |
| Albert Bierstadt (January 7 1830 - February 18 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his large, detailed landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century. |
| Albert Charles Challen (8 October 1847 – 1 September 1881) was a British artist. He is best known as the painter of a portrait of Mary Seacole in 1869, when she was around 65 years old. The rediscovery of the portrait was announced in January 2005, and it is held by the National Portrait Gallery. |
| Albert Chevallier Tayler (b. 1862 in Leytonstone, Essex - d. 1925) is an important English artist who specialized in portrait and genre painting, but was also involved in the plein air methods of the Newlyn School. He was a member of the British Royal Academy of Painters, and he studied at Heatherley's School of Art, Royal Academy Schools and with avant gard painters in Paris. |
| Albert Christoph Dies (1755-1822) was a minor German painter and composer. |
| The Albert Cuyp Market is a street market in Amsterdam on the Albert Cuypstraat between Fredinand Bolstraat and Van Woustraat, in the De Pijp area of the "Oud-Zuid" district of the city. The street and market are named for Albert Cuyp, a 17th century painter. |
| Albert Dubois-Pillet (Paris, October 28, 1846 - Le Puy, August 18 1890), was a French painter and army officer. |
| Albert Dubout (May 15, 1905 – 1976) was a French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor. |
| Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 – 18 August 1905) was a Finnish painter. |
| Albert Flamm (1823–1906) was a German landscape painter, born at Cologne. He was a pupil of Andreas Achenbach at Düsseldorf, where he settled after traveling in Italy. His pictures, the subjects of which were chosen almost exclusively from Italian scenery, command attention by their truthfulness to nature, careful execution, and bright and varied effects of color. One of his best productions is the "Approaching Storm in the Campagna" (1862). |
| Albert Gleizes (December 8, 1881 - June 23, 1953), was a French painter. Born Albert Léon Gleizes and raised in Paris, he was the son of a fabric designer who ran a large industrial design workshop. He was also the nephew of Léon Comerre, a successful portrait painter who won the 1875 Prix de Rome. |
| [[image:Albert_Guillaume.jpg|thumb|right|- Those who do have cartridges... shoot! Those who do not... shoot also! Illustration by Albert Guillaume published in 1901 in Mon Sursis.]] Albert Guillaume, born February 14, 1873 - died 1942, was a French painter and caricaturist. |
| Albert Henry Krehbiel (November 25, 1873 - June 29, 1945) was an American impressionist painter. |
| Albert Henry Munsell (6 January 1858 – 28 June 1918) was an American painter, teacher of art, and the inventor of the Munsell color system. |
| Albert Herter (1871-1950) was an artist and painter. He was born in New York, New York, and studied in Paris and then in New York's Art Students League. His father, Christian Herter formed Herter Brothers with his brother Gustave. |
| Albert Hoffman (1915 - 1993) was an American painter and wood carver. Never progressing beyond a sixth-grade education, Hoffman earned his living operating a junkyard near Atlantic City, New Jersey. A self-taught artist, he found inspiration in narratives from the Torah; over his lifetime he produced over 250 carvings whose subjects were drawn from the Bible or from his Jewish background. |
| Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), English decorative painter, was born at York on the 4th of September 1841. He was the youngest of the fourteen children of the artist William Moore of York who in the first half of the 19th century enjoyed a considerable reputation in the North of England as a painter of portraits and landscape. |
| Albert Keller (April 27, 1844 – July 14, 1920) was a German painter. |
| Albert Kresch (b. 1922) is a New York School painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. One of the original members of the Jane Street Gallery in the 1930s, he exhibited in later years at Tibor de Nagy Gallery and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. He is best known for landscape and still life compositions painted with evocatively rhythmic forms and vibrant colors. |
| Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauve movement. |
| Albert Moulton Foweraker (July 7, 1873 - January, 1942) was an English painter. |
| Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 – 8 August1959), born Elea Namatjira , was one of Australia's most acclaimed visual artists. He was a Western Arrernte man, an Indigenous Australian of the Western MacDonnell Ranges area. Albert Namatjira is one of Australia's great artists, and perhaps the best known Aboriginal painter. |
| Albert Paris Gütersloh (born Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber; February 5, 1887 in Vienna – May 16, 1973 in Baden bei Wien) was an Austrian painter and writer. |
| Albert Pike Lucas (? - ) was an American landscape, figure, and portrait painter; also a sculptor. He was born in Jersey City, and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts (1882-88) in Paris under Hébert and Boulanger and later under Courtois and Dagman-Bouveret. At the Salon of 1896 he won a medal. After a sojourn in Italy he settled in New York in 1902. |
| Albert Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for accentuating form in a way that some art historians regard as modernist. |
| Albert Schickedanz (or Schikedanz) (October 14, 1846 – July 11, 1915) was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style. |
| Albert Steffen (December 10, 1884, Murgenthal, Switzerland — July 13, 1963, Dornach, Switzerland) was a poet, painter, dramatist, essayist, and novelist. He joined the Anthroposophical Society in 1907 and became its president after the death of its founder, Rudolf Steiner, in 1925. Steffen was chief editor of the society's journal, Das Goetheanum, from 1921-1950. |
| Albert W. Wein, American sculptor born in New York City on July 27, 1915. He died in March 1991. His mother, Elsa Meher Wein was a portrait painter and it was through her that Wein was first introduced to art. He began his art studies at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts at the age of twelve, where his mother taught. In 1929 he and his family moved to New York City where he continued his studies at the National Academy of Design he studied with painter Ivan Olinsky. |
| Albert van Ouwater (c. 1410/1415–1475) was one of the earliest panel painters in the Northern Netherlands, soon after the discovery of the art of oil painting by Jan van Eyck. |
| Alberto Burri (Città di Castello, March 12, 1915 - Nice, February 13, 1995), was an Italian abstract painter and sculptor. Città di Castello has memorialized him with a large permanent museum of his works. |
| Alberto Carlieri (1672-after 1720) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born at Rome, where he was first of pupil of Giuseppe Marchi, but afterwards of Andrea Pozzo. He excelled in painting quadratura. |
| Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker. |
| Alberto Mijangos (born July 25 1925, Mexico City - June 19, 2007 San Antonio, Texas) was a Mexican American artist and painter. |
| Alberto Rizzo (1931-2004) was a fashion photographer and painter. He was born on May 2nd 1932 in La Spezia, Italy. His work has been published in various magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Paris Vogue and Vogue Italia. He lived and worked in New York City for over 40 years. He died in Miami, FL, in October 2004. |
| Alberto Savinio, real name Andrea De Chirico, (Athens, August 25 1891 - Florence, May 5 1952) was an Italian writer and painter, brother of the more famous Giorgio De Chirico. |
| Alberto Sughi (born October 5 1928) is an Italian painter. |
| Alberto Vargas (9 February 1896–30 December 1982) was a noted painter of pin-up girls and erotica. Born in Arequipa, Peru, Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez came to the United States in 1916 after studying art in Europe prior to World War I. His early career included work as an artist for the Ziegfeld Follies and for many Hollywood studios. |
| Alberto di Giovanni Albert, or Berto di San Sepolcro (Sansepolcro 1525 – 1599) was a Tuscan architect, wood carver and painter, who was engaged as master carver at Arezzo, where he was responsible for the choir stalls in the Cathedral and at Rome (from 1564 to 1586). As a wood carver he specialized in wood inlays, or intaglie. |
| Albertus Pictor (Albert Pictor, also called Albert the Painter) (c. 1440 - c. 1507) was a Swedish painter. Albertus Pictor who was originally called Albertus Immenhusen was of German origin. Notable schemes of wallpaintings include those at Bromma kyrka, near Stockholm, and Täby Kyrkby kyrka in Täby. |
| Albin Egger-Lienz was an Austrian painter. He was born in Stribach near Lienz, Tyrol, Austria on January 29, 1868 and died on November 4, 1926 in St. Justina-Rentsch, Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. |
| Albrecht Adam (16 April 1786 – 28 August 1862) was a German battles and horses painter. |
| Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – February 12, 1538 in Regensburg) was a German painter and printmaker, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. He is best known as a significant pioneer of landscape in art. |
| Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) was a German painter and mathematician. He was born and died in Nuremberg, Germany and is best known as one of the greatest creators of old master prints, along with Rembrandt and Goya. His prints were often executed in series, including the Apocalypse (1498) and his two series on the passion of Christ, the Great Passion (1498–1510) and the Little Passion (1510–1511). |
| Albín Brunovský (25 December 1935, Zohor - 20 January 1997, Bratislava) was a painter, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator and pedagogue, considered one of the greatest Slovak painters of the 20th century. |
| Aldo Carpi (1886-1973) was an Italian artist, painter and writer, author of a collection of memoirs concerning his imprisonment in the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. |
| Aldo Locatelli (Bergamo, August 18, 1915 — Porto Alegre, September 3, 1962) was an Italian-Brazilian painter. His most important works the frescos and panels in churches and public buildings of Rio Grande do Sul. |
| Alejandro Bustillo (1889-1982) was an Argentine painter and architect who left his mark in various tourist destinations in Argentina, especially in the Andean region of the Patagonia. |
| Alejandro Ramírez Honda (January 29, 1952 in San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla), is a Mexican painter. He not only works with oil, pastels, charcoal, pencil and ink, but also does graphic design, and serigraphy. His work it can be characterized mainly as Mexican prehispanic, ethnic, nationalist, landscape, portrait, postmodernism, religious and antireligious, erotic, eclectic, fiction, and social portrait. |
| Alejandro Lozano Morales, (March 17, 1939, La Toba, Guadalajara – March 30, 2003, Barcelona) was a Spanish artist, painter and mosaic muralist. |
| Daniel Alberto Alejandro María de la Santísima Trinidad Obregón Roses[http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/editorial/2007-04-11/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-3510065.html] most commonly known as Alejandro Obregón (June 4, 1920 — April 11, 1992) was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver. |
| Alejo Fernández (born c. 1475) was a Spanish painter of the sixteenth century best known for his portrait of Christopher Columbus painted between 1505 and 1536. |
| Alekos Fassianos (, born in 1935) is a renowned Greek painter. |
| Aleksander Balos is a Polish artist and figurative painter, who lives in the United States and is a naturalised American. |
| Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski (born 30 January, 1850 in Warsaw, died between 6 and 8 March, 1901 in Rome) - Polish painter of the late 19th century. He was the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski, equally renown Polish watercolour painter. |
| Aleksander Kobzdej (1920-1972) was a Polish painter. He was born in, what was then, the Ukraine. Kobzdej is best known for being one of the most prominent representatives of the Polish Social Realist group, and for being the creator of unique Polish versions of "matter" painting. |
| Aleksander Kotsis (born 1836 in Kraków, died 1877 in Podgórze) was a Polish painter renowned for his landscapes, portraits and genre depictions of contemporary rustic scenes. |
| Aleksander Orłowski (1777–1832) was a Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire. |
| Aleksander Sochaczewski (March 3, 1843 — April 15, 1923) is a Polish painter, participant of the Polish January Uprising (1863) against the Russian Empire, exiled to Siberia. He is known for his paintings of the uprising and the Siberian katorga and exile. |
| Aleksander Warma VR I/3 (June 22, 1890 Kõnnu Parish, Estonia – December 23, 1970 Stockholm, Sweden) was an Estonian navy officer, diplomat and painter. |
| Aleksandr Vladimirovich Makovsky (; 1869- 1924) was a Russian painter. He was born in Moscow, the son of the artist Vladimir Makovsky. and from 1894-5 studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg. He also studied in Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. During the 1890's he was an active member in MTKh and was part of the Itinerant Movement from 1902, having begun exhibiting with them since 1899. |
| Aleksandr Andreyevich Samokhvalov (1894-1974) was a Russian painter and graphic artist. |
| Aleksandr (Vasilievich) Shevchenko (1883-1948) was a highly influential Russian avant-garde painter and theorist. In 1913 he wrote the book 'Neo-primiivizm', from which the Russian art movement derives its name. |
| Aleksandra Belcova (March 17 1892 in Novozybkovo, Russia-February 1 1981 in Riga, Latvia) was a Latvian and Russian painter. |
| Aleksandra Dulic (born 1973 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Canadian painter, animator, media artist and scholar. Her art and research involve a focus on computational poetics, media performance, situated media in the creation of interactive audiovisual installations and performances. |
| Alexandra Ekster or Exter (Александра Экстер) (January 6, 1882 - March 17, 1949) was a Russian-Ukrainian painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist), designer, and one of the founders of Art Deco. |
| Alessandro Alberti (1551-1590) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was the eldest son of Alberto Alberti, was born at Borgo San Sepolcro in 1551. He trained with Gaspero di Silvestre of Perugia. In 1566, Alessandro's uncle Lodovico took him to Rome, where he subsequently much in conjunction with his brothers. He died at Rome, while engaged on the great work of decorating the Sala Clementina for Pope Clement VIII. Alessandro also worked at Borgo San Sepolcro, Naples, and Mantua. |
| Alessandro Albini (1568-1646) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. He was born in Bologna, and was an early pupil of the school of the Carracci. He was known for designs he made for the funeral ceremony of Agostino Carracci. He painted a Tomb of St. Valerian and St.Tibertius for the church of San Michèle in Bosco in Bologna, and paintings of St. Peter, St. Catherine, St. Agnes, and St. Cecilia for San Pietro Martyr. |
| Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (May 3, 1535 - September 22, 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. |
| Alessandro Araldi (c. 1460 – c. 1529) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Parma. |
| Alessandro Ardente (? - 1595) was an Italian painter during the late-Renaissance period. Born in Faenza. Active in Turin, Lombardy, and Lucca where he was well known as a portrait style. He painted a Conversion of St. Paul for the church of Monte della Pieta in Turin. He painted a Baptism of Christ for the church of San Giovanni and a St. Anthony Abbot (1565) for the church of San Paolino in Lucca . |
| Alessandro Aretusi was an Italian portrait painter of the 17th century from Modena, active in Florence painting for the court of the Grand-Dukes. |
| Alessandro Badiale (1626-1671) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period, active in Bologna. He was a pupil of Flaminio Torre. Among his etchings are prints of Virgin seated with the Infant Jesus, between St. Philip Neri and St. Anthony of Padua, a Deposition and a Holy Family after Flaminio Torre. He also made a Madonna with Child, who holds a cross and an apple after Cignani. |
| Alessandro Bardelli (1583-1633) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Uzzano in Pescia. He trained with the cavalier Francesco Currado and worked along Ludovico Cardi. Painted mainly in Pescia, including a fresco in the bishop's church. He died in Bologna. |
| Alessandro Casolano (1552-1606) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Siena. He was also called Alessandro della Torre. He was born at Siena, and was the pupil of Ventura Salimbeni and of Cristoforo Roncalli. His works are principally in the churches of Siena, but are also to be found in Naples and Genoa. He also etched one plate, a Madonna. His son, Ilario Casolano was also a painter. |
| Alessandro Gherardini (1655 - 1723) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. |
| Alessandro Longhi (1733-1813) was a Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching (mostly reproductions of paintings). He is known best for his oil portraits of Venetian nobles of state. His father was the famed genre painter Pietro Longhi. He trained under his father and Giuseppe Nogari (1609-1763). Like Sebastiano Bombelli in the prior century, Alessandro Longhi is noted for his zealous full-length depicitions of robes and emblems of office. |
| Alessandro Maganza (1556-1630) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, born and active in Vicenza, as well as in Venice. |
| Alessandro Magnasco also known as il Lissandrino (February 4, 1667–1749), was an Italian Rococo painter from Northern Italy. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes. |
| Alessandro Marchesini (1664- 1738) was an Italian painter and art merchant of the late-Baroque and Rococo, active in Northern Italy and Venice. He first trained in Verona with Biagio Falcieri and then with Calza. He then moved to Bologna, to work in the studio of Carlo Cignani. He is described as gaining fame for his allegories with small figures. He painted in Venice for the church of San Silvestro and in Verona for the church of San Stefano. |
| Alessandro Mari (1650-1707) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Alessandro Martucci (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active near his natal city of Capua. Hi son, Simio, painted quadratura and died in 1641. |
| Alessandro Prampolino (1827-1865)was an Italian landscape painter. He is known chielly by his views (vedute) of the neighbourhood of Tivoli and of the Roman Ruins. He was professor of painting in his native Reggio. |
| Alessandro Tiarini (March 20 1577 - February 8, 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. |
| Alessandro Turchi (1578 - 1649) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque, born and active mainly in Verona, and moving late in life to Rome. He also went by the name Alessandro Veronese or the nickname L'Obetto. |
| Alessandro Varotari (April 4, 1588 – July 20, 1649), (also commonly known as il Padovanino) was a Venetian painter of the late-mannerist and early-baroque styles, best known for having mentored Pietro Liberi, Giulio Carpioni, and Bartolommeo Scaligero. |
| Alessandro Vitali (1580-1650) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Baroque periods. He was born at Urbino, was a follower of Federico Barocci. |
| Alessandro Vittoria (1525 – 1608) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, who was trained in the atelier of the architect-sculptor Jacopo Sansovino and a contemporary of Titian who was influenced by the painter in his compositions. He was a virtuoso in terracotta, marble and bronze. Like all Italian sculptors of his generation, Vittoria was influenced also by Michelangelo and by the Florentine Mannerist, Bartolomeo Ammanati. |
| Alesso Baldovinetti (October 14, 1427—August 29, 1499) was an Italian early Renaissance painter. |
| Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky (?March 13, 1864 – March 15, 1941) was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a member of the New Munich Artist's Association (Neue Künstlervereinigung München), the Blue Rider group (Der Blaue Reiter). He was also a member of the Blue Four. |
| Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (Russian: Алексей Петрович Боголюбов; 16 March 1824 - 3 February 1896) was a Russian landscape painter. |
| Alex Arcadia (b. January 5, 1971) is a contemporary American painter, sculptor and conceptual artist whose work is compared to Jeff Koons, Hans Bellmer, Andy Warhol and Constantin Brancusi. |
| Alex Berdisheff (born in 1964, Tbilisi) is a contemporary Georgian painter. |
| David Alexander Colville, PC, CC, ONS, BFA, LL.D (born August 24 1920 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian painter. |
| Alex McDowell was born in Borneo to parents of English origin, and he is a production designer.McDowell wanted to become a painter and studied at the Central School of Art in London. He founded Rocking Russian Design in 1978 and started his career designing album covers for punk rock groups. During the 1980s, he designed the sets for various commercials and music videos.Alex McDowell has worked, among others, with the directors Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg, Alex Proyas. |
| Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American comic book painter, illustrator and plotter, acclaimed for the photorealism of his work. Ross is known for his love of the vintage looks of classic characters and the more mythic elements of the superheroes. |
| Alex Schomburg (born 1905, Puerto Rico; died 1998) was a prolific American commercial and comic book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years. |
| Alex van Warmerdam (born August 14, 1952 in Haarlem) is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter. |
| – July 15 (July 3 [OS]), 1858) was a Russian painter who adhered to the waning tradition of Neoclassicism but found little sympathy with his contemporaries. |
| Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian (1937-2003) was an Ethiopian-Armenian painter. |
| Alexander Cooper (before 1609 - 1660) was an English miniature painter. He was the elder brother of Samuel Cooper. The date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been born in London. |
| Alexander Cozens (d. 1786), was a landscape-painter in water-colours, a published teacher of painting, and a natural son of Peter the Great. |
| Alexander Alexandrovich Deyneka (Russian: Александр Александрович Дейнека; May 20, 1899, Kursk - June 12, 1969, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He is one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painter of the 1st half of the 20th century. |
| Alexander Helwig Wyant, was born January 11, 1836, in Ohio - and he died November 29, 1892 in New York, New York. He was an American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York among other places. |
| Alexander Ivanov is the name of the following people: *Alexander Ivanov (wrestler), a Russian Amateur Olympic Wrestler *Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806–1858), a Russian painter *Alexander Ivanov (chess) (born 1956), a Russian-born American chess player *Alexandr Ivanovich Ivanov, a Soviet footballer *Alexandr Ivanov (athlete) (born 1982), a Russian javelin thrower |
| Alexander Jackson is the name of *Alexander Young Jackson - Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven *Alexander Jackson - British sport shooter who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics |
| Alexander Kanoldt (September 29, 1881 – January 24, 1939) was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity. |
| Alexander Keirincx (Antwerp, 23 January 1600–Amsterdam, 1652) was a Flemish Baroque painter who spent his later career in the Dutch Republic.. He became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1619, and like his teacher Abraham Govaerts he initially specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo. |
| Alexander Kucharsky (18 March 1741, Warsaw - 5 November 1819, Paris), also Alexandre Kucharsky, was a Polish portrait painter who spent his adult life in France. He himself used the spelling Kucharsky, but Kucharski is also often used. In the past, in France, the name has been given as Couaski. |
| Alexander Liberman (Sept. 4, 1912-Nov. 19, 1999) was a Russian-American publisher, painter, and sculptor. Born in Kiev, he was educated in Paris, where he began his publishing career with the early pictorial magazine Vu. After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Conde Nast Publications, rising to the position of Editorial Director, which he held from 1962-1994. |
| Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (; 1835, Kremenchuk - 28 June, 1890, Saint Petersburg) was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter who specialized in depicting Muscovite Russia of the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| Alexander Louis Leloir (1843 - 1884) was a French painter. His younger brother was painter and playwright Maurice Leloir. |
| Alexander Mann (January 22, 1853 - January 26, 1908) was a Scottish landscape and genre painter. He was a member of New English Art Club and Royal Institute of Oil Painters. |
| Alexander Maxovich Shilov ( born October 6 1943) is a prominent Russian portrait painter. |
| Alexander Nasmyth (9 September 1758–10 April 1840) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, often called the “father of Scottish landscape painting". |
| Alexander Ney (Russian: Александр Нэй) (born 1939, in Leningrad, Russia) is an American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1974 and has since lived and worked in New York. Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work in terra cotta sculpture, involving heavily perforated surfaces and intriguing forms. |
| Alexander Alexandrovich Osmerkin (; - June 25 1953) was a Russian painter, graphic artist and scene decorator. He was a member of the Knave of Diamonds avant-garde group, AKhRR, and Society of Moscow Artists (OMKh) groups. |
| Alexander Petrovich Pogrebinsky (Russian: Александр Петрович Погребинский) (January 2, 1951 -) is a Russian-born American painter, the creator of the school of philosophical realism. He is known for his portraits, and especially for the mastery of detail in his paintings. |
| Alexander Roslin (July 15, 1718 - July 5 1793) was a Swedish-French portrait painter born in Malmö. Married 1759 to Marie-Suzanne Giroust. Roslin was mostly working in Paris from 1750 and onward. |
| Alexander Joseph Rummler (July 25, 1867 – 1959) was an American painter. |
| Alexander Runciman (August 15,1736–October 4, 1785), was a Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects. He was the elder brother of John Runciman, also a painter. |
| Alexander Samuel MacLeod, also known as A. S. MacLeod, was a painter and printmaker. He was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada on April 12, 1888. MacLeod studied at McGill University. After moving to San Francisco, he continued his artistic training at the California School of Design under Frank Van Sloun. |
| Alexander Seik (September 6, 1824 -October 2, 1905), also known as Alex Sejk was a pioneer of Czech photography, one of foremost exponents of chromophotography, painter and mayor of city Tábor. |
| Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Александр Николаевич Серов in Cyrillic; Aleksandr Nikolaevič Serov in transliteration) (11/23 Jan. 1820- 20 Jan./1 Feb. 1871 was a Russian composer and music critic. He was also the father of the painter Valentin Serov. |
| Alexander Theobald Van Lear was an American painter, born at Auburn, New York. |
| Alexander Vasilievich Kuprin was a Russian painter, a member of the Jack of Diamonds group. Kuprin was born in Borisoglebsk (in Voronezh Oblast, Russia) in 1880 and died in Moscow in 1960. His most famous works are various landscape and still life. |
| Alexander G. Weygers, (October 12, 1901–July 23, 1989), was a polymath American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, philosopher, and author. He was born in Java, Indonesia, to Dutch parents. Gaining his formal education in the Netherlands, Weygers was a practicing engineer when he immigrated to the United States of America at the age of 30 to take residence in Seattle. |
| Alexandr Guristyuk is a Ukrainian painter. |
| Alexandr Vladimír Hrska (May 9, 1890 – October 23, 1954) was a Czech painter, graphic designer and scenographer. |
| Alexandr Pavlovich Zhdanov (; January 11 1938 - July 18 2006) was a Russian avant-garde painter. |
| Alexandra Nechita (b. August 27, 1985) is a Romanian-born American cubist painter and muralist. |
| Alexandre-François Caminade (Paris, 1783 – Paris, 1862) was a French painter. |
| Alexandre-François Desportes (Champigneul, Marne 24 February, 1661 — Paris 20 April, 1743) was a French painter and decorative designer who specialised in animals. |
| Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (March 3 1803–August 22 1860) was a French painter. |
| Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy (1757-1841) was a French painter known for his landscapes. |
| Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna ( b. March 7 1817 in Orléans, France – February 26 1878 in Paris) was a French painter. |
| F. Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) [http://www.photo.rmn.fr/c/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=12&FP=21584983&E=22S39UWOJA15V&SID=22S39UWOJA15V&New=T&Pic=3] was born in Toulouse, Frances in 1813 and was a painter of the Romantic period. He specialized in Orientalism and studied under Eugene Delacroix, but with an artist’s eye for precision and perfection, he soon developed his own style. During Bida’s youth, he traveled and worked in Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, and Palestine. |
| Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823–23 January 1889) was a French painter. |
| Alexandre Calame (May 28, 1810 – March 19, 1864), was a Swiss painter. |
| Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (also given as Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière, or in short Alexandre Falguière) (September 7, 1831, Toulouse - April 20, 1900, Paris) was a French sculptor and painter. |
| Alexandre Grégoire (August 29 1922 – July 28 2001) was a Haitian painter who typically depicted scenes of Vodou, daily life, and historical events in the naïve style. |
| Alexandre Istrati (1915-1991) was a Franco-Romanian painter. He won numerous prizes, including the Kandinsky Prize. |
| Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (also spelt Iacovleff or Yakovlev, ; - 12 May 1938) was a Russian neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher. |
| Alexandro Loarte was a Spanish painter, active during the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque period. He was born in Toledo and initially trained with El Greco. He painted a Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (1622) for the Mission Friars and a hunting painting with Hens and Chickens (1626). |
| Alexandros Christofis or Alexandros Hristofis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Χριστόφης, 1875-1957) was a Greek painter. |
| Alexandros Tzannis ( born 1979, Athens) is a newcomer Greek artist. He is a painter based in Berlin. Tzannis’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums, such as the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany , the New Benaki Museum, Athens and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is represented by The Breeder in Athens. |
| Alexandru Ciucurencu (1903-1977) was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter. |
| Alexei Petrovich Antropov (; - ) was a Russian barocco painter active primarily in St. Petersburg, where he was born and died. He also worked in Moscow and fresco-ed churches in Kiev. His preferred medium was oil, but he also painted miniatures and icons. |
| Alexei Vasilyevich Grischenko (1883-1977) was a Russian painter. |
| Alexei Alexeievich Harlamoff (A.K.A Alexej Harlamoff - Alexej Charlamoff) (1842-1923) was a Russian painter. |
| Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (May 24, 1830–October 8, 1897) was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. |
| Alexey Steele (born March 19, 1967) is an American painter of the Russian Representational School and a Soviet Art scholar. He moved to Los Angeles in 1990. Steele gained recognition for his unusual multi-figure compositions of an exceptionally large scale. His areas of expertise also include portraits, nudes and plein-air landscapes. Based on his interviews, Steele expresses strong interest in the direction of art in the 21st century. |
| Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov (; 1801-59) was a Russian painter. Early in his career he painted icons with his brother; he then traveled to St. Petersburg to study at the Academy, where he took lessons with Alexei Venetsianov. From 1836 he was a pupil of Karl Bryullov. Tyranov chiefly painted portraits and genre scenes; he exhibited at a number of venues in the city throughout the 1830s and 40s. |
| Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (; 18 February 1780–04 January 1847) was a Russian painter, renown for his paintings devoted to the peasant life and ordinary people. |
| Alfons Karpiński (February 20, 1875 in Rozwadów near Tarnobrzeg - June 6, 1961 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish painter. |
| Alfons (or Alphonse) Maria Mucha (July 24, 1860–July 14, 1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. |
| Alfons Freiherr von Czibulka, or Alfons Cibulka (* June 28 1888, Ratboř Castle (Schloss Radborsch) near Kolín, Bohemia - October 22, 1969, Munich) was a Czech-Austrian writer and painter. |
| Alfonso Aldiverti (early 17th century) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period, active mainly in Rovigo. |
| Alfonso Arana (1927-2005) was a Puerto Rican painter. |
| Alfonso Boschi (1615-1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of his brother Francesco Boschi. |
| Alfonso Rivarola (1607-1640) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Ferrara. |
| Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache (29 August, 1843 – 15 September, 1915), also known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French academic painter. |
| Alfred Downing Fripp (April 22, 1822, Bristol - March 13, 1895, London) was a British artist who specialised in watercolours of rural subjects. He was grandson of the artist Nicholas Pocock, a brother of the painter George Arthur Fripp, and father of the surgeon Sir Alfred Downing Fripp. |
| Alfred Edward Chalon (born 15 February 1780 in Geneva, died 3 October 1860 in Kensington) was a Swiss portrait painter. He lived in London where he was noticed by Queen Victoria. |
| Alfred Henry Maurer (1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American painter born in New York City. He was the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a lithographer. At age sixteen, Maurer quit school to work at his father's lithographic firm. In 1897, after studying with the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward and painter William Merritt Chase, Maurer left for Paris where he stayed the next four years, joining a circle of American and French artists. At the time, Maurer's style was realist. |
| Alfred Hoare Powell (1865–1960) was an English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery. |
| Alfred Hrdlicka (born 27 February 1928 in Vienna) is an Austrian sculptor, draughtsman, painter and artist of Czech origin. His surname is sometimes written Hrdlička. |
| Alfred Rethel (1816 - December 1, 1859) was a German historical painter. |
| Alfred Sisley (October 30, 1839 – January 29, 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who lived and worked in France. |
| *Alfred Stevens (1828-1906) was a Belgian painter *Alfred Stevens (1818-1875) was a British sculptor |
| Alfred Stieglitz (January 1,1864 – July 13,1946) was an American-born photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture. Many of his photographs are known for appearing like those other art forms, and he is also known for his marriage to painter Georgia O'Keeffe, most famous for her large-scale paintings of flowers. |
| Alfred Sully (22 May, 1821 - 27 April, 1879), was a military officer during the American Civil War and during the Indian Wars on the frontier. He was also a noted painter. |
| Alfred Thomas Agate (born February 14, 1812, in Sparta, New York; died January 5, 1846, Washington, D.C.) was a noted American artist, painter and miniaturist. |
| Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski (1849 – 1915) was a Polish painter of the Munich school, one of the most popular among Jozef Brandt and Władysław Czachórski. Wierusz-Kowalski settled in Munich in 1873 just after his studies in Warsaw and Dresden. He studied for a year at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and then under Josef Brandt. His paintings which received medals at numerous exhibitions where sought-after by collectors and German art dealers. |
| Alfred William (Willy) Finch (Brussels 1854 – Helsinki 1930) was a ceramist and painter, a noted representative of the pointillist style. He was born in Belgium to English parents and lived his later life in Finland. |
| Alfred William Hunt, (November 15 1830 – May 3 1896), was an English painter. He was son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter. |
| Alfred Wolmark (1877, Warsaw - 6 January 1961, London) was a painter and decorative artist. He was a pioneer of the New Movement in Art. |
| Alfred Zwiebel (November 6,1914 - February 25, 2005) was a landscape, floral, and still-life painter. |
| Alfredo Keil (Lisbon, 3 July 1850 – Hamburg, 4 October 1907) was a Portuguese classical composer and painter. He was of German origin on his father's side, and was the great Portuguese romantic composer. He was also considered the last important Portuguese painter in the romantic style. He studied in Munich and Nuremberg with the German romantic painters Kaulbach and von Kreling. |
| Alfredo Volpi (1896 - 1988), was a famous painter of the artistic and cultural Brazilian modernist movement. He was born in Lucca, Italy but, less than two years later, he was brought by his parents to São Paulo, Brazil, where he lived for most part of his life. |
| (Chagatai/; ) (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501) was a Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet of Uyghur origin who was born and lived in Herat. He is generally known by his pen name Navā'ī (, meaning "the weeper"). Because of his distinguished Chagatai (Middle Turkic) poetry, he is considered by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkic literature. |
| Ali Akbar Sadeghi (born 1937) a graduate of the College of Art, University of Tehran, is one of the most prolific and successful Iranian painters and artists. |
| I have represented their crimes on the weapon they used to commit them" -- Ali Sarmini Dr. Ali Sarmini ( '), is a world renowned Syrian painter, best known for his work Quneitra on Remains painted on parts of an Israeli Air Force [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-4_Phantom#Israel F-4 Phantom] shot down over Syrian territories, in about 1972. |
| Ali Zafar (Urdu: علی ظفر) is a Pakistani singer, actor, painter and model, known as the "Prince of Pop". He is very-well known all around South Asia for his looks and music, including hit songs like "Channo", "Rangeen", "Chal Dil Merey", "Dekha" . "Masty" and "Sajania". He started his singing career with his hit song "jugnuon se bhar le aanchal" in the film Shararat directed by Pakistani actress and director Samina Peerzada, |
| Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 - October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor. |
| Alice Bailly (February 25, 1872 - January 1 1938) was a radical Swiss painter, known for her interpretation of cubism and her multimedia wool paintings. |
| Alice Elinor Lambert (January 8, 1886 - February 19, 1981) was a writer. In the 1930s, she self-published with Vanguard Press at least three romance novels, Hospital Nocture, Women Are Like That, and Lost Frangrance, all later re-published by Dell Romance. In 1904, she enjoyed a brief summer romance with Tom Thomson, who would become known, following his mysterious drowning in 1917, as one of Canada's greatest landscape painters. Alice married Joseph Ransburg in 1912. |
| Alice Frey (25 June 1895–30 August 1981) was a Belgian painter. |
| Alice Maher born at Kilmoyler, a rural area between Bansha and Cahir, County Tipperary, 1956 is an Irish painter and sculptor. |
| Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American portrait painter. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. |
| Alice Neel was one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century. She reinvented the genre of portraiture by expressing the inner landscape of her varied sitters, among them Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg. Painting a diverse cross-section of humanity, from Communist Party leaders to art world personalities to her neighbors in Spanish Harlem, Neel created a body of work that serves as a social document of New York and America in the 20th Century. |
| Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike, January 14, 1857 – 1931) was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts. |
| Alice Ernestine Prin (October 2, 1901 – April 29, 1953), was a French artists' model, nightclub singer, actress, and painter. Her chosen name was simply Kiki, but she also was referred to as, Reine de la Montparnasse, the Queen of Montparnasse, and Kiki de Montparnasse. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s. In 1996, biographers, Billy Klüver and Julie Martin, called her "one of the century's first truly independent women." |
| Alice Schille (1869-1955) was an American painter. |
| Alicia DeBrincat is an American painter based in the San Francisco Bay area. Born in Stanford, California, DeBrincat holds a BA from the University of Oregon, and has studied at the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca in Oaxaca, Mexico as well as the Instituto de Estudios Internacionales in Seville, Spain. DeBrincat's work was awarded the first prize in 2006 annual juried show by the Art Museum of Los Gatos. |
| Spanish artist Alicia Grau Pérez-Agustín is an impressionist living painter who specializes in child and young women portraits. Born in Barcelona in 1955, she divides her working time between her hometown and Florence, Italy. |
| Alicia St. Rose (b. December 27, 1964) is an American pastel painter best known for utilizing photorealistic techniques to achieve heighened light, shadow and texture in a variety of subjects. She enhances photographic qualities in each of her paintings, achieving a hyperreal appearance. |
| Alida Withoos (Amersfoort, circa 1661/1662 - Westkerk, Amsterdam (buried) 5 December 1730) was a Dutch botanical artist and painter. She was the daughter of the painter Matthias Withoos. |
| Aligi Sassu (July 17, 1912 - July 17, 2000) was an Italian painter and sculptor. |
| Alipy of the Caves (? - 1114)- Eastern Orthodox saint, monk and famous painter of cave monastery of Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Saint Alipy was a disciple of Greek icon painters from Constantinople and considered to be the first iconographer of the Kievan Rus. |
| Alison Jane Watt OBE is a Scottish painter, born in Greenock in 1965. |
| Alison Watt (born 1957) is a Canadian, writer, and painter. |
| Alkinoos Ioannides (Greek: Αλκίνοος Ιωαννίδης) is a Cypriot composer and singer born in Nicosia on 19 September 1969. His artistic family, with a painter father and poet brother was a source of inspiration for him. |
| All Mixed Up is a cover of The Cars' song from Red House Painters' fifth studio album Songs for a Blue Guitar (see: All Mixed Up). The song was never released as a full single, but only as a promotional single. The song featured in the Alicia Silverstone film Excess Baggage. Some versions of the promo single feature the album version of "Make Like Paper," another song from Songs for a Blue Guitar. A music video was produced for the song, directed by Phil Harder. |
| Alla Fino is a painter who won numerous awards for her paintings while living in Belarus and Russia. She now lives in the United States. She was married to Ronald Fino who is known for his work for the FBI and CIA on the subject of the Mafia. |
| Allan Gwynne-Jones CBE DSO RA (27 March 1892–5 August 1982) was an English painter. |
| Allan Houser ( June 29 1914 - August 221994) was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century. Born of the Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache tribe of Oklahoma, U.S., Houser's work can be found at the United Nations building in New York City, at the US National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and in other public buildings throughout our nation's capitol. |
| Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 - April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years. |
| Allan Linder (1966 - Present) is an American artist living in New York. He is a painter, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He uses a variety of media, but mostly acrylic paint on canvas. |
| Allart van Everdingen (bapt. Jun 18 1621 Alkmaar - buried Nov 8 1675, Amsterdam), was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint. |
| Allegri is a surname, and may refer to: *Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652), Italian composer *Antonio da Correggio (1489–1534, full name Antonio Allegri da Correggio), Italian Renaissance painter |
| Allen Fisher (born 1944) is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival. |
| Allen Sapp (born 2 January 1928) is a Canadian Cree painter, currently living in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. His art and his story have become well known throughout Canada and has become an inspiration to many. His paintings tell a personal story. Many of his paintings feature images of his grandmother, and reflect the love he has for her. |
| One of the first postage stamps to commemorate Salvador Allende, released after the 1973 coup in Chile, was the Soviet one. It was issued just two months after the event and had a circulation of 3.8 million. The issue was designed by a painter A. Kovrizhkin and bore the title expressing Soviet government's view on Allende: "Salvador Allende, an antiimperialist Latin America liberation movement activist, fighter for the cause of Chilean workers". |
| The Allentown Art Museum is an art museum located in the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was founded in 1934 by a group organized by noted Pennsylvania impressionist painter, Walter Emerson Baum. With its collection of over 13,000 works of art, the Allentown Art Museum is a major regional art institution. In addition, its library and archives of more than 16,000 titles and 40 current periodicals make it an important cultural resource in the Lehigh Valley region. |
| Allison Merriweather is an American painter living in Houston, Texas. Her style and subject matter has been influenced by a childhood spent in the rural Southwest and California as well as her journeys through North Africa, Spain and Greece. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States, Scotland, and in numerous publications, including Illuminations and Man In Nature. |
| * Alessandro Allori - (1535-1607) was an Italian portrait ainter * Angelo Allori - (1502-1572) better known as Il Bronzino—for his dark complexion— was a Florentine Mannerist painter * Cristofano Allori - (1577-1621) was an Italian portrait painter |
| Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel (née Schindler) (August 31, 1879 – December 11, 1964) was noted in her native Vienna for her beauty and intelligence. She was the wife, successively, of the composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, and lover to the painter Oskar Kokoschka. She was also a composer. |
| Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 - February 24, 1978) was an African American color field painter and art educator. |
| Fra Alof de Wignacourt was Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John from 1601 to 1622. He was of the langue of France. His reign was notable for the construction of a number of coastal fortifications (the Wignacourt towers), and of the aqueduct that brought water from the plateau above Rabat to Valletta. His parade armour survives and is one of the treasures of the Palace Armoury in Valletta. He was a patron of the painter Caravaggio. |
| The first name Alois can refer to *Alois I, Prince of Liechtenstein. *Alois II, Prince of Liechtenstein. *Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein. *Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist. *Alois Arnegger, an Austrian painter. *Brother Alois, the Prior of the Taizé Community. *Alois Brunner, an Austrian Nazi war criminal. *Alois Buttinger, an Austrian socialist. *Alois Carigiet, a Swiss illustrator. *Alois Dryák, a Czech architect. |
| Alois Arnegger (March 9, 1879 - August 11, 1963) was an Austrian painter. |
| Alois Lunzer (1840-?), was an Austrian-born watercolour painter, who emigrated to Philadelphia and specialised in doing botanical illustrations. |
| Alonso Miguel de Tobar (1678-1758) was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period. |
| Alonso Sánchez Coello, (1531/32, Benifairó de les Valls, near Valencia - August 8 1588, Madrid) was the best portrait painter of the Spanish Renaissance and one of the pioneers of the great tradition of Spanish portrait painting. |
| Alonso Vázquez (1565 -c. 1608) was a Spanish sculptor and painter of the Renaissance period. |
| Alonso de Llera Zambrano was a Spanish painter, active during the Baroque period. He was born in Cadiz , flourished in that city as a painter of banners for the royal navy, and executed, in 1639, altarpieces for the oratories of four galleons dispatched in that year to New Spain. |
| Alonzo Cano or Alonso Cano (1601 - 1667) was a Spanish painter, architect and sculptor born in Granada. He learned architecture from his father, Miguel Cano, painting from Francisco Pacheco the master of Velazquez, and sculpture from Juan Martínez Montañés. As a sculptor, his most famous works are the Madonna and Child in the church of Lebrija (also called Nebrija, and the colossal figures of San Pedro and San Pablo. |
| Aloys Wach or Aloys Ludwig Wachelmayr (sometimes Wachelmeier) was an Austrian expressionist painter and graphic artist. He was born in Lambach, Upper Austria on April 30, 1892 and died in Braunau, Upper Austria on April 18, 1940. |
| Aloysius O'Kelly (July 3, 1853 in Dublin – c.1941) was an Irish painter. |
| Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (May 31, 1835–May 18, 1885) was a French Academic painter who studied under Eugène Delacroix. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War, the Zulu War and portraits of soldiers. Some of his works have been collected by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. |
| Alphonse Osbert (March 23, 1857 - August 11, 1939) was a French Symbolist painter. |
| Alphonse de Cailleux, in full Alexandre-Alphonse-Achille, vicomte de Cailloux (Rouen, 31 December 1788 — 24 May 1876) was a painter, connoisseur and arts administrator who became director of the Musée du Louvre and all the royal museums of France. Under the Bourbon Restauration he was attached to the reconstituted royal household (the maison du roi). |
| Alson S. Clark (25 March, 1876 - 23 March, 1949) was an American painter best remembered for his impressionist landscapes. Born in Chicago, Illinois, his art education included training at the Art Institute of Chicago (where he enrolled at Saturday classes at the age of 11), the Art Students League of New York, and in the atelier of William Merritt Chase. He spent much of his early career working in Paris, France. He served in the US Army as an aerial photographer during World War I. |
| Altichiero da Zevio (also called Aldighieri da Zevio; c. 1330 – c. 1390) was an Italian painter of the Gothic style. A follower of Giotto, Altichiero is credited with founding the Veronese school. He worked in Verona and Padua — works by him survive in the church of Sant'Anastasia in Verona and in the basilica of Sant'Antonio and the Oratorio di San Giorgio in Padua (where the credit for the work has been generally shared with Jacopo d'Avanzi, about whom little is known). |
| Altobello Melone (c. 1508 – before 1547) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. |
| Alton S. Tobey (5 November 1914 - 4 January 2005), the American artist, was a painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher of art. |
| Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 – August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts , the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver, but at the age of 40 become involved in telescope making. |
| Alvan Clark & Sons was an American maker of optics that became famous for crafting lenses for some of the largest refracting telescopes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Founded in 1846 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts by Alvan Clark (1804–1887, a descendant of Cape Cod whalers who started as a portrait painter, and his sons George Bassett Clark (1827–1891) and Alvan Graham Clark (1832–1897). |
| Alvin Eli Amason (b. 1948) is an Alaskan painter and sculptor. He was born in Kodiak and is of Alutiiq ancestry. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University and teaches at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; he is the head of the Alaska Native Art studies program there. He is a member of the Alaska Native Arts Foundation Board of Directors. |
| Alvise or Luigi Vivarini, (c. 1446 – 1502), was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, with whom he may have trained, was Bartolomeo Vivarini. Another uncle, on his mother's side, was the artist known as Giovanni d'Alemagna, who worked with his brother-in-law Antonio. Alvise may have trained Jacopo de' Barbari. |
| Alén Diviš (1900-1956) was a Czech painter known for his melancholic art. He died in 1956 rather unknown but has had a post-mortem revival in the art world. |
| Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (Manhufe, Amarante, November 24, 1887 -Espinho, October 25, 1918) was a Portuguese painter of modern art, working in the style of the vanguard of his time. Although he lived a short life, his workmanship was legendary. |
| Amalia Lindegren, (22 May 1814 in Stockholm, dead 27 december 1891 in Stockholm, was a Swedish artist and painter, from 1856 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. |
| Amalia Pachelbel (29 October, 1688 – 6 December, 1723) was a German painter and engraver. She was born in Erfurt and was the oldest daughter of composer Johann Pachelbel. She was named after Amalia Oeheim, Johann's sister-in-law. According to Pachelbel's obituary retold in Mattheson's Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte of 1740, Amalia's interest in art pleased her father, and he was always supportive of her. Amalia became known for her floral watercolors, copper engravings and porcelain pieces. |
| Amanda Lear (born November 18,1946) is a model, adult model, polyglot, painter, novelist, actress, media personality, composer, lyricist, singer and gay icon who was a Disco Queen in Continental Europe, the Eastern Bloc and most other parts of the world in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. She first came to the public's attention as the fetishistically clad model on the cover of Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973. |
| Amar Amarni (b. June 12, 1973 in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) is an Algerian painter who lives and works in Marseille, France. |
| Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleming (10 December 1925 – 27 July 1999) was a British cello performer and teacher. She was the illegitimate daughter of the painter Augustus John by his mistress Eve Fleming, mother of the writers Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming by her late husband. |
| Amasa Hewins (July 11 1795-August 18 1855) was an American portrait, genre, and landscape painter. |
| The Amasis Painter (active around 550 - 510 in Athens) was a Greek Vase painter of the black figure style. He owes his name to the fact that eight of the potter Amasis's manufactured marked work (“Amasis made me”) are painted by the same painter, who we therefore called the Amasis painter. Today approximately 90 works are attributed to him. |
| Ambrogio Borgognone (also known as Ambrogio da Fossano or Ambrogio Stefani da Fossano or as il Bergognone, c. 1470s – 1523/1524) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school. |
| Ambrogio Besozzi (1648-1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Ambrogio Casati (december 27 1897 – july 19 1977) was an Italian painter. |
| Ambrogio Lorenzetti (or Ambruogio Laurati; c. 1290 – June 9, 1348) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school. He was active between approximately from 1317 to 1348. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti. |
| Ambrose McCarthy Patterson was a painter and printmaker born in Daylesford, Australia on June 29, 1877. He studied at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne and continued his studies in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian under Lucien Simon, André Lhote and Maxime Maufra. In Paris he became a friend of compatriot, Nellie Melba, the famous soprano. Through her influence, he was able to continue his studies with John Singer Sargent. |
| Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (Antwerp, January 18 1573–The Hague, 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age. He started his career in Antwerp, but spend most of it in Middelburg (1593–1613), where he became dean of the painters' guild. He later worked in Amsterdam (1614), Bergen op Zoom (1615–1616), Utrecht (1616–1619), and Breda (1619). He specialised in painting still lifes with flowers. |
| Ambrosius Brueghel (Antwerp, 1617—9 February 1675) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in landscapes and flower paintings. His work is similar to that of his half-brother, Jan Brueghel the Younger, and his nephew, Abraham Brueghel. He was primarily active Antwerp, probably travelled to Italy around 1639, and was dean of Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke from 1653 to 1671. |
| Ambrosius Holbein (1494 - 1519) was a German painter. He is best known as the son of Hans Holbein the Elder and brother of Hans Holbein the Younger. |
| Amelia Alcock-White is a Canadian magic realist painter. Born on Vancouver Island, Canada, her unique surrealist style evolved in isolation. |
| Amelia Curran (1775 – 1847) was an Irish painter. |
| Amelia Peláez del Casal (1896-April 8, 1968) was an important Cuban painter of the Avant-garde generation. |
| The American Barbizon school was a group of painters and style partly influenced by the French Barbizon school. American Barbizon painters concentrated on impressionist landscapes. |
| Tribal Style Belly Dance or American Tribal Style Belly Dance (commonly known as ATS) is a modern style of dance created by FatChanceBellyDance director, Carolena Nericcio. In 1974 Carolena began belly dancing with Masha Archer and the San Francisco Dance Troupe. Masha’s style was an eclectic blend of classic Egyptian Cabaret, Folkloric and any other influence that she found enticing. Being a trained painter and sculptor, Masha taught her dancers to create art through dance. |
| Amico Aspertini (c. 1474 – 1552) is an Italian Renaissance painter whose complex, eccentric, and eclectic style anticipates Mannerism. He is considered among the first of the Bolognese School of painting. |
| Amilkar Ariza (Born 1943 in Riohacha, Guajira, Colombia) is a painter and professional Dentist specialized in Implantology. In 1984, The International Congress of Oral Implantology in Munich, Germany, recognized Dr. Amilkar Ariza as a renowned leader in this field. He was later honored by receiving a letter of appreciation for his global contribution to the science of Implantology by the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush. |
| Amos Cassioli (1832–1891) was a nineteenth-century Italian painter. |
| Amrita Sher-Gil (January 30, 1913, Budapest, Hungary – December 5, 1941, Lahore), was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo. She was daughter of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia, a Sikh aristocrat and also a scholar in Sanskrit, and Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, a Hungarian, who was a singer. Sher-Gil was the elder of two daughters born to Umrao Singh and Marie Antoinette. |
| Amy Sillman (born 1966 in Detroit) is an American painter living and working in New York. |
| Amédée Ozenfant (15 April, 1886 - 4 May, 1966) was a French cubist painter. |
| Amélie Beaury-Saurel (Barcelona, 1849-Paris, May 301924) was a French painter. |
| Amélie Helga Lundahl (Oulu, May 26 1850 - Helsinki, August 20 1914) was a Finnish painter. |
| An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an aging painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions. |
| Anatole Devosge (13 January 1770–8 December 1850) was a French painter. |
| Anatoli (Tankhum) Lvovich Kaplan , (December 26 1902 in Rogachev, Belarus- July 3, 1980 in Leningrad) was a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins. |
| Anatolii Ivanovich Sivkov (alternative spelling: Anatoly Ivanovich Sivkov)(Russian: Анатолий Иванович Сивков)(born 1952) is a contemporary Russian painter. Sivkov studied from 1966-73 at the renowned Novosibirsk State University in Akademgorodok (Russian: Академгородок), a suburb of Novosibirsk. Sivkov lives and works In St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| Anaxandra, (Flourished 220s B.C) , was a woman artist and painter in Sicyon, ancient Greece. |
| Anchee Min (閔安琪 born January 14, 1957) is a painter, photographer, musician, and author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min's memoir, Red Azalea, and her subsequent novels are either semiautobiographical or reflect a particular time in Chinese history with an emphasis on strong female characters, most notably Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China. |
| Anders Zorn (February 18, 1860 – August 22, 1920) was a Swedish painter and printmaker in etching. |
| Andokides was a famous potter of Ancient Greece. The painter of his pots was an anonymous artist, the Andokides Painter, who is recognized as the creater of the red-figure style, beginning around 530 BC. His work is compared with Exekias, who was said to have created the most detailed and best examples of black-figure pottery. Exekias is said to be the teacher of Andokides. |
| The Andokides Painter was an Athenian vase painter, active from 535 to approximately 515. His work is unsigned, he is named therefore after the potter for whom he worked. His importance lies in the fact that he is believed to be the inventor of the red figure style of vase painting. |
| André Durand (born Canada 1947) is a painter working in the European tradition. He is heir to such painters as Rubens, Titian and Velasquez. |
| Andre de Krayewski (b. June 20, 1933) is an artist painter and Polish expatriate currently residing in the Ivy Hill section of Newark, NJ. With a career that spans for nearly half a century, he continues to masterfully create paintings in his art-deco signature style and just recently in pop art style. Andre de Krayewski is best known in his former country, for his famous Polish movie posters. He started his movie poster career in 1965. |
| Andrea Appiani (May 31, 1754-November 8 1817), was an Italian neoclassical painter. |
| Andrea Barbiani was an Italian painter of the 18th century, mainly active in Ravenna and Rimini. He painted in the style of Cesare Pronti. He was the nephew of the painter Giovanni Battista Barbiani. |
| Andrea Bellunello (1440 - after 1476) was an Italian painter active in the early Renaissance period. He was born in San Vito in the Friuli, and active in the Udine and surrounding region of Friuli. He worked with or under Francesco Squarcione. |
| Abate Andrea Belvedere ( born 1646) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Naples and a pupil of Giovan Battista Ruoppolo, and excelled in painting still-life paintings of fruit and flowers. He was employed by Charles II of Spain; and in conjunction with Luca Giordano (who painted the figures), he helped decorate the Escorial. |
| Andrea Boscoli (active 1553) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. |
| Andrea Busati was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was a follower of the Bellini, is the author of a signed St. Mark enthroned between SS. Francis and Andrew, painted about 1510, and now in the Accademia in Venice. A figure of a Saint in the Vicenza Gallery is also ascribed to him. |
| Andrea Camassei (1602-1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque, who was mainly active in Rome under the patronage of the Barberini. He was born in Bevagna. He was active in painting in the Palazzo Barberini as well as in Antonio Barberini's favored church, Santa Maria della Concezione, where he painted the Assumption of the Virgin on the dome. His training was under Domenichino, but he also labored under the direction of Sacchi and Pietro da Cortona. |
| Andrea Carlone (1626 - 4 April 1697) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. |
| Andrea Casali (c. 1720-1770) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. |
| Andrea Celesti (1637 - 1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, working in Venice. His style gravitated over the years from a turgid and academic weightiness to a lighter, looser brushstroke. |
| Andrea Commodi (1560 - 1648) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period. Born in Florence, but mostly active in Rome, he was the pupil of the painter Cigoli. He painted frescoes in the sacristy of San Carlo ai Catinari and a Fall of the Angels now in the Accademia gallery in Florence. One of his pupils was a juvenile Pietro da Cortona whow moved to Rome and became one of the towering figures of the Italian Baroque. Another pupil was Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi (1582-1659). |
| Andrea Lanzani (c. 1645 - 1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Milan and died in Vienna. He was the pupil of the painter Luigi Scaramucci and Antonio Busca in Milan, and later of Carlo Maratta in Rome. He painted in a style recalling Giovanni Lanfranco. Later he moved to Vienna to paint for the Hapsburg court. |
| Andrea Lilio (1555/1570 - after 1639) was an Italian painter born in Fano, not far from Ancona, hence he also is known as L'Anconitano. |
| Andrea Locatelli (1695-1741) was an Italian painter of landscapes (vedute). |
| Andrea López Caballero was a Spanish painter. He was born in Naples, but studied in Madrid under Antolinez. He devoted himself chiefly to portrait painting, though in Madrid is a picture of Christ with Virgin Mother and Mary Magdalen. |
| Andrea Malinconico (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active near his natal city of Naples. He was a pupil of Massimo Stanzione. |
| Andrea Miglionico was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, born in Naples, and a pupil of Luca Giordano. He painted historical subjects, and there are several of his works in the churches of his native city, the best, perhaps, a 'Pentecost’’' in the SS. Nunziata. He died soon after Giordano (1705). Page 152 |
| Andrea Pozzi (born 1778) was an Italian painter, active mainly in his native Rome, as a painter of religious and mythologic histories. |
| Andrea Pozzo (Latinized version: Andreas Puteus; November 30, 1642,Trento, Italy - August 31, 1709, Vienna, Austria) was an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician. He was best known for his grandiose frescoes using illusionistic technique called quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed. His masterpiece is the nave ceiling of the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome. |
| Andrea Previtali was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Bergamo. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini. In Bergamo, he painted a John the Baptist preaching with other saints (1515) for the church of Santo Spirito; a San Benedetto and other saints for the Cathedral of Bergamo, and a Deposition from the Cross for Sant Andrea. Other works in Accademia Carrara. |
| Andrea Procaccini (January 14, 1671-1734) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome as well as in Spain. |
| Andrea Ramirez was a Spanish painter and illuminator of manuscripts, active in Seville. Between 1555 and 1558, he illuminated the choir books of the cathedral. |
| Andrea Sabbatini (1487 - 1530) (var. Andrea Sabatini) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, born in Salerno (thus he is also known as Andrea da Salerno), and one of the best disciples of Raphael. |
| Andrea Sacchi (november 30 1599 - June 21 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors Alessandro Algardi and François Duquesnoy, and the contemporary biographer Giovanni Bellori. |
| Andrea Meldolla called Andrea Schiavone or Lo Schiavone , or Andrija Medulić (in Croatian)(c. 1510/1515 - 1563) was an Italian Renaissance etcher and painter, active mainly in Venice. |
| Andrea Seghizzi (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. |
| Andrea Sguazella was a 16th century Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Florence and France. He was a pupil of the painter Andrea del Sarto and stayed behind to paint in the court of Francis I of France. |
| Andrea Solari (also Solario) (1460 in Milano – 1524) was an Italian Renaissance painter. Initially named Andre del Gobbo, he was one of the most important followers of Leonardo da Vinci, and brother of Cristoforo Solari, who gave him his first training. |
| Andrea Suppa (1628-1671) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Messina. He was a pupil of Bartolommeo Tricomi and the Dutch painter of marine landscapes, active in Sicily, Abraham Casembroodt. |
| Andrea Torresani (c. 1727 - 1760) was a Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his natal city of Brescia, Milan, and Venice. |
| Andrea Vaccaro (c. May 8, 1600 – January 18, 1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in Naples in a tenebrist style. |
| Andrea Vanni (1332-c. 1414) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance. |
| Andrea Vicentino (c. 1542 - 1617) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Maganza. Born in Vicenza, he was also known as Andrea Michieli or Michelli. He moved to Venice in the mid-1570s and registered in the “Fraglia” or guild of Venetian painters in 1583. He worked alongside Tintoretto at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, helping paint Arrival of Henry III at Venice (c. |
| Andrea del Castagno (c. 1421 – 1457) was an Italian painter from Florence, influenced chiefly by Tommaso Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone. His works include frescoes in Sant'Apollonia in Florence and the painted equestrian monument of Niccolò da Tolentino (1456) in the Cathedral in Florence.. He in turn influenced the Ferrarese school of Cosmè Tura, Francesco del Cossa and Ercole de' Roberti. |
| Andrea del Sarto (1486 – 1531) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early-Mannerism. Though highly regarded by his contemporaries as an artist "senza errori" (i.e., faultless), he is overshadowed now by equally talented contemporaries like Raphael. |
| Andrea del Verrocchio, born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, (c. 1435 – 1488) was an influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence. His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli, but he also influenced Michelangelo. He worked in the serenely classic style of the Florentine Early Renaissance. |
| Andrea dell'Asta (c. 1673-1721) was an Italian painter of the late-baroque period. Born in Bagnoli (once just outside Naples) and died in Naples. He trained with Francesco Solimena, and worked for a time in Rome. His name has myriad spellings, the painter himself used Aste but other have used d'Asti, D'Asti, Dell'Asti, etc. Much of his work in Naples was destroyed by World War II. He painted a Nativity and Epiphany for the church of the Scalzi in Naples. |
| Andrea di Bertholotti of Cividale (active 15th century) was an Italian painter, also called Bellunello) and was a master in the Guild of San Vito in 1462. He seems to have contracted for altar-pieces and mural decorations at Udine, San Vito, and the surrounding towns, up to 1490. At the Palazzo Communale of Udine is a Crucifixion (1476). The sacristy of Santa Maria di Castello, San Vito, possesses by him a Virgin and Child, between SS. |
| Andrea di Leone (1596-1675) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native city of Naples. |
| Andrea di Mariotto del Minga (1540-1596) was a Florentine painter of the Mannerist style. He was employed in Giorgio Vasari's team that decorated of the Studiolo of Francesco I in the Palazzo Vecchio. |
| Andreas Achenbach (September 29, 1815 - April 1, 1910) was a German landscape painter. |
| Andreas Krystallis or Andreas Kristallis (Greek: Ανδρέας Κρυστάλλης, 1911 – 1951) was a Greek painter. |
| Andreas Nottebohm is an artist. He was born in Eisenach, Germany in 1944. From 1965 to 1969, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under surrealist painter Mac Zimmerman. In 1968, he studied etching at J. Friedlaender workshop in Paris, France. Nottebohm first visited the United States for a one-man in 1978. After traveling throughout the United States for six months, he chose to make the San Francisco Bay area his home. |
| Andreas Schelfhout (February 16, 1787 – April 19, 1870) was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, known for his landscape paintings. |
| Andrei Rublev , also known as The Passion According to Andrei, is a 1966 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky from a screenplay written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, the great 15th century Russian icon painter. The film features Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Burlyayev and Tarkovsky's wife Irma Raush. |
| Andrei Petrovich Ryabushkin (; - ) was a Russian painter. His major works were devoted to life of ordinary Russians of 17th century. |
| Andres Leyto (active in Madrid in 1680) was a Spanish painter of historical subjects and interiors. He painted, in conjunction with Josef de Sarabia, pictures in the cloister of the convent of San Francisco at Segovia. |
| Andrew Michael Dasburg (May 4, 1887 – August 13, 1979) was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism". |
| Andrew Drummond is a New Zealand painter and sculptor. Born in Nelson, New Zealand, he attended University of Waterloo in Canada, graduating in 1976. He was a Frances Hodgkins Fellow in 1980. |
| Andrew Geddes (born 1783 in Edinburgh; died 1844 in London) was a British painter. |
| Andrew Levitas (born September 4, 1977, New York) is an actor, producer, writer, painter, photographer, and filmmaker. |
| Andrew Logan (born 1945) is an English sculptor, performance artist, jewellery-maker, portraitist and painter. |
| Andrew Nicholl R.H.A (1804 – 1886) was an Irish painter. |
| Andrew Putnam Hill (1853-1922) was an early Californian painter and photographer best known for successfully leading an effort in 1901 to save a forest of large redwoods in Big Basin, California. |
| Andrew Pitt is an artist, demonstrator and writer for the Leisure Painter, working in Oil and watercolour. |
| Andrew Vicari (born 20 April 1938) is a Welsh painter working in France who has established a career painting portraits of the rich and famous. Despite being largely unknown in his own country, as of 2004 Vicari was Britain's richest living painter. |
| Andrew Newell Wyeth (born July 12, 1917) is an American realist painter, one of the best-known of the 20th century and sometimes referred to as the "Painter of the People" due to his popularity with the American public. He is the son of the illustrator and artist N. C. Wyeth, and the brother of inventor Nathaniel Wyeth and artist Henriette Wyeth Hurd, and the father of artist Jamie Wyeth. |
| Andrey Avinoff (14 February, 1884, Tulchin, Volhynia - 16 July, 1949, New York City) sometimes referred to as Andrej Nikolajewitsch Avinoff or Andrei Avinoff, was a Russian entomologist and painter who became Director of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. He was especially interested in Lepidoptera among many, many other interests. |
| Andrey Matveev (1702-1739) was a prominent Russian painter of the 18th century. |
| Andrey (Andrei) Nikoforovich Voronikhin (Russian: Андрей Никифорович Воронихин) (October 17 1759, Novoa Usolye, Perm Oblast — February 21 1814, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian architect and painter. As a representative of classicism he was also one of the founders of the monumental Russian Empire style. Born a serf of the Stroganov family, he is best known for his work on Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. |
| Andrey Yefimovich Martynov (Андрей Ефимович Мартынов; 1768-1826) was a Russian painter and engraver. |
| Andrija Buvina was a 13th century Medieval Croatian sculptor and painter. His work is often associated with the Romanesque period. Actually, the best example of Romanesque sculpture in Croatia are wooden doors of Split cathedral done by Andrija Buvina (c.1220. |
| Andrzej Wróblewski (1927 - 1957) was a Polish painter who died in a tragic mountaineering accident in 1957 when he was only 30. He is recognized by many as one of Poland's most prominent artists in the early post World War II era, creating an individualistic approach to figurative painting..]] |
| Andrzej Łuczak (born on July 24, 1955) is a Polish stucco decorator, painter, photographer, art teacher, lover of the Pałuki region and the Tatra Mountains. He was born and still lives in the town of Żnin in central Poland. Łuczak is one of the most meritorious people for the town and the Żnin County in the field of art. Łuczak has been dealing with different forms of art since childhood and with painting since 1977. |
| André Bauchant (1873–1958) was a French 'naïve' painter whose compositions were often informed by mythology and Classical History. He originally worked as a market gardener, after his father, before serving in World War I. He later trained as a mapmaker before deciding on a career as an artist. |
| André Derain (June 10, 1880 – September 8, 1954) was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. |
| André Dunoyer de Segonzac (July 7, 1884–September 17, 1974) was a French painter and graphic artist. |
| André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker. |
| André Giroux (born April 30 1801; died November 18 1879) was a renowned French photographer and painter. His paintings were mostly Landscape art and Genre painting. In particular, he restored several Genre paintings of medieval ruins and troubadours. |
| André Hébuterne, born September 3, 1894 - died Paris, June 30, 1992, was a French painter. |
| André Lhote (5 July, 1885 – 24 January, 1962) was a French sculptor and painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on art. |
| André Thomkins (1930 - November 8, 1985) is a Swiss painter, illustrator, and poet. From 1952, he lived in Germany and taught at the art academy in Düsseldorf between 1971 and 1973. |
| Andrée Ruellan (born April 6, 1905, New York City; died July 15, 2006, Kingston, New York) was an American painter, known for her depictions of everyday scenes in New York and the American South. |
| Andrés García-Peña is a noted painter living and working in New York City. His paitings revolve around scenes of Colombian cultural heritige. |
| Andrés de Santa Maria (December 16 1860 – April 29 1945) was the most internationally known Colombian painter of his time and the pioneer of impressionism in Colombia. His work in solitary as a vanguadist painter, frames the beginnings of modern art in Colombia. Santa Maria searched of new artistic expressions generated rejection and controversies around his work. He lived great part of his life in Europe. |
| Andrés de Vargas (1613—1647) was a Spanish painter. He was born at Cuenca, and came to Madrid as a young man. He studied under Francisco Camilo. He painted religious works for the friaries as well as for private patrons of Madrid. He painted works for the cathedral and churches of Cuenca. |
| Ang Kiukok (Chinese: 洪救國, March 1, 1931- May 9, 2005) was a leading Filipino painter and a National Artist for Visual Arts. |
| Angela Veronica Airola was an Italian woman painter of the Baroque period. She was born and active in Genoa, and a pupil of Domenico Fiasella. She joined the order of San Bartolommeo dell' Oliveta at Genoa. She painted several works while in the convent. She died in 1670. |
| Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell, born December 25, 1918) is a British author and artist. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and is the daughter of Vanessa Bell and painter Duncan Grant. She was the niece of Virginia Woolf. |
| Maria Anna Angelika/Angelica Katharina Kauffmann (October 30, 1741 – November 5, 1807) was a Swiss-Austrian painter. |
| Angelica Le Gru Perotti (1719- 1776) was an Italian woman painter of the Rococo, active at first in Northern Italy and Venice. She was born to a family of painters including her father, the portraitist Le Gru, and three brothers. She is best known for pastel portraits she completed on a trip to London, similar to the voyages of Rosalba Carriera. |
| Angelica or Angiola Veronica Airola (c. 1590 - 1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in 17th century Genoa. She was notable by being a woman painter. She was a pupil of the painter Domenico Fiasella. She became a nun in San Bartolomeo dell'Olivello, and thus mainly painted thereafter religious paintings, including for her convent. |
| Angelo Banchero (1744-1793) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period. |
| Angelo Campanella (born c. 1748- c. 1815) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born at Rome, and trained under Giovanni Volpato. He engraved the statues of twelve apostles found in the church of St. John Lateran; and some of the plates for Gavin Hamilton's Schola Itálica including The Presentation in the Temple after Fra Bartolommeo. Others engravings include Christ with the Disciples at Emmaus, The Massacre of the Innocents, and Psyche and Cupid after Raphael. |
| Angelo Caroselli (1585-1653) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native Rome. He painted in an eclectic style, including influences from Caravaggio and the Bamboccianti. He was the brother in law of Filippo Lauri. One of his pupils was Pietro Paolini and his son Carlo Caroselli. He painted Martyrdom of St. Placidus and St. Gregory celebrating Mass before the people for Santa Francesca Romana; and St. Wenceslaus in the Quirinal Palace. |
| Angelo Everardi (1647 - 1680) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Brescia. He studied under the Flemish John de Hertz and Francesco Monti (il Brescianino). Known as il Fiamminghino or Fiammenghino. He worked mainly as a Battle painter. Among his pupils were Pompeo Ghiti and Faustino Bocchi (1659-); the latter painted both battles and genre scenes of dwarves. |
| Angelo Massarotti (1653-1723) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Cremona. He trained initially with Agostino Bonisoli, then in Rome with Carlo Cesi. Pupils of Massarotti include Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Beter Frassi, Pietro da Pietro, and Sigismondo Benini. |
| Angelo Michele Colonna (September 21, 1604-1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active near Bologna. |
| Angelo Nardi (active 17th century) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Spain. |
| Angelo Quaglio (1784-1815) was an architect, designer, and painter born into the Quaglio family of artists. He was the eldest son of Giuseppe Quaglio. He designed and painted landscapes and architectural pictures for Boisserée's work on Cologne Cathedral. |
| Angelo Roccadirame (born 1396) was an Italian painter. active in the 14th century in his native Naples . He painted an Archangel Raphael in SS. Severino e Sosio. |
| Angelo Trevisani (1669- died after 1753) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Venice. |
| Reverend Fr. Fray Angélico Chávez (April 10 1910 – March 18, 1996) was an American Franciscan priest, historian, author, poet, and painter. |
| Ahn Duong (October 25, 1960- ) is a French-born actress and model born to a Spanish mother and a Vietnamese father. She studied dance and became a top supermodel, working for Vogue, Christian Lacroix, and John Galliano, among others. In 1988, she moved to New York and began a career as an artist. She is also an actress. Her credits include My Best Friend's Wedding, High Art, and Love Me. About Duong, Diane von Furstenberg "Ahn Duong is an extraordinary painter and sculptor... |
| Aniella di Beltrano or Anniella di Rosa (1613-1649) was an Italian woman painter of the Baroque period. She trained with Massimo Stanzione, who was a fellow pupil with her husband, Agostino Beltrano (also called Agostiniello) (1616-1665). It is said that her husband stabbed her to death in a fit of jealousy. Her recognized output of paintings is minimal. |
| Aniello Falcone (1600-1665) was an Italian Baroque painter, active in Naples and noted for his painted depictions of battle scenes. |
| Anisa Romero is a musician and a painter. She is the lead singer of the groups Sky Cries Mary and Hana. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1990. She relocated to New York City with her husband, Roderick Romero, also of Sky Cries Mary, and their daughter in 2001. |
| Anita Delgado Briones was a Spanish flamenco dancer and singer from Andalusia. She was born on February 8, 1890 in Málaga. The family emigrated to Madrid, where her beauty and that of her sister were welcomed. Painters Julio Romero de Torres and Ricardo Baroja asked that they model, but Anita refused being only 16. |
| Anita Howard (born 1926) is a British-born painter. |
| Anker Boye (born February 12, 1950) is a Danish politician representing the Social Democratic Party. He is a painter by profession. |
| Anna Kirstine Brøndum Ancher (August 18, 1859 - April 151935), was the only one of the Skagen Painters that was actually born in Skagen, Denmark. |
| Anna Rosalie Boch (10 February 1848 – 25 February 1936) was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut. Anna Boch died in Ixelles in 1936 and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery. |
| Anna Chromy (born July 18 1940) is a painter and sculptor. Born in Bohemia (Czech Republic), raised in Austria, living in France and working in Italy, she considers herself the quintessential European. Her best-known piece is the empty coat, known as Coat of Peace, Piétà or Commendatore, located in Cathedral in Salzburg, Austria, Stavovske divadlo in Prague, National Archeological Museum in Athens and elsewhere. |
| Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (October 28, 1856–1942) was American portrait and genre painter born in San Francisco, California, United States. Her father, John Gerald Klumpke, born in England[http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowPDF&ProduktNr=223840&Ausgabe=230918&ArtikelNr=85554&filename=85554.pdf] or Germany[http://www.ventanawild.org/news/se00/klumpke.html], was a successful and wealthy realtor in San Francisco. Her mother was Dorothea Mattilda Tolle. |
| Anna Kavan (born April 10, 1901 as Helen Emily Woods, died 1968) was a British author and painter, born in Cannes. As the only child of cold, wealthy parents, she grew up emotionally rootless, leading to lifelong depression and bouts of mental illness. She married and divorced twice. She had one son, Bryan, who died in World War II and a daughter, Margaret, who died soon after childbirth. |
| Anna Maria Thelott, (1683-1710) was a Swedish artist, and one of the first self-supporting and professional female artists in Scandinavia. She was an engraver, an illustrator, a woodcut-artist, and a miniaturist painter. |
| Anne Appleby (1954-) is an American color field/landscape painter. Her works, always bearing titles from the natural world---"Sweet Pine", "Summer Aspen", "Gem"---are simple arrangements of colored canvas panels. Each panel is, at a glance, monochromatic, but closer inspection reveals deep and luminous gradations of hue. |
| Anne Bonnet (16 May 1908–14 November 1960 was a Belgian painter. |
| Anne Neely (b. 1946 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is a painter and teacher at Milton Academy. She paints abstract paintings with a current emphasis on landscapes. |
| Anne Parrish (November 12, 1888 - September 5, 1957) was an American novelist and author of children's literature. She was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado the elder sister of writer Dillwyn Parrish. The daughter of Thomas Clarkson Parrish, who came from an artistic Philadelphia family, her mother, Anne Lodge, had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a respected portrait painter and became a friend of Mary Cassatt in Paris. |
| Anne Pigalle is a parisian chanteuse, polaroid photographer, and painter, poet, writer, actress and creator of the amerotic salons , she grew up in Paris. She has been compared to Piaf, Dietrich and West. She is running a new cabaret club night in London called Spirit of Ecstasy. She has been intensely working since her first album on all kind of diverse material and collaborated with many greats while living in America. |
| Anne Savage (July 27, 1896 – March 25, 1971) was a Canadian painter and art teacher. |
| Anne Butler Yeats (9 May 1919 – 4 July 2001) was an Irish painter and stage designer. She was a daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats and a niece of the painter Jack B. Yeats and botanic artist Elizabeth Yeats. Her brother Michael Yeats was a politician. |
| Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 - July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque painter. |
| Annie Swynnerton (1844 - 1933) was an English painter. Among her creations were Cupid and Psyche. |
| The Annunciation is a painting created by Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. It is a tempera on panel and measures 49.5 cm tall and 58.5 cm wide. It is in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| The Annunciation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippo Lippi, finished around 1445-1450. it is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome. |
| Ant(h)onie van Stralen (or Verstralen) (Gorkum, 1593/1594 - Amsterdam, 1641) was a Dutch landscape painter, best known (with Hendrik Avercamp and his brother Barend Avercamp) for his winter scenes. |
| Antonin Chittussi (1847-1891) was a Czech Impressionist landscape painter. He was born to a Czech mother and a father of Italian descent. He was fascinated by the landscape of South Bohemia and of the Bohemian and Moravian Highlands. In particular, his smaller pictures replete with quick, easy brushstrokes are among the most admired of Czech landscape painting. |
| Antonio Maria Vassallo (c. 1620-1664/73) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa, and painting mythologic scenes and still lifes. |
| Antonio Maria Viani (born c. 1540) (also called Vianino) was an Italian painter painter and carver of the Renaissance period. He was born in Cremona. He was a pupil of the Campi. He was court painter to Duke Vincenzio Gonzaga, and adorned the large gallery of the Ducal Palace at Mantua with groups of children. He worked also at Capua. He died at Mantua at a very advanced age. |
| Antonio Martorell was born on April 18, 1939 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He is the son of Antonio Martorell II and Luisa Cardona. He is the first of three children. He is a well known puertorican painter, graphic's artist, writer and radio and television personality. He first started showing interest in arts as a small child with drawings. He studied Diplomacy at Washington DC and then went to study Painting with Julio Martín Caro at Madrid. |
| Antonio Marziale Carracci (1583 - 1618) was an Italian painter. He was the natural son of Agostino Carracci. |
| Antonio Mohedano (1561-1625) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period. |
| Antonio Molinari (January 21, 1655 - February 3, 1704) was a Venetian painter of the Baroque era. |
| Sir Antony Sher KBE (born 14 June 1949) is a British actor, novelist and painter. |
| Antonín Slavíček (1870–1910) was a renowned Czech painter. He was a part of the Czech impressionist movement. One of his most famous works is "Garden Wall," which hangs in the National Gallery in Prague. |
| Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi, dated 1480. It is housed in the Badia Fiorentina, a church in Florence. |
| Anselm Feuerbach (September 12, 1829 — January 4, 1880) was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school. According to the 1911 Britannica, He was the first to realize the danger arising from contempt of technique, that mastery of craftsmanship was needed to express even the loftiest ideas, and that an ill-drawn coloured cartoon can never be the supreme achievement in art. |
| Anselmo Canerio (active 1560-1575) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Verona. He was active in Soranzo, Castelfranco, Vicenza, and Verona. He painted in a style recalling [[Paolo Veronese. |
| Ansuino da Forlì was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento period. Born and active in Forlì and Padua in the mid-15th century. He trained with Squarcione and worked with Andrea Mantegna in painting the chapel of SS. Jacopo e Cristoforo in the church of the Eremitani in Padua. |
| Antanas Žmuidzinavičius (October 31 1876 in Seirijai – August 9 1966 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian painter and art collector. Sometimes he used Antanas Žemaitis ("Samogitian" - a loose translation of his surname into Lithuanian) as his pen name. |
| Anthon G.A. van Rappard (May 14 1858, Zeist - March 21 1892, Santpoort) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman. He was a pupil of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and for a while a friend of Vincent van Gogh. The letters he wrote to Van Rappard are a main source for Van Gogh's biography and work. |
| Anthoni Schoonjans was a Belgian painter (1655, Antwerp - 13 august 1726, Wien). |
| Anthony Angarola (1893-1929) was an American painter and art instructor. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Since he was an Italian immigrant himself, his work focused on people who struggled to adapt to a foreign culture. He also participated in the Carnagie International exposition in 1928, exhibiting his painting entitled: Proud |
| Anthony Apesos (b. 1953) is an American painter and professor of Fine Arts at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. |
| Anthony Ausgang (b. 1959) is a contemporary lowbrow painter. He paints in a colorful, cartoony, surrealistic style influenced by Kustom Kulture and Tex Avery. |
| Anthony Christian (b. October 24, 1945 in London, United Kingdom) is a prominent British painter. |
| Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (born Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands) (May 1, 1829—June 25, 1904), but usually known as Frederick Sandys, was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter, illustrator and draughtsman, of the Victorian era. |
| Anthony Green (b. September 30, 1939) is an English contemporary realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes use compound perspectives and polygonal forms—particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvasses. As well as producing oil paintings, he also produces a number of works designed from the start as limited edition prints. |
| Anthony Lister (1980 – present) is an Australian-born painter and Installation Artist. He has been featured in exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, as well as had solo shows in New York City and London, England. He is notable within the Low Brow Art Movement and has been featured on [http://www.juxtapoz.com/jux Juxtapoz.com] and . He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York City. |
| Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican/Americanactor, as well as a painter and writer. He is perhaps best known in the US for his roles in two Hollywood films, the title role in Zorba the Greek and his Oscar-winning performance in Viva Zapata!, while in the rest of the world he is associated with his role of the brutish circus strongman Zampanò in Federico Fellini's La strada. |
| Anthony Thieme (1888-1954) was a landscape and marine painter and a major figure of the Rockport (MA) School of American regional art. He was a contemporary of important Rockport artists Aldro Hibbard, Emil Gruppe, W. Lester Stevens, Antonio Cirino, and Marguerite Pierson. |
| Anthony Toto was an Italian painter and architect, was an Italian by birth, but came to England about 1531, and was naturalized in 1543. Henry VIII] appointed him Sergeant-Painter. None of his works are known. |
| Tony Treadwell (1922 - 15 September, 2003) was an early member of the Wellington Architectural Centre and an accomplished modernist architect, architectural educator and painter. His architectural work has been published in numerous articles in New Zealand Home and Building, the Arts Year Book, the Journal of the N.Z.I.A. and the Wellington Architectural Centre's Design Review. |
| Anthony Thomas Triano (1928–1997) was a painter, sculptor, illustrator and teacher. His works feature natural forms, especially the human form, and tend toward the abstract. He exhibited in 37 one-man shows and numerous group shows. |
| Anthony Waichulis is a contemporary Trompe L'Oeil painter, originally from and currently residing in Mocanaqua, Pennsylvania, United States. Born in 1972, he was a talented draughtsman from early on. After graduating from school, he started a career as a fine artist and teacher. His school, The Waichulis Studio, serves as a forum for dedicated artists looking for the pinnacle of disciplines in representational art. |
| Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings ), (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. |
| Antiphilus was a Greek painter from Naucratis, Egypt, in the age of Alexander the Great. He worked for Philip II of Macedon and Ptolemy I of Egypt. Thus he was a contemporary of Apelles, whose rival he is said to have been, but he seems to have worked in quite another style. Quintilian speaks of his facility: the descriptions of his works which have come down to us show that he excelled in light and shade, in genre representations, and in caricature. |
| The Antiphon painter was an Athenian vase painter of the early 5th Century BC. He owes his name to a double Kalos inscription of Antiphon on the dinos stand in the Antique collection of Berlin (Inventory number F 2325). He was active between 500 and 475 BC in Athens as a painter of the red figure style in the largest workshop of the 5th Century. He learned his handicraft in the workshop of Euphronios and Onesimos. There he worked closely with them, the Kalmarer painter and other painters. |
| Antiveduto Grammatica was a proto-Baroque Italian painter, active near Rome. Born in Siena or Rome, 1571, he died in Rome in 1626. |
| Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (March 16, 1771 - June 25, 1835), was a French painter, born in Paris. |
| Antoine Benoist (1632 - 1717) was a French painter and sculptor and served as personal painter to King Louis XIV. He was accepted as a member of the Académie Royale, Paris in 1681. |
| Antoine Berjon (17 May, 1754 – 24 October, 1843) was a French painter and designer, among the most important flower painters of 19th-century France. He worked in a variety of media including oil, pastel, watercolour, and ink. |
| Antoine Caron (1521 in Beauvais - 1599 in Paris) was a French master glassmaker, illustrator, Mannerist painter and a master (teacher) at the School of Fontainebleau. |
| Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (14 August 1758–17 November 1835) was a French painter, the youngest child of Claude Joseph Vernet, and the father of Horace Vernet. |
| Antoine Chintreuil (May 15 1814 – August 8 1873) was a French landscape painter. |
| Antoine Dominique Magaud (1817 – 1899) was a French painter. |
| Antoine Graincourt (1699-1753) was a French painter. He painted portraits of the French military figures of the day, including René Duguay-Trouin and François Louis de Rousselet, Marquis de Châteaurenault. |
| Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (b. 1810 in Rouen − d. 1871 in Paris) was a French painter. |
| Antoine Pesne (May 29, 1683-July 5, 1757) was the court painter of Prussia. |
| Jean-Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement (in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens), and revitalized the waning Baroque idiom, which eventually became known as Rococo. He is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes: scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with an air of theatricality. |
| Antoine Joseph Wiertz (February 22, 1806 - June 18, 1865) was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor. |
| Anton Ažbé (30 May, 1862 - 5 August, 1905) was a Slovenian painter and teacher who mainly worked in Germany. |
| Anton Domenico Gabbiani (13 February 1652 - 22 November 1726) was an Italian painter, born in Florence, and active in a late Baroque style |
| Anton Ghering (died 1668) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural church interiors. He is best-known for his interior of the Antwerp church of St. Walburgis (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp) which records the original placement along with the frame and predella paintings of Peter Paul Rubens's Raising of the Cross. |
| Anton Giuseppe Barbazza (c. 1720- died after 1771) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Rome, moved to Bologna, and in 1771 moved to Spain. In Rome, he had engraved the prints for Francesco Bianchini's L’istoria universale provata coi monumenti, published first in 1697 and reissued in 1747. |
| Anton Gág (1859–May 22, 1908) was a well known Bohemian-American painter, famous for his portraits, still lifes, landscapes and murals. He was born in 1859 in Walk, Bohemia and died in 1908 in New Ulm, Minnesota. Anton spent most of his working life in Minnesota. |
| Anton Ivanovich Ivanov-Goluboy (; 1818-) was a Russian painter. |
| Anton Janša was a Slovene apiarist and painter, (b. 1734, Breznica, d. 1773, Vienna). |
| Anton Pavlovich Losenko (Cyrillic Антон Павлович Лосенко) ( - ) was a Ukrainian-Russian Neoclassical painter who specialized in historical subjects and portraits. |
| Anton Rudolf Mauve (September 18, 1838 – February 5, 1888) was a Dutch realist painter whose work very early on influenced his cousin Vincent van Gogh. |
| Anton Raphael Mengs (March 12, 1728 - June 29, 1779) was an eminent German painter, active in Rome, Madrid, and Saxony, who became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting. |
| Anton Refregier (March 20, 1905 - October 10, 1979) was a Russian immigrant painter in the United States. |
| Anton Romako (October 20 1832 in Atzgersdorf, now district of Vienna - March 8, 1889 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter. |
| Anton Räderscheidt (October 11, 1892 – March 8, 1970) was a German painter who was a leading figure of the New Objectivity. |
| Anton Solomoukha (Ukrainian : Антон Соломуха) (born 1945, Kiev) is an Ukrainian painter and photographer, currently living in Paris, France. He graduated from the Fine Arts School of Kiev and left the USSR in 1978. His works are mostly neoclassicist; Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis and more recently the bilboquet are recurring themes in his works. |
| Anton Stankowski (June 18, 1906 - December 11, 1998) was a German graphic designer, photographer and painter. He developed an original Theory of Design and pioneered Constructive Graphic Art. Typical Stankowski designs attempt to illustrate processes or behaviours rather than objects. Such experiments resulted in the use of fractal-like structures long before their popularisation by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975. |
| Anton Zwengauer (October 11, 1810 Munich - June 13, 1884, Munich) was a German painter. |
| Anton Alexander von Werner (May 9, 1843 – January 4, 1915) was a German painter in the Kingdom of Prussia. |
| Antonello Riccio (active 1576) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. |
| Antonello Trombadori (April 24 1917 – March 7 1993) was an Italian art critic and journalist. Born in Rome into a family of artists (his father Francesco Trombadori was a painter) Trombadori lived a happy life in the Villa Strohl-Fern studio-home of his city, coming into contact with numerous intellectuals of the era. |
| Antonello da Messina (c. 1430 – February 1479) was a Sicilian painter active during the Italian Renaissance. |
| Antoni Stanisław Brodowski (26 December 1784 - 31 March 1832) was a Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue. Brodowski was born in Warsaw but moved to Paris to study under Jean Augustin and Jacques-Louis David, later Brodowski's idol. He also became a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet and Francois Gerard. His compositions are very large-scale with many figures, and often based on themes from Antiquity. |
| Antoni Pitxot, or Antonio Pichot Soler in Castilian, (born 1934 in Figueres, Catalonia) is a Spanish painter who was a longtime friend and collaborator of Salvador Dalí. |
| Antoni Taulé is a painter of Catalonian origin living in France. |
| Antoni Tàpies (born in Barcelona, December 13, 1923) is a Spanish painter. He is considered a great master artist of the 20th century . After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting. He is perhaps the best-known Catalan artist to emerge in the period since the Second World War. |
| Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli (died c. 1640) was an Italian woman painter of the Baroque period. She was born in Bologna, and was instructed in art by Lodovico Carracci. She painted some pictures for the churches; among others, the Guardián Angel for San Tommaso; and St Philip & St. James for the church dedicated to those saints. But her most celebrated performance was her St. John the Evangelist for the Annunziata, painted from a design of Lodovico Carracci. |
| Antoniazzo Romano, born Antonio di Benedetto Aquilo degli Aquili (c. 1430 – c. 1510) was an Italian Early Renaissance painter, the leading figure of the Roman school during the 15th century. |
| Antonio Agrote was an Italian architectural or quadratura painter, flourished about 1750. He painted one of the chapels of the Carmelite church at Milan, and the decorations of the church of Santa Maria at Brescia, for which Carloni (Carlo Innocenzo Carlone?) painted the figures. |
| Antonio Alberti was an Italian painter, active mainly in 15th century in his native city of Ferrara, as well as Bologna and Urbino. |
| Antonio Alberto or Antoniano Ferrarese was an Italian painter of Ferrara active in the Quattrocento. He trained under Agnolo Gaddi. He practiced about 1438 and died about 1450. He worked in the Castello Estense in Ferrara. He also painted at San Francesco in Urbino and Citta di Castello. |
| Antonio Aleotti was an Italian painter of the late 15th century, active in Ferrara. Born in Argenta, he is also known as Antonio dell'Argento, who lived in 1495, and painted frescoes in the Chiesa della Morte in Ferrara. |
| Antonio Amorosi (1660-1738) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome. |
| Antonio Bacci (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rovigo as a still life painter. He was born c. 1600 and still alive in Venice in 1665. |
| Antonio Badile (c. 1518 - 1560) was an Italian painter from Verona. He trained with his uncle Francesco Badile. Along with Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Antonio is known as one of the mentors of Paolo Veronese and Giovanni Battista Zelotti; as well as his father-in-law. Badile is described as continuing the "retardataire" tradition of Giovanni Francesco Caroto well past the 1540s. |
| Antonio Baldi (born c. 1692) was an Italian painter and engraver of the late-Baroque period. He was born at Cava de' Tirreni in the kingdom of Naples. After having training under Solimena, he became a pupil of Andreas Magliar for the art of engraving. He chiefly resided at Naples, and living as late as 1768. |
| Antonio Balestra (August 12, 1666 - April 21, 1740) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. |
| Antonio Bambocci (1351-1421) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the Gothic period, active in and near Naples. |
| Antonio Barbalonga or Barbalunga, also called Antonio Ricci (1600-1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Antonio Baroni (1678- 31 December, 1746) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Verona. He trained with Simone Brentana in Verona, and then in Bologna with Marcantonio Franceschini. He painted Sacrifice of Isaac for the oratorio di San Biago. He painted a Nativity for the church of San Alessio. He painted a San Simone Apostle for the oratorio di di S. Simone Apostolo, as well as a David and the angel with whips |
| Antonio Baruffaldi (1793-1819) was an Italian artist. He was born in Ferrara, in (Emilia Romagna) in the north east of Italy, close to Bologna and Venice. He actually trained as a painter in the city of Venice. The gallery of his native city, Ferrara, possesses some of his work: Virgin reading and Tancred and Anida. |
| Antonio Bassi (died 1782) was an Italian painter. He was born and active in Ferrara. He painted a Repose in Egypt and a Christ and Samaritan Woman for the church of San Giovanni Battista; and painted a Virgin Mary, St. Anne, and St. Joachim for the church of San Clemente. |
| Antonio Beduschi (born 1576- alive 1607) was an Italian painter active in the early-Baroque period, mainly in his hometown of Cremona. He imitated the style of Antonio Campi. His sister, Angela Beduschi, was also a painter. He died about young. He painted in 1602, the Martyrdom of St. Stephen and a Pietà for the church of San Sepolcro in Piacenza. |
| Antonio Maria Nicolao Beduzzi (1675 - 1735) was an Austrian-Italian theater engineer, painter, and architect who flourished in Vienna at the turn of the 17th century. |
| Antonio Bellucci (1654 - 1726) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, who was best known for his work in England, Germany, and Austria. He was one of the many Venetian-trained artists of his time, including Ricci, Tiepolo, Amigoni, and others, who sought commissions north of Italy, providing patrons with the then-popular Italianate grand-manner frescoes for private palaces. |
| Antonio Beltrami (1724-1784) was an Italian painter active in the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods. He was born in Cremona. He was a pupil of Francesco Boccaccino, who emerged from the school of Carlo Maratta. He traveled to the royal court in Vienna to perform portraits and decorate maps. |
| Delesio Antonio Berni (14 May 1905 – 13 October 1981) was a neofigurative artist, born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He worked as a painter, an illustrator and an engraver. His father, Napoleón Berni, was an immigrant tailor from Italy. His mother, Margarita Picco, was an Argentinian, daughter of Italians settled in Roldán, a nearby town. |
| Antonio Bernieri (1516-1565) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Correggio. He was first trained under Correggio; on the death of that master he went to Venice, and attended Titian's school. He visited Rome, and returning to Venice worked there until 1563. He died at Correggio. Bernieri was an eminent painter of portrait miniatures. He is sometimes called 'Antonio da Correggio’, which unfortunately confuses him with his mentor. |
| Antonio Bisquert was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Valencia, where he became a pupil of Francisco Ribalta. He established himself at Teruel in 1620. He died in 1646. |
| Antonio Bonfanti was an Italian painter. He was also called Il Torricella. He was a native of Ferrara, where he painted a Purification and Christ disputing with the Doctors for the church of San Francesco, and the Holy Family for the church of La Santissima Trinità. |
| Antonio Boselli was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Bergamo. He was born in San Giovanni Bianco in the Val Brembana, and painted from 1509-1527, in a style more reminiscent of the Quattrocento. In Bergamo, he painted the Saints Peter, Paul, and Luke for the church of San Cristoforo. |
| Antonio Bruno was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Modena or Correggio, and painted at Parma in the manner of Correggio, of whom, if not a pupil, he was a great imitator and contemporary, as one of his works is dated 1530. |
| Antonio Busca (1625-1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Lombardy. |
| Antonio Caimi (1814-1878) was an Italian painter. He was born at Sondrio, and was chiefly engaged as a portrait painter, but also painted The Beheading of St. John the Baptist and The Return from Babylon. He wrote a work on The Arts of Design, and the Lombardian Artists from 1777 to 1862 published in Milan in 1862. He was secretary of the Academy at Milan from 1860 until his death. |
| Antonio Calza (1658 - 1714) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona. He was the pupil of the Bolognese painter Carlo Cignani, then under Jacques Courtois. Guglielmo Capodoro Paganini was a pupil. Calza is known for painting historical and battle-paintings. |
| Antonio Campi (c. 1522 – 1587) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. |
| Antonio Capulongo (c. 1580) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. |
| Antonio Carnicero (1748- 1814) was a Spanish painter of the Neoclassic style. |
| Antonio Carnio (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Portogruaro in Friuli. He first trained with his father, afterwards studied at Venice. He painted a St. Thomas of Villanuova for the church of Santa Lucia in Udine. He was living in 1680. |
| Antonio Catalani (also called il Romano) (born c. 1596) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods. |
| Antonio Catalani (also called il Siciliano) (1560-1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods. He was born in Messina. He is thought to have studied in Rome, and strongly influenced by Federico Barocci. He painted a Nativity for the church of the Capuchins at Gesso, near Messina. |
| Antonio Cavallucci (21 August, 1752 - 18 November, 1795) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque. |
| Antonio Cifrondi (june 11 1655 - 1730) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque, mainly of genre themes. He was active in Brescia and near Bergamo. |
| Antonio Circignani (1560-1620) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance (Mannerism) period and early Baroque. Born in Pomarancio, he is known also as Antonio Pomarancio. He was the son of the painter Niccolo Circignani, and with his father, who died in 1588, he worked in Rome. He was featured in the Vite published by Giovanni Baglione. |
| Antonio Consetti (1686-1766) was an Italian historical painter, born and died in Modena. He was represented in the Estense Gallery of his native city, by a Virgin of the Rosary with St. Dominic and a St. Joseph & Angels. He painted the Virgin and child with St. Rose at the Museo Civico d'Arte di Modena . Along with Pellegrino Spaggiari, he decorated the vault of the Sala dei Cardinali at the Collegio San Carlo di Modena. |
| Antonio Dardani (c. 1677-1735) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Antonio Diziani (1737-1797) was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active mainly in painting vedute or landscpapes and vistas of Venice. |
| Antonio Donghi (March 16, 1897 – July 16, 1963) was an Italian painter of scenes of popular life, landscapes, and still life. |
| Antonio Dusi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia. He was initially a pupil of Antonio Paglia. One of his pupils was Santo Cattaneo. |
| Antonio Elenetti (died 14 June, 1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Verona. He trained with Simone Brentana in Verona. He painted an altarpiece of St. Anthony of Padua for the church of Ogni Santi in Verona. |
| Antonio Fernández Arias (?- 1684) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. |
| Antonio Filocamo (1669-1743) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Messina. He initially went on to work along with his brother, Paolo Filocamo, in the studio of Carlo Maratta in Rome. Returned to Messina to work at various churches and oratories. |
| Antonio Fontanesi (23 February 1818 – 17 April 1882) was an Italian painter who lived in Meiji period Japan between 1876 and 1878. He introduced European oil painting techniques to Japan, and exerted a significant role in the development of modern Japanese yōga (Western style) painting. He is known for his works in the romantic style of the French Barbizon school. |
| Antonio Franchi (1638 – 1709) is an Italian painter of the 17th century, and active mainly in Florence and Lucca. |
| Antonio Gandini (1565-17 July,1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was a pupil of the painter Paolo Veronese. In Brescia, his pupils were Ottavio Amigoni, Francesco Barbieri (il Legnano), and Ambrogio Besozzi. His son, Bernardino (died 1651) was also a painter. |
| Antonio Gherardi (September 20 1638 - May 10 1702) was an Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (stuccoist) of the Baroque style, active mainly in and near Rome and his native city of Rieti. |
| Antonio Gionima (1697-1732) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. |
| Antonio Giusti (1624 - 1705) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of the painters Cesare Dandini and Mario Balassi. |
| Antonio Joli (1700- 29 April, 1777) was an Italian painter of veduta. |
| Antonio Joseph (born 1921) is a Haitian artist. Born in Barahona, Dominican Republic, to Haitian parents, Joseph practices painting, sculpture, and screen-printing. He worked as a tailor while studying watercolor and sculpture in Haiti and screen-printing in the United States. He joined the Centre d'Art in 1944 and worked with DeWitt Peters. Joseph was twice awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation, in 1953 and again in 1957, for his work as a painter. |
| Antonio Leonello (active at end of 15th century) was an Italian painter, active in his native Bologna, where he painted still lifes depicting chiefly fruits, flowers, and animals. |
| Antonio Ligabue (December 18 1899 - May 27 1965) (Real name: Antonio Laccabue) was an was an Italian painter, one of the most important Naïve artists of the 20th century. |
| Antonio Lopez is also the name of: * Antonio López de Santa Anna, a Mexican general, famous for leading Mexican forces to victory at the Battle of the Alamo. * Antonio Lopez (fashion illustrator), known simlply as "Antonio". * Antonio Lopez (actor), an American actor. * Antonio López García, a Spanish realist painter and sculptor. * Antonio López Guerrero, a Spanish football player. * Antonio López Habas, a Spanish football player. * Antonio López-Istúriz White, a Spanish politician. |
| Antonio López García (born Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1936) is a Spanish painter and sculptor, known for his realistic style. He is criticized by some art critics for neo-academism, but praised by others, like Robert Hughes, who consider him a master realist. His style sometimes is deemed hyperrealistic. His painting was the subject of the film El Sol del Membrillo, by Victor Erice, in 1992. |
| Antonio L’Horfelin (1587-1660) was a Spanish painter. He was born at Zaragosa. He was the son of an obscure artist, named Pedro L'Horfelin, who sent him to Rome for improvement when he was very young. He painted a St. Joseph with two laterals, in the church of the Barefoot Augustines at Zaragosa. |
| Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom (1591, Haarlem - buried Sep 16 1661, Haarlem) was a Dutch painter of the Baroque era. |
| Cornelis de Heem (Leiden, 1631 – Antwerp 1695) was a Dutch painter of still life. Jan Davidszoon de Heem's son (1606-1684). |
| Cornelis de Vos (1584, Hulst – May 9 1651, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter of the northern Baroque. |
| Cornelis de Wael (1592-1667) was a Flemish painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Italy, specifically Genoa. He was born in Antwerp, the son of a painter, and died in Rome. He was known mainly for painting landscapes. One of his pupils was the Flemish painter Giovanni Hovart. |
| Cornelis van Spaendonck (7 December 1756 - 22 December 1839) was a Dutch painter who was a native of Tilburg. Spaendonck initially worked under artist Guillaume-Jacques Herreyns (1743-1827) in Antwerp, and in 1773 moved to Paris to study and work with his brother, floral painter Gérard van Spaendonck (1746-1822). From 1785 to 1800, Cornelis van Spaendonck was head of the porcelain works at Sèvres. |
| Corneliu Baba (November 18 1906, Craiova—December 20, 1997) was a Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books. |
| Cornelius Van Leemputten (1841-1902) was a Belgian painter. |
| Cornelius Varley (21 November 1781 – 2 October 1873) was an English water-colour painter. |
| Cornelis van Poelenburgh, (c. 1590, Utrecht - 12 August 1667, Utrecht) was a Dutch painter of the 1600s. |
| Corrado Cagli (Ancona, 1910 – Rome, 1976) was an Italian painter who lived in the USA during WWII. |
| Corrado Giaquinto was an Italian Rococo painter, (born in Molfetta, 18 February 1703 – died in Naples, 1765). |
| Correggio is the name of a town in Italy and of a famous painter who was born there. |
| Cosimo Daddi ([before 1575-1630), was a late Renaissance painter active mainly around Volterra and Florence. In 1591-94, he participated in the fresco decoration of the Villa Petraia for the Medici family. Baldassare Franceschini was one of his pupils. |
| Cosimo Tura (c. 1430 – 1495), also known as Il Cosmè or Cosmè Tura, was an Italian early-Renaissance (or Quattrocento) painter and considered one of the founders of the School of Ferrara. |
| Cosimo Ulivelli (1625-1704) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of the painter Baldassare Franceschini. He painted frescoes along the top of the wall of the nave of the church the Santissima Annunziata in Florence. |
| Costantino Nivola, nicknamed Tino (july 5 1911 - May 6 1988) was an Italian painter and sculptor. |
| Costanza Cattanio (1602-1665) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Cottonwood Publishing is a small press publisher created in Montana, USA by American comic artist, painter, and novelist Stan Lynde and his wife Lynda to publish Western genre books and art, primarily work written and drawn by Stan Lynde. A partial list of their titles follows. |
| Coypel is the name of a French family of painters, including |
| Craigie Aitchison, RA, CBE (born 13 January 1926), is a Scottish painter. |
| Craughwell is a village in County Galway, Republic of Ireland. Also used as a surname, properly Ó Creachmhaoil, though often Anglicised as Craughwell, and Crockwell. The surname was largely unknown outside of the South-East of County Galway until the end of the 19th century when emigres established families which still thrive in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Cornwall, Ohio and Berkshire County, Massachusetts, among other places. Notable bearers of the name include American painter Douglass Crockwell. |
| Creature House Expression was a vector graphics editor initially developed by Creature House in tandem with Fractal Design Corporation and later MetaCreations as a companion to Painter. At the time, Creature House was an independent Chinese software studio. Expression tried to duplicate Painter's UI as close as possible and was available for Mac OS and Windows. |
| Cris af Enehielm, b. 1954 in Helsinki, is a Finnish painter, actor and director. Af Enehielm is one of her generation's most successful artist in Finland. |
| Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is primarily known as a film actor, but is also a painter, filmmaker, author, musician and collector and archivist of esoterica. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen, such as George McFly in Back to the Future, the "Creepy Thin Man" in the big screen adaptation of Charlie's Angels and Willard Stiles in Willard. In the early 2000s, Glover started his own production company, Volcanic Eruptions. |
| Crispin van den Broeck (1523-1591) was a Flemish painter. He was born in Mechelen. He came from a family of artists, was probably trained by his father, and was the brother of Willem van den Broeck. He worked as a painter, draftsman and engraver. He was enlisted as a master in the Guild of St. Luke of Antwerp in 1555–6, where he became a citizen in 1559. |
| Cristache Gheorghiu (b. May 2nd, 1937) is a writer and painter, born on Romania. He graduated from Technical University of Iasi in 1959. He is best known as an essayist. |
| Cristiano Bernetz (1628-1722) was an German painter of the Baroque period. Bernetz trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta. |
| Cristobal Garcia Salmerón (1603- 1666) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. |
| Cristobal Lloréns was a Spanish painter, active during the late-Renaissance period. He lived in Valencia about 1597. He painted a history of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Sebastian (now lost) for the conventual church of San Miguel de his Reyes. |
| Cristobal López (16th Century) (died 1594) was a Spanish painter. He was a pupil of Alonso Sanchez Coello. Lopez became court painter to King John III of Portugal. He painted both portraits and devotional pictures, such as canvases for the chapel at Belem. He died in Lisbon. |
| Cristobal López (18th century) (died 1730) was a Spanish painter. He was the son of Josef Lopez of Seville, and Cristobal painted largely for the South American market, and painted in fresco in the church of All Saints, a giant St. Christopher and a Last Supper. |
| Cristóbal de León (died 1729) was a Spanish painter, active near Seville. He was a pupil of Juan Valdes Leal. He painted eighteen monastic portraits, and some for the church of San Felipe Neri in Seville. He died at Seville. He is presumed to be the brother of the painter Felipe de León. |
| Cristóbal de Vera (1577-1621) was an Spanish painter. |
| Cristofano Allori (October 17, 1577 – April 1, 1621) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. |
| Cristofano Gherardi (November 25, 1508 – April, 1556) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period, active mainly in Florence and Tuscany. He was born in Borgo San Sepolcro and also called il Doceno dal Borgo. He was the pupil of the painter Raffaellino del Colle, in whose shop he encountered Rosso Fiorentino and Giorgio Vasari. He painted under Vasari's direction, the one assistant of Vasari's whom Sidney J. Freedberg singles out. |
| Cristoforo Augusta (1550-1600) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Casalmaggiore, near Cremona, where he was mostly active. He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Trotti. He painted in the Dominican convent in Cremona. |
| Cristoforo Canozzi, also called Cristoforo da Lendinara, (c. 1426-after 1477) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Lendinara. Both he and his older brother Lorenzo Canozzi were painters, mosaicists, modellers in terra-cotta, wood-carvers, and printers of books. They flourished at Modena and Padua. He was the author of a Virgin and Child and a Crucifixion with SS. Jerome and Francis in the Gallery of Modena, (1482). |
| Cristoforo Caselli (also known as Da Palma or il Temporello or Cristofaro Castelli was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. |
| Cristoforo Munari (July 21, 1667 – June 3, 1720) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque specializing in still life paintings. He was also known as Cristofano Monari. |
| Cristoforo Roncalli (c. 1552 - 1626) was an Italian mannerist painter. He was one of the three painters known as il Pomarancio. |
| Cristoforo Rosa (died 1576) was an Italian painter of quadratura painter of the Renaissance period. |
| Cristoforo Rustici (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active in Siena. |
| Cristoforo Savolini (1639—1677) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in the region near Pesaro and his native town of Cesena. |
| Cristoforo Serra (1600 - 1689) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Cesena. |
| Cristoforo Solari also known as il Gobbo (the hunchbacked) (c. 1460 - 1527) was an Italian sculptor and architect. He was the brother of the painter Andrea Solari. |
| Cristoforo Terzi (1692-1743)was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born and died in Bologna. He was a pupil of Guiseppe Maria Crespi. He painted a San Petronio kneeling before the Virgin for the church of San Giacomo Maggiore. |
| Cristoforo da Bologna was an Italian painter. He was active in Bologna, Modena, and Ferrara. He painted toward the close of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century. |
| Christopher Unterberger (27 May, 1732-25 January, 1798) was an Italian painter of the early-Neoclassical period. |
| Cristóbal Ramírez (active 1566, died 1577) was a Spanish painter and illuminator of manuscripts for King Felipe II. He was a native of Valencia, and did most of his work in his native city. Returning to el Escorial. he died there, leaving his daughter and two sons under the king's protection. Among the books illuminated by this artist were the Oficio di difuntos, the Intonario, and the Brevario Nuevo en Cantoria for the Escorial. |
| Cristóbal Rojas (Cúa, Miranda, 15 December 1857 — Caracas, 8 November 1890) was one of the most important and high-profile Venezuelan painters of the 19th century. Rojas's styles varied throughout his life, with some of his efforts and works done in Impressionist style while others worked for more dramatic effect |
| Cristóbal Valero (?- December ,1789) was a Spanish painter. |
| Cristóbal de Acebedo (born c. 1540) was a Spanish painter, active mainly during the Renaissance period. |
| Cristóvão Lopes (c.1516-1594) was a Portuguese painter. |
| Cristovão de Figueiredo (died c.1540) was a Portuguese Renaissance painter. |
| Crown Holdings Incorporated (formerly Crown Cork & Seal Company), founded in 1892 by William Painter, is a Fortune 500 company based in Philadelphia, USA. William Painter, an American of British descent, invented the crown cap for bottled carbonated beverages in 1891, and obtained a patent for it on February 2, 1892. |
| Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. |
| Edward Avedisian (b. 1936, Lowell, Massachusetts - d. August 17 2007, Philmont, New York) was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s. His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction. |
| Edward Bawden CBE RA (1903–1989) was a British painter, illustrator and graphic artist. |
| Edward Bird (1772, Wolverhampton - 1819) was an English genre painter who spent most of his working life in Bristol. He enjoyed a few years of popularity in London, where he challenged the current dominance of Sir David Wilkie in the genre painting field, before moving on to history painting, specialising in battle scenes. |
| Edward Burra (29 March 1905 – 22 October 1976) was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld, black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s. Although not openly gay, Burra, for his time, possessed a decidedly camp sensibility. |
| Edward Calvert (1799 - 1883) was an English printmaker and painter. |
| Edward Charles Hallé (1846-1914) was an English painter, the son of Sir Charles Hallé. |
| Edward Clarke Cabot (August 17 1818-January 5 1901) was a Boston architect and watercolor painter. |
| Edward Collier is the name of *Edwaert Collier (c.1640-1708) a Dutch painter *Edward Collier an English buccaneer |
| Edward Cowie (born Birmingham, England 1943) is an English composer, author and painter |
| Edward Haytley (dates unknown, but work documented 1740 - 1764) was an English portrait and landscape painter of the 18th century. Little is known about him, but the background of some of his sitters and professional contacts suggest he may have come from Lancashire. |
| Edward Henry Potthast (1857 – 1927) was an American Impressionist painter. |
| Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780–August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter, devout Quaker (member of the Religious Society of Friends), and recognized minister in that sect. |
| Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. |
| Edward Leigh Chase (1884-1965) was an American painter and illustrator, and an early member of the Byrdcliffe experiment which gave rise to the artists' colony at Woodstock, New York. A gifted sketch artist and watercolorist, he was one of the group of young Art Students League humorists who called themselves the Fakirs. |
| Edward Matthew Ward (July 14, 1816 – January 15, 1879) was an English Victorian narrative painter best known for his murals in the Palace of Westminster depicting episodes in British history from the English Civil War to the Glorious Revolution. |
| Edward Middleton Manigault (1887 – 1922) was an American Modernist painter. |
| Edward Mitchell Bannister (ca. 1828–January 9, 1901) was an African American painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School. |
| Edward Piper (1938–1990) was an English painter. |
| Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet, KB PRA (March 20 1836 – July 26 1919) was a British painter, designer, draughtsman and art administrator. |
| Edward G. Ramberg (June 14, 1907 in Florence, Italy – January 9, 1995) was an American physicist who contributed to the early development of electron microscopy and color television. He was the uncle of Mario Capecchi, a 2007 Nobel laureate. His mother was an American painter, Lucy Dodd Ramberg (nee Dodd), and his father a German archaeologist, Walter Ramberg. His father was killed while serving in World War I. |
| Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) is a well known English painter who worked in a style influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism. Some of his best known works are Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train of Stars. Hughes was the nephew of Arthur Hughes. He often used watercolour/gouache. He was elected ARWS in 1891 and chose as his diploma work for election to full membership a mystical piece inspired by a verse by Christina Rossetti "Amor Mundi". |
| Edward Ruscha (born December 16, 1937 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and filmmaker. His last name is pronounced "rew-SHAY". |
| Edward Rydz-Śmigły (March 11 1886December 2 1941); nom de guerre Śmigły, Tarłowski, Adam Zawisza) was a Polish politician, an officer of the Polish Army, painter and poet. After many successes as an army commander during the Polish-Bolshevik War, Rydz succeeded Józef Piłsudski as Marshal of Poland (on 11 November 1936) and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish armed forces. He served in that post during the invasion of Poland, which marked the beginning of World War II. |
| Edward Savage (1761-1817) was an American portrait painter and engraver. He was born in Princeton, Mass., and at first worked as a goldsmith, also practicing engraving. Although seemingly untrained in painting, he came into prominence in 1790 through his portrait of Washington, intended as a gift to Harvard University. In 1791 he visited London, where he studied for a time under West, and then went to Italy. |
| * Edward Simmons (chaplain) was an English Cavalier chaplain * Edward Simmons (painter) (1852–1931) was an American impressionist painter * Edward E. Simmons (1911–2004), an American electrical engineer |
| Edward Emerson Simmons (October 27, 1852 – November 17, 1931) was an American impressionist painter, remembered for his mural work. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts, the son of a Unitarian minister. |
| Edward Steichen (March 27, 1879–March 25, 1973) was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, born in Bivange, Luxembourg. His family moved to the United States in 1881 and he became a naturalized citizen in 1900. |
| Edward Vischer (1809–1878) was a German-born painter and photographer who migrated from Germany to Mexico at the age of nineteen. There, he worked with the commercial house of Heinrich Virmond. In 1842, he became interested in California and agreed to travel there for Virmond. |
| Edward Willis Redfield (December 18, 1869–October 19, 1965) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, often depicting the snow-covered countryside. |
| Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects. His most famous work, The Quest of the Holy Grail, resides in the Boston Public Library. |
| Edwin Dickinson (October 11, 1891–December 1, 1978) was an American painter and draftsman known for his psychologically charged self-portraits and landscapes. His art, always grounded in realism, shows connections to symbolism and surrealism. |
| Edwin Forbes (1839-95) was an American landscape painter and etcher. He was born in New York, studied under A. F. Tait, and began as an animal and landscape painter. During the Civil War he was special artist for Frank Leslie's Magazine, and the spirited etchings he did at this time were presented by General Sherman to the government. They are now preserved in the War Office at Washington because of their historic value. |
| Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA (b. March 7, 1802 in London - d. October 1 1873) was an English painter, well known for his paintings of animals - particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer's works, however, are sculptures: the lions in Trafalgar Square, London. |
| Edwin Holgate (born in Allandale, Ontario on August 19 1892; died in Montreal, Quebec on May 21 1977), was a Canadian artist, painter and engraver. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, where he both studied and taught. He was known primarily as a portraitist and for a number of female nudes in outdoor settings that he painted during the 1930s. |
| Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. |
| Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA, LLD (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a leading 20th century British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses and was instrumental in the design and building of New Delhi (known as "Lutyens' Delhi"). He was born and died in London. He was named after a friend of his father's, the painter and sculptor, Edwin Landseer. |
| Edwin Romanzo Elmer (1850 - 1923) was an American portrait, genre and still life painter. Known for his attention to detail, he was also an inventor of a machine for braiding horsewhips. |
| Edwin White (born, South Hadley, Massachusetts 1817; died Saratoga Springs, New York 1877) was an American painter who studied in Paris, Rome, and Florence and later taught at the National Academy of Design, in New York. |
| Eero Erik Nikolai Järnefelt (1863 - 1937) was a Finnish realist painter. |
| Egbert van Heemskerck (or Heemskerk) is the name of two Dutch painters, father and son, of the 17th and early 18th century. More is known about Sr. than Jr., but they are frequently mixed up and attempts to distinguish the work of father and son, where they overlap, have not yet been successful as well. An even older Egbert van Heemskerk, often reported to have lived from 1610-1680, may not have existed. |
| Sir Egerton Bushe Coghill (February 7, 1853 – October 9, 1921) was an Irish painter. |
| Eglon van der Neer (1634, Amsterdam - May 3 1703, Düsseldorf) was a Dutch painter of portraits and elegant, fashionable people, and later of landscapes. |
| Egon Schiele (June 12 1890 – October 31 1918) (pronounced approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's oeuvre is noted for the intensity and the large number of self-portraits he produced. The twisted body shapes that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings makes the artist a notable exponent of Expressionism. |
| Egon von Vietinghoff (February 6, 1903, The Hague - October 14, 1994, Zurich) was a German-Swiss painter, author, philosopher and creator of the Egon von Vietinghoff Foundation. He reconstructed the lost painting techniques of the Old Masters, and created some 2.700 paintings. |
| The Eidophusikon (Greek: Ειδωφυσικον) was a piece of art, no longer existent, created by 18th Century English painter Philip James de Loutherbourg. It opened in Leicester Square in February of 1781. |
| Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (揚州八怪 / 扬州八怪) (Ba Guai: Hànyǔ pinyin for "Eight weird") is the name for a group of eight Chinese painters known in the Qing for rejecting the orthodox ideas about painting in favor of a style deemed expressive and individualist. |
| Eileen Cooper (b. June 10, 1953) is an English contemporary painter and printmaker best known for her stylised paintings of women or couples, often featuring unexpected animals (particularly a tiger). |
| Eisler is a German surname that may refer to: * Barry Eisler, American novelist * Elfriede Eisler, German politician * Georg Eisler, Austrian Painter * Gerhart Eisler, German journalist and politician * Hanns Eisler, German composer, * Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater * Moritz Eisler, German philosopher * Paul Eisler, Austrian engineer * Riane Eisler, American sociologist * Rudolf Eisler, Austrian philosopher |
| was a Japanese painter in the nihonga style. He and his younger brother, Tōichi Katō, have a museum dedicated to their works in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture. |
| Ejler Andreas Christoffer Jorgensen, whose first name is sometimes spelled “Eiler” and whose last name is sometimes spelled “Jørgensen”, was a landscape and portrait painter. He was born in Roskilde, Denmark, in 1838 and was professionally active in San Francisco in the 1870s. Ejler signed some of his paintings “Chris Jorgensen”, but should not be confused with the American-born painter of landscapes, missions, and marine scenes, Christian August Jorgensen (1860-1935). |
| Ekaterina Savova-Nenova (Екатерина Савова-Ненова) is a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov. |
| El Greco ("The Greek", 1541 – April 7 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name, Doménicos Theotokópoulos , underscoring his Greek origin. |
| El Greco is a Greek film about the life of the Greek painter Doménicos Theotokópoulos (El Greco). It was produced in 2007, directed by Yannis Smaragdis and written by Jackie Pavlenko and Dimitris Siatopoulos (book). |
| Manuel José de Araújo Porto-alegre (Rio Pardo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; November 2, 1806 – Lisboa, Portugal; December 29, 1879), baron of Santo Ângelo, was a Brazilian poet and playwright, forerunner of Brazilian romanticism, as well as a painter, architect, urban planner, journalist, cartoonist, art critic and historian, faculty professor, and diplomat. He is patron of the Chair Number 32 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Academia Brasileira de Letras). |
| Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (December 18 1768 – October 8 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical and genre painter. |
| Manjit Bawa (born 1941 in Dhuri, Punjab, India) is a well known Indian painter. |
| Manny Farber is an American painter and film critic, born in 1917 in Douglas, Arizona. He taught at the University of California San Diego. |
| Manohar Kaul (1925 - ) was born in Srinagar, Kashmir. He was one of 20th century's best-known Kashmiri painters. His work is in the National Gallery of Modern Art in India. |
| Manuel García García-Pérez (*Poblenou, Barcelona, August 19 of 1955) is a Spanish singer and painter. His first LPs were recorded with rock bands like Los Rápidos, Los Burros and El Último de la Fila. His singing style is a mix of pop rock, flamenco and arabic music. Today, García continues to have a successful solo career. |
| Manolo Millares (Las Palmas, Canary Islands, 17 January 1926-Madrid, 14 August 1972) was a Spanish painter. Self-taught as an artist, Millares was introduced to Surrealism in 1948. In 1953, he moved to Madrid and became an abstract painter. In 1957, Millares along with Antonio Saura founded the avant-garde group El Paso (The Step) in Madrid. He attained an international reputation by the early 1960s, and had a solo show at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York in 1961. |
| Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) was a Brazilian poet. Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather. In 1922, after an extended stay in Europe where Bandeira met many prominent authors and painters, he contributed poems of political and social criticism to the Modernist Movement in São Paulo. |
| Manuel Cabré (25 January 1890 – 26 February 1984) was a noted Venezuelan painter. Born in Barcelona, Spain, he is remembered as "the painter of El Ávila" . |
| Manuel Chong Neto was a Panamanian painter. He was born in 1927. |
| Manuel Franquelo (born c. 1950) is a Spanish painter and mixed media sculptor. |
| Manuel Acosta (1921–1989) was a Mexican-American painter and illustrator who was born into an impoverished family in Aldama, Chihuahua, Mexico, on May 9, 1921. His father, Ramón P. Acosta, had fought in the Mexican Revolution with Pancho Villa, and the Mexican Revolution was a recurring theme in Manuel's paintings. The family moved to El Paso, Texas, United States, in 1924. |
| Manuel Neri (born April 12, 1930) is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. |
| Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, (October 9, 1887 – October 28, 1946), was a Chilean painter. |
| Manuel Rendón Seminario (b. Paris, 1894 - d.Portugal, 1982) (Also known by Manuel Rendón) was a master Latin American painter credited with bringing the Constructivist Movement to Ecuador and Latin America together with Joaquin Torres Garcia who brought the Constructivist Movement to his home country of Uruguay. The Constructivist Movement was started in Russia by Vladimir Tatlin around 1913. |
| Mara Devereux (b.1932) An American artist (also painted as Zabada Sloane and Mara Dowd) Devereux is the wife of of the late artist Robert Dowd whom she married in 1962. Devereux is a prolific abstract painter, her work and exhibitions span over 50 years. Her paintings are in many homes and collections in Beverly Hills, California and Museums throughout the country. Devereux sometimes exhibited with her husband. |
| Marc-Aurèle Fortin (14 March 1888 – 2 March 1970) was a Québécois painter. |
| Marc-Édouard Nabe (1958- ), whose real name is Alain Zannini, is a French writer. He is also a painter, and a jazz guitarist. |
| Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté (April 6 1869 – January 29 1937) was a Canadian painter and sculptor. |
| Marc Chagall (; Russian: Марк Захарович Шага́л Mark Zaharovic Sagal; Belarusian: Мойша Захаравіч Шагалаў Mojša Zaharavič Šagałaŭ) (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a French painter of Russian-Jewish origin who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. Among the celebrated painters of the 20th century, he is associated with the modern movements after impressionism. |
| Marc Handelman (born Santa Clara, California, 1975) is an American painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) earning a BFA in Painting in 1998, with an Art History concentration. He spent two of those years at RISD at the European Honors Program, studying in Rome. In 2003, he was awarded an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. |
| Marc Simont (born November 23, 1915 in Paris) is an artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books. Marc, inspired by his father, Spanish painter Joseph Simont, began drawing at a very young age. Mr. Simont settled in New York City in 1935 after encouragement from his father, attended the New York National School of Design, and served three years in the military. |
| Marc van Duvende (1674 - 1729) was an Flemish painter of the Baroque period. Born in Bruges but sojourned for years in Rome, and was influenced by the studio of Carlo Maratta One of his pupils was John Anthony Leepe. |
| Marcantonio Bellavia (17th century) was an Italian painter active in Sicily and Rome. He moved to Rome to work under Pietro da Cortona. |
| Marcantonio Canini (1622, Rome - 1669) was an Italian painter and sculptor. He is best known for his statues of St Dominic and St Sixtus for the facade of Santi Domenico e Sisto in Rome. |
| Marcantonio Chiarini (c. 1652 - 1730) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Born near Bologna, he trained with Francesco Quaino and Domenico Santi. He painted scenography for plays as well as quadratura in which Sigismondo Caula inserted figures. Active in Bologna and Milan, he also painted the quadratura of the Palazzo Mansi in Lucca, for which Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole painted the main frescoes. |
| Marcantonio Franceschini (1648 - 1729) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in Bologna. |
| Marcantonio Riverditi (died 1744) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Alessandria della Paglia, and trained in Bologna, where he followed the style of Guido Reni. |
| Marcel Gromaire (b. 1892, Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France; d. 1971, in Paris) is a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often conotated with Social Realism. |
| Marcel Janco/Iancu/Ianco (May 24, 1895–April 21, 1984) was a Romanian and Israeli artist, painter and architect. |
| Marcel Sembat is a station of the Paris Métro. It is named after the journalist Marcel Sembat (1862–1922) who was a director of the socialist review the Petite République from 1890 to 1897 and husband of the painter Georgette Agutte from 1897 until their deaths in 1922. |
| Marcelino Macedo Vespeira (Samouco, Alcochete, 9 September1925- Lisbon, 22 February2002) was a Portuguese painter. |
| Marcelle Marguerite Suzanne Tinayre, born October 8, 1870 in Tulle, Corrèze, and died August 23, 1948 in Grossouvre, Cher, was a French woman of letters and prolific author. She was married to the painter Jean Tinayre. |
| Marcello Bacciarelli (Fabruary 16 1731 - January 5 1818) was an Italian painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods. |
| Marcello Figolino (b. c. 1430) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his natal city of Vicenza, where he painted an Adoration of the Magi for San Bartolomeo, and a Madonna and child with saints for San Francesco. He also painted an altarpiece for San Tomasso. |
| Marcello Fogolino (active 1510-1548) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance or Mannerist style. Originally from the Friuli, he worked early in his life in Vicenza. Returning to Friuli in 1520-21, he came to reflect the painterly style of Il Pordenone. He completed a painting of Saints Francis and John the Baptist with Prophet Daniel for the Duomo in Pordenone. He was banished from Venice, for complicity in a murder in 1527, and went to Trento. |
| Marcello Provenzale (1575-1639) was an Italian painter. He was born at Cento. He was a pupil of the fellow painter from Cento, Paolo Rossetti, but is chiefly distinguished for his talents as a mosaicist. Giovanni Baglione describes several of his works at Rome, executed under the direction of Paul V, among which is the portrait of that pontiff. In conjunction with Rossetti, he executed several mosaics in the Capella Clementina, in St. |
| Marcello Venusti (1512/5 - 1579) was an Italian Mannnerist painter active in Rome in mid 1500s. |
| Marcin Zaleski (1796-1877) was a Polish painter. |
| Marco Antonio Bassetti (1588-1630) was an Italian painter. |
| Marco Bandinelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He began as a model and cook for Guido Reni in Bologna. |
| Marco Basaiti (c. 1470 – 1530) was a Venetian painter and a rival of Giovanni Bellini. His best known works are Christ Praying in the Garden (1516) and the Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew. |
| Marco Bello (c. 1470 – 1523) was an Italian painter active in the Renaissance period. He was one of the pupils in the studio of Giovanni Bellini. |
| Marco Berlinghieri was an Italian miniature painter and book illuminator, executed an illuminated Bible, finished in 1250. He was the brother of Barone and Bonaventura Berlinghieri. |
| Marco Boschini (born 1613) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period in Venice. |
| Marco Cardisco (c. 1486-c. 1542]]) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples during 1508-1542. He was a pupil of the painter and decorator Polidoro da Caravaggio, and influenced by Andrea da Salerno He painted at Sant' Agostino at Aversa. Among his pupils is the painter Pietro Negroni. He is also known as Marco Calabrese, because he was born in Calabria. |
| Marco Liberi (c.1640-after 1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was the son of the painter Pietro Liberi in Padua, and received his training under his father. He painted mythologic and historic cabinet paintings. |
| Marco Marchetti (c. 1528 – 1588) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. Born in Faenza, he is also known as Marco da Faenza. He painted an Adoration by the shepherds (1567) origininally in the church of the confraternity of Santa Maria dell’Angelo, but now in the pinacoteca of Faenza . He also painted along with Giorgio Vasari a series of frescoes in the Palazzo Vechio representing the Life of Hercules . |
| Marco Marcola (born 1740) was an Italian painter, born and mainly active in Verona. He initially apprenticed with his father Giovanni Battista Marcola. On of his pupils was Antonio Pachera. |
| Marco Palmezzano (c. 1460 – 1539) was an Italian painter and architect, who painted in a style recalling earlier Northern Renaissance models, and was mostly active near Forlì. |
| Marco Pino or Marco da Siena (c. 1525 – c. 1590) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. Born in Siena and died in Naples. He was putatively a pupil of the painters Beccafumi and Daniele da Volterra. The biographer Filippo Baldinucci also says he worked for Baldassare Peruzzi. |
| Marco Ricchiedeo was an Italian painter born at Brescia. He painted an Incredulity of Saint Thomas for the church of the same name. |
| Marco Ricci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was the nephew of Sebastiano Ricci and was born at Belluno. After receiving his first instruction in art from his uncle, he visited Rome, where he was for some years occupied in drawing vedute. |
| Marco Sammartino was a late 17th century Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period. He painted Baptism of Constantine and St. John the Baptist preaching for the cathedral at Rimini. He also has a painting at Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Venice). |
| Marco Vecellio (1545-1611) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was also also called Marco di Tiziano, since he was Titian's nephew. He was born and active mainly in Venice. He accompanied his distinguished uncle in the journeys to Rome and Germany. He was the favorite pupil of Titian, and approached nearer to his style than any other member of the family. |
| Marco Zoppo (1433 - 1498) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his native Bologna. He was a pupil of the painter Lippo Dalmasio then for a few years with Francesco Squarcione around 1455, and thus part of the Bolognese School of painting. He was a contemporary of Andrea Mantegna. He painted a number of ‘’Virgin enthroned with infant and saints’’ in Bologna. Francesco Francia was one of his pupils. |
| Marco d'Oggiono (c. 1470 – c. 1549) was an Italian painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, whose works he repeatedly copied. |
| Marconi Calindas[http://www.saipantribune.com/contact.aspx?user_num=103 About Marconi Calindas], is a reporter for Saipan Tribune, a daily newspaper in the [Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saipan Know More About Saipan Here]. He is also a singer, composer and painter. He has been writing songs since his college years at the University of the Philippines where he wrote songs such as "Free" that won a Battle of Bands Best in Composition in the 90's. |
| Marcos Restrepo (b. 1961, Catarama, Ecuador) Restrepo is a Latin American painter who is a member of the artist group Artefactoría, founded by Xavier Patiño. Artefactoría formed in 1982 by a group of painters from the School of Beautiful Arts in Guayaquil who are inspired by the surrealists and the unconscious. |
| Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c.1520–c. 1590) was a Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century and mainly remembered as the illustrator of the 1567 edition of Aesop's Fables. |
| Marcus Gheeraerts (also written as Gerards or Geerards) was an artist of the Tudor court, born in Bruges in 1561 or 1562, and was brought to England in 1568 by his father Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, a painter of whose work hardly anything is known, although his work as a printmaker reached around Europe. |
| Marcus Harvey (born 1963 in Leeds) is an English artist and painter, and one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). |
| Antonio Mancini (1852-1930) was an Italian painter. |
| Antonio Pachera (5 July, 1749 - 14 September, 1791) was an Italian painter, born in Verona. He initially apprenticed with Marco Marcola. He was the son of Francesco Pachera. He taught in the local academy of painters. Luigi Frisoni was one of his pupils. He painted the Bishop St. Zeno and St. Toscana for the chiesa degli Esposti. For the church of S. Maria della Scala, he painted the altarpiece of the chapel of S. Maria Maddalena, depicting S. Luigi Gonzaga in glory, above purgatorial souls. |
| Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (1653-1726) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, best known for his writings on art theory and biographies of artists. |
| Antonio Pitxot (b. 1934) or Antoni Pitxot, is a Spanish surrealist painter who was a longtime friend and collaborator with Salvador Dalí. |
| Antonio Ponz (1725-1792) was a Spanish painter. |
| Antonio Porcelli (1800-1870) was an Italian painter. He painted both landscape and figures. |
| Antonio Puglicochi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native city of Florence. He was a pupil successively of Pietro Dandini and Ciro Ferri. |
| Antonio Randa (died 1650) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Ferrara, Modena, and his native Bologna. |
| Antonio Riccianti was an Italian painter of the 17th century. He practised in Florence and neighboring towns, and was a pupil of Vincenzo Dandini. |
| Antonio Richarte (1690-1764) was a Spanish painter. |
| Antonio Richieri (born 1600) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Antonio Rocca (mid 17th century) was an Italian painter. He became a monk and worked in Rome and the Piedmont. He died at Rome about 1660. |
| Antonio Gamberelli (1427 – c. 1478/1481), nicknamed Antonio Rossellino for the colour of his hair, was an Italian sculptor. His older brother, from whom he received his formal training, was the painter Bernardo Rossellino. |
| Antonio Rossi (1700-1773) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, active mainly in Bologna. He was a pupil of the painter Marcantonio Franceschini. He painted for the Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna. |
| Antonio Roybal (born October 1, 1976) is an American fine-art painter and sculptor from Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| Antonio Sacchi (died 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Antonio Semini (c. 1485- after 1547) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance, active in his native Genoa. |
| Antonio Solario, also known as Lo Zingaro (The Gypsy) (c. 1465 – 1530), was an Italian Romani painter of the Neapolitan school. |
| Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Contra-Maniera" or counter-Mannerism. He enrolled in the Florentine Accademia del Disegno in 1576, and was a pupil of Santi di Tito, then of the Flemish painter Joannes Stradanus. He is now best known as a printmaker in etching and engraving. |
| Antonio Todde (January 22, 1889 – January 3, 2002) was the oldest documented man in the world in 2001-2002 until he died at almost 113, after the death of American John Painter, and briefly the oldest person in the history of Italy. |
| Antonio Tognone was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was a fresco painter of Vicenza, who was instructed by Giovanni Battista Zelotti, during his stay in that city (c. 1580), where certain frescoes by Tognone still remain. He died young in Vicenza. |
| Antonio Travi (1613-1668) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Sestri, near Genoa, was generally known as Il Sordo di Sestri on account of his deafness. He was originally a color-grinder to Bernardo Strozzi, who instructed him in design, and he afterwards studied landscape painting under Godfrey de Weals. His son Antonio was also a landscape painter. |
| Antonio Triva (1626-c. 1669]) was an an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period. |
| Antonio Vassilacchi, called Il Aliense (Αντώνιος Βασιλάκης) (1556-1629), was a Greek painter, who worked mostly in Venice and the Veneto. |
| Antonio Veneziano (Antonio the Venetian), was an Italian painter who was active mainly in Siena, Florence and Pisa, documented between 1369 and 1419. |
| Antonio Verrio (1639-17 June, 1707) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in England. |
| Antonio Visentini (21 November 1688 - 26 June 1782) was an Italian architectural designer, painter and engraver, known for his architectural fantasies and capricci, the author of treatises on perspective and professor at the Venetian Academy. His Osservazioni che servono di continuazione al Trattato di Teofilo Gallacini... |
| Antonio Visentino (1688-1782) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was a pupil of Canaletto and painted architectural views (vedute) of Venice to which Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Francesco Zuccarelli added figures |
| Antonio Vite was an Italian painter. He was a pupil of Gherardo Starnina, and was born at Pistoia. He active c. the year 1378, and was perhaps identical with one Antonio Filippo da Pistoia, whose name occurs in records of the period. He is said to have worked in the Campo Santo at Pisa, and at the Palazzo del Ceppo in Prato, as well as in churches of his native town. |
| Antonio Vivarini (Antonio of Murano) (c. 1440 – 1480) was a Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. He is probably the earliest of a family of painters including sibling his younger brother Bartolomeo and Antonio's son Alvise Vivarini. |
| Antonio Viviani (1560-1620) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque. He was also called il Sordo de Urbino due to his innatentiveness while painting fresco. He was born in Urbino, and there became a follower of Federigo Barocci, whose nephew he is said to have been. |
| Antonio Zanchi (1631-1722) was an Italian painter of the Baroque, active mainly in Venice. He was born in Este and trained with Francesco Ruschi . His masterpiece was the canvas on the Plague of Venice painted for the Scuola di San Rocco. He also painted a number of canvases in the Venetian church of Santa Maria del Giglio. Among his pupils were Francesco Trevisani and Antonio Molinari. |
| Antonio Zucchi (1726 - 1795) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period. Born in Venice and died in Rome. He married the painter Angelica Kauffmann, who late in life, moved with him to Rome. He produced a number of etchings of capriccio and veduta of classical buildings or ruins. He worked with Robert Adam in the decoration of palaces in England. In England, he was elected as an associate to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1770. |
| Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534) was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Rococo art of the 18th century. |
| Antonio de Bellis (c.1630- ?) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period. He was born in Naples. He was a pupil of Maximo Stanzioni. |
| Antonio de La Gandara (December 16, 1861 - June 30, 1917) was a painter, pastellist and draughtsman. |
| Antonio del Ceraiolo (also known as Antonio di Arcangelo) was an Italian painter, active in Florence in a Renaissance style, between 1520 and 1538. He was a pupil of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, and then Lorenzo di Credi. |
| Antonio del Pollaiolo (January 17, 1429/1433 – February 4, 1498), also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiolo, was an Italian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Renaissance, who also did valuable service in perfecting the art of enamelling. |
| Sir Antonis Mor (c. 1520 - between 1576 and 1578) was a Dutch portrait painter, much in demand by the courts of Europe. He has been referred to as Antoon, Anthonius, Anthonis, or Mor van Dashorst, Antonio Moro, Anthony More, etc. |
| Antwerp Mannerism is the name given to the style of a largely anonymous group of painters from Antwerp in the beginning of the 16th century. The style bore no direct relation to Renaissance or Italian Mannerism, but the name suggests a peculiarity that was a reaction to the "classic" style of the earlier Flemish painters. Although attempts have been made to identify the individual artists, most of the paintings remain attributed to anonymous masters. |
| António Carneiro (Amarante, 16 September 1872- Porto, 31 March 1930) was a Portuguese painter, perhaps the most innovative from the second naturalist generation, even more then Aurélia de Souza. He started to paint in a naturalist style, but he showed other influences in latter works, like the tryptic "A Vida" (c. 1900), or "Life", a simbolist composition, highly influenced by French painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. |
| António de Carvalho da Silva Porto (1850 — 1893) was a Portuguese naturalist painter. |
| António Dacosta (Angra do Heroísmo, 1914 - Paris, 1990) was a Portuguese painter and poet. He was born in Terceira Island, Azores, where he started his first artistic studies, the latter continued in Lisbon. He joined António Pedro at the 1940 Exhibition in Lisbon, that signified the official introduction of surrealism in Portugal. The first phase of his painting seems very dramatic, in his references of the island were he was raised and of his time. |
| António Pedro (1909-1966) was a Portuguese painter born to a prominent family from the Cape Verde Islands. However one of his grandmothers was Irish and English, and he cited this influence of the "Celtic spirit" as an influence in his work. In addition because his family spoke English, and sent their children to English schools, he was able to work as a journalist with the BBC after leaving Portugal for political reasons. |
| Antônio Parreiras (1860–1937) was a Brazilian painter. Although much of his work was made up of historical and nude paintings, Parreiras expressed himself best in his landscapes, which combined European influences with those of his native Brazil. |
| Anwar Maqsood Hameedi (Urdu: انور مقصود حمیدی) commonly known as Anwar Maqsood (Urdu: انور مقصود) or Anwer Maqsood is one of Pakistan's most famous celebrities with over 35 years in the entertainment industry. He is an intellectual, playwright, poet, television host, satirist, humorist, infrequent actor and long time painter. |
| Aníbal Villacís (b. 1927, Ambato, Ecuador) is a master painter from Ecuador who used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors throughout his city when he could not afford expensive artist materials. As a teenager, Villacís taught himself drawing and composition by studying and recreating the illustrated ad posters for bullfights in Quito. |
| Apelles of Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Naturalis Historia 35.36.79-97 and passim) rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad (332-329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of Alexander the Great. |
| Aphrica is a collaboration album by Klaus Schulze, Rainer Bloss and Ernst Fuchs, with the painter Fuchs providing vocals. Aphrica was both released and withdrawn in 1984. |
| Apollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Russian: Аполлинарий Михайлович Васнецов) (July 25 (N.S. August 6), 1856, the village of Riabovo, Vyatka province - January 23, 1933, Moscow) was a Russian painter and graphic artist whose elder brother was the more famous Viktor Vasnetsov. He specialized in scenes from the medieval history of Moscow. |
| Apollodorus was an Athenian painter, who flourished at the end of the 5th century B.C. He is said to have introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro. What these were it is impossible to say: perspective cannot have been in his day at an advanced stage. Among his works were Odysseus, a priest in prayer, and Ajax struck by lightning. |
| Apollon Mokritsky (, Apollon Mokrytskyi; , Apollon Mokritsky, August 1810 –- 1870) was a Russian-Ukrainian painter of the Biedermeier school of uncontrolled Realist art. From 1849, he was a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. |
| Apollonio Buonfratelli (15th century) was an Italian miniature painter of the Renaissance, active in Florence. |
| Apoloniusz Kędzierski (1861-1939) was a Polish painter. He was born in Suchedniów, Poland, but lived and worked mainly in Warsaw. He did landscape and figure painting, and scenes of peasant life. |
| April Love is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes which was created between 1855 and 1856. It was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1856. |
| Áqá-Bálá, sometimes referred to as Áqá-Bálá Bayg (whose real name was Prince Malik Qasim), was a famed Persian artist. He was the chief painter of the governor of Iran and was asked by him to paint the Báb’s portrait, which is the only known image of the Báb in existence to this day. |
| The fable of Arachne (also Arachné) is a late addition to Greek mythology, recorded in Ovid's Metamorphoses ( (vi.5-54 and 129-145) and mentioned in Virgil's Georgics, iv, 246. The anecdote does not appear in the myth repertory of the Attic vase-painters. Arachne's name simply means "spider" (αράχνη). Arachne was the daughter of Idmon of Colophon, who was a famous wool dyer in Tyrian purple. She was a fine weaver in Hypaepa of Lydia and discovered the use of linen as well as nets. |
| Angel Luis Arambilet Alvarez [ARAMBILET] (born September 16, 1957 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a writer, screenplayer, painter, graphic artist, filmmaker and systems engineer. |
| The Arbeitsrat für Kunst (German: 'Workers council for art' or 'Art Soviet') was a union of architect, painters, sculptors and art writers, who were based in Berlin from 1918 to 1921. It developed as a response to the Workers and Soldiers councils and was dedicated to the goal of bringing the current developments and tendencies in architecture and art to a broader population. |
| Arcangelo Resani (1670-1740) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Rome and was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Boncuore. He chiefly excelled in painting animals and hunted game. His simple realistic works were highly esteemed at Siena, Bologna, and Venice. His portrait, with dead game in the background, is in the Uffizi collection. |
| Archibald John Motley, Junior (September 2, 1891, New Orleans, Louisiana – January 16, 1981, Chicago, Illinois) was an American painter. He studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1910s. He is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Archibald MacNeal Willard (August 22, 1836 - October 11, 1918) was an American painter who was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio. Willard is buried in Wellington, Ohio at the Greenwood Cemetery. |
| Ardengo Soffici (April 7 1879 – August 12 1964), was an Italian writer, painter and Fascist intellectual. |
| Ariana Richards (born September 11, 1979) is an American actress and professional painter. |
| Adrianus Wilhelmus (Arie) Smit (born April 15 1916, Zaandam), is a Dutch-born Indonesian painter living on Bali. |
| Harry Jacques (born 1937), known by the pseudonym Arijac, is a Haitian painter. He was born in Gonaïves, Haiti. After completing high school, Arijac took international correspondence courses in architecture and worked as a draftsman from 1962 to 1963 for the noted artist Sacha Thèbaud’s (Tebo) architecture firm. Arijac also worked in the school construction division of the Department of Agriculture until 1975. |
| Arik Roper (b. 1973) is a freelance illustrator and painter based in New York City. |
| was the pen-name of Arishima Mibuma, Japanese novelist and painter active in the Taisho and Showa period. He also used Utosei and then Jugatsutei as his alternative pen names. |
| Aristide Maillol (December 8 1861–September 27 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter. |
| Aristophanes (active between 430 and 400 BC in Athens) was an ancient Greek vase painter of the Attic red-figure style. Three pieces signed by him are known. Two of them are bowls made by the potter Erginos, now in Berlin (Antikensammlung Berlin) and Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), the third is the fragment of a krater in Agrigento (Museo Archeologico Regionale). A number of further works are attributed to him. |
| Arkadii Prikhodchenko (Russian: Арка́дий Прихо́дченко) (1969 - 2004) was a World of Art painter. His paintings range from surrealist to grotesque. |
| Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov (Russian Аркадий Александрович Пластов; born 19/31 January 1893 in Prislonikha, Simbirsk Guberniya; died 12 May 1972 in Prislonikha, Ulyanovsk Oblast) was a Russian social realist painter. |
| Arkady Alexandrovich Rylov (; - June 22 1939) was a Russian and Soviet Symbolist painter. |
| Arman (November 17, 1928 - October 22, 2005), was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Pierre Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman is a painter who moved from using the objects as paintbrushes ("allures d'objet") to using them as the painting itself. He is best known for his "accumulations" and destruction/recomposition of objects. |
| Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 – June 26, 1927), was a French impressionist painter and lithographer. |
| Armand Massonet (born 1892 - died 1979) was a Belgian painter. |
| Armand Vaillancourt is a French Canadian sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3 1929 in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada. |
| Armando Morales (b. January 15, 1927 in Granada, Nicaragua) is an internationally renown Nicaraguan painter. Morales is considered as one of the most important living painters in Nicaragua. |
| Armando Julio Reverón (Caracas May 10, 1889–Caracas, September 18, 1954) was the most important modernist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century in Venezuela. Most of his work was inspired by the coast, landscape and people of Macuto, located in the central coast of Venezuela, and was characterized by his view and expression of the bright luminosity of the tropic. |
| Arnold Belkin (1930 in Calgary, Alberta - 1992 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal) was a Mexican painter, who has often been referred as "The Canadian Son of Mexican Muralism". Arnold's father was a Russian Jew and his mother was an English Jewish woman (Greenberg). |
| Arnold Bronckorst (floruit 1565–1583) was a painter of Netherlandish origin who was court painter to James VI of Scotland. |
| Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a symbolist Swiss painter. |
| Arnold Böcklin is a display typeface that was designed in 1904 by Otto Weisert. It was named in memory of Arnold Böcklin, a Swiss symbolist painter who died in 1901. |
| Arnold Friedman (1874 – 1946) was an American Modernist painter. |
| Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1872–26 December 1924) was an English painter, explorer, writer and anthropologist, born in Florence. His grandfather was the celebrated poet and writer Walter Savage Landor, who himself lived for long periods in Florence. |
| |Arnold Machin O.B.E, R.A.(30 September 1911 – 9 March 1999) was a British artist, sculptor, coin and stamp designer.Machin was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1911. He started work at the age of 14 as an apprentice china painter at the Minton Pottery, and during the Depression he learnt to sculpt at the Art School in Stoke-on-Trent. He later moved to Derby, and the Royal Academy in London. |
| The Arnolfini Portrait is a painting in oils on oak panel executed by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck in 1434. Among other titles, it is also known as "The Arnolfini Wedding", "The Arnolfini Marriage", "The Arnolfini Double Portrait" or the "Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife". |
| Arnulf Rainer, (born 8 December 1929 in Baden, Austria), is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art. |
| Arthur John Elsley 20 November 1860 London, England - 19 February 1952, was an English painter of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, famous for his scenes of playful children and their pets. He achieved great popularity during his life and much of his work appeared in calendars, magazines and books. He was one of six children of John Elsley, coachman and amateur artist, and Emily Freer. |
| Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1870-1940) was a Canadian painter and novelist known as the "chronicler of the North" for his paintings, sketches, essays and books about Canada's North. |
| Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (18 September 1875 – 28 February 1970) was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire as Arthur Henry Hammond. Knighton-Hammond was an English painter best known for landscapes, society portraits and industrial paintings. Knighton-Hammond used a variety of styles but is most famous as a water-colourist. He is also known as Knighton Hammond, Arthur Henry Hammond and Arthur Knighton-Hammond. |
| Arthur Hill Gilbert, 1894 - 1970, was an American Impressionist painter, notable as one of the practioners of the California style. Today, he is remembered for his large, colorful canvasas depicting meadows and groves of trees along the state's famed 17 Mile Drive. Gilbert was part of the group of American impressionist artists who lived and painted in the artists' colony scene in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach during the 1920s and 1930s. |
| Arthur Lett-Haines, known as Lett Haines (1894 - February 25, 1978) was a British painter and sculptor who experimented in many different media, though he generally characterised himself as "an Engish surrealist". He was part of a London artistic circle, which included D.H. Lawrence, the Sitwells and Wyndham Lewis. |
| Arturo García Bustos (born 1926) is a Mexican painter. |
| Arturo Michelena (June 16, 1863 - July 29, 1898) was a Venezuelan painter born in Valencia, Carabobo State. He began to paint at a young age under his father's tutelage. Traveled to Paris where he studied in the famous Académie Julian. He was the first Venezuelan artist to succeed overseas and, with Cristóbal Rojas (1857-1890) and Martín Tovar y Tovar (1827-1902), one of the most important Venezuelan painters of the 19th century. |
| Arturo Pacheco Altamirano (1903-1978) was a painter born in Chillán, Chile. He died in Santiago in 1978. |
| Arshile Gorky (real name - Vostanik Manoog Adoyan; ), (April 15, 1904? – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian and an American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. |
| Art.Net is a not for profit web-based artist collective of more than 450 artists, poets, musicians, painters, sculptors, animators, hacker artists, and other creative people from around the world, aimed at helping artists share their works on the World Wide Web. Also known as Art on the Net, the site was established in June, 1994 with a manifesto and statement of purpose as an Internet art project site and online art gallery. |
| Art Brenner (born in New York City, 1924) is an American abstract sculptor and painter who has lived and worked in Paris since 1964. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in cities such as Paris, London, Avignon, Barcelona, Brussels, Brest, Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Montreal, and Adelaide, Australia. |
| The Art Collection of the Pietro Manodori Foundation of the Cassa di Risparmio di Reggio Emilia or (collezione d'arte della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Reggio Emilia Pietro Manodori) is a small, but publicly exhibited collection of artists mainly from the region, specially concentrating in works from the 1600s, the Baroque period when the local artist community, along with the Bolognese school of painters, had gained prominence. |
| Art Frahm (1907-1981) was an American painter of campy pin-up girls and advertising. Frahm lived in Chicago, and was active from the 1940s to 1960s. Today he is best known for his “ladies in distress” pictures involving beautiful young women whose panties mysteriously flutter to the ground in public situations, often causing them to spill their bag of groceries. In one of Frahm’s noted idiosyncratic touches, celery is often depicted. |
| Arthur Green (born 1941) is a well respected professor and painter. Green was a member of the notorious Chicago artistic group, The Hairy Who in the 1960s, a member of the University of Waterloo’s faculty for over 30 years and has been an influential painter for over 40 years. |
| El Greco was a prominent painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He developed into an artist so unique that he belongs to no conventional school. His dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but gained new found appreciation in the 20th century. |
| Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8 1593 – 1651/1653) was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio (Caravaggisti). In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community, she was the first female painter to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence. |
| Arthur Atkins (1873, England¹ - 8 January 1899, Piedmont, California) was a tonalist landscape painter who emigrated to San Francisco as a young child. He was essentially self-taught, but studied briefly at the San Francisco School of Design. His paintings were shown at the Vickery, Atkins & Torrey gallery and at his Jackson Street studio, both in San Francisco, and his paintings sold well. |
| Arthur Beaumont (1890 – 1978) is an American painter of "sea-landscapes". He worked for the U.S. Navy as an official painter. |
| Arthur Beecher Carles (March 9 1882 - 1952) was an American Modernist painter. |
| Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE (20 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, with many relatives being painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. His sister Mary Boyd married John Perceval, and then Sidney Nolan, both artists. His wife Yvonne Boyd née Lennie, and son Jamie and daughters Polly and Lucy are also painters. |
| Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836, India — 1875, England) was a British painter (oil and watercolours) and illustrator. |
| Arthur Delaney (b. 1927 Rusholme, Manchester - 1987) was an English painter whose scenes of Manchester life were influenced by those of L.S. Lowry, gaining some popularity since his death. |
| Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. He was one of America's first abstract painters. |
| Arthur Frank Mathews (1860-1945) was an American Tonalist painter who was one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts movement. Trained as an architect and artist, he had a significant effect on the evolution of Californian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His students include Granville Redmond, Xavier Martinez, Armin Hansen, Percy Gray, Gottardo Piazzoni, Maynard Dixon and Francis McComas. |
| Arthur Goldreich was an abstract painter born in 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a key figure in the anti-apartheid movement in the country of his birth. |
| Arthur Hacker (September 25, 1858 - November 12, 1919) was an English pre-Raphaelite painter. |
| Arthur Hughes (27 January 1831 –23 December 1915), was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. |
| Arthur John Ensor was a British-Canadian painter. He was born in Llanishen, Wales on 02 January 1905. His family emigrated to Canada when he was a child. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was an Industrial designer. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art |
| Arthur M. Kraft (1922 – 1977) was an American painter, sculptor and muralist. A native of Kansas City, Kraft was a member of the expressionist movement. |
| Arthur Lismer, C.C. (June 27, 1885 – March 23, 1969) was a Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven |
| Arthur Melville (1858-1904) was a Scottish painter. |
| Arthur Merric Boyd (19 March, 1862 – July 30, 1940) was an Australian painter, and founder of the Boyd artistic dynasty. |
| Arthur Polonsky (born 1925) is an American draughtsman, painter and academic. |
| Arthur Quartley (May 24, 1839 - May 19, 1886), was an American painter known for his marine seascapes. |
| Arthur Spencer Roberts (-October 1997) was a British painter interested mainly in animal and wildlife subjects, but who also produced portraits and paintings of military scenes. His largest work was a mural for the Manor House at Port Lympne Zoo. |
| Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 – 1 September 1943) was an Australian landscape painter. He was born in Mount Duneed, southwest of Geelong, and his family moved to Richmond in 1874. He commenced study at the National Gallery Schools in 1882. Streeton was influenced by French Impressionism and the works of Turner. During this time he began his association with fellow artists Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts — a Melbourne including at Box Hill and Heidelberg. |
| Arthur Thrall (born 1926 Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American painter and printmaker. His works have been shown in more than 500 exhibits in the USA and abroad including England, Finland, Germany, and numerous US embassies. |
| Arthur Villeneuve, C.M. (January 4, 1910, Chicoutimi, Quebec - May 24 1990, Montreal, Quebec) was a Québécois painter and member of the Order of Canada. |
| Arthur Wardle (b.1864, d. 1949) was an English painter. He was one of the most widely known dog painters of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Wardle was prolific; he painted a variety of animal subjects with equal skill but his work is generally divided into two categories: wild animals and dogs, and he is particularly known for his paintings of terriers, although he probably painted every breed of purebred dog that existed during his day. |
| Arthur Watson Sparks (1871 – 1919) was an American painter. |
| Arthur Wesley Dow (1857 - 1922) was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and influential arts educator. |
| Artists Rights Society (ARS) is a copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property rights interests of over 30,000 visual artists and estates of visual artists from around the world (painters, sculptors, photographers, architects and others). |
| Filippo Baldinucci's Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali (or Notice of the Professors of Design, from Cimabue to now, from 1610-1670) was a major art biography of Baroque painters. Written by the erudite florentine professor of the Accademia della Crusca, it is often verbose and rife with factual errors; however, it is a broad compendium of stories about generally contemporaneous Baroque painters. |
| Artur Grottger (1837-1867) was a Polish painter and graphic designer, one of the most prominent artists of the early 1800s despite his brief life. |
| Arturo Rivera (April 15, 1945) is a Mexican contemporary master painter. He was born in Mexico D.F. and studied painting in San Carlos from 1963 to 1968. In 1969 he presented his first solo exhibition in homage to Che Guevara in Molino de Santo Domingo. In 1973 he studied serigraphy and photoserigraphy in London. In 1976, he moved to New York and in 1978 began utiliizing the form of hyperrealism for which he is renowned today. |
| Artus Wolffort (1581 – 1641), also Wolffaert, was a Flemish Baroque painter from Antwerp. He studied first in Dordrecht, where his family had emigrated in 1581, and after his return to Antwerp around 1615 in the studio of Otto van Veen. Many of his paintings demonstrate the influence of Peter Paul Rubens either compositionally or, especially after about 1630, stylistically. He mostly painted religious works, including scenes from the life of Christ and Church fathers. |
| Artweaver is a freeware raster graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich, mainly oriented to professional and amateur artists who are familiar with commercial programs like Adobe Photoshop and especially Corel Painter. Like the latter, Artweaver is capable of simulating a wide range of classical effects (such as oil paints, acrylics, pastels, pencils, airbrushes, etc) to create natural-looking artistic images. |
| Ary Stillman (February 13, 1891 - January 1967) was a representational and abstract Russian-American painter born in a small village near Slutsk, Belarus. He excelled in art as a youth, and after graduating from school he was accepted into the Imperial School of Art in Vilna. |
| Ascanio Condivi (1525–1574) was an Italian painter and writer. Generally regarded as a mediocre artist, he is primarily remembered as the biographer of Michelangelo. |
| Asher Brown Durand (August 21, 1796 - September 17, 1886) was a U.S. painter of the Hudson River School. He was born in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson Village), the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith. |
| Ashley Bickerton (born Barbados, 1959) is a contemporary artist living in Bali. A mixed-media artist, Bickerton often combines both photographic and painterly elements with industrial and found object assemblages. He is associated the early 1980s art movement Neo-Geo, which includes artists such as Jeff Koons and Peter Halley. |
| Asit Kumar Haldar (1890 - 1964) was an Indian painter and an assistant of Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan. He was one of the major artists of the Bengal renaissance. |
| Aslan (born Alain Gourdon, in Bordeaux, France on May 23 1930) is a French painter, sculptor and pin-up artist. He is mostly famous in France for his pin ups. He contributed to Lui from the creation of the magazine in 1964 to the early eighties, providing a monthly pin up. |
| Asmus Jacob Carstens (1754 - 1798) was a German painter born in Schleswig, and in 1776 went to Copenhagen to study. In 1783 he went to Italy, where he was much impressed by the work of Giulio Romano. He then settled in Lübeck as a portrait painter, but was helped to visit Rome again in 1792, and gradually produced some fine subject and historical paintings, e.g. Platos Symposium and the Battle of Rossbach which made him famous. |
| The Atelier Method is a method of fine art instruction modeled after the private art studio schools of 15th-19th century Europe. Taking its name from the French word for "artist's studio," the Atelier Method is a form of private instruction in which an artist, usually a professional painter, works closely with a small number of students to progressively train them. Atelier schools can be found around the world, particularly in North America and Western Europe. |
| The Assumption of the Virgin is the name of two paintings by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. |
| Asteas (active between 350 and 320 B.C. in Paestum) was one of the more active Greek vase painters in Southern Italy, practicing the red figure style. He managed a large workshop, in which above all Hydria and Krater were painted. He painted mostly mythological and theatrical scenes. He is one of the few vase painters of the Greek colonies whose name comes down to us. |
| Astolfo Petrazzi (1583-1653 or 1665) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his hometown of Siena, but also Spoleto and Rome. He was a pupil of mainly Francesco Vanni, but also worked under Ventura Salimbeni and Pietro Sorri. He died in Siena. |
| Athanasios Gelinos (born 1 October 1964) is a Greek painter and etcher. |
| Athos Bulcao (Rio de Janeiro, 1918), is a Brazilian painter and sculptor. |
| Attila Adorjany (born 1974 in Toronto Canada) is an illustrator, comic book artist, painter, sculptor, and graphic designer. Many of his published works are a combination of traditional and digital media. |
| Attila Bernath (born 1977 in Budapest, Hungary) is a contemporary painter. He received an invitation from from several galleries and he was also a participator in some reconstuctions of historic monuments such as Matthias Church in the Buda castle. |
| Aubrieta is a genus of about 12 species of flowering plants in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. The genus is named after Claude Aubriet, a French flower-painter. It originates from southern Europe east to central Asia but is now a common garden escape throughout Europe. It is a low, spreading plant, hardy, evergreen and perennial, with small violet, pink or white flowers, and inhabits rocks and banks. |
| Audrey Cruddas (1912–1979) was an English costume and scene designer, painter and potter. Born in Johannesburg she moved to England with her parents when she was an infant. After leaving school she studied art at St. John's Wood School of Art, Royal Academy Schools and Bram Shaw School of Drawing and Painting. During the war she worked as a 'Land Girl' in the Women's Land Army. |
| Audrey Flack (b. 1931 in New York) is an American photorealist painter, printmaker, and sculptor. |
| Audrey Kawasaki (born March 31, 1982) is a Los Angeles-based painter and erotic artist, known for her distinctive, erotically charged portrayals of young, adolescent girls. Her works are oil paintings painted directly onto wood panels, and her style has been described as a fusion of Art Nouveau and Japanese manga. |
| August F. Biehle, Jr. (1885-1979) was an American Modernist painter. |
| August Gaul (October 22 1869 - October 18 1922) was a German sculptor. Founding member of the Berlin Secession and close to its secretaries, the cousins and art dealers Bruno and Paul Cassirer, August Gaul soon advanced to one of the most important figures in the Berlin art scene before World War I. "Paulchen & Gaulchen" promoted painters like Lovis Corinth and sculptors like Ernst Barlach. |
| August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (March 30, 1705 in Augustenburg near Arnstadt – March 27 , 1759 in Nuremberg) was a German miniature painter, naturalist and entomologist. With his accurate, heavily detailed images of insects he was recognised as an important figure in modern entomology. |
| August Kopisch (May 26, 1799 - February 6, 1853), was a German poet and painter. |
| August Löffler (May 24, 1822 – January 19, 1866) was a German painter. |
| Johan August Malmström (1829 – 1901), was a Swedish academic painter associated with the Symbolist movement. He studied with Thomas Couture in Paris, and was professor of art at the Swedish Academy of Art between 1867 and 1894, and director from 1887 to 1893. He worked in landscape, portrait, genre and history painting. He illustrated Frithjof's saga, 1888. |
| (January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen he is arguably the most influential and most important of all Scandinavian authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theatre. His work falls into two major literary movements, Naturalism and Expressionism. [http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc8.htm] |
| Auguste-Rosalie Bisson (1826 - 1900) was a French photographer, active from 1841 to the year of his death, 1900. He was born and died in Paris and was the son of the heraldic painter, Louis-François Bisson. |
| Auguste Francois Biard (1800-1882) was a French genre painter. |
| Auguste Herbin (April 29 1882 - January 30/31 1960) was a French painter. |
| Auguste Étienne François Mayer (Brest, 1805 - Brest, 1890) was a French painter. |
| Augusto Daolio (February 18, 1947 - October 7, 1992) was an Italian singer, poet and painter, founding member and frontman of I Nomadi band. |
| Augustus William Dunbier (January 1, 1888-September 11, 1977), was a Nebraskan Impressionist painter, best known for his landscapes. |
| Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in England. |
| Augustus Vincent Tack was an American painter of portraits, landscapes and abstractions. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1870 and moved with his family to New York in 1883. After graduating from St. Francis Xavier College in New York City in 1890, Tack studied at the Art Students League of New York until 1895. He is believed to have frequented the studio of painter and stained glass designer John La Farge, whose portrait he painted around 1900. |
| Augustyn Mirys (1700-1790) was a Polish painter. |
| Aurel Băeşu (May 26, 1896—August, 1928) was a Romanian painter. |
| Aurel Ciupe (1900-1985) was a Romanian painter. |
| Aureliano Milani (1675-1749) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Bologna and Rome. |
| Aurelio Arteta (1879-1940) was a Spanish painter born in Bilbao. He studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1905 and 1906 he travelled to Paris and in Italy, thanks to a grant from the Diputación Foral de Vizcaya. There he was influenced both by Impressionist painting and by the work of Italian Renaissance masters. In 1911, along with other artists, he founded the Asociación de Artistas Vascos. In 1930 he was awarded the National Prize for Painting. |
| Aurelio Barili was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Parma. He painted frescoes in the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata in 1588. |
| Aurelio Buso (active c. 1520]] was an Italian painter. He was born in Crema. He studied under Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze, and assisted them in several of their works at Rome. He ornamented the palace of the noble family of Benzoni at Venice with friezes and other works in the style of Polidoro. |
| Aurelio Lomi (1556 - 1622) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods, active mainly in Pisa. Tuscany. |
| Aurelio Luini (c. 1530 - c. 1592) was an Italian painter from Milan, the son of Bernardino Luini. A representant of late Lombard Mannerism, he was a friend of Gian Paolo Lomazzo. |
| Aurél Bernáth (1895-1982) was a Hungarian painter. He studied at Nagybanya with Istvan Reti and Janos Thorma. Bernath fought as a soldier in the First World War. He moved to Vienna in 1921. Bernath's painting style was heavily influenced by the onslaught of German Expressionism. He was invited to Berlin by Herwarth Walden. Bernath shows his work at the Sturm Gallery. |
| Aurélia de Souza (1867-1922) was a Portuguese painter. |
| Aurélie Nemours (October 29 1910 - January 27 2005) was a Parisian painter. |
| Auseklis Ozols is an American painter and fine arts educator, based in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| Avanzino Nucci (c. 1552 - 1629) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. Born in Citta di Castello and died in Rome. He trained with Niccolò Circignani (il Pomarancio). Bernardino Gagliardi was one of his pupils. His paintings can be found in the Roman churches of San Rocco all'Augusteo, San Silvestro al Quirinale, and San Paolo fuora le Mura. Some more paintings dated 1596 are in the parlour of the ex Charthusian Monastery and now museum of S. Martino in Naples. |
| Avgust Černigoj (August 24, 1898, – November 17, 1985) was a Slovene painter, known for his avant-garde experiments in Constructivism. He was born in Trieste, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He finished Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Trieste, continuing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. |
| Avigdor Arikha (born April 28, 1929) is an Israeli and French painter, printmaker, and art historian. |
| Aydin Aghdashloo (Persian: آیدین آغداشلو , born October 30, 1940 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian painter, author, art critic, art historian and graphic designer. |
| Avner Ben-Gal is an international painter and artist, working mainly from Tel Aviv, Israel. |
| Avraham Ofek (1935-1990) was an Israeli sculptor, muralist, painter and printmaker. Born in Bourgaz, Bulgaria, he immigrated to Israel in 1949, where he lived in Ein Hamifratz, a kibbutz near Haifa. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, as well as in Spain and in London, and later taught art in Jerusalem before being appointed head of the Art Department at Haifa University. |
| Axel Aabrink (1887-1965) was a Danish painter. |
| Ayne (Aine) Bru (probably a Catalanization of Hans Brün) [http://www.canalsocial.net/GER/ficha_GER.asp?id=450&cat=biografiasuelta] was a 16th century Renaissance painter of German origin who worked in Catalonia. He may have proceeded from Lummen, in the Duchy of Brabant. |
| Bhanwar lal Girdhari lal Sharma (B. G. Sharma) is an award-winning painter from Rajasthan, India. He is famous for his miniature devotional paintings and his rejuvenation and popularization of classic Rajasthan art, including the Mughal, Kishangarh, and Kangra styles. |
| Barrington Lionel Driscoll or Barry Driscoll (15 December 1926 Camberwell, London - 30 April 2006 London) is an artist, as painter and sculptor. Starting as a book illustrator, he specializes in animal subjects. He established an international reputation as a wildlife artist. |
| B. Sandhya (born 1963) is a female police officer in Kerala, India. Presently serving as Inspector General of Kerala Police. She is also a painter, writer and author. |
| Voices from the Archives is a BBC website providing free access to audio interviews with authors, artists, actors, architects broadcasters, cartoonists, composers, dancers, filmmakers, musicians, painters, philosophers, photographers, playwrights, poets, political activists, religious thinkers, scientists, sculptors, sports, writers. |
| The BLK Art Group was the name chosen in 1982 by a group of four influential conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom. Keith Piper, Marlene Smith, Eddie Chambers and Donald Rodney were initially based in the Midlands. |
| Bacchus (1497) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo. The statue is somewhat over life-size and depicts Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, in an appropriately inebriated state. Along with the Pietà it is one of only two sculptures than can be attributed with any certainty to the artist's first period in Rome. |
| Baccio Ciarpi (1574-1654) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerism and early-Baroque style. Born in Barga in Tuscany, he was active in Rome and Florence. He is best known for having mentored briefly Pietro da Cortona. He painted a number of canvases, including a Madonna del Rosario and Crucifixion with Saints, for the Pieve di Santa Maria in Barga. In Rome, there are paintings by him in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini and San Silvestro in Capite. |
| Baccio da Montelupo (b. 1469, Montelupo Fiorentino - d. 1523(?), Lucca), born Bartolomeo di Giovanni d'Astore dei Sinibaldi, was a sculptor of the Italian Renaissance. He is the father of another Italian sculptor, Raffaello da Montelupo. Both father and son are profiled in Vasari's Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (or, in English, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects). |
| Bada Shanren (, ca. 1626—1705) , born as Zhu Da (朱耷), was a Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher. He was of noble lineage, being a descendant of the Ming dynasty prince Zhu Quan. |
| Bae Yong-Kyun (born 1951 in Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea) is a South Korean film director, painter, and professor. He is best known for his Seon(Zen)-influenced 1989 film Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun (Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East, 달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은). He also wrote and directed one other film, Geomeuna dange huina baekseong (The People in White, 1995). |
| Baglioni is an Italian surname and may refer to: *Giovanni Baglione (1566–1643), Italian early baroque painter and historian of art *Cesare Baglioni (c. |
| Bahadır Gökay is a Turkish painter. He was born in Istanbul in 1955. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, (now known as Marmara University, Graphic Design) in 1982. |
| (active c. 1710-1755) was a Japanese painter and print artist of the Kaigetsudō school of ukiyo-e art. He is also alternatively known as , Baiōken Nagaharu, Takeda Harunobu and a number of other art-names. He produced both hanging scroll full-color paintings typical of the Kaigetsudō style and mode, and a number of designs for illustrations for woodblock printed books. |
| Baldassare Bianchi (1612-1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Baldassare Croce (1558 - 1628) was an Italian painter, active during the late-Mannerist period, active mainly in and around Rome. |
| Baldassare Franceschini (1611-1689), was a late Baroque painter active mainly around Florence. He was named, from Volterra the place of his birth, Il Volterrano, or (to distinguish him from Ricciarelli) Il Volterrano Giuniore, was the son of a sculptor in alabaster. |
| Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March, 1481—6 January, 1537) was an Italian architect and painter, born in a small town near Siena and died in Rome. He worked for many years, beginning in 1520, under Bramante, Raphael, and later Sangallo during the erection of the new St. Peter's. He returned to his native Siena after the Sack of Rome (1527) where he was employed as architect to the Republic. |
| Barna da Siena, also known as Barna di Siena, was a Sienese painter active from about 1330 to 1350, and was the painter in Siena during this period. He learned his trade from Simone Martini. Barna is believed to have paint the frescoes depicting the life of Jesus in the Collegiata di San Gimignano and is generally credited with Christ Bearing the Cross, with a Dominican Friar in the Frick Collection in New York City. He was killed in a fall from the scaffolding. |
| Barnaba da Modena was an Italian painter of the mid-14th century Lombardy. There is a painting by him in the church of San Francesco in Alba. A Virgin and Child once in Frankfort, was painted in a Byzantine style and is currently located at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| Baldassare d'Anna (c. 1560-1600s) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. Born in Venice to a Flemish family, and trained with Lionardo Corona. The date of his death is uncertain, but he seems to have been alive in 1639. For a number of years he studied under Corona, and on the death of that painter completed several works left unfinished by him. |
| Balthasar van den Bossche (1681–1715) was a late Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in histories, genre and picture gallery interiors. He worked in Antwerp, where he was director of the Art Academy, as well as in Paris, Nantes and Douai. In the eighteenth century he was recognized as a "second-rate" but successful artist. |
| Balthus Through the Looking-Glass (French: Balthus de l'autre côté du miroir) is a 1996 French documentary film directed by Damian Pettigrew on the French painter Balthus filmed at work in his studio. |
| The Baltimore Painter was an Apulian vase painter. His works date to the final quarter of the fourth century BC. |
| Sattiraju Lakshmi Narayana, also known as Bapu, was born on 15 December, 1933 in Narsapur, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is a filmmaker in the Telugu film industry. He is also a popular artist, painter, cartoonist, and designer. |
| Urmançe Ğäbdelbaqí İdris ulı ( aka Baqi Urmançe ; Janalif: Baqi Urmance; Tatar Cyrillic: Урманче Бакый (Габделбакый) Идрис улы; , Urmanche Baki (Gabdelbaky) Idrisovich; 23 February 1897 - 6 August 1990) was a Tatar painter, sculptor and graphic artist, and a pedagogue. |
| Barbara Buhler Lynes is the curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center. She is the leading expert on the art of painter Georgia O'Keeffe. She has written books, book chapters, essays, and numerous exhibition catalogues on O'Keeffe, including the 1999 catalogue raisonné that documents and authenticates the artist's extensive oeuvre. |
| Barent or Bernard Pietersz Fabritius (or Fabricius) (bapt. Nov 16 1624, Middenbeemster - buried Oct 20 1673, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter. |
| Barker Fairley (May 21 1887 – October 11 1986) was a British-born painter, writer, and educator. He lived most of his long life in Canada. |
| Barkley L. Hendricks (born 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American painter whose contributions to black conceptualism have been likened to those of David Hammons and Adrian Piper. While he has worked in a variety of media and genres throughout his career (from photography to landscape painting), Hendricks' best known work takes the form of life-sized painted oil portraits. |
| Barnaby Furnas, (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1973), is an American painter and former graffiti artist who currently lives and works in New York City. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and received a BFA in 1995 before going on to study at Columbia University in New York, receiving an MFA in 2000. He makes his own paint from pigment mixed with urethane. |
| Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. |
| Baron Leighton, of Stretton in the County of Salop, was a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created on 24 January 1896 for painter Sir Frederic Leighton, Bt.. He died the following day and the peerage became extinct. Baron Leighton is the shortest-lived peerage title in British history. Sir Frederic Leighton had been created a baronet on 11 February 1886. |
| Barone Berlinghieri was an Italian painter. He was the son of Berlingherus from Milan who was still living in 1250. He executed several painted crucifixes; among others one for the Pieve of Casabasciano in 1254; and another in 1284 for Sant' Alessandro Maggiore at Lucca. He was the brother of Bonaventura and Marco Berlinghieri. |
| Barrie Cooke (born 1931) is an Irish abstract expressionist painter. |
| John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934 in Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. |
| Barry McGee (aka Twist aka Ray Fong aka Robert Pimple; born 1966, San Francisco, California) is a painter and graffiti artist. |
| Barry Windsor-Smith, also known as Barry Smith (born May 25, 1949) is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best known work has been produced in the United States. |
| Bart Forbes is an American painter and illustrator. He has worked for a number of magazines, amongst them TIME and Sports Illustrated, and a broad selection of corporate clients. His most famous work include painting postage stamps for the US Postal Service and theme paintings for the PGA golf tournaments. He is the recipient of the 1986 Sport Artist of the Year Award given out annually by the American Sport Art Museum and Archives. |
| Bart van der Leck (November 26, 1876, Utrecht - November 13, 1958, Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramacist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan he founded the De Stijl art movement. |
| Barthel Beham (1502 – 1540) was a German engraver, miniaturist and painter. |
| Bartholomeus Barbiers (bapt Jan 11 1743, Amsterdam - 1808, Amsterdam), was a Dutch painter in the 18th century. He was the son and pupil of Pieter Barbiers. He was skilful at landscapes, and painted with the left hand. |
| Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer, 1598 - Amsterdam, 1657) was a Dutch painter. |
| Bartholomeus (Bartholomaeus) Spranger (1546—1611) was a Flemish Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He was born in Antwerp. |
| Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613, Haarlem – buried Dec 16 1670, Amsterdam) was a Dutch portrait painter. |
| Bartholomäus Zeitblom (c. 1450 – c. 1519) was a German painter, the chief master of the school of Ulm, where he is on official record from 1482 to 1518. He was born in Nordlingen and was the pupil and son-in-law of Hans Schüchlein, but, unlike his master, was singularly free from Dutch and Flemish influence. Zeitblom's paintings are distinguished by artistic feeling and clear, cool, delicate color. |
| Barthélemy d'Eyck, van Eyck or d' Eyck , ; (ca.1420–after 1470) was an Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France and probably in Burgundy as a painter and manuscript illuminator. He was active between about 1440 to about 1469. Although no surviving works can be certainly documented as his, he was praised by contemporary authors as a leading artist of the day, and a number of important works are generally accepted as his. |
| Barthélémy Toguo, is a Cameroonian painter born in 1967. He lives in Paris and Bandjoun. He has also worked with photographs, sculpture, videos. |
| Bartolo di Fredi (born c. 1330- January 26, 1410) was an Italian painter, born in Siena, classified as a member of the Sienese School. |
| Bartolomeo Bassi (early 1600s-1640s) was an Italian painter active in the early-Baroque period, mainly in his hometown of Genoa. He was a disciple of Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, and painted quadratura. Died at age 40 years. |
| Bartolomeo Bimbi (1648-1723) was a Florentine painter of still lifes spurred by his patrons including Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany to paint large canvases of flora and fauna for the Medici Villa dell'Ambrogiana and della Topaia, now conserved in the Pitti Palace and the Museo Botanico dell'Universita. He partly was following the tradition of Jacopo Ligozzi. He was a pupil of Lorenzo Lippi and Onorio Marinari. Others claim he was a pupil of Angelo Gori. |
| Bartolomeo Biscaino 1632-1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Genoa. He was the son, and first a pupil of Giovanni Andrea Biscaino. He afterwards became a pupil of Valerio Castelli. His career was cut short by the plague, which visited Genoa, to which his father and himself fell victims. The Dresden gallery once held three paintings, representing Woman taken in adultery, Adoration by Magi, and Circumcision of Christ. |
| Bartolomeo Carducci (1560–1608) was an Italian painter, better known as Carducho, the Spanish corruption of his Italian patronymic. |
| Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (c. 1590-1625) was a Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Spain, alongside his master Giovanni Battista Crescenzi. |
| Bartolomeo Cesi (1556-1629) was a painter of the Baroque era of the Bolognese School. |
| Bartolomeo (or Baccio) di Zanobi Ghetti (d. 1536) was a Florentine Renaissance painter who has only recently emerged from obscurity as a result of recent research. |
| Bartolomeo Guidobono (1654 - 1709) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Northern Italy. |
| Bartolommeo Letterini (or Litterini) (1669-after 1731) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Venice and instructed by his father, Agostino Letterini. He was an imitator of Titian. |
| Bartolomeo Manfredi (baptised 25 August 1582–12 December 1622) was an Italian painter, a leading member of the Caravaggisti (followers of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) of the early 16th century.and insistence on naturalism, with a gift for story-telling through expression and body-language. |
| Bartolomeo Montagna (1450? - 1523) was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Vicenza and Venice. He putatively was born near Brescia . His initial training was presumably under Domenico Morone in Verona, where he seems to have acquired a late Quattrocento refinement, similar to that of Carpaccio and Mantegna. The figures have a strict organization in space, and the peaceful expressions of classic detachment. |
| Bartolomeo Nazari (May 31, 1693-August 24, 1758) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, mainly active in Venice as a portraitist. |
| Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529 - 1592) was an Italian painter of the mannerist period, who worked mainly in his native Bologna. |
| Bartolomeo Schedoni (1578-1615) was an Italian early Baroque painter of Reggio Emilia. |
| Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432 – c. 1499) was an Italian painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499. His brother Antonio and his nephew (also possibly his pupil) Alvise were also painters. He learned oil painting from Antonello da Messina, and is said to have produced, in 1473, the first oil picture done in Venice. Housed in the basilica of San Zanipolo, it is a large altar-piece in nine divisions, representing Augustine and other saints. |
| Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448-1502), born Pietro di Antonio Dei, was an Italian (Florentine) painter, illuminator, and architect. He was the son of a goldsmith. He was a colleague of Fra Bartolommeo. In 1468, Bartolomeo became a monk in the Order of Camaldoli, probably in the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence, which his brother Nicolo had already entered. Upon taking holy orders, he changed his name to Bartolomeo. |
| Bartolomeo di Cassino (late 16th century) was an Italian painter active in the Mannerist period. He was born in Milan. He was a pupil of Vincenzo Civerchio . |
| Bartolommeo (or Baccio) Bandinelli, actually Bartolommeo Brandini (October 17, 1493 – shortly before February 7, 1560), was a prominent Renaissance Italian sculptor, draughtsman and painter. |
| Bartolommeo Bianco (1604-1656) was an Italian architect, engineer, and painter. He was born at Florence and in 1612 he studied painting under Giovanni Bilivert. In 1620 he visited Germany; on his return he decorated several houses, and painted for churches and theatres. In 1656 he went to Spain to paint stage designs for theatres. He died at Madrid in the same year. |
| Bartolommeo Bonasia was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He painted a Pietà in the Modena Gallery, dated 1485. |
| Bartolommeo Bonomi was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He is the author of a Virgin in Glory (1507). He is thought to have been a native of Pavia. |
| Bartolommeo Calomato (17th century) was an Italian painter active in Venice. He was remarkable for his small genre pictures representing scenes from town and country life, enlivened with figures. |
| Bartolommeo Camulio was an Italian painter, active in Genoa in the early to mid-14th century. He painted a Madonna of the Humility (1340) in the Palermo Gallery. Also known as Bartolomeo da Camogli or Bartolomeo Pellerano da Camogli. |
| Bartolommeo Caporali (active 1472-1499) was an Italian painter born and active in Perugia. He painted a Madonna and Saints (1487) for the church of Santa Maria Maddalena at Castiglione del Lago. |
| Bartolommeo Caravoglia (active 1660-1673) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Bartolommeo Ligozzi was a 17th century Italian painter, who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers. as well as genre subjects. He was the nephew of Jacopo Ligozzi. Born in Verona, Ligozzi flourished at Florence around the year 1620. He died at the age of 76. |
| Bartolommeo Ramenghi, also called Bagnacavallo (1484-1542) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in Emilia-Romagna. |
| Bartolommeo Scaligero (born c. 1605) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Padua, and trained with Alessandro Varotari, and was active in Venice. He painted for the church of Corpus Domini in Venice. His niece, Lucia Scaligero was also a painter. |
| Bartolommeo Torre was an Italian fresco painter of Arezzo, who active c. the beginning of the 17th century, and died young. |
| Bartolommeo Torregiani (d. c. 1674) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was a follower of Salvatore Rosa, and painted landscapes and portraits. He is said to have died in 1674. |
| Bartolommeo Tricomi (first half of 17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Messina. He was a pupil of Antonio Barbalonga, and was the teacher of Andrea Suppa. Tricomi is known as an excellent portrait painter. |
| Bartolomé Bermejo (born Córdoba, c. 1440, died Barcelona, c. 1498) was a Spanish painter who adopted Dutch painting techniques and conventions. Bermejo, whose real name was Bartolomé de Cárdenas, was first documented in a receipt issued in Valencia in 1468 when a patron, Antonio Juan, commissioned him to paint the Retable of Saint Michael (the centre panel of which is currently housed in the National Gallery, London). |
| Bartolomé Montalvo (1769-11 August, 1846) was a Spanish painter. |
| Bartolomé Pérez (1634-1693 was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. |
| Bass Otis (July 17, 1784 - Nov. 3, 1861), was an early American artist, inventor, and portrait painter. He painted hundreds of portraits including many of the best known Americans of his day, and produced the first American lithograph in 1819. |
| Bastiano da Sangallo (1481 – May 31, 1551) was an Italian sculptor and painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Tuscany. He was a nephew of Giuliano da Sangallo and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder. He is usually known as Aristotile, a nickname he received from his air of sententious gravity. He was at first a pupil of Perugino, but afterwards became a follower of Michelangelo. |
| Battista Dossi (ca. 1490-1548), also known as Battista de Luteri, was an Italian painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting. He spent nearly his entire career in service of the Court of Ferrara, where he worked with his older brother Dosso Dossi (c. 1489-1542). It is believed that Battista worked in the Rome studio of Raphael from 1517 to 1520. Battista’s students include Camillo Filippi (c. 1500-1574). |
| Battista Franco Veneziano also known by his correct name of Giovanni Battista Franco( before 1510 - 1561) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker in etching active in Rome, Urbino, and Venice in the mid 1500s. He is also known as Il Semolei or just Battista Franco. |
| Beata Kubik-Halewicz is a Polish-American painter who lives and works in New York. She was born in 1963 in Sanok, Poland. She graduated from PLSP in Nowy Wiśnicz, Poland in 1984 where she studied ceramics, painting and sculpture. Upon graduation she received a Maturity Diploma and Professional Title of Artist specializing in Ceramics. In 2000 she graduated from the Hendrix Institute in Brooklyn where she studied digital art including graphic design, web design, and 3D design. |
| Beata Pozniak (b. April 30, 1960, Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish actress, film director, painter, fashion model and activist who is now based out of the United States. |
| The Beaver Hall Group was a Montreal based assemblage of Canadian painters formed in May of 1920 by artists who had met while studying art at a school run by Art Association of Montreal . |
| Bedroom in Arles (French: La Chambre à butts; Dutch: Slaapkamer te Arles) is the title given to each of three similar paintings by 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. |
| Bedřich Feuerstein (January 15 1892 - May 10 1936) was a Czech architect, painter and essayist. |
| Begoña Ameztoy is a Basque writer and painter. |
| Behjat Sadr (; born 1924) is an Iranian painter whose works have been exhibited in major cities across the world, such as New York, Paris, and Rome. She was born to parents Mohammad Sadr Mahallati and Ghamar Amini Sadr in Arak in 1924. Sadr began her studies at the University of Tehran faculty of fine arts. After her graduation, she won a scholarship to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts. |
| Bela Čikoš Sesija (Hungarian: Csikós-Sessia Béla);(Osijek, January 27, 1864 – 1931) was a Croatian painter of historical and allegorical scenes at the turn of the 20th century. He was one of the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, as well as one of the first representatives of symbolism (Secession/Art Nouveau) in Croatia. |
| Belisario Corenzio (c. 1558 - 1643) was an Italian Mannerist painter, a Greek by birth. He is reputed, with little documentation, to have studied under Tintoretto, in part because his drawings often resemble those of the Venetian painter. He moved to Naples in 1590, where he was prodigiously active. |
| Ben Long is an American painter and the grandson of noted artist McKendree Robbins Long. Reared in a family of artists, writers, professors, and university presidents, Long was as precocious in his artistic ability as he was eager to apply it. At 18, Long followed his father's footsteps to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in Creative Writing under the guidance of his friend and advisor Reynolds Price. |
| The Belly Amphora by the Andokides Painter in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen at Munich (inventory number 2301) is one of the most famous works of the artist in question. As a bilingual vase, it is an important archaeological source regarding the transition from attic black-figure pottery to the red-figure style. It is signed by the potter Andokides, who probably made it. The Andokides Painter is generally considered as the inventor of the red-figure style of Greek vase painting. |
| Ben-Hur Baz (1906–2003) was a painter of pin-up art. |
| Benedict Chuka Enwonwu (1921 - 1994), better known as Ben Enwonwu was a Nigerian painter and sculptor. |
| Ben Jamie is a British painter based in London. He has interests in portraiture and photorealism. |
| Benjamin Lauder Nicholson OM, (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982), known as Ben Nicholson, was an English abstract painter |
| Ben Norris was an American painter. He was born in Redlands, California in 1910. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Pomona College in 1930, he won a fellowship at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University where he spent a year and then studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for 11 months. He traveled extensively throughout Europe before returning to California to pursue a career as a landscape painter. |
| Ben Quilty is an Australian painter. He won the 2002 Brett Whiteley Travelling art scholarship. He uses thick paint and is known for paintings of cars. He received a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of Sydney in 1994, a Certificate in Aboriginal Culture and History, Monash University, in 1996, and a Bachelor of Design - Visual Communications, School of Design, University of Western Sydney. |
| Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov (April 27, 1899, Karnobat - April 8, 1970, Sofia) was a renowned Bulgarian painter. |
| Benedetto Bandiera (1557 or 1560 - 1634) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period. Born in Perugia, where he painted in the style of Federico Barocci. He painted frescoes in the convent adjacent to the Church of San Pietro of Perugia. There are paintings of his in the church and museum of San Francesco in Corciano. |
| Benedetto Bonfigli (c. 1420–July 8 1496) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento born in Perugia, and active around Umbria. He is also known as Buonfiglio. He was the teacher of the painter Pietro Perugino. |
| Benedetto Brandimarte (late-16th century) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Lucca. In 1592, he painted for the church of San Benedetto in Genoa . He is also known as Brandimarti. |
| Benedetto Caliari (1538-1598) was an Italian painter who was born into a family of artists. Benedetto’s father Gabriele Caliari was a stonecutter. Benedetto’s brother Paolo Caliari is better known as Veronese. Veronese’s principal assistants were his younger brother Benedetto Caliari and his two sons Carlo or Carletto Caliari (1570-1596) and Gabriele Caliari (1568-1631). |
| Benedetto Coda (1492 - 1535) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Rimini. |
| Benedetto Gennari the Senior (1563 - 1658) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active mainly in Ferrara and Cento. |
| Benedetto Ghirlandaio (1458-1497) was an Italian (Florentine) painter. His brothers Davide Ghirlandaio (1452-1525) and Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) were both painters, as was his nephew Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483-1561). Benedetto died in Florence on July 17, 1497. |
| Benedetto Luti (1666 – 1724) was an Italian painter. |
| Benedetto Pagni was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, active mainly in Mantua and Pescia. He was part of the team of assistants of Giulio Romano in the decoration of the Palazzo del Te. He painted a Martyrdom of San Lorenzo for the church of Sant'Andrea. He painted a Marriage of Cana for the cathedral in Pescia. |
| Benedetto Possenti (active in 17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly as a battle painter, as well of seaports, landscapes, and festivals. He was a pupil of the Carracci. His son, Giovanni Pietro Possenti, was also a painter of similar themes. |
| Benedetto Velli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Florence, and flourished in the 17th century. He painted an Ascension for the cathedral at Pistoia. |
| Benedikt Dreyer (born before 1495 - died after 1555) was a German sculptor, carver and painter working in Lübeck. |
| Benevides Juan Ramirez was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period. He learned drawing from his brother Josef, a sculptor. In 1753, his picture of the Election of King Pelayo, gained him election as a supernumerary professor in the Royal Academy of San Fernando After studying under Corrado Giaquinto he neglected painting for music, and died at Zaragoza in 1782. |
| The Benezit Dictionary of Artists (in French, Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs) is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers created primarily for art museums, auction houses, historians and dealers. It is published by Éditions Gründ in Paris. |
| Benito Espinós (1748–1818) was a Spanish painter, active in Valencia and mainly painting still life floral arrangements. |
| Benito Mandel de Aguero (1626–1670) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native Madrid as a landscape and battle painter. He was a pupil of Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo. He died in Madrid. |
| Benito Quinquela Martín (March 10(?), 1890 — January 28, 1977) was an Argentine painter born in La Boca, Buenos Aires. Quinquela Martín is considered the port painter-par-excellence and one of the most popular Argentine painters. His paintings of port scenes show the activity, vigor and roughness of the daily life in portuary La Boca. |
| Benjamin Block (1631 Lübeck- 1690 in Regensburg was a seventeenth century German - Hungarian painter known for his portrait paintings. |
| Benjamin Creme (b. 1922 Scotland) is a British painter, esotericist, lecturer, author, and chief editor of Share International magazine [http://share-international.org/background/bcreme/bc_main.htm]. |
| Benjamin Curtis Porter (August 27, 1843 - April 2, 1908), American artist, was born at Melrose, Massachusetts. He was a pupil of Albion Harris Bicknell and of the Paris schools, and was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1878, and a full academician in 1880. He is best known as a painter of portraits. |
| Benjamin Robert Haydon (January 26, 1786 – June 22, 1846) was an English historical painter and writer. |
| Benjamin Marshall (b. 14 October 1768 in Seagrave, Leicestershire - d. 29 January 1835) was an English sporting and animal painter. He was a follower of George Stubbs and studied under Lemuel Abbott for a short period of time. After 1792, he began painting animals, settling at Newmarket in 1812 near the racetrack. He returned to London in 1825 and died in 1835. |
| Benjamin Donald McCready is an American portrait painter. Ben McCready was born August 14, 1951 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has painted more than 600 commissioned portraits. Notable portrait clients include President Gerald R. Ford, President Ronald W. Reagan, President George H. W. Bush, President James Earl Carter, Robert Redford, Mr. and Mrs. |
| Benjamin Tammuz (Hebrew: בנימין תמוז)(July 11, 1919–July 19, 1989) was an Israeli writer and artist who contributed to Israeli culture in many disciplines, as a novelist, journalist, critic, painter, and sculptor. |
| Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence. |
| Benjamin West Clinedinst (1859-1931) was an American illustrator and painter, born at Woodstock, Va. He studied for a year in Baltimore and for five years in Paris under Cabanel and Bonnat and first attracted attention in New York with his illustrations for Leslie's Weekly. He was best known as the illustrator of Thomas Nelson Page's Unc' Edinburg, the works of Hawthorne, Stevenson, and Mark Twain, although he worked also in oils and water colors. |
| Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores (born 1935) was a Bolivian surrealist painter who unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Pope Paul VI in Manila in 1970. |
| Bennett Bean is an American ceramic artist living in Blairstown, New Jersey. Although commonly described as a studio potter, some would characterize him as a sculptor and painter who works primarily in studio pottery. |
| Benno Raffael Adam (July 15, 1812, Munich - March 9, 1892, Kehlheim) was a German painter. |
| Benno De Goeij is a famous Dutch trance artist. He is perhaps best known for his participation in the Rank 1 group with Piet Bervoets. He has also co-produced with DJ Tiësto under the alias "Kamaya Painters," resulting in various tracks that became in demand with popular DJs, the most notable track being Endless Wave, which was so popular that it is still in demand today. |
| Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 - November 10, 2006) was an American painter, print-maker, creator of collages and educator. He was born November 13, 1930 in Plainview, Georgia and died November 10, 2006 in Brooklyn, New York. |
| Benodebehari Mukherjee (1904 - 1980) was an Indian / Bengali artist. He was born in Behala, Kolkata (then Calcutta) — now in the Indian state of West Bengal. He taught at Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan. Mukherjee was one of the pioneers of Indian modern art, as a painter and as a celebrated muralist. |
| Benois is a surname that refers to members of the Benois family: * Nicholas Benois (1813-1898), a Russian architect; * Albert Benois (1852-1936), a Russian water-colorist, son of Nicholas Benois; * Leon Benois (1856-1928), a Russian architect, son of Nicholas Benois; * Alexandre Benois (1870-1960), a Russian painter and stage designer, son of Nicholas Benois; |
| Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1421 – 1497) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. He is best known for a series of murals in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi depicting festive, vibrant processions with wonderful attention to detail and a pronounced International Gothic influence on Gozzoli's art. |
| Benozzo di Filipuccio (1389 - 1443) was an Italian painter. |
| Benoît Gréan is a French poet living in Rome. He has published a number of volumes of poems in French, some in Frau und Hund, accompanied by German translations, others in Italian and Greek. As a classical philologist, he shows deep interest in ancient Greek verse and its fragmentary character. Books by Benoît Gréan and the painter Luisa Gardini: (1) Erres. Rome 1996; (2) Mai. St-Quentin-de-Caplong: Atelier de l'Agneau, 2001; (3) Monstres tièdes. |
| Benvenuto Cellini (November 3, 1500 – February 13, 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier and musician of the Renaissance, who also wrote a famous autobiography. |
| Benvenuto Tisi or Il Garofalo (1481 - September 6 1559) was a Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara. Garofalo's career began attached to the court of the Duke d'Este. His early works have been described as "idyllic", but they often conform to the elaborate conceits favored by the artistically refined Ferrarese court. |
| Berkshire Artist is an American painter and jewelry designer. It is the nom de plume of an artist who works in the Berkshires region of Massachusetts. |
| The Berlin Foundry Cup (German: Erzgießerei-Schale) is a red-figure kylix (drinking cup) from the early fifth century BC. It is the name vase of the Attic vase painter known conventionally as the Foundry Painter. Its most striking feature it the exterior depiction of activities in an Athenian bronze workshop or foundry. It is an important source on ancient Greek metal-working technology. |
| The Berlin Painter (working c. 490s–c. 460s BCE) is the conventional name given to an Attic Greek vase-painter who is widely regarded as a rival to the Kleophrades Painter among the most talented vase painters of the early fifth century BCE (see Pottery of Ancient Greece). The Berlin Painter was named by Sir John Beazley for a large lidded amphora in the Antikensammlung Berlin (the Berlin Painter's namepiece). |
| Bernardus Accama (1697, Burum? - 1756, Leeuwarden) was an eighteenth century Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland. Active in Leeuwarden. |
| Bernardus Johannes (Bernard) Blommers (30 January 1845 in The Hague – 12 December 1914 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter of the Hague School. |
| Bernard Buffet (July 10 1928 – October 4 1999) was a French painter. |
| Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987) was an English painter. |
| Bernard Lamotte (1903-1983) was a Paris-born artist, illustrator, painter and muralist. He moved to New York City in 1935 at the age of 32 to pursue his art. Later, he illustrated for numerous fashion magazines. Lamotte studied under Lucien Simon (1861-1945). He became an American citizen in 1951. |
| Bernard Meninsky (1891-1950) was a figurative artist, painter of figures and landscape in oils, watercolour and gouache, draughtsman and teacher. He was born in Karotopin now in the Ukraine but raised in Liverpool where he attended the Liverpool School of Art in 1906 after initially attending evening classes in art. He won the King’s Medal in 1911 and went on to study briefly at Royal College of Art in London and the Academie Julian in Paris. |
| Bernard Mulrenin (1803 – 1868) was an Irish painter. |
| Bernard Aimé Poulin (born 1945) is a Canadian visual artist and educator. He is a portrait painter, muralist, sculptor, author of five books on drawing and international lecturer of note. His significant portraits include: |
| Bernard Schultze (born May 13, 1915 in Schneidemühl, now Piła, Poland; died April 14, 2005 in Cologne) was a German painter. |
| Bernard Vidal (born 23 August 1944 in Périgueux) is a French painter who has been honored by the French Government with the Chevalier dans l'Ordre Des Arts et des Lettres, the highest distinction in the Arts in France. |
| Bernard van Orley (Brussels, between 1487 and 1491 – Brussels, 6 January 1541), also called Barend van Orley, Bernaert van Orley or Barend van Brussel, was a significant Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman, and also a leading designer of tapestries and stained glass. He is counted among a group of painters belonging to the Romanism school of painting, who has not been given enough attention by the general public. |
| Bernarda Bryson Shahn (March 9, 1903 – December 13, 2004) was an American painter, lithographer and widow of renowned artist Ben Shahn, who wrote and illustrated children's books including "The Zoo of Zeus" and "Gilgamesh." |
| Bernardino Blaceo (active c. 1550) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He painted for churches at Udine, among them, the principal altar-piece depicting Virgin and child, with Angels and Saints Lucia and Agatha’' for the church of Santa Lucia, and a Virgin and infant with Saints Peter and John’ for the church in Porta Nuova. |
| Bernardino Butinone (1435 or 1436 – c. 1507 or 1508) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly around Milan. |
| Bernardino Campi (1522 - 1591) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Reggio Emilia, who worked in Cremona. He is known as one of the teachers of Sofonisba Anguissola and of Giovanni Battista Trotti (il Malosso). In Cremona, his extended family were the main artistic studios. Giulio Campi and Antonio Campi, half-brothers, were distant relatives of Bernardino; the latter is generally considered the most talented of the family. All were active and prominent painters locally. |
| Bernardino Campilius was an Italian painter and follower of Lo Spagna at Spoleto. His name was written beneath a fresco of The Virgin adoring the Infant on the Piazza San Gregorio at Spoleto, and bears the date of 1502. |
| Bernardino Capitelli (1589-1639) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period. |
| Bernardino Cesari (1565-1621) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Naples, where he assisted his brother Giuseppe Cesari (Cavaliere d'Arpino). |
| Bernardino Ciceri (1650-) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Pavia. He was a pupil of the painter Andrea Sacchi in Rome. One of his pupils was Gioseffo Cristona. He painted the Baptism of Christ for the church of il Carmine in Pavia. |
| Bernardino Gagliardi (1609 - 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. Born in città di Castello. He was a pupil initially of Rinaldo Rinaldi in his native city, then of the painter Avanzino Nucci. He was titled a cavalieri by the Pope. In Rome, he painted the altarpiece San Pellegrino in the church of San Marcello al Corso. He also painted in the cloister of San Francesco in Trevi, Umbria. Also called Bernardo Gagliardi. |
| Bernardino Gatti was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Parma and Cremona. |
| Bernardino India (1528 - 1590) is an Emilian painter of the late Renaissance, born and mainly active in Verona. He is said to have trained with Domenico Riccio. He collaborated with Michele Sanmicheli in the Canossa palace and Pellegrini chapel in San Bernardino of Verona. He collaborated with Felipe Brusasorci, Domenico's son in frescoes at Palazzo Fiorio Della Seta. |
| Bernardino Lanini (1511 – c. 1578) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Milan. He was a pupil of the painter Gaudenzio Ferrari. In Milan, he painted the Last Supper for the church San Nazaro Grande. he painted a Holy family for the church of Sant’Ambrogio, now in Brera Gallery. He painted frescoes on the Life of the Magdalen for the church of San Cristoforo in Vercelli. He painted a St Catherine for the church San Celso. |
| Bernardino Licinio (c. 1489 – 1565) was an Italian High Renaissance painter of Venice and Lombardy. Born in Poscante (Bergamo). He mainly painted portraits and religious canvases. |
| Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82-1532) was a North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly; he was described to have taken "as much from Leonardo as his native roots enabled him to comprehend". Consequently many of his works were attributed to Leonardo. He was known especially for his graceful female figures with slightly squinted eyes, called Luinesque by Vladimir Nabokov. |
| Bernardino Parasole (c. 17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. |
| Bernardino Poccetti, also known as Barbatelli, (26 August, 1548- 10 October, 1612), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker in etching . |
| Bernardino Vitulini was an Italian painter. He was born in Serravalle, and lived at Belluno. He is known to have painted frescoes in the church of Ampezzo and Cadore, in 1350. |
| Bernardino Zacchetti (active c. 1523) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Reggio. His style recalls Raphael, and is also said to have worked with Michelangelo in the Sistine chapel. His picture of St. Paul in the church of San Prospero at Reggio recalls Garofalo. One of his pupils, Giovanni Soncini was the godfather of Corregio’s second daughter. |
| Bernardo Bellotto (January 30, 1720 — October 17, 1780) was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching. He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto, and sometimes also used the latter's illustrious name, thus signing as Bernardo Canaletto – illegally according to some. Especially in Germany, paintings described as by Canaletto may be his rather than his uncle's. |
| Bernardo Castello or Castelli (1557 - 1629) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist style, active mainly in Genoa. |
| Bernardo Cavallino (1616–1656) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, working in Naples. |
| Bernardo Daddi (ca. 1280 - 1348) was an early Italian renaissance painter and apprentice of Giotto. He was also influenced by the Sienese art of Lorenzetti. |
| Bernardo Germán de Llórente (1685-1757) was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period. |
| Bernardo López Piquer (1799–1874) was a Spanish painter, active in his native Valencia and mainly painting portraits. |
| Bernardo Martorell was a Spanish painter, working in an Early Renaissance style. Little is known of his life prior to 1427, though by the mid 15th century he was one of the leading artists in Catalonia. |
| Bernardo Parentino (c. 1434 or 1437 – 1531) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Padua. |
| Bernardo Rachetti (1639-1702)was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active as a painter of imaginary vedute. |
| Bernardo Regoliron was an Italian portrait painter, practising in the second half of the 18th century, was a pupil of P. P. Cristofani. At Vienna there are portraits by him of the Emperor Joseph II and of his brother Leopold. |
| Bernardo di Matteo Gamberelli (1409 – 1464), better known as Bernardo Rossellino, was an Italian sculptor and architect, the elder brother of the painter Antonio Rossellino. |
| Bernardo Strozzi (c. 1581 - August 2, 1644) was a prominent and prolific Italian Baroque painter born and active mainly in Genoa, and also active in Venice. |
| Bernardo Tesauro (1440-1500) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Naples. He was a relative of Filippo Tesauro. He was a pupil of Silvestre dei Buoni. His He painted an ' Assumption of the Virgin for the church of San Giovanni Maggiore. He also painted frescoes in the chapel of San Aspreno in the Duomo of Naples. He died in Naples. He painted the Seven Sacraments in the ceiling of the church of San Giovanni di Pappacodi. |
| Bernardo or Bernardino Zenale (c. 1460 – 1526) was an Italian painter and architect. |
| Bernardo de' Dominici (1683-1759) was an Italian art historian and painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Naples, painting landscapes, marine vedute, and genre scenes such as characteristic of Bamboccianti. He was the pupil of the painter Mattia Preti, reportedly under the German painter of forested landscapes, Franz Joachim Beich. |
| Bernat Sanjuan (Barcelona 1915 - Mallorca 1979) was a Catalan painter and sculptor. |
| Bernd Fasching (born July 18,1955 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian painter and sculptor. He lives and works in Vienna. |
| Bernhard Hoetger (born 4 May 1874 in Dortmund; died 18 July 1949 in Interlaken) was a German sculptor, painter and handicrafts artist of the Expressionist movement. |
| Bernhard Strigel (c. 1461 – 1528) was a German portrait and historical painter of the Swabian school, the most important of a family of artists established at Memmingen. He was born at Memmingen and was probably a pupil of Zeitblom at Ulm. He stood in high favor with the Emperor Maximilian I, in whose service he repeatedly journeyed to Augsburg, Innsbruck, and Vienna. |
| (born c. 1435 in Lassan in Pomerania; died winter 1508/1509 in Lübeck) was the most important German painter and sculptor in Northern Europe in his times. |
| Bernt Tunold (February 25, 1877 – January 23, 1946) was a Norwegian painter. Influenced by his early years in a rural environment on the small island of Selja on the west coast of Norway, his paintings, initially inspired by the style of his countryman Nikolai Astrup, are known for their depictions of the dramatic and contrasty nature and landscape of western Norway. |
| Bert Kloezeman (born 1921, Malaysia, ---) is a painter and art educator in Canada. |
| Bertalan Pór (1880-1964) was a Hungarian painter. Por was a student of László Gyulay in the School of Industrial Design. He continued his studies in Munich under the German master G. von Hackl. He attended Simon Hollósy's school for a short time, and studied with Jean Paul Laurens at the Julian Academy in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. He returned to Hungary and began his career as a popular portrait painter. He also worked as a fresco painter. |
| Bertalan Szekely (May 8, 1835 - August 21, 1910) as a Hungarian Romantic painter of historical themes. "The Discovery of Louis Il's Dead Body", "Women of Eger", "Battle of Mohács", "Ladislas V" are among the most important of his history paintings. Szekely is also known for his many murals. This man is a famous painter in Hungary. |
| Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. |
| Berto Linajuolo was an Italian painter, active in Florence, who lived in the first part of the 15th century. His pictures gained him sufficient fame to cause him to he summoned to the court of Hungary. |
| Bertram Richard Brooker (March 31, 1888 – March 22, 1955) was a Canadian writer, painter, musician, and advertising agency executive. |
| Beryl Cook, OBE (born 10 September 1926 in Surrey) is a popular English painter. |
| Beta Vukanović (April 18 1872, Bamberg - 1972, Belgrade) was a Serbian painter. Born in Germany to a Serbian family, Vukanovic initially studied painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. She also worked with Anton Ažbé. From 1898 she lived mostly in Belgrade. Her earliest works reflected the influence of plein-air painting in Munich, which changed to Impressionism before World War I. |
| Beth Edwards (Elizabeth I. Edwards; born 1960) is an American painter. |
| Betsy Eby (b. April 3, 1967 in Seaside, Oregon) is an American encaustic painter currently residing on Vashon Island in Washington State. |
| Betty Churcher (born 11 July 1931 in Brisbane, Queensland) is best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life. She won a travelling scholarship to Europe and attended the London Royal College of Art receiving an ARCA in 1956. She received an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London in 1977. |
| Betty Roodish Goodwin (born March 19, 1923, Montreal) is a Canadian printmaker, sculptor, painter, and installation artist. |
| Beverly K. Effinger (born Beverly Kandrac, March 14 1955) is a United States painter. She grew up around Princeton, New Jersey. She married writer George Alec Effinger and moved to New Orleans in 1976. She studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts with M. Dell Weller and Auseklis Ozols. She moved to Eugene, Oregon, in 1987 and to Bayreuth Germany in 1997. |
| Beverly Pepper (born December 20, 1922) is a modern sculptor, and abstract painter. |
| Biagio Betti (1535-1605) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Cutigliano, and was a pupil of Daniele da Volterra. He became, in 1557, a monk of the order of the Theatines of San Silvestro al Quirinale, and his works are principally confined to the monastery of that order in Rome. In the refectory he painted the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes which was restored by Paolo Anesi in 1847; and in the library, Christ disputing with the Doctors. |
| Biagio Falcieri (1628- 1703) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, although his provincial style has been described as a tired mannerism, active between Venice and Verona. Originally from the region of Trento. He studied with Pietro Liberi in Venice and returned to Verona. He painted a canvas about the Council of Trent behind the facade of the church of San Anastasia. he trained Andrea Voltolino, Alessandro Marchesini, and Santi Prunati. |
| Biagio Pupini was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his native city of Bologna. He was known to be active mainly during 1530 -1540]]. He was a disciple of Francesco Francia. He completed paintings for the church of San Giuliano, Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore, and the church of Santa Maria della Baroncella. |
| Biagio Rebecca (c1735-1808) was an Italian painter, active mainly as a fresco decorator in England. Born in Rome, his apprenticeship is unknown. In England, he was known for neoclassical scenes from mythology, often collaborating with Robert Adam for example at Harewood House and at Kedleston Hall. He also decorated Heaton Hall in Prestwich, near Bury, Lancashire. He also frescoed a ceiling in the Marine Pavilion at Brighton. |
| Biagio d’Antonio, also Biagio Tucci (Florence, 1446–1 June 1516), was an Italian Renaissance painter whose style was influenced by Fra Filippo Lippi, Andrea Verrocchio and Ghirlandaio. For much of the last quarter of the fifteenth century Biagio was active in Faenza, but his style continued to reflect Florentine innovations. His paintings also demonstrate influences—particularly in the decorative elements—from early Netherlandish painting. |
| Bicci di Lorenzo (1373-1452) was an Italian painter and sculptor, active in Florence. He was the son of Lorenzo di Bicci. He married in 1418, and in 1424 was registered in the Guild of Painters at Florence. He died at Florence and was buried in the Carmine. Vasari often confuses father and son, Bicci di Lorenzo. He painted a SS. Cosmo and Damián and frescoes representing the Dedication of the Church by Pope Martin V. for Santa Maria Nuova (now Sant' Egidio). |
| William Robert Davis, aka Bill Davis (b. May 1949 in Venice, California) is an American illustrator, animation director and designer, graphic designer and painter. Davis is the founder and creative director of Mother Productions, a graphic design firm which creates animation, motion graphics, logos and other graphic designs for on-air and online purposes. |
| William "Bill" Keith (January 20 1929 – September 1 2004) was an American artist who began his artistic life as a painter, but moved into photography and visual poetry. His visual poetry ran a full gamut from calligrams inspired by Apollinaire and other early 20th Century French poets to Lettrisme to the Minimalism and Op Art of the 1960s. As his work developed, he concentrated increasingly on African and African-American themes and sources. |
| Bill Nelson (born William Nelson, 18 December 1948) is a prolific guitarist, songwriter, painter and experimental musician from Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. He currently lives in Selby. |
| Bill Wray is an American cartoonist and landscape painter. He spent much of his childhood traveling about as an Army brat. As a self-taught artist, he first worked in the animation industry while still a teenager, but eventually, he chose to study at New York's Art Students League. |
| Billy Anderson is an influential Producer, Engineer and Musician. He has worked with hundreds of bands over the past 20 years, including The Melvins, Eyehategod, Mr. Bungle, Red House Painters, Fantomas and Sleep. He is also a member of Blessing the Hogs, Porn (Men of),Solodolor and Good God. |
| The Birds of America is the title of a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing paintings and scientific description of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series of sections between 1827 and 1838. |
| Sven Birger Sandzén (5 February 1871–19 June 1954), known more commonly by his last two names, Birger Sandzén, was a Swedish-born painter. He produced most of his work in the United States where he worked as an art professor at the Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas. |
| The Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery is located in Lindsborg, Kansas in McPherson County. The memorial art gallery is located in "Little Sweden", a place where Swedish immigrants founded the town. The art gallery is dedicated to Birger Sandzén, who was a Swedish born painter. He produced most of his work in the United States where he worked as an art professor at the Bethany College in Lindsborg. |
| Bishandas was a 17th-century portrait painter at the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir. Jahangir praised him as "unrivalled in the art of portraiture". Though little is known of Bishandas’ life, his name can indicate that he was a Hindu. In 1613 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Persia, to paint the Shah’s portrait. Here he was so successful that he remained until 1620, when he returned with the gift of an elephant. |
| Bisky is the surname of the following people: *Jens Bisky, German journalist and writer *Lothar Bisky, German politician *Norbert Bisky, German painter |
| Bjørg Lødøen (born Oslo, December 7, 1931) is a Norwegian painter, graphics artist, and composer. Her work is on display in several Norwegian and European museums, and can also be found in the U.S. |
| Bjørn Wiinblad (20 September 1918 - 8 June 2006), was a Danish painter, designer and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics. His work has been shown widely in Europe, in the United States of America first in 1954 and in Japan, Australia and Canada in 1968. |
| Blas de Ledesma (1556—1598) was a Spanish painter of the reign of Philip II. He is mentioned by Pacheco as a successful imitator of the frescoes of Julio and Alessandro. |
| Blinky Palermo, born Peter Schwarze, aka Peter Heisterkamp (June 2, 1943 - February 18, 1977), was a German abstract painter. |
| Blue Sky is the legal name (formerly Warren Edward Johnson) of an American painter and sculptor best known for his mural, Tunnelvision. |
| Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988) is a 1987 fictional novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as a first person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault. Karabekian mentions this relationship several times during the novel. |
| Bo Bartlett (b. December 29, 1955 in Columbus, Georgia) is an American realist painter currently residing on Vashon Island in Washington State. |
| Bob Pejman (born December 27,1963) is an American artist/painter |
| Bob Norman Ross (born October 29, 1942 in Daytona Beach, Florida; died July 4, 1995) was an American painter and television host. |
| Bradley Daede-Allen "Brad" Maglinger (b. November 23 1980, Evansville, Indiana) is a Jewish American fine-art painter and graphic artist who is credited by some for originating the silhouette-style paintings that were popularized in the early turn of the century. |
| Bob Walkenhorst is a Kansas City-based singer/songwriter/musician/painter. Having been a founding member of popular Midwest U.S.A. groups such as Phantasia, Trizo 50, Steve, Bob & Rich, and The Rainmakers, he currently performs solo shows in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Bob is also a painter, with gallery shows in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. |
| Bobby Bridger (born Robert Durham in Columbia, Louisiana March 14, 1945) is a singer/songwriter/poet/actor/playwright/author and painter who for three decades has traveled the globe performing a trilogy of one man shows for audiences in America, Canada, Europe, Australia and Russia. He has recorded numerous albums for labels including Monument Records, RCA and Golden Egg Records. |
| Boccaccio Boccaccino (c. 1467 – c. 1525) was a painter of the early Italian Renaissance, belonging to the Emilian school. He is profiled in Vasari's Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (or, in English, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects). |
| Bodmer is a German surname that may refer to:*Frederick Bodmer, Swiss philologist *Johann Georg Bodmer (1786-1864), inventor *Johann Caspar Bodmer (1776-1827), brother of the former *Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698-1783), author and critic *Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Swiss painter of the American West *Martin Bodmer, purchaser of the Bodmer Papyri *Mathieu Bodmer (1982- ), French footballer *Sir Walter Bodmer (1936- ), geneticist, winner of the 1994 Michael Faraday Prize *Bodmér, a village in Hungary |
| Camille-Pierre Pambu Bodo, known as Bodo (b. 1953), is a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| Bogdan Matveyevich Khitrovo (ca. 1615 – 27 March, 1680) was a high-placed Russian statesman, or boyar, who served Tsar Alexis and his son Fyodor III, supporting the party of Maria Miloslavskaya. He is also noted for his patronage of icon-painter Simon Ushakov and Simeon of Polotsk, the first Russian poet. |
| Bohain-en-Vernandois is the place where the painter Henri Matisse grew up. |
| Bohumil Kubista (1884-1918) was a Czech painter and art critic. |
| Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957) was a Polish painter, sculptor, and muralist. |
| Bolesław Biegass (1877-1954) was a Polish surrealist artist (painter and sculptor), most known for his "vampire-as-femme fatale" style of painting. Biegas was born in Koziczin, Poland. |
| Bolesław Polnar (born 1952 in Opole, Poland) is a Polish graphic artist and painter. |
| Bon Boullogne (b. Paris, bapt. February 22, 1649 - Paris, May 17, 1717) was a French painter. |
| Bona Mangangu (Kinshasa, February 16 1961) is a writer and painter from Democratic Republic of the Congo. He lives and works in Lignan-sur-Orb and Sheffield. |
| Bonaventura Berlinghieri was an Italian painter of the Gothic period. He painted several panels and wall-paintings at Lucca, in 1235 and 1244, as well as a 'St. Francis of Assisi’. He painted in 1235 for the church of San Francesco of Pescia. He was the brother of Barone and Marco Berlinghieri. |
| Bonaventura Lamberti (c. 1653 – December 19, 1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He was born at Carpi,and after some years working at Modena, he became a pupil of the painter Carlo Cignani in Rome. There he painted St. Francis of Paola resuscitating a dead Child for the church of the Spirito Santo de Napolitani. He painted some cartoons used for mosaics for St. Peter's basilica by Ottaviani. His Virgin showing the Infant Saviour to St. |
| Bonaventura Peeters (Antwerp, 23 July 1614–Hoboken (Antwerp), 25 July 1652) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in seascapes and shipwrecks, known as Zeekens (small seascapes). This tradition developed simultaneously in Flemish painting and in Dutch Golden Age painting, with many artists, including Peeters, working in both Antwerp and in the Dutch Republic. Peeters became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. |
| Bonifacio Bembo (active between 1447 and 1477) was an Italian painter and miniaturist of the early-Renaissance period. |
| Bonifazio Veronese (also Bonifazio Veneziano; 1487 - 1553) was an Italian painter. He was born as Bonifazio de' Pitati in Verona. He reputedly trained under Palma il Vecchio. Went on to run a large workshop in Venice. His paintings include Christ Giving a Sermon, [http://www.wga.hu/html/b/bonifaci/dives.html| Dives and Lazarus], The [http://www.wga.hu/html/b/bonifaci/findmose.html| Finding of Moses], and Woman Holding Two Tablets, his style being influenced by that of Giorgione and Titian. |
| Bonilla is a surname, and may refer to: *Bobby Bonilla – American baseball player who played from 1986 to 2001 in Major League Baseball. *Daryl Bonilla – Hawaiian actor, comedian, and professional wrestler. *George Bonilla – Film director for Zombie Planet. *Gerardo Bonilla – Professional race car driver. *Henry Bonilla – Former Congressman who represented Texas's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. *Hugo Orellana Bonilla – Peruvian painter. |
| Borin Van Loon is a freelance illustrator (since 1976). He is an author, collagist and surrealist painter and has worked for a wide variety of clients in editorial, publishing and promotion. He has created an eclectic collage/cartoon mural on the subject of DNA and genetics for the Health Matters Gallery in London's Science Museum. |
| Boris Grigoriev (11 July, 1886 – 7 February, 1939) was a Russian painter and graphic artist . |
| Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson (1893-1973) was a Russian painter. |
| Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (March 7, 1878–May 28, 1927) was a Russian painter and stage designer . |
| Boris Smirnov is the name of the following people: *Boris Alexandrovich Smirnov (actor) (1908–1982), a Soviet actor *Boris Alexandrovich Smirnov (painter) (1903–1986), a Soviet painter *Boris Alexandrovich Smirnov (pilot) (1910-1984), a Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union |
| Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (January 21 1905 – August 7 1993; ) was a Russian painter, member of Amaravella group. (In Sanskrit language Amaravella means immortality sprouts). |
| Boris Vallejo (born January 8 1941 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he resides currently in Allentown, a part of the Lehigh Valley. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter and model . |
| Boris Eremeevich Vladimirsky, (1878 - 1950), was a Soviet painter of the Socialist Realism school. |
| Borys Buryak (born October 25 1953 village Podvirne, Chernivtsi Oblast) is a Ukrainian painter, known for his works in the field of easel- and monumental painting. |
| Botelho is a surname, or part of combined surname: *Abel Botelho *Bruce Botelho *Carlos Botelho, Portuguese painter *João Botelho, Portuguese film director *Júlio Botelho *Martiniano Ferreira Botelho *Rogério Márcio Botelho, Brazilian footballer |
| Bouktje Medema (born 1949) is a Dutch painter born in the province of Drenthe. She was a pupil of visual artist Edith Stoel in the Netherlands from 2000 to 2004. In Spain (2001-2005) she developed her particular style while being a pupil of Pieter Swinnen. Pieter Swinnen had joint exhibitions with Karel Appel, Corneille en Herman Brood. |
| Philippe "Bouli" Lanners (born 20 May 1965 in Moresnet-Chapelle, in the Redeemed Cantons near Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian actor, author and film director. He is also known as a painter. |
| Bourmond Byron (born 1920) is a Haitian painter. Hailing from Jacmel, Byron mainly paints landscapes and scenes from Haitian life. |
| Bouts is the name of *Aelbrecht Bouts (c. 1452-1549), An early Netherlandish painter *Dirk Bouts, Netherlandish painter |
| Boy Bitten by a Lizard is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, both believed to be authentic, one in the Collezione Longhi in Florence, the other in the National Gallery, London. |
| Brian Shields (1951-1997) was a Liverpool born English painter. He is best known for painting industrial scenes of northern Britain. He acquired the nickname "Braaq" in his school days — on account of his artistic talent he was nicknamed "Braque" after the French artist Georges Braque, a mis-spelling then transformed Braque into Braaq. |
| Bracha L. Ettinger (also known as Bracha Ettinger, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Hebrew: ברכה אטינגר, ברכה ליכטנברג-אטינגר) is a renowned international artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst. |
| Brad Posey is an American artist and pornographer. Posey began his art career as a painter, selling works in the Los Angeles area. While studying at UCLA his focus shifted away from painting to photography and video, and Posey became a professional photographer in 1982. He is the owner of the adult gay video company Club 1821. |
| Bram (Abraham Gerardus) van Velde (October 19 1895, in Zoeterwoude, near Leyden, Netherlands - December 28 1981 in Grimaud, near Arles, France) was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style somewhere between expressionism and surrealism (his paintings from the 1950s are similar to the contemporary work of Matisse, Picasso and Adolph Gottlieb). |
| Bartolomeo Suardi, best known as Bramantino (c. 1455 – c. 1535), was an Italian painter and architect. |
| The Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) is a strictly marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabits the Pacific coast of North America. It ranges, in the summer, from Alaska to the Gulf of California, but the population north of Vancouver Island migrates south during the winter. Its specific name, penicillatus is Latin for a painter's brush (pencil of hairs), in reference to white plumes on its neck and back during the early breeding season. |
| Patrick Branwell Brontë (; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was a painter and poet, the only son of the Brontë family, and the brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne. |
| Brenda Pye also known by her earlier married name of Brenda Landon or her maiden name of Brenda Capron (29 November, 1907–26 April, 2005) was an English portrait painter and landscape artist. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Paris Salon, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Association of Women Artists; she was also a member of the Association of Sussex Artists. |
| Richard Brent Malone (1941 – February 5, 2004) was a Bahamian photorealist painter and gallery owner. |
| Breon O’Casey (b. 1928), the son of playwright Sean O´Casey, is an artist and craftsman closely associated with the St Ives School of painters and sculptors. An apprenticeship to the sculptors Denis Mitchell and Barbara Hepworth confirmed his feeling for materials and for working with his hands. He also benefited from his friendships with other leading artists, such as Peter Lanyon, John Wells and Tony O'Malley. |
| Bret Blevins, sometimes spelled Brett Blevins, (born 1960) is an American comic book artist, animation storyboard artist, and painter. He is perhaps best known for his stint as the regular penciler of New Mutants. |
| , 1992) was an Australian artist. One of the best-known Australian painters of the 20th century, he is collected in most Australian galleries. He had many shows in his career, and travelled extensively. |
| Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. |
| Brian Alfred (b. 2nd December 1974, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a painter in Brooklyn, New York, who specialises in depictions of banal, urban spaces. Alfred is represented by the Mary Boone Gallery , Haunch of Venison London/Zurich/Berlin , Studio La Citta Verona , and SCAI the Bathhouse Tokyo. His work consists of collages, paintings, and digital animations. |
| Brian Dunlop (born 1938) is an artist who was born in Sydney, Australia. He is a still life and figurative painter who won the Sulman Prize in 1980 with The Old Physics Building (genre painting). He was a finalist in the 2004 Archibald Prize with Brian Kenna: imagines Urfa. He has painted portraits of public figures, including Queen Elizabeth II in 1984 for the 150th anniversary of the founding of Victoria. Has held many exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne. |
| Brian Keany, RSW, DA (Edin) (1945–2007), was a Scottish painter and teacher. |
| Brian Kelly is the artist for Baghdad Express, Francis and the Vegas Tramps, and the mini-comic Some Other Day. He is also a painter and a tattooist. He lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota for several years, attending the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2002. He also began tattooing in Minneapolis, starting the Brian Kelly Army in early 2003. He then moved to Ireland, where he attended the post-graduate course at The Burren College of Art, in Co. |
| Brian Smyth (born 1967) is an Irish painter from Cork. |
| Brian Stelfreeze (birthdate and birthplace unknown) is an American comic book artist. Stelfreeze, an accomplished painter, penciller, inker and colorist, has worked for nearly every major American comic book publisher and is one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios, a prominent breeding ground for some of comics' most highly regarded talents. for DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint. |
| Brian Julian Stonehouse (8 August 1918 – 2 December 1998) was a British painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. |
| Brice Mack was a background painter and director, known for his extensive work at Disney in the 1940s and 1950s as a background painter. He was also hired for story writing at Disney in the 1950s. |
| Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born April 24, 1931 in London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of op art, art that exploits the fallibility of the human eye. |
| Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships (Russian: Бриг "Меркурий", атакованный двумя турецкими кораблями) is an 1892 oil on canvas painting by Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900). Aivazovsky painted over 6000 works, more than half of which are seascapes. |
| Brigitta Westphal (* 1944 in Burgoberbach/Middle Franconia, Germany) is a German painter. |
| Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born outside of London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire. |
| Brodsky is the surname of: * Adam Brodsky, Anti-folk singer * Alexander Brodsky, contemporary architect and artist * Chuck Brodsky, contemporary American musician * Louis Daniel Brodsky, poet * Isaac Brodsky, a Soviet painter * Jascha Brodsky, a Ukrainian-American violinist * Joseph Brodsky (Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky), Russian poet and Nobel Prize winner * Mykhaylo Brodskyy, Ukrainian politician and businessman * Sol Brodsky, head of production of Marvel Comics from the early 1960s to 1984 * Stephen Brodsky, Lead Singer and Guitar Player for Cave In * Judith Brodsky, World renowned printmaker * Vlastimil Brodský, a Czech actor |
| Brongniart is the surname of a notable French family: * Antoine-Louis Brongniart (1742–1804), chemist, younger brother of * Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart (1739–1813), architect who gave his name to the Palais Brongniart, the former seat of the Paris Bourse, father of * Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847), minerologist and naturalist, father of * Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801–76), botanist, father of * Édouard-Charles Brongniart, painter and schools inspector, father of * Charles Jules Edmée Brongniart (1859–99), zoologist. |
| Bronisław Chromy (born 1925) is a Polish sculptor, medallist, painter, and draughtsman, and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Chromy is a Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters. He was born at Lencze near Lanckorona in 1925, he was educated at the Secondary School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graduating in 1956. He was a student of Xawery Dunikowski. |
| Agnolo di Cosimo (November 17, 1503 – November 23,1572), usually known as Il Bronzino, or Agnolo Bronzino (mistaken attempts also have been made in the past to assert his name was Agnolo Tori and even Angelo (Agnolo) Allori), was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. The origin of his nickname, Bronzino is unknown, but could derive from his dark complexion, or from that he gave many of his portrait subjects. |
| Brothers of the brush is a play by Jimmy Murphy, first produced by the Abbey Theatre at the 1993 Dublin Theatre Festival where it went on to win Best New Play. The play deals with house painters working in the black economy in Ireland in the 1990s. |
| Bruce McLean (born1944) is a Scottish performance artist and painter. |
| Bruce Eglinton Montgomery (born 1927) is an American composer, author, musical theater performer, painter, conductor, and director, particularly of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. |
| Bruce Pennington (born May 10, 1944 in Somerset) is a British painter, perhaps best known for his science fiction and fantasy novel cover art. Pennington's works have largely featured on the covers of novels of the likes of Isaac Asimov, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert A. Heinlein, adopting both science fiction and fantastical themes. Pennington's past of speculation and youthful wonderment lead to his current outlandish form and style. |
| Bruce Porter (23 February 1865, San Francisco - 25 November 1953, San Francisco) was a talented painter, sculptor, stained-glass designer, writer, muralist, landscape designer and art critic. He spent his youth in Martinez, California where his father was the editor of the local newspaper, but was later educated in San Francisco, Paris, London and Venice. |
| Brueghel or Bruegel (Pronounced in Dutch) was the name of several Dutch/Flemish painters from the same family line: |
| Bruno Andreas Liljefors (1860-1939) was a Swedish artist, the most important and probably the most influential wildlife painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He also drew some sequential picture stories, making him one of the early Swedish comic creators. |
| Bruno Maximus (b. 1970) is a Finnish art painter. His artistic style is "hypnorealism", or hypnotic dreamlike realism, deriving from surrealism. He has also lived and worked in Australia, Brazil, England and Hungary. |
| The Brunswick Monogrammist was an anonymous Netherlandish painter, so named for the monogram which appears on his Parable of the Great Supper. Active in the mid-to-late 16th century, he also painted several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes. One of these scenes, A Brothel Scene, resides in the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. |
| Brush Strokes was an Esmonde and Larbey sitcom set in South London and depicting the (mostly) amorous adventures of a good-looking, wisecracking house painter, Jacko (Karl Howman). |
| Brush with Fate was a made-for-TV film debuted on February 2, 2003, on CBS. It followed the life of an imaginary painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer as it passes through the hands of various people. The film was based on Girl In Hyacinth Blue, a novel by author Susan Vreeland, and starred Glenn Close and Ellen Burstyn. |
| Bryan John Dawe is best known as an Australian comedian and political satirist, but is also known for his work as a musician, songwriter, painter, and photographer. |
| Bryan Organ (born Leicester, 1935) is an English painter. |
| Walter Bryan Pearce (25 July1929 – 11 January,2007) was a British painter. He was recognised as one of the UK's leading naïve artists. |
| Bryan Wynter (September 8,1915 – February 2,1975) was one of the St. Ives group of British painters. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and settled in Zennor, Cornwall in 1945. His work was mainly abstract, drawing upon nature for inspiration. |
| The Brygos Painter was an ancient Greek Attic red-figure vase painter of the Late Archaic period. Together with Onesimos (vase painter), Douris and Makron, he is among the most important bowl painters of his time. He was active in the first third of the fifth century BCE, especially in the 480s and 470s. |
| Bryten Edward Goss (August 23, 1976–October 26, 2006), a native Californian, was a self-taught contemporary American figurative painter. He began having exhibitions in Los Angeles at the age of 16. Nancy Cartwright, Danny and Chris Masterson, Laura Prepon. Giovanni Ribisi and Kevin Smith both commissioned paintings of their wives. |
| Bsharri (also spelled Becharre, Bcharre, Bsharre; ), is a Lebanese city at 1,650 m of altitude, near the Kadisha Valley. It is located at around , in the Bsharri District of the North Governorate. Bsharri is just under the Cedar forest and is the birthplace of the famous poet, painter and sculptor Khalil Gibran. |
| Budd Hopkins (born on June 15, 1931 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a central figure in abduction phenomenon and related UFO research. He is also a painter and sculptor of note. |
| Buffet is a surname of French origin. People with the surname include: * The Buffet family of musical instrument makers, including: ** Auguste Buffet jeune ** Denis Buffet-Auger ** Jean-Louis Buffet ** Louis-Auguste Buffet. * Bernard Buffet (1928-1999), a French painter. * Louis Buffet, 19th century French statesman. * Marie-George Buffet, a French politician. |
| Bui Xuan Phai (1920-1988) was a Vietnamese painter. He is famous for the paintings of Hanoi Old Quarter. The best known of all Vietnamese modern painters, Bui Xuan Phai is respected and admired for both his art and moral character. |
| Buonamico di Martino or Buonamico Buffalmacco (active c. 1315–1336) was an Italian painter who worked in Florence, Bologna and Pisa. None of his known work has survived, although he is assumed to be the painter of The Triumph of Death, a fresco cycle in the Camposanto in Pisa. |
| Burgoyne A. Diller (1906 - 1965) was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of Piet Mondrian in particular. Overall, his Geometric abstraction and non-objective style also owe much to his study with Hans Hofmann at the Art Students League of New York. Diller's abstract work has sometimes been termed "constructivist". |
| Burhan Cahit Doğançay (born 1929 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a painter and photographer who has lived in New York City since 1962. |
| Burliuk is a surname of Ukrainian descent. It is the last name of the following people: * David Burliuk, a Ukrainian painter * Wladimir Burliuk, a Ukrainian painter |
| Burt Young (born April 30, 1940) is an American actor, painter and author. |
| Burton Silverman (1928-- ) is a noteworthy and prolific American painter. |
| The Butcher's Shop is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from the 1580s (probably 1583-1585), it is housed in the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford. |
| John Byam Liston Shaw (November 13, 1872 – January 26, 1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was an Indian-born British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher. |
| Byeon Sangbyeok, was a painter of the late Joseon period. He was born in Miryang, Gyeongsangnam-do. He entered royal service as a member of the Dohwaseo, the official painters of the Joseon court under the rule of Sukjong. Byeon was known for his vivid depiction of cats in the pictures, so was called as "Byeon Goyang", his nickname which means Byeon cat. |
| Béla Apáti Abkarovics (1888, Érdmihályfalva - 1957, Szentendre) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. His art is based upon the Nagybánya traditions of the unity of man and nature. He was equally astute in incorporating both oil, watercolour and graphics into his art. His contribution in the field of graphic arts involves sketches and linocuts, but the number of his monotypes is also considerable. |
| Béla Czóbel (1883-1976) was a Hungarian painter. He was a student of Béla Iványi Grünwald in the Nagybánya free school. He was enrolled in the Julian Academy in Paris in 1903 as a pupil of Jean Paul Laurens. His style refelcts the principles of the Nagybánya school. He met painters of the Fauves group in 1905 and thus incorporated strong colors in his works. |
| Béla Kondor (February 17, 1931-December 12, 1972) was a Hungarian painter, prose writer, poet, photographer, and avant-garde graphic artist. |
| C.N. Liew is a renowned Malaysian Chinese painter and calligrapher best known for his creation of [Surrealligraphy]http://www.designenterprise.com/category/designerartist/'. |
| Claude Gibney Finch-Davies (24 May 1875 – 4 August 1920) was a British soldier, ornithologist and painter who produced a series of paintings of birds of South Africa in the early part of the 20th century. |
| C. N. Karunakaran is an internationally renowned painter from India. He is the Chairman of Kerala Lalitakala Academy. He was born in 1940 at Brahmakulam, Near Guruvayur, Trissur District, Kerala. This versatile artist has achieved world-wide acclaim for his artistic variety. |
| C.N. Liew is a renown Malaysian Chinese painter and calligrapher best known for his creation of 'Surrealligraphy'. |
| C. Raja Raja Varma was an accomplished Indian painter. He is more famous as the youngest brother of the Famous painter Raja Ravi Varma. He acted assistant, secretary, and business manager of Raja Ravi Varma. |
| Caesar Andrade Faini (b. 1913, Quito, Ecuador) is a master Ecuadorian painter and teacher who studied at the School of Fine Arts of Quito under the painter Victor Mideros. Andrade's initial work focused on Social Realism like his contemporaries Eduardo Kingman, Oswaldo Guayasamin, Camilo Egas and Bolivar Mena Franco, as well as many others. In 1937, Andrade created a series of dark images for his thesis called, Social Misery. |
| Caesar van Everdingen (1616/17, Alkmaar - buried Oct 13 1678, Alkmaar), older brother of Allart van Everdingen, was a Dutchman mainly known as a portrait painter. Like Caesar, his brother Allart was also a painter. |
| Cagnaccio di San Pietro (January 14, 1897 – May 29, 1946), born Natale Bentivoglio Scarpa, was an Italian magic realist painter. |
| The Calcutta Group was the first group of modern artists in India, formed in 1943 in Kolkata. Its leading members included the sculptor Pradosh Das Gupta and the painters Paritosh Sen, Gopal Ghose, Nirode Mazumdar and Zainul Abedin. The group held exhibitions from 1945, and held a joint exhibition in 1950 with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group (which became more influential). |
| Caldo Verde Records is a San Francisco-based indie rock and folk record label founded by Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek in 2005. |
| Cali is a surname and may refer to: * Carmen Cali (born 1978), American baseball player * Giuseppe Calì (1846–1930), Maltese painter * Giuseppe Cali (golfer) (born 1952), Italian golfer * Joe Cali, industrial designer * Joseph Cali (born 1950), American actor * Jua Cali, (born 1979), Kenyan musician |
| Callum Innes (born 1962) is a Scottish abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee. |
| Calvert Richard Jones (December 4 1804 – November 7 1877), was a Welsh mathematician and painter, best known for his seascapes. |
| Calvin Maglinger (b. December 5, 1924 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American fine-art painter. |
| The Camden Town Group was a group of English Post-Impressionist artists during 1911-1913. They gathered frequently at the studio of painter Walter Sickert in the Camden Town area of London. |
| Camil Ressu (January 28, 1880 – April 1, 1962) was a Romanian painter and academic, one of the most significant art figures of Romania. |
| Camilla d'Errico (September 30, 1980) is a Canadian visual artist based out of Vancouver, BC, who creates artwork for comic books. She is also also a painter who has recently entered the Los Angeles art scene, showing at galleries in the Lowbrow genre. Her style is heavily influenced by manga and her use of bright colours and ability to convey intense emotions is a hallmark of her work. |
| Camille Bombois (February 3, 1883 – June 6, 1970) was a French naïve painter especially noted for paintings of circus scenes. |
| Camille Pissarro (July 10 1830 – November 13 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne. |
| Camille Roqueplan (* 18 February 1802 in Mallemort; † 30 September 1855 in Paris) was a French painter. |
| Camille Utterback is an interactive installation artist. Initially trained as a painter, her work is at the intersection of painting and interactive art. |
| Camillo Ballini was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. He trained with Palma il Giovane in Venice, and was employed with him in the decoration of the Ducal palace with historical paintings during the 1570s. He also helped fresco the exterior facades of palaces. |
| Camillo Berlinghieri (1590 or 1605 - 1635) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Ferrara. He trained with Carlo Bononi. Among his paintings was a Gathering of the Manna in San Niccolo; and an Annunciation for Sant Antonio Abbate in Ferrara. His works are chiefly at Ferrara and at Venice, where he was called Il Ferraresino. He died at Ferrara. |
| Camillo Boccaccino (c. 1504 - 1546) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy. He was the son and pupil of the painter Boccaccio Boccaccino. He was known to Gian Paolo Lomazzo and Giorgio Vasari. He painted the four evangelists (1537) in the niches of the cupola of San Sigismondo at Cremona. |
| Camillo Procaccini (1551 - August 21, 1629) was an Italian painter. He has been posthumously referred to as the Vasari of Lombardy, for his prolific Mannerist fresco decoration. |
| Camillo Rama was an Italian painter, active in his native of Brescia circa1622. |
| Camillo Rizzi (1580 - 1618) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Ferrara. He was a pupil of the painter Ippolito Scarsella. |
| Camillo Sitte (born 17 April 1843, died 16 November 1903 in Vienna) was a noted Austrian architect, painter and city planning theoretician with great influence and authority of the development of urban construction planning and regulation in Europe. |
| Camillo Tinti (born c. 1738) was an Italian painter. He was born in Rome, was employed by Gavin Hamilton to engrave some of the plates for his Schola Itálica; among these were the following: The Marriage of St. Catherine after Parmigianino; Meleager and Atalanta after Polidoro da Caravaggio; and Christ on the Mount of Olives after Giovanni Lanfranco. |
| Camilo Mori (b. September 24, 1896 in Valparaíso, Chile – d. December 7, 1973 in Santiago) was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse. He is a son of Japanese settlers. Chileans at first may had thought that his surname Mori is Spanish spelled without an acute accent mark above letter “i” since morí is Spanish for “I died.” |
| Camphuysen is the name of: * Dirk Rafelsz Camphuysen (1586-1627), Dutch painter, poet and theologian * Govert Dircksz Camphuysen (c. 1623-1672), Dutch Baroque era painter |
| Candido Portinari (December 29, 1903 - February 6, 1962) was one of the most important Brazilian painters and also a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting. |
| Candido Vitali (1680-1753) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born in Bologna. He trained under Cignani and devoted himself to painting still lifes of animals, birds, flower, and fruit. |
| Jeremy Caniglia (1970- ) is an American figurative painter and illustrator, primarily in fantasy and horror genres. He has done book and magazine illustration, conceptual artwork, book and album covers, and comic books, and his work is in several important public collections including the Joslyn Art Museum and Iowa State University. His art has also been shown at the Society of Illustrators' Museum of Illustration. |
| Canton Viaduct is a stone viaduct that spans the Neponset River in Canton, Massachusetts. It was built in 1835 by Boston and Providence Railroad and was designed by Captain William Gibbs McNeill and Major George Washington Whistler, the father of well-known painter James Whistler. |
| Caprichos is a set of 80 aquatint prints created by the Spanish master-painter Francisco Goya during the 1790s. |
| Caravaggio (1986) is a British film directed by Derek Jarman. The film is a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. |
| Carel Fabritius (bapt. Feb 27 1622, Middenbeemster - Oct 12 1654, Delft) was a Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils. |
| Carel Weight (1907 – 13 August 1997) was an English painter. |
| Albert Carel Willink (7 March 1900 – 19 October 1983) was a well known Dutch painter who called his style of Magic realism "imaginary realism". |
| Carel de Moor (Feb 25 1655, Leiden - Feb 16 1738, Leiden or Warmond) was a Dutch etcher and painter. |
| Carel de Vogelaer (1653, Maastricht - 8 August 1695, Rome) was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period primarily active in Italy. |
| Carl-Henning Pedersen (23 September 1913–20 February 2007) was a Danish painter and a key member of the COBRA movement. He was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall", and was one of the leading Danish artists of the second half of the 20th century. |
| Carl Abrahams (May 14 1911 - April 10 2005) was a Jamaican painter from the parish of St. Andrew. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica and began his career in commercial art began at the age of 17 as a cartoonist and an illustrator for The Daily Gleaner and The Jamaica Times.In 1937, while on a working holiday in Jamaica, Augustus John, the iconic British artist, encouraged Abrahams to begin painting professionally. |
| Count Carl August Ehrensvärd (born May 5, 1745 in Stockholm; died May 21, 1800 in Örebro) was a Swedish naval officer, painter, author, and neo-classical architect. |
| Carl Blechen (July 29, 1798 – July 23, 1840), sometimes given as Karl Blechen, was a German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes, sometimes with demons and grotesque figures. |
| Carl Conjola (1773-1831) was a German landscape painter in water colors and oil. He was born in Mannheim, and died in [[Munich]. His painted mainly views of the mountains of Bavaria and the Tyrol. |
| Carl Ferdinand Fabritius (1637 in Warsaw – 21 January 1673 in Vienna) was a painter in the Bishopric of Paderborn (German: Fürstbistum Paderborn). Paderborn prince-bishop (German: Fürstbischof) Ferdinand II. von Fürstenberg commissioned Fabritius to paint 63 landscape paintings of the towns and villages in his diocese from 1664 to 1667. The paintings were commissioned for display at the prince-bishop's home, [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloß_Neuhaus Schloß Neuhaus] in Paderborn. |
| Carl Fredrik Hill (31 May 1849 - 22 February 1911) was a Swedish painter. He painted mostly landscapes. He spent some years in a mental hospital. Despair and darkness is seen in his paintings, such as the painting with the graveyard or "stegrande häst i soluppgång". He had three sisters and was very shy. |
| Carl Grossberg (1894 – 1940) was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity movement. |
| ) was one of Sweden's most popular historical painters in the 19th century. He was born in 1851 in Kungsör, between Arboga and Eskilstuna at Lake Mälaren, Sweden, where he grew up and went to school. |
| Carl Gustaf Pilo (c. 1711 – March 2, 1793) was a Swedish-born artist and painter, one of many 18th century European artists who had to leave their own country in order to make a living. Pilo worked extensively in Denmark as a painter to the Danish Court and as professor and director at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Danish: Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi), as well as in his native Sweden. |
| Carl Gustav Carus (1789 – 1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born at Leipzig. |
| Carl Haag (April 20, 1820 - January 14, 1915) was a German-born painter who became a naturalized British citizen, and court painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. |
| Carl Heinrich Bloch (May 23, 1834 – February 22, 1890) was a Danish painter. |
| Karl Hofer or Carl Hofer, (Karlsruhe, 11 October 1878 - West Berlin, West Germany, 3 April 1955) was a German expressionist painter. One of the most prominent painters of expressionism, he never was a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, like "Die Brücke", who influenced him. His work was considered degenerate art by the Nazis, and only after World War II did he regain recognition as one of the greatest German painters. |
| Carl Larsson (May 28, 1853–January 22, 1919) was a Swedish painter and interior designer. |
| Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (1861 – 1945) was a prominent painter active in Vienna at the start of the 20th century. He was also the stepfather of Alma Mahler-Werfel . |
| Carl Oskar Borg (1879 - 1947) was a Swedish painter who emigrated to the United States around 1900. Borg was influenced by the nature of Arizona and New Mexico, and his works were widespread in American galleries. |
| Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922) is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. The son of Irving and Bessie (Mathias) Reiner, he is the father of actor-turned-director Rob Reiner (b. 1945), poet, playwright and author Sylvia Anne (Annie) Reiner (b. 1947) and painter, actor, director Lucas Reiner (b. 1960), and husband of Estelle Lebost Reiner (b. 1914). |
| Carl Rottmann (b. January 11 1797 in Handschuhsheim – d. July 7 1850, Munich) was a German landscape painter and the most famous member of the Rottmann family of painters. |
| Carl Eduard Schuch (30 September, 1846 - 13 September, 1903) was an Austrian painter, born in Vienna, who spent most of his lifetime outside Austria, in Germany, Italy and France. He painted primarily still lifes and landscapes. |
| Carl Spitzweg (February 5, 1808 - September 23, 1885) was a German romanticist painter and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of the Biedermeier era. |
| Carl von Hanno (1901–1953) was a Norwegian painter. |
| Carleton Wiggins (1848- ? ) was an American landscape and cattle painter. He was born in Orange Co., N. Y., and studied in New York at the National Academy of Design and with George Inness, and in Paris, and settled in New York. His landscape were executed in broad flowing lines, with a rich low-toned color scheme, and often contain cattle, solidly and realistically portrayed. |
| Carlier is the last name of * Vincent Carlier, a French footballer * one of the protagonists in Joseph Conrad's story An Outpost of Progress * Dominique Carlier (born 1959), footballer and coach * Guy Carlier (born 1949), French author and chronicler * Modeste Carlier (1820 - 1878), Belgian painter, lauréat of the Prix de Rome * Pierre Carlier, prefect of the Paris police (1849-51) * Rudy Carlier (born 1986), French footballer * René Carlier, 17th century French architect |
| Carlo Ademollo (Florence, 1824 – 1911) is an Italian painter. |
| Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active as a painter of perspective and theatrical decorations at Bologna and Genoa about 1690. He engraved a series of architectural subjects, and decorations for the theatre, after Francesco Galli Bibiena, and others after Marcantonio Chiarini. |
| Carlo Antonio Porporati (1741-1816) was an Italian engraver and painter. He was born at Volvera near Turin. |
| Carlo Antonio Procaccini (born 1555) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. |
| Carlo Antonio Rambaldi (1680-1717 was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Bologna. He was a pupil of Domenico Vianni. He painted a Death of St. Joseph’‘ for the church of S. Gregorio; a Visitation’‘ for San Giuseppe ; and a St. Francis Xavier’‘ for the church of Santa Lucia. He also painted in Macerata. |
| Carlo Antonio Tavella (1668 - 1738) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. |
| Carlo Arienti (1800- 3 April, 1873) was an Italian painter. He was born in Bologna, and trained in the Brera Academy. He was a professor of art in the same academy, when he was commissioned to paint the staircase of the royal palace in Turin with a depiction of the victory of the Italian army over the Austrians. This exiled him from Milan, but he was made president of the Academia Albertini in Turin, then of the art academy in Bologna. |
| Carlo Bacchiocco was an Italian painter, born in Milan. The volume Scelle Pitture di Brescia mentions several of his pictures in Brescia, particularly in the church of SS. Giacomo e Filippo. |
| Carlo Biffi (1605-1675) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born Milan, where he trained with Camillo Procaccini. |
| Carlo Bolognini (1678-1704) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was mentioned in the Abecedario Pittorico of Padre Orlandi, was born at Bologna in 1678 ( though Zani says 1662), and was first a pupil of Mauro Aldrovaridini, then worked with Giulio Trogli. He excelled in painting quadratura, and was much employed at Vienna. |
| Carlo Bonavia was an Italian painter known for idyllic landscape paintings, engravings and drawings. He was active from 1740 until his death in 1788. He is thought to be from Rome, but worked in Naples from about 1751 to 1788. He was trained in the Neapolitan landscape tradition of Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) and Leonardo Coccorante (1680-1750), but was much more strongly influenced by the work of Claude Joseph Vernet, who visited Naples in 1737 and 1746. |
| Carlo Bononi (1569 - c. 1632) was an Italian painter. Born and active mainly in Emilia and Ferrara, and considered to be mainly a painter of the School of Ferrara. He studied painting under Giuseppe Mazzuoli, known as il Bastarolo. Knew Guercino and was eulogized by Guido Reni as having a "bounty of a most honest life, a great knowledge of design, and strength in colorizing". Bononi rose to prominence in Ferrara when the painter Scarsellino died, and the former called to Rome. |
| Carlo Bozzoni (c. 1605-1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He trained with his father, the painter and engraver, Luciano Bozzoni. |
| Carlo Cane (1618-1688) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Gallarate, a small town near Milan. He was instructed by Melchiore Gilardini. He copied the works of Morazzone with success, and became a historical painter, particularly in fresco. He painted in fresco a St. Ambrose and St. Hugo in the Certosa at Padua. He also painted landscapes and animals. He died at Milan. |
| Carlo Carpioni was an Italian painter. He was the son of Giulio Carpioni. He was born about the middle of the 17th century. He was educated by his father, after whose style he painted a few pictures, but he is better known by his portraits. In the Council-chamber at Vicenza and in the convent of the Servîtes at Monte Berico there are some groups of portraits of magistrates, which show an ingenious and elevated imagination. |
| Carlo Carrà (February 11 1881—April 13 1966) was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art. He was long a teacher in the city of Milan. |
| Carlo Ceresa (1609-1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period mainly active around Bergamo. |
| Carlo Cesi (1626-1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He was a pupil of the painter Pietro da Cortona. One of his pupils was Angelo Massarotti from Cremona. |
| Carlo Cignani (May 15, 1628 - September 6, 1719) was an Italian painter of the Bolognese school, active in the Baroque period. |
| Carlo Coppola (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his natal city of Naples. He was a pupil of the battle-painter Aniello Falcone, and was adept at the same topic. He is said to have enjoyed himself during the day, thus spent nights painting by candle-light, only within a short time, to become blind |
| Carlo Cornara (1605-1673) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, He was born in Milan, where he became a pupil of Camillo Procaccini. He did not produce many works. He painted a St. Benedict for the Certosa of Pavia. One of his pupils was the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione, who was active in China. |
| Carlo Cozza (c. 1700-1769) was an Italian painter, the son of Giovanni Battista Cozza. He was born and died in Ferrara. He trained under his father, and painted mainly for the churches of his native city. In the Chiesa Nuova is a picture by him of the Annunciation; in the church of Santa Lucia of 'St. Anthony the Abbot; and in San Matteo of 'St. Francis of Paola’‘. |
| Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (25 May, 1616 - 17 January, 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. |
| Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1609-1702) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Lombardy. |
| Carlo Frigerio (5 April, 1763 - 5 December, 1800) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia. He was a pupil of Santo Cattaneo. |
| Carlo Girolamo Bersotti (1645- died 1700s) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, specialized in painting still lifes. He was born in Pavia, and trained with Andrea Sacchi. Also called Borsotti. |
| Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (1737-1795) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Agostino Ratti, a pupil of Savona. Born in Genoa, he moved to Rome where he befriened Anton Raphael Mengs and Pompeo Batoni. He added to Rafaello Soprani’s history of Genoese painters: Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti genovesi first published in 1769 in Genoa. He painted an Annunciation for the church of Santa Maria delle Vigne in Genoa. |
| Carlo Ignazio Pozzi (1786-1842), was a painter and architect, was born at Mannheim, Germany, to a Swiss father, Francesco Pozzi (stuccoist), and studied at the Academy of his native city. |
| Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686-1775) was an Italian painter and engraver, active especially in Germany. |
| Carlo Lamparelli was an Italian painter. active as a portrait and historical painter, who flourished about 1680. Born in the town of Spello. He was a pupil of Giacinto Brandi. |
| Carlo Magini (1720-1806) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Fano. He painted still lifes in a style reminiscent of Spanish bodegon paintings. |
| Carlo Maratta or Maratti (May 13, 1625 - December 15 1713) was an Italian painter of High Baroque, active mostly in Rome. |
| Carlo Moscatiello (1650-1739) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active near his natal city of Naples. He was active in quadratura. |
| Carlo Portelli (16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Florence. He is also called Porteolli or Carlo di Galeotto Partelli da Loro Born in Loro in the Valdarno. He was a pupil of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. The artist Vasari took note of his abilities. He painted several pictures for the churches of Florence, especially for Santa Maria Maggiore. On October 15, 1574, he was buried in San Pancrazio. |
| Carlo Restallino (1776-1864) was an Italian painter and engraver. |
| Carlo Ridolfi (1594 - 1658) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the Baroque period. |
| Carlo Sacchi (1617-1706) was an Italian painter of the baroque period. |
| Carlo Salis (1680 - 1763) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona. He was initially a pupil of the painter Alessandro Marchesini, then went to work under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole and later with Antonio Balestra in Venice. |
| Carlo Saraceni (Venice c. 1570-Venice, 16 June 1620) was an Italian early-Baroque painter. |
| Carlo Giuseppe Suarès (1892–1976) was a French writer, painter and Kabbalah author. He was born the 12 May 1892 in Alexandria, Egypt. The ancestors of his Sepharad Jewish family had been expelled from Spain in 1492 and found refuge in Italy before immigrating to Egypt. He died in Paris the 16 July 1976. |
| Carlo Urbina (16th century) was an Italian painter, active in Crema. He painted for the town-hall, and for churches of Milan. The Brera has a Baptism of Christ by him. |
| Carlos Berlanga (born Carlos García Berlanga, 1959 in Madrid, d. 2002) was a Spanish musician, composer and painter. He was an influential figure in the Spanish music scene of the 1980s, especially in his various collaborations with the singer Alaska, such as Alaska y Dinarama and Alaska y los Pegamoides. He was the son of Luis García Berlanga, a Spanish film director. |
| Carlos Botelho or Bottelho Chaves, 1964 is a Portuguese painter and sculptor. He currently lives in Lisbon. He created the Monument to the Fireman. |
| Carlos Catasse (b. 1944, Santiago, Chile) full name Carlos Tapia Sepúlveda, Catasse formed his new last name by taking the first two letters of his first, middle and last name and combining them. Catasse is a Master Chilean painter of international recognition. Since 1969 he has lived and painted in Quito, Ecuador, the country that in 1987 granted him with the highest distinction that an artist can achieve, the "Painting National Prize". |
| Carlos Cañas is a Salvadorian painter. |
| Carlos Enrique Polanco is a Peruvian pop impressionist painter. Since his beginnings he was attracted to the less privileged urban sectors of Lima City. When he studied in School of Fine Arts, his work reflected the iconography and color of the Peruvian urban night life. Polanco is an artist with a social commitment. |
| Carlos Enríquez Gómez (August 3 1900 - May 2 1957), was a Cuban painter, illustrator and writer of the Vanguardia movement (the Cuban Avant-garde). Along with Víctor Manuel, Amelia Peláez, Fidelio Ponce and Antonio Gattorno, and other masters of this period, he was involved in one of the most fertile moments in Cuban culture. He is considered by critics to be one of the best, and most original, Cuban artists of the 20th century. |
| Carlos Francisco Chang Marín or Changmarín (born February 26, 1922) is a Panamanian folklorist, painter, musician, journalist, activist and writer (poetry, essays, children's literature, among others). |
| Carlos Fuentes Lemus (1973-1999) was a Mexican writer, photographer,painter and director. He was the son of famous Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes and interviewer Silvia Lemus. |
| Carlos Jacanamijoy (born in Santiago, Putumayo in 1964) is a Colombian painter of native South American origin. His artwork has been exhibited in more than 25 individual shows and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of the American Indian as well as several Colombian museums. He lives in New York City. |
| Carlos María Herrera (December 18, 1875 - 1914) was a Uruguayan painter. |
| Carlos Rodriguez Cardenas is one of the most relevant Cuban painter of the Generation of the 80s. |
| Carlos Schwabe (1877 - 1927) was a Swiss-German Symbolist painter. |
| Carlos Sotomayor (1911 – 1988) was a Chilean painter, born in La Serena, Chile. He is considered to be one of the principal exponents of the cubism from South America. |
| Carmen Lundy (b. November 1, 1954) is an American jazz singer, composer, songwriter, actress, and [[painting| painter]]. Has accomplished the near impossible for a jazz singer by maintaining a solid, successful, three-decade career while focusing largely on original, self-penned material. Lundy has a musical style that is unique and progressive. |
| Carol Parks (born Carol Celeste Carmichael, 30 November 1949, Pasadena, California) is a zine author, composer, painter, journal artist, and Wikipedia autobiographer. She is married to fellow musician Dean Parks. Both of them live in Los Angeles, California. |
| Carol Vox was a pseudonym used by American painter William Houghton Sprague Pearce (WHS Pearce) during the early 1900's on his literary projects. His children's books and a book of limericks, The Sphinx and the Mummy were illustrated by his longtime friend, Boylston Dummer. |
| Carole Dekeijser is a Belgian painter, mainly known for her monumental figuratives paintings, for example : Hypnos and Thanathos, Yin-Yang the global Change or the Sacring of Jeanne d'Arc. She is also the author of many abstractives paintings. |
| Caroline Chariot-Dayez (b. Brussels, 11 September 1958) is a Belgian hyperrealistic painter. |
| Caroline Kennedy is an Australian singer-songwriter, painter and sculptor.She is also known as Caroline Kennedy-McCracken. She lives and works in the Melbourne area. |
| Carolus-Duran was the name adopted by the French painter Charles Auguste Émile Durand (July 4, 1837 - 1917), who was born at Lille. |
| Carpoforo Tencalla (or Tencala (10 September 1623 - 9 March 1685) was an influential Swiss-Italian Baroque painter of canvases and frescoes. He is little studied and has come only recently to the attention of art critics. He introduced the style of 17th-century Italian painting with its mythological subjects to Central Europe, reviving the art of fresco on large surfaces. |
| Carrière is a surname, and may refer to : *Élie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896), a French botanist *Eugène Anatole Carrière (1849-1906), a French lithographer and painter. *Jean-Claude Carrière (b. 1931), a French screenwriter, actor and frequent collaborator with Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel *Eric Carrière (b. 1973), a French football player |
| Carroll Cloar (January 18, 1913 – April 10, 1993) was a nationally known 20th century painter born in Earle, Arkansas, who focused his work on surreal views of Southern U.S. themes and on poetically portraying childhood memories of natural scenery, buildings, and people, often working from old photographs found in his family albums. |
| Carron Angus Cyril Oliver Lodge (abt 1883- 24th June, 1910) was an English figure and landscape painter. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1906 and 1910. |
| A casket, or a jewelry box, also called a casket, is a receptacle for trinkets and jewels. It may take a very modest form, covered in leather and lined with satin, or it may reach the monumental proportions of the jewel cabinets which were made for Marie Antoinette, one of which is at Windsor, and another at Versailles, the work of Schwerdfeger as cabinet maker, Degault as miniature painter, and Thomire as chaser. |
| Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th century German Romantic painter, considered by many critics to be one of the finest representatives of the movement. |
| Gaspar de Crayer (1582, Antwerp - 1669, Ghent) sometimes called Gaspard or Caspar de Crayer was a Flemish painter. |
| Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. (11 November 1912 – 8 February 1990) was the father of three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali (b. 1942) and Rudolph Valentino Clay, who is now named Rahman Ali, and also was the grandfather of Muhammad's daughter Laila Ali. He married Odessa Grady Clay (1917-1994) in the 1930sand worked as a painter and a musician. |
| Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (September 18, 1844-January 13, 1934) was a United States painter best known for a series of nine paintings of anthropomorphized Dogs Playing Poker. |
| Castellino Castello (1580 - 1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. He trained with Giovanni Battista Paggi. |
| Castera Bazile (7 October 1923 - 1966) was a Haitian painter. Born in Jacmel, Bazile painted several murals in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince. He won the grand prize at the Caribbean International Competition in 1955. |
| The Castle of Púbol is located in Girona, in the Baix Empordà region of Catalonia, Spain. It was the home to surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and his wife Gala (she is buried at the castle). |
| Cat's Eye is a 1988 novel by Margaret Atwood. In it, painter Elaine Risley vividly reflects on her childhood and teenage years. Her strongest memories are of Cordelia, who was the leader of a trio of girls who were both very cruel and very kind to young Elaine, in ways that tint Elaine's perceptions of relationships and her world—not to mention her art—into the character's middle years. |
| Catarina or La Fille du Bandit is a ballet in 3 Acts-4 Scenes, with choreography by Jules Perrot, and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by Jules Perrot, based on an incident in the life of the Italian painter Salvatore Rosa. |
| Caterina Ginnasi (1590 – 30 November, 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. She was the pupil of the painter Giovanni Lanfranco. In Rome, she painted altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia. She was the niece of the patron and builder of the church, Cardinal Ginnasi. She would have been a contemporary of Giovanna Garzoni. |
| Caterina Tarabotti (active 1659) was an Italian woman painter of the Baroque. She was born in Vicenza, and a pupil of Alessandro Varotari and his sister Chiara. She practiced chiefly in Verona, where she painted historical pictures. |
| Caterina van Hemessen (1528 – after 1587) was a Flemish Renaissance painter. She is the earliest female Flemish painter for whom there is verifiable extant work. |
| Paolo Moranda Cavazzola (1486-1522) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in his hometown of Verona. He appears to have been a pupil of one of the brothers Morone, likely Francesco Morone. He painted in a style resembling that of Giorgione. |
| Cecily Brown (born 1969 in London) is a British painter. Her education includes a BA in Fine Arts, Slade School of Art, London (1989-93), drawing and Printmaking classes, Morley College, London between the years 1987-89 and a B-TEC Diploma in Art and Design, Epsom School of Art, Surrey, England (1985-87). After graduating from the Slade she received a Churchill Memorial Scholarship to work in New York where she lives and has been based for most of her career. |
| Cesare Bassano (1584 – 1648) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born at Milan. He engraved: *Portrait of Gaspar Assellius *A Funeral Frontispiece of Francesco Piccolomini *Nativity |
| Cesare Bernazano (active c. 1530) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Milan, and painted still lifes with landscapes, animals, and fruit. The figures in his landscapes are generally painted by Cesare da Sesto. |
| Cesare Corte (1554 - 1613) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. |
| Cesare Dandini (October 1, 1596 - February 7, 1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. He was the older brother of the painter Vincenzo Dandini (1609-1675). His nephew, Pietro was a pupil of Vincenzo, and Pietro's two sons, Ottaviano Dandini and the jesuit Vincenzo also worked as painters in Florence. According the the biographer Baldinucci, Cesare first worked under Francesco Curradi, then Cristofano Allori, and finally Domenico Passignano. |
| Cesare Gennari (1641 - 1688) was an Italian painter of Baroque period. He trained in the studio of his uncle, Guercino, in Bologna. Cesare's father, Benedetto Gennari the Senior, as well as Cesare's brother, Benedetto Gennari the younger were also painters in the circle of Guercino. |
| Cesare Ligario (1716- after 1755) was an Italian painter. He was born in Milan, the son of Giovanni Pietro Ligario. He studied at Venice under Giovanni Battista Pittoni, and afterwards with his father. |
| Cesare Mariani (1826 - 1901) was an Italian painter and architect of the late-19th century, active in Rome and Ascoli Piceno. He continued the inveterate tradition of Italian religious frescoes with work at the cathedral of Sant'Emidio in Ascoli Piceno, the church of Madonna delle Grazie in the city of Teramo in the region of Abruzzo and the churches of Santa Maria in Aquiro, Santa Maria del Suffragio, and Santo Stefano del Cacco. |
| Cesare Nebbia (c. 1536 - c. 1614) is an Italian painter from Orvieto who painted in a Mannerist style. |
| Cesare Pascarella (28 April 1858 - 8 May 1940), was an Italian dialect poet and a painter, appointed to the Accademia d’Italia in 1930. |
| Cesare Pronti (1626-1708) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly near Ravenna. |
| Cesare Tamarozzo or Tamaroccio was a Italian painter of the School of Bologna, active during the of the early 16th century, the pupil of Francesco Francia. |
| Cesare Torelli Romano was an Italian painter. |
| Cesare Turco (c. 1510-c. 1560) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Ischitella near Naples. He was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio d'Amato but afterwards studied under Andrea Sabbatini. He painted for the churches and public buildings of Naples. He painted the Baptism of Christ by St. John in Santa Maria delle Grazie and a Circumcision for the Jesuits' church. Turco died in Naples. |
| Cesare Vecellio (c. 1530- c. 1601) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance, active in Venice. |
| Chaïm Soutine (1893 – August 9, 1943) was a Jewish expressionist painter from the Russian Empire. |
| Cecco Bravo (15 November 1601 – 1661) was a Florentine painter of the Baroque period. His true name is Francesco Montelatici. |
| Cecil Gordon Lawson (December 3, 1851 - June 10, 1882), was an English landscape painter. |
| Cecil King (1921 - 1986) was an Irish abstract-minimalist painter. |
| Cecil Mary Leslie (1900-1980) was an engraver, portrait painter, sculptor and illustrator. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools, and exhibited from 1923 until 1939 at the Royal Academy; the Society of Women Artists; the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts; the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; the New English Art Club; the Royal Society of British Artists; the Royal Cambrian Academy; and the Royal Scottish Academy. |
| Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Fort Worth, Texas. Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group's Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists. |
| Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 7,1942) was an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent. Her sympathetic representations of American aristocracy made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era. |
| The Cedar Tavern (or Cedar Street Tavern) is a bar and restaurant in New York City at 82 University Place between 11th and 12th Streets. It is famous as a former hangout of many prominent Abstract Expressionist painters and beat writers. The establishment was located at 24 University Place in its heyday, but moved three blocks north in 1963. |
| Ceija Stojka (b. 23 March 1933 at Steiermark) is an Austrian Romani writer, painter and musician, survivor of the Holocaust. |
| Celeste Newbrough (b. 1939-) is a novelist, essayist, poet, and painter whose works have been widely published. She was born in New Orleans, the daughter of Southern representation painter, Norita Massicot Newbrough, and she is a descendant of spiritualist author John Ballou Newbrough. She lives in Berkeley, California. |
| Cedric Smith (born 1971) is an African American artistic painter. His work uses a mixed-media technique combining aged photographs with acrylic paint and pieces of fabric. His work aims to promote positive images of African Americans. |
| Cenninod'Andrea Cennini (c. 1370 – c. 1440) was an Italian painter influenced by Giotto. He was a student of Agnolo Gaddi.Cennini was born in Colle Val d'Elsa, Tuscany. |
| Cephas Thompson (July 1 1775 – November 6 1856) was a successful, self-taught, early nineteenth-century portrait painter in the United States, who was born, died, and lived most of his life in Middleborough, Massachusetts. |
| Ceri Geraldus Richards (June 6, 1903 - November 9, 1971), was a Welsh painter. |
| Cesare Arbasia (1540s - 1614) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period. |
| Cesare Aretusi (c. 1580-1612) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. |
| Cesare Baglioni (c. 1525-1590) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He trained under his father, then became renown as a painter of quadratura. He painted in Parma and Rome. He befriended both Agostino and Annibale Carracci. He is not to be confused with the Baroque painter and art historian, Giovanni Baglione. |
| Cesare da Sesto (1477 - 1523) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Milan and elsewhere in Italy. |
| Cesario Renzi was an Italian painter of the late 17th century, during the Baroque period. He was born in San Ginesio and became a pupil of Guido Reni. |
| H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche (1930-2002) was a renowned teacher of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. He was known and respected in the West for his teachings, and also for his melodic chanting voice, his artistry as a sculptor and painter, his limitless compassion, and his sense of humor. He was the source of treasured Nyingma lineage transmissions for the thousands of people whom he taught in North and South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. |
| Chalermchai Kositpipat , born February 15, 1955 in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, is a Thai visual artist. Primarily a painter, Chalermchai's works have been exhibited worldwide, and he is known for his use of Buddha images in his art. |
| Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (1820 Laon - 1889 Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury, was a French art critic, and supporter of the French Realist painters. |
| Robert "Chance" Browne (b. 17 June 1948) is an American musician, painter, and cartoonist. He was born in New York City. |
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| Charles Bird King (September 26, 1785, Newport, Rhode Island - March 18, 1862, Washington, DC) was a United States painter, remembered for his portraits of prominent native Americans as well as society figures in Washington, DC during the 1820s.[http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/notables/cbking.htm][http://www.caldwellgallery.com/bios/kingbio.html][http://www.fineartsouth.com/index.cfm?PageID=11&ItemID=6112052&ArtistID=1347&CFID=2147402&CFTOKEN=d699814438a5380e-B3E23A8A-C056-E183-0BB095E827EDB855] |
| Charles-Emile Jacque (23 May 1813 - 7 May 1894) was a French painter of animals (animalier) and engraver who was, with Jean-François Millet, part of the Barbizon School. He first learned to engrave maps when he spent seven years in the French Army. |
| Charles Jervas [Jarvis] (c. 1675 – 1739) was an Irish portrait painter, translator, and art collector of the early 18th century. |
| Chanthou Oeur, also known as O'Bon, is a Cambodian painter and sculptor living in the United States since the 1980s. |
| Chao Meng-Fu is a 167 kilometer-diameter crater on Mercury named after the Chinese painter and calligrapher Zhao Mengfu (1254 - 1322). Due to its location near Mercury's south pole (132.4° west, 87.3° south) and the planet's small axial tilt, an estimated 40% of the crater lies in permanent shadow. |
| A character sketch is an abbreviated portrayal of a particular characteristic of people. The term originates in portraiture, where the character sketch is a common academic exercise. Following the translation of Theophrastus's Characters into English, a number of British and American painters attempted to illustrate the "types" of humanity. As late as William Hogarth, portraitists were doing studies of (in his case), Nine heads. |
| Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (August 25, 1719 – November 15, 1795) was a French painter of allegorical scenes and portraits. |
| Carle or Charles-André van Loo (15 February 1705 – 15 July 1765) was a French subject painter, and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His oeuvre includes every category: religion, history, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genre scenes. |
| Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) was a French painter, art commentator, and playwright. He lived in Paris. He was the son of the artist Antoine Coypel and grandson of Noël Coypel.Charles-Antoine inherited his father’s design and painting duties as premier peintre du roi (First Painter to the King) at the French court when his father died in 1722. He became premier peintre du roi and director of the Académie Royale in 1747. |
| Charles-François-Prosper Guérin (Sens, 1875-1939) was a French post-impressionist painter. He studied with Gustave Moreau in the l'École des Beaux Arts à Paris, and mad one exhibition in Grafton Galleries. He was Jean Michel Prosper Guérin’s son.. |
| Charles-François Daubigny (Paris, February 15 1817 – February 19 1878 in Paris) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism. |
| Charles Francois Poerson (1653-1725) was a French painter. He was director of the French Academy in Rome from 1704 until his death. He was buried in San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. |
| Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 — 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751-1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Boucher, he played a prominent role in the artistic life of France. |
| Charles-Louis Clérisseau (28 August 1721–9 January 1820), the French architectural draughtsman, antiquary, and artist, occupies a unique position in the genesis of neoclassical architecture during the second half of the 18th century. He was a pupil of the painter of ruins Giovanni Paolo Pannini and a former student at the French Academy in Rome, which he left in 1754 after a dispute with its director, Natoire. |
| Charles Alexander Smith (1864–1915) was a Canadian painter from Ontario. |
| Charles Allston Collins (25 January, 1828 – 9 April, 1873) was a British painter and writer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. |
| Charles Théophile Angrand (April 19 1854 - April 1 1926) was a French neo-Impressionist painter and anarchist. |
| Charles Arnoldi, also known as Chuck Arnoldi and as Charles Arthur Arnoldi, is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. He was born April 10, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio. |
| Charles Banks Wilson (born 1918) is an American artist. Wilson was born in Arkansas in 1918, his family eventually moving to Miami Oklahoma where he spent his childhood. A painter, printmaker, teacher, lecturer, historian, magazine and book illustrator, Wilson's work has been shown in over 200 exhibitions in the United States and across the globe. |
| Charles Bargue (c. 1826/1827–April 61883) was a French artist, a lithographer as well as a painter, who devised a drawing course. |
| Charles Brady (1926 – 1997) was a painter who was born and trained in New York and spent most of his life in Ireland. |
| Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is an award-winning U.S. cartoonist and illustrator. He is renowned for his meticulous, high-contrast and creepy artwork and stories. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, painter Susan Moore, and their two young daughters. |
| Charles Burton Barber 1845 Great Yarmouth - 1894, was an English painter who attained great success with his paintings of children and their pets. During his lifetime Barber was regarded as one of England's finest animal painters and received commissions from Queen Victoria to do paintings of her with grandchildren and dogs, and also the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and his pets. A number of his portraits are in the Royal Collection. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1866 to 1893. |
| Charles Cromwell Ingham (1797-December 10, 1863) was an Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design during the 19th century. |
| Charles C. Painter (b unknown -1895) was an American abolitionist, Native American advocate and Congregational minister. The son of a Virginia planter who freed his slaves prior to the Civil War, Painter served on the faculty of Fisk University, dedicated to the education of African Americans. He was a prominent member of the Indian Rights Association, working out of the organization's Boston office, and, with Samuel M. |
| Charles Calvert (1785-1852) was a landscape-painter, born at Glossop Hall in Derbyshire, on 23 September 1785. He was the eldest son of Charles Calvert, agent of the Duke of Norfolk's estate and an amateur painter (see below). He was apprenticed to the cotton trade, and began busfness as a cotton merchant in Manchester, but against the wishes of his friends he abandoned commerce for art and became a landscape-painter. |
| Charles Camoin (1879 –1965) was a French painter associated with the Fauves. |
| Charles Codman (circa 1800 - 1842) was a noted landscape painter of Portland, Maine. His art is featured at the Portland Museum of Art as mature, fine early American landscape painting. |
| Charles Coleman (circa 1807, Pontefract–circa 1874, Rome) was an English painter. |
| Charles Fraser Comfort (1900 – July 5, 1994) was a Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer and administrator. |
| Charles Edward Conder (24 October, 1868 - 9 February, 1909) was an English-born painter, who emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, arguably the beginning of a distinctively Australian tradition in Western art. |
| Charles Conner (1857-1905) was an American artist who was one of the most important painters in the Richmond Group in Richmond, Indiana. |
| Charles Courtney Curran (1861 – 1942) was an American painter. |
| Charles Crodel (September 16, 1894 – November 11, 1973) was a German painter and stained glass artist who also taught at Penn State University and the University of Louisville. |
| Charles Daudelin (October 1, 1920 – April 2, 2001) was a Canadian sculptor and painter, a major Quebec artist. |
| Charles Demuth (November 9, 1883 - October 23, 1935) was an American Precisionist painter. |
| Charles Edward Boutibonne (1816-1897) was a French painter of the academic classicism school. |
| Charles Errard the Younger (1606-1689, Rome) was a French painter, architect and engraver, co-founder and director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Louis XVI's minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert delegated to him the foundation of the French Academy in Rome in 1666, and he was its founding director from then until 1684 (apart from between 1673 and 1675, when he was replaced by Noël Coypel). |
| Charles Ethan Porter (c. 1847 - March 6 1923), was an African American still life painter. |
| Charles Fernando (1941-1995) was a Zimbabwean abstract painter and jazz musician. His style was greatly influenced by the music he played, and showed similarities to musical symbols and notes as well. His work can be found in the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. |
| Charles Ginner (1878-1952) was a Cannes born painter,who settled in London in 1910 and was a key member of the Camden Town Group.An official artist in WW2,he was noted for his paintings of buildings in an urban context as exampled by 'Plymouth Pier from The Hoe'. |
| Charles Green Shaw (1 May 1892—2 April 1974) was an American painter and writer. |
| Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois (1759-1832) was a French physicist and painter. |
| The Charles H. Cecil Studios is an art school in Florence, Italy. It is run by American painter and art historian Charles H. Cecil, who was trained by R. H. Ives Gammell. It offers training in classical techniques of drawing and oil painting. Charles H. Cecil Studios occupies the most historic Florentine atelier still in active use. |
| * Charles Harold Davis (1856 or 1857 – 1933) was an American landscape painter. * Charles H. Davis was an admiral in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. |
| Charles H. Poingdestre (Jersey 1825 - London 1905) was a painter. He went to Rome as President of British Academy. He stayed in Rome 30 years where he opened a paint studio in Dei greci road, n. 36. Some favourite subjects of his paintings were the "Campagna Romana" and the "Paludi Pontine". |
| Charles Harold Davis (7 January 1856 – 5 August 1933) was an American landscape painter. |
| Charles Hayter (1761-1835) was the son of Charles Hayter (1728-1795) an Architect from Twickenham and his wife Elizabeth Holmes. He first trained with his father, but showed an inclination for drawing by producing some small pencil portraits, principally of family members and so he was entered in the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1786 at the late age of about 25. From then he worked as a Miniature Painter in London, and also Essex, and in 1832 in Winchester. |
| Artist Charles Edward Heaney (1897-1981) was an American photographer and painter. During the Great Depression in the 1930s he worked for the Works Progress Administration as an artist and did several works with Mount Hood and Timberline Lodge as the subject matter. |
| Charles Henry Manship (July 31, 1812 – June 21, 1895) was a mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. He was also a chairmaker and ornamental painter. |
| Charles Henry Scwanfelder (b. 1774 in Leeds - d. 1837 in Leeds) was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter. He was the son of a German decorative painter and started out helping his father to paint clock faces and snuff boxes. He was renowned for his animal paintings and was appointed animal painter to George III. |
| Sir Charles John Holmes, KCVO (1868 - 1936) was a British painter, art critic and museum director. His writing on art combined theory with practice and he was an expert on the painting techniques of the Old Masters, from whose example he had learned to draw and paint. |
| Charles Sydney Hopkinson (July 27 1869 - October 16 1962) was an American portrait painter and landscape watercolorist. He maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in a direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many of his paintings were commissioned by U. S. East Coast institutions, especially Harvard University, where he acted as house portraitist. |
| Charles Joseph Flipart (1721-1797) was an French painter and engraver. He was born in Paris, the brother of Jean Jacques Flipart, and initially trained under his father. He visited Venice, and studied painting under Tiepolo and Amigoni, and engraving under Joseph Wagner. After staying some time at Rome he was appointed court painter and engraver by King Ferdinand VI of Spain in 1770. His best plates are the portraits of the King and the Queen of Spain. |
| Charles Joshua Chaplin (8 June 1825–30 January 1891) was a French painter and engraver. He was born in Les Andelys, Eure, France to an English father and a French mother. Although he spent the whole of his life in France, he only became naturalized in 1886. He died in Paris, France. |
| Charles Kassler Jr (b. 1897, Denver, Colorado) Was a painter, printmaker, and lithographer. He lost a hand during a high school chemistry experiment. He studied art and architecture at Princeton University and the Chicago Art Institute. |
| Charles Laval (1862 - 1894) was a French painter who was a contemporary and friend of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. Gauguin created a portrait of him in 1886 looking at one of Gauguin's unfinished sculptures entitled "Still Life with Profile of Laval". |
| Charles Le Brun (February 24, 1619 - February 22, 1690) was a French painter and art theorist, one of the dominant artists in 17th century France. |
| Charles Henri Joseph Leickert (September 22 1816, Brussels - December 5 1907, Mainz) was a Belgian painter of Dutch landscapes. |
| Charles Leo (born May 19, 1974 in Irondequoit, New York) is a painter, 3D artist, and architectural illustrator. He works primarily in the digital medium; some of his current work can be seen on his website, Lunarstudio and HDRSource. Leo graduated from SUNY Geneseo in 1996 with a BFA in Medical Anthropology. In 2000, he launched his work under the company name Lunarstudio. |
| Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, RA, (17 November 1793 – 24 December 1865) was an English painter, gallery director, collector and writer of the early 19th century. |
| Charles Loring Elliott (1812-68) was an American portrait painter. He was born at Auburn, N.Y., and studied in New York City under Trumbull and Quidor. After practicing portrait painting in New York State for 10 years he took up residence in New York City in 1845 and the following year was elected to the National Academy of Design. Elliott was the best portraitist of his day, and although he never went abroad his technique is neither provincial nor uncertain. |
| Charles Lucy (b. 1814 in Norton Canon, Herefordshire - 1873 in Hereford) was an English historical painter of the Victorian era. He is best known for his "Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" in the National Heritage Museum, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA; engravings of Oliver Cromwell; and a painting of King Charles I of England after his execution. This painting was sold according to Bonham's, London in Oct. 2006. Charles Lucy was born at Norton Cannon, Herefordshire. |
| Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge surrounds Fort Peck Reservoir and at 1,100,000 acres (4,450 km²) is the largest refuge in Montana, United States. Created in 1936, the refuge was named after famed painter of the American West, Charles M. Russell. Extending for a distance of 125 miles (200 km) along the shores of Fort Peck Reservoir and the Missouri River, the refuge is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna. |
| Charles March Gere RA RWS (June 5, 1869 – August 3, 1957) was an English painter, illustrator of books, and stained glass and embroidery designer associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. |
| Charles Maurin (1856 – 1914) was a French painter who practised a variety of styles. A notable symbolist work of his being Maternity, a study of motherhood. He was a friend of the painter Felix Vallotton. |
| Charles (Charlie) McAuley (1910–1999) was an Irish painter. He was born in Gruig, Glenann, one of the nine Glens of Antrim. After a brief attendance at Belfast Technical College, he went on to become one of Northern Ireland's greatest landscape and figuritive painters with much of his skill being self taught. |
| Charles Pachter (born December 30, 1942) is a Canadian artist residing in Toronto. Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer. Some of his works are currently on exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in a digital medium. His nationalistic work has garnered him entry into the Order of Canada. |
| Charles Paul Landon (Nonant 1760 – Paris 1826) was a French painter and popular writer on art and artists. |
| Charles Peale Polk, (March 17, 1767 – May 6, 1822), was a renowned American portrait painter and the nephew of artist Charles Willson Peale. |
| Charles Ragland Bunnell (born in Kansas City, Missouri January 17, 1897, died in Colorado September 1968), was an American painter, printmaker, and muralist. He moved to Colorado Springs in 1915 and was thereafter associated with that city. As a WPA artist from 1934 to 1941 he executed many commissioned murals in a sturdy, somewhat abstracted figurative style. He was also noted for his colorful Western landscapes. |
| Charles Roka (Róka Károly, 1912-1999) was a Hungarian painter living in Norway whose name became synonymous with an excess of artistic kitsch. |
| Charles Schreyvogel (January 4, 1861-January 27, 1912) was a painter of Western subject matter in the days of the disappearing frontier. Schreyvogel was especially interested in military life. |
| Charles Henry Sims (28 January, 1873, Islington – 13 April,1928, St. Boswells) was a British painter of portraits, landscapes, and decorative paintings. Apart from his mainstream reputation, he is also considered an exponent of Outsider Art, as an artist whose work developed an idiosyncratic style through psychiatric disorder. |
| Charles Spencelayh (b. October 27 1865 – d. June 29 1958) was an English painter of the Academic style. Born in Rochester, Kent, he first studied at the National Art Training School, South Kensington . He exhibited at the Paris Salon, but most of his exhibits were in Britain. Between 1892 and 1958, he exhibited more than 30 paintings at the Royal Academy, including ‘Why War’ (1939) , which won the Royal Academy ‘Picture of the Year’ for 1939. |
| Charles Stanley Reinhart (May 16, 1844 - August 30, 1896) was an American painter and illustrator in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After having been employed in railway work and at a steel factory, he studied art in Paris and at the Munich Academy under Straehuber and Otto. Afterwards he settled in New York, but spent the years 1882-1886 in Paris. |
| Charles Thomson (born February 6, 1953) is an English artist, painter, poet, photographer. In the early 1980s he was a member of The Medway Poets, during which time he was friends with Tracey Emin. In 1999 he named and co-founded the Stuckists art movement with Billy Childish. He has curated Stuckist shows, organised demonstrations against the Turner Prize, run an art gallery, stood for parliament and reported Charles Saatchi to the OFT. |
| Charles Thévenin (12 July 1764, Paris - 28 February 1838) was a neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes from the time of the French Revolution and First French Empire. |
| Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1901-February 7, 1979), was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his working life on the isle of Anglesey. |
| Charles W. Bartlett was a British painter and printmaker. He was born on June 1, 1860 in Bridgeport, Dorsetshire in England. He studied metallurgy and worked in that field for several years. At age 23, he enrolled in the Royal Academy in London, where he studied painting and etching. After three years of study in London, he entered the private studio school Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied under Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) and Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888). |
| Charles Warren Eaton (1857—1937) was an American artist best-known for his tonalist landscapes. He earned the nickname "the pine tree painter" for his numerous depictions of Eastern White Pine trees. |
| Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899. |
| Charles Wellington Furse (January 13, 1868 – October 16, 1904) was an English painter. |
| ] Charles West Cope, sometimes called II. (July 28, 1811 – August 21, 1890) was an English Victorian era painter. |
| Charles Wheeler (1881-1977) was an Australian painter. |
| Charles William Jefferys (25 August 1869 – 8 October 1951) was a Canadian painter, illustrator, author, and teacher best known as a historical illustrator. |
| Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741 – February 22, 1827) was an American painter, soldier and naturalist. |
| Charles Wynne Nicholls (1831 – 1903) was an Irish painter of genre and historical subjects. |
| Charlie Waite (born 1949) is a renowned international landscape photographer, noted for his “painterly” approach in using light and shade. |
| Charlotte Berend-Corinth (* 25. Mai 1880; † 1969) was a female German painter and artist in the Berliner Secession and the wife of the painter Lovis Corinth. |
| Charlotte Gilbertson (b. November 11 1922, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American painter and print maker. |
| Charlotte de Rothschild (May 6, 1825 - July 20, 1899) was a French socialite, painter, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. She was born in Paris, the daughter of Betty von Rothschild (1805-1868) and James Mayer de Rothschild (1792-1868). Charlotte de Rothschild was raised by very wealthy parents who were at the center of Parisian culture. |
| Charlyne Yi (born January 4, 1986) is an American performing artist, musician, writer, painter, and on occasion actor. She is best known for being a performance artist. Her performances do not always include joke telling as in standup comedy, instead she uses different tactics such as music, magic, games, and a lot of times audience participation. |
| Charmion Von Wiegand (1896 - 1983) was an American journalist, and art critic best known as an abstract painter. |
| Chath Piersath born in (Kop Nymit, Svay Sisophon District, in Battambang Province is a noted Cambodian American poet, painter and humanitarian. He creates both large and small portraits of people from his memory, often representing the social and economic disparity among Cambodians. |
| Chatin Sarachi (in Albanian Paskal "Çatin" Saraçi) (1902-1974), was an Albanian painter and politician. Chatin was born in a well-known family of trading traditions, in Shkoder, Albania. He was brought up with an occidental mentality in an environment of European cultural roots. This influence, seems to have helped him in covering for a short period of time, a diplomatic position in the High Administration of King Zog the First. |
| Chaïbia Talal (1929 - April 2, 2004)was an autodidact Moroccan painter. |
| Chen Cheng-po (Chinese: 陳澄波, February 2, 1895 – March 25, 1947), was a well-known Taiwanese painter. In 1926, his oil painting Street of Chiayi was featured in the seventh Empire Art Exhibition in Japan, which was the first time that a painting of a Taiwanese artist could be displayed in the exhibition. He donated himself to education and creation. Because of abundance experiences of education, he concerned about the culture and humanism. |
| Chén Chún (. He learned calligraphy from Wen Zhengming. He later broke with Wen to favor a more free-style method of "ink and wash" paintings. He was associated with the Wu school of literari painting. Mi Fu of the Song Dynasty had a strong influence on his work. He did many landscapes, but to a degree is noted as a "flower and bird" painter. |
| Chen Dayu (, 1912—2001) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, seal carver and educator. Chen was born in Chaoyang in Guangdong province. He was poor as a youth, but developed and abiding passion for artistic pursuits. He graduated from Shanghai Art College in 1935. In the 1946 Chen journed to Beijing for meetings with the eminent artist Qi Baishi. From 1948 he lectured at the Shanghai Academy of Art. In 1950, he became a professor of art at the Nanjing Institute of Art. |
| [[Image:Ch'en Hung-shou 001.jpg|thumb|200px|Boat travel on the lake ]] This is a Chinese name; the family name is 陈 (Chen) Chen Hongshou (Chinese: 陈洪绶; pinyin: Chén Hóngshòu) (1598 - 1652) was a Chinese painter of late Ming Dynasty. |
| Cheng Shifa (b. 1921 - died June 17, 2007 Shanghai, China) was a Chinese calligrapher, painter and cartoonist. |
| Cherubino Alberti (also called Borghegiano; 1553 - 1615) was an Italian engraver and painter. |
| Chesley Bonestell (1 January 1888 – 11 june 1986) was a painter, designer and illustrator. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American space program. He is known as the "Father of Modern Space Art". |
| Robert Chester La Follette, (March 31, 1897 in Pullman, Washington - May 24, 1993 in White Plains, New York) was an American painter. |
| Chew Love" is a song composed, produced and arranged by Emma Dean and co-produced by Ben Stewart. Released from her second EP, Face Painter, the song was allegedly written after Emma's boyfriend cheated on her and she realised that she loved him after all. |
| Chhim Sothy, born 1969 is an acclaimed Cambodian painter and sculptor noted for his ability in a diverse number of artistic techniques and mediums. |
| Chi-hwa-seon or Chwi-hwa-seon, also known as Painted Fire or Strokes of Fire, is a 2002 South Korean film about Jang Seung-up (Oh-won), a nineteenth-century Korean painter who changed the direction of Korean art. |
| Chiang Yee (May 191903 – Oct 26,1977), later Jiang Yi in the Pinyin spelling system, self-styled as "The Silent Traveller", was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher. |
| In Aztec mythology, Chicomexochtli was the patron god of painters and other artists. |
| Christian Dotremont, (12 December, 1922 - 20 August, 1979), was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in Tervuren, Belgium. He was a founding member of the group Cobra, and later became well known for his painted poems, which he called logograms. |
| Chike Aniakor (born 1939) is a Nigerian painter. |
| Frederick Childe Hassam (b. October 17 1859, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts – d. August 27 1935, East Hampton, New York) was an American Impressionist painter. |
| Supreme Master Ching Hai, or Suma Ching Hai ("Suma" is an abbreviation of the said title), (Traditional Chinese: 清海無上師, Pinyin: Qīnghǎi Wúshàngshī; Vietnamese: Thanh Hải Vô Thượng Sư) (born May 12, 1950) is the founder and spiritual teacher of the Quan Yin Method. She is also a poet, painter, musician, jewelry designer, fashion designer, and writer. She is well known for philanthropic and humanitarian work. |
| Chiura Obata (1885 - 1975) was a well-known Japanese-American artist. He came to the United States in 1903, at age 18. After initially working as an illustrator and commercial decorator, he had a successful career as a painter, following a 1927 summer spent in the Sierra Nevadas, and was a faculty member in the Art Department at the University of California at Berkeley from 1932 to 1953, interrupted by World War II, when he spent over a year in internment camps. |
| Cho Byung-hwa (May 2 1921-March 8 2003) was a major South Korean poet, critic, and essayist, known for the accessibility of his writing. He was also an amateur athlete and painter. He was born in Anseong, Gyeonggi province, during the period of Japanese rule. He graduated from Gyeongseong Normal School in Seoul, and in 1945 he completed his studies at Tokyo Teachers College with a major in physics. |
| Choi Buk, was a painter of the late Joseon period. Anything related to his social status and birth place and date are not known. Choi Buk was acquainted with Danwon, Kim Deuksin, Yi Inmun, but his works are dissimilar to theirs. The representative works painted by Choi Buk are Geumgangsan pyohunsado (금강산 표훈사도), Joeosansu (조어산수), Cho-ok sansudo (초옥산수도). |
| Choman Hardi (1974- ), is a contemporary Kurdish poet, translator and painter. She was born in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1975 her family fled to Iran after the Algiers Accord but returned to Iraq after a general amnesty in 1979. They were forced to move again in 1988 during the Anfal campaign. She arrived in United Kingdom in 1993 as a refugee and studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford and University College London. |
| Chris Cran (b. 1949 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia) is a Canadian painter, based in Calgary, Alberta. |
| Chris Gollon (born 1953) is a British painter. |
| Chris Mars (b. April 26, 1961) is an American musician. He was the drummer for seminal Minneapolis, Minnesota alternative rock band The Replacements and later joined informal supergroup Golden Smog before launching a solo career. He is a talented painter, and has more or less left music behind to concentrate on showing his artwork. He typically shows little interest in speaking about music. |
| Christine Monroe (born April 17, 1962) is an American painter and cartoonist best known for her weekly comic strip “Violet Days,” which appears in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Duluth News Tribune. |
| Chris Newman (* 1958 in London, lives in Berlin) is a contemporary composer, painter, author and performance artist. |
| Chris Ofili (born 1968) is an English born painter noted for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage. He is one of the Young British Artists. He is a Turner Prize winner and his work has been a source of controversy. |
| Chris Pape (aka Freedom) is an American painter and graffiti artist. Pape started tagging subway tunnels and subway cars in 1974 as "Gen II" before adopting the tag "Freedom". Pape is best known for his numerous paintings in the eponymous Freedom Tunnel, an Amtrak tunnel running underneath Manhattan's Riverside Park. |
| Christiaan Tonnis (born June 5, 1956, Saarbrücken, Germany) is a German symbolist/realist painter, draftsman, video artist, and published author currently residing in Frankfurt, Germany. He studied at the HfG Offenbach with Dieter Lincke and Herbert Heckmann. |
| Christian Albrecht Jensen (June 26, 1792—July 13, 1870) was a Danish painter, born in Bredstedt, Nordfriesland. In 1818, he traveled to Rome, and met the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. His work is representative of the Golden Age of Danish Painting. |
| Christian Ludwig Attersee (aka hristian Ludwig) (born 28 August 1940 in Pressburg (Bratislava)), was an Austrian painter. |
| Christian August Lorentzen (1746 – May 8, 1828) was a Danish painter. He was the instructor of Martinus Rørbye |
| Christian Boltanski (born September 6, 1944]) is a French photographer, sculptor, self-proclaimed painter, and installation artist. |
| Christian Cardell Corbet (born January 31, 1976) is a Canadian painter, sculptor and designer. |
| Christian Friedrich Zincke (b Dresden, 1683-5; d London, 24 March 1767) was a German miniature painter active in England in the 18th century. |
| Christian Griepenkerl (March 17 1839 in Oldenburg – March 22 1912 in Vienna) was a German painter. |
| Christian Krohg (August 13, 1852 – October 16, 1925), was a Norwegian naturalist painter, author and journalist. |
| Christian Möller = Christian Moeller (born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany in 1963) is a German artist and painter. He studied at the Academy of fine arts (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste) in Karlsruhe by Horst Antes from 1986 to 1992. |
| Christian Rohlfs (November 22, 1849 - January 8, 1938) was a German painter, one of the important representatives of German expressionism. |
| Christian Ruben (1805 – July 9, 1875) was a German painter. |
| Christian Schad (August 21, 1894 in Miesbach, Oberbayern - February 25, 1982) was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity movement. |
| Christian August Sinding (January 11, 1856–December 3, 1941) was a Norwegian composer and the brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding. |
| Christian Skredsvig (1854 - 1924) was a Norwegian painter and writer. |
| Christian Volckman, a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris, is a French painter, graphic designer, photographer, author and producer. |
| Christiane Kubrick (née Harlan) (born May 10, 1932) is a German actress, dancer, painter and singer. |
| Christina's World is the most famous work by American painter Andrew Wyeth, and one of the best-known American paintings of the 20th century. Painted in 1948, this tempera work is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It depicts Christina Olson, who had an undiagnosed muscular deterioration that paralyzed her lower body—likely Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease—dragging herself across the ground to pick vegetables from her garden. |
| Cimon of Cleonae was an early painter of ancient Greece. He was said to have introduced great improvements in drawing. He represented figures out of the straight, and ways of representing faces looking back, up or down; he also made the joints of the body clear, emphasized veins, worked out folds and doublings in garments (according to Pliny). All these improvements are such as may be traced in the drawing of early Greek red-figured vases. |
| Christian Wilberg (born November 20, 1839 in Havelberg; died June 3, 1882 in Paris) was a German painter. |
| Christian Wilhelm Allers (August 6 1857 – October 19 1915) was a German painter and printmaker. |
| Christine Sefolosha (1955- ) is a Swiss painter. Born in Montreux, Sefolosha has created works that have been shown at numerous one person and group exhibitions. She lived in South Africa for nine years. |
| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (January 2, 1783-July 22, 1853) was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig (now the southern part of Jutland in Denmark), to Henrik Vilhelm Eckersberg, painter and carpenter, and Ingeborg Nielsdatter. He went on to lay the foundation for the period of art known as the Golden Age of Danish Painting, and is referred to as the Father of Danish painting. |
| Christoph Amberger (c. 1505 – 1562) was a painter of Nürnberg in the 16th century, a disciple of Hans Holbein, his principal work being the history of Joseph in twelve pictures. |
| Christoph Ludwig Agricola (November 5, 1667 - 1719) was a German landscape painter. He was born and died at Regensburg (Ratisbon). |
| Christoph Schmidberger (b.1974, Eisenerz, Austria) is a painter based in Los Angeles. He studied from 1989-1994 at the Higher Technical College of Graphic Art in Graz, Austria, and graduated with an Honours and Master of Art from the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna in 2002. |
| Christoph Thomas Schaffler (sometimes written Schäffler, December 20, 1699 – January 25, 1756) was a German painter of the rococo period. He is best known for his frescoes. |
| Christopher Banahan (b. 4 September 1958) is an Irish painter based in Galway. |
| Christopher Ironside (July 11, 1913 - July 13, 1992) was an English painter and coin designer, particularly known for the reverse sides of the new British coins issued on decimalisation in 1971. |
| Christopher John Moore is a guitar player and painter from England, born 1970 in Hertfordshire. |
| Christopher Kier (born Toronto 1959) is an encaustic painter who graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1987. He is represented by the Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art in Calgary, Alberta. Encaustic painting, also called "hot wax painting," involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface — usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used. |
| Christopher Masłon (1972 - ) is an American painter. He was born in Massachusetts, where he spent most of his life. His childhood interest in plants and drawing led him toward a career in botanical art. As a student in Ohio's Columbus College of Art and Design, he was influenced by many artists including Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein. He has met many other influential artists including William Wegman and Robert Rauschenberg. |
| Christopher Moeller (born May 1, 1963) 'is a writer and painter, specializing in fully-painted graphic novels. Moeller's signature creation is the Iron Empires science-fiction universe, comprising two fully-painted graphic novels Faith Conquers and Sheva's War, a short story in Dark Horse Presents, and a second in the anthology Negative Burn. In 2006, an Iron Empires role-playing game was published, called Burning Empires. |
| Christoph(er) Paudiß (1630, Lower Saxony – 1666, Freising, Upper Bavaria) was a Bavarian Baroque painter and a student of Rembrandt van Rijn. |
| John Christopher Pratt, C.C. (born 9 December 1935 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian painter. |
| Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, (August 13 1889 – October 7 1946), was an English painter. He is often referred to by his initials C. R. W. Nevinson. |
| Christopher High Shearer (1846 - 1926) was a prolific US painter in Berks County PA, known primarily for his large landscape paintings. Christopher Shearer was born May 18, 1846, in Reading, Pennsylvania to Christopher and Catherine Shearer. As a boy, Shearer spent time in the studios of artists Francis Daniel Devlan and John Heyl Raser. At age 18, Christopher showed an interest in painting professionally, and became a student of both Devlan and Raser. |
| Christopher Inglis Stebly(b. December 6, 1967) is a painter, decorator of pottery, printmaker from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Youngest of the five children of Mary Anderson (b. 1937) and Marion J. Stebly. Grandson of Walter Inglis Anderson, whose work, draws inspiration, like Stebly's, from an intimate knowledge of the natural world, particularly the flora, fauna, landscapes, seascapes and people of the Gulf Coast and barrier islands. |
| Christopher Tsagakis born is one of the founding members and current drummer for the band Rx Bandits. He is also a member of The Sound of Animals Fighting, with former bandmate Rich Balling. Chris has an electronic side project entitled "Technology." He is also a prolific painter.[http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/arts/nowoc/article_982252.php] His nickname is "C-Gak." |
| Christopher Wood (b. 1962 in Edinburgh) is a contemporary Scottish abstract landscape painter. Educated at George Watson's College and James Gillespie's High School, he received a Bachelor of Arts at Edinburgh College of Art, specialising in drawing and painting. |
| Christy Brown (June 5, 1932 – September 6, 1981) was an Irish author, painter and poet. |
| Chuck Close (born Charles Thomas Close) July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist before a catastrophic blood clot left him severely paralyzed. However, he has continued to paint and produce work which remains sought after by museums and collectors. |
| Chudomir (March 25, 1890 — December 26, 1967), born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadzhiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter. |
| The Church of the Holy Innocents is located on Main Street in Highland Falls, New York, USA, not far from the main gate of the United States Military Academy and right across from the West Point Museum. It is an Episcopal church, established in 1841. The building, designed by Robert Walter Weir, a Hudson River School painter then employed as an instructor at the academy, was completed five years later and consecrated in 1847. The name "Holy Innocents" came from Weir's children, who died young. |
| Chéri Samba or Samba wa Mbimba N’zingo Nuni Masi Ndo Mbasi (born December 30, 1956 in Kinto M’Vuila) is a painter from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the most famous contemporary African artists, with his works being included in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has been invited to participate in the 2007 Venice Biennale. |
| Lodovico Cardi, also known as Cigoli (1559 - 1613), was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years of his life in Rome. |
| Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517) was an Italian Renaissance painter. |
| Cenni di Pepo (Giovanni) Cimabue (c. 1240 — c. 1302) also known as Bencivieni Di Pepo or in modern Italian, Benvenuto Di Giuseppe, was an Italian painter and creator of mosaics from Florence. He is also well known for his student Giotto, who revolutionized painting in Italy. Cimabue is generally regarded as the last great painter working in the Byzantine tradition. The art of this period comprised scenes and forms that appeared relatively flat and highly stylized. |
| Ciro Adolfi (1683-1758) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in and around Bergamo. |
| Ciro Ferri (1634 - 13 September 1689) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter, the chief pupil and successor of Pietro da Cortona. |
| Claerwen James (b. 1970) is a British painter, the daughter of the writer Clive James and the scholar Prue Shaw. |
| Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert or Nicolaes Moyaert or Mooyaert (Durgerdam, 1592 - Amsterdam, 1655) was an authoritative Catholic Dutch painter. He followed Rembrandt in his use of red chalk. |
| Claire Falconer (born Enniskillen, Northern Ireland) is an Irish actress and painter who currently works in Ireland, Italy and United States. |
| Clara Peeters (1594 - c. 1657) was assumed to be a Flemish painter noted for painting still lifes, particularily of breakfast scenes and florals. We assume she was born in Antwerp for no record was ever found of a painter by that name. |
| Clarice Majoribanks Beckett (21 March 1887 - 7 July 1935) was an Australian painter born in Casterton, Victoria. She was the daughter of Joseph Clifden Beckett, a bank manager, and his wife Elizabeth Kate, née Brown. Her grandfather was John Brown, a Scottish master builder who had designed and built Como House and its gardens in South Yarra. |
| Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories, and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937, that he is mainly remembered today. With Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, also a friend and correspondent, Smith remains one of the most famous contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales. |
| Claude-Henri Watelet (28 August 1718 — 12 January 1786 was a rich French fermier-général who was an amateur painter, a well-respected etcher, a writer on the arts and a connoisseur of gardens. Watelet's inherited privilege of farming taxes in the Orléanais left him free to pursue his avocations, art and literature and gardens. |
| Claude Alphonse Simard is a Canadian painter born on July 9th 1943 in Quebec city. |
| Claude Deruet (1588 - 1660) was a famous French Baroque painter of the 17th century, from the city of Nancy. |
| Claude Waterlow Ferrier FRIBA (1879 - 6 July 1935) was a Scottish architect, who specialised in the Art Deco style. He was the only son of the physician and neurologist Sir David Ferrier, and a nephew (through his mother) of the painter Ernest Albert Waterlow. |
| Claude Gillot (1673-1722) was a French painter, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret. |
| Claude Joseph Vernet (August 14, 1714 – December 3, 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. |
| Claude Mellan (born 23 May 1598 in Abbeville, died 9 March 1688 in Paris) was a French engraver and painter. Among the leading engravers of his time, he is best known for his numerous portraits as well as for his engraving technique of using parallel lines of varying thickness, rather than the more traditional technique of using crossing lines of equal thickness. |
| Claude Plessier is a French painter, born in Paris in 1946 who has worked in France and Argentina. |
| Claude Renoir (December 4, 1914 – September 5, 1993) was a cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir and nephew of director Jean Renoir. He was also the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. |
| Claude Viallat (b. 1936) is a French contemporary painter. Born in Nîmes, he grew up in Aubais, a French village with a strong bull tradition. In 1955, he joined the “École des Beaux-Arts” (the Fine Arts School) of Montpellier, where he met André-Pierre Arnal, Vincent Bioulès, Daniel Dezeuze, Toni Grand, François Rouan, and Henriette Pous, whom he married in 1962. |
| Claude Vignon (19 May 1593 — 10 May 1670) was one of the premier French painters and engravers working in the Baroque manner. |
| Claudia Vecchiarelli is a contemporary Italian-German naive painter, whose favourite subjects are Italian landscapes (especially those of Tuscany and Umbria). |
| Claudio Coello (1642—1693) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Influenced by many other artists, including Diego Velázquez who was also of Portuguese descent, Coello is considered the last great Spanish painter of the 17th century. The son of Faustino Coello, a famous Portuguese sculptor, he was a court painter for Charles II. |
| Claudio Ridolfi (1560 - 1644) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Rome and Urbino. He was a pupil of the painter Dario Pozzo and Paolo Veronese. Born in Verona, died in Corinaldo. He befriended Federigo Barocci. He established himself in Corinaldo in the region of Ancona. He painted a Birth of John the Baptist for the church of Santa Lucia in Urbino. He painted a Presentation of the virgin in the temple for a church in Santo Spirito. |
| Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne, O.C., O.Ont., R.C.A., O.S.A., S.S.C., HON. C.P.A. (1912 – July 5 1998) was a Canadian painter and sculptor. |
| Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 - May 7, 1994) was an influential American art critic closely associated with the abstract art movement in the United States. In particular, he promoted the Abstract Expressionist movement and had close ties with the painter Jackson Pollock. |
| Clemente Bocciardo (1620-1658) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Genoa. He was also called Clementone because of his large size. He was a pupil of Bernardo Strozzi and accompanied Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione to Rome. He painted a Martyrdom of St. Sebastian for the church of the Carthusians in Pisa. Also painted in Florence. |
| Clementi Ruta (1668-1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. |
| Cliche Verre is a method of etching on a ground-coated transparent material, or painting and drawing on a transparent surface, such as glass or film and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper. It is a process first practiced by a number of French painters during the early part of the 19th century. Camille Corot was the best known of these. |
| Cliff Eyland (born 1954) is a Canadian painter, writer and curator. He studied at Holland College, Mount Allison University, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Since 1981, he has made paintings, drawings, and notes in an index card format--3"x5" (7.6x12.7 cm). |
| Cliff McReynolds is an American abstract expressionist painter from California. Active since the 1950s and popularly known from the 1970s on, McReynolds' works often depict animals against panoramic scenes from nature, created in color and on canvas measuring several square feet. |
| Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1933—21 June 2002) was an Australian painter considered one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. His paintings are held in many galleries and collections, Australian and worldwide. |
| Clinton S. Ford Sr. was a 20th century American painter, born in Richmond, Virginia in 1923 He died at his home in Chesterfield, Virginia on January 8, 2006 |
| Clive Uptton (12 March 1911 – 11 February 2006) was a widely regarded British illustrator and painter of landscapes and portraits. |
| Clive Wilkins (born 25 June 1954) is a figurative painter from the United Kingdom. |
| Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American artist, a painter, and one of the leading figures in Abstract Expressionism. |
| Cobi Sanders is a Dutch painter, who has lived and painted on the island of Symi, which is located in the eastern Aegean for more than 20 years. Sanders was inspired by the colors of Symi and Southeastern Europe as well as the interplay between light and shadows. Sander's paintings expressively capture life on Symi and include neoclassical landscapes, floral images, the burnt sienna and often coloured hillsides, sloping down to a turquoise, ultramarine, indigo sea. |
| Codeine is an American indie rock/slowcore band formed in 1989 by members Stephen Immerwahr (vocal, bass), Chris Brokaw (drums), and John Engle (guitar). Codeine pioneered the slowcore and sadcore subgenres of indie rock, but with a more experimental attitude than other bands in the genre, such as Low, Idaho and Red House Painters. The band's original tone, marked by slow tempos, Immerwahr's nasal vocals, and Engle's ringing Telecaster, did not evolve much during their career. |
| Coello is the name of several people * Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531-1588), Spanish painter * Antonio Coello (c. 1610-1652), Spanish dramatist and poet * Claudio Coello (1642—1693), Spanish Baroque painter |
| Cola Petruccioli was an italian painter from Orvieto in Umbria, known as an apprentice to Ugolino di Prete Ilario, active in the period around 1400. His works are seen in the Cathedral of Assisi, as well as in the Capella de Corporale in Orvieto. In Cetona he painted frescoes of Virgin Mary in the Franciscan Hermitage, Convento di Santa Maria a Belverde. These are shown in Enzo Carlis Gli Affreschi di Belverde. (Edam, Firenze, 1977). |
| Colantonio del Fiore was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance period, active mainly in 15th century Naples. He was the pupil of the painter Francesco Simone. In Naples, he painted the St. Jerome now in the Museo di Capodimonte , painted in tempera. Some sources claim Colantonio was Father-in-law to Antonio Solario (Lo Zingaro); some sources dismiss that even Colantonio existed. He also painted for Sant'Antonio Abate and Sant'Angelo a Nilo |
| Colleen Browning (born 1929 in in Cregg, County Cork, Ireland) is an American realist painter. |
| Collier Twentyman Smithers (born 1867 - died 7 December 1943) was a portrait, figure and rustic painter. He was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Arthur Edward Smithers, a banker. |
| Congo was the name of a chimpanzee who learned to paint on paper and canvas, under the aegis of zoologist, ethologist, and surrealist painter Desmond Morris. He was most productive in the late 1950s. His style has been identified with abstract impressionism. |
| In comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black and white line art. Originally, this was done by cutting out films of various densities in the appropriate shapes to be used in producing color-separated printing plates. More recently, colorists have worked in transparent media such as watercolors or airbrush, which is then photographed, allowing more subtle and painterly effects. Most contemporary colorists work in digital media using tools such as Adobe Photoshop. |
| 1929), who is usually referred to as Columbano, was a Portuguese painter. |
| Conan is a Dark Horse Comics series about the famous character Conan the Cimmerian, who was created by writer Robert E. Howard. It is set to run for 50 issues, before being relaunched as Conan the Cimmerian with a new #1, and has spawned more than 4 other miniseries. The comic's unconventional art consists of only color and pencilwork, with no inkwork, providing a painterly aesthetic. |
| Conan is a Dark Horse Comics series about the famous character Conan the Cimmerian, who was created by writer Robert E. Howard. It is set to run for 50 issues, before being relaunched as Conan the Cimmerian with a new #1, and has spawned more than 4 other miniseries. The comic's unconventional art consists of only color and pencilwork, with no inkwork, providing a painterly aesthetic. |
| Concrete art and design or concretism is an abstractionist movement evolving in the 1930's out of the work of De Stijl, the futurists and Kandinsky around the Swiss painter Max Bill. The term "concrete art" was first introduced by Theo van Doesburg in his "Manifesto of Concrete Art" (1930). In his understanding, this form of abstractionism must be free of any symbolical association with reality, arguing that lines and colors are concrete by themselves. |
| Conegliano is a town and comune of Veneto, Italy, in the province of Treviso, c. 30 km north by rail from the town of Treviso. Population is c. 35,000. It was the birthplace of the painter Cima da Conegliano, a fine altar-piece by whom is in the cathedral (1492). It is overlooked by a hill on which stands the remains of a 1,000-year old castle, formerly belonging to the Bishop of Vittorio Veneto. The remaining tower now houses the small Conegliano museum. |
| Corbinian Böhm (born 1966 in Munich, Germany) is a German painter, installation artist and sculptor. |
| Conrad Felixmüller (21 May 1897 – 24 March 1977) was a 20th-century German Expressionist painter. Born in Dresden as Conrad Felix Müller, he chose Felixmüller as his nom d'artiste. |
| Conrad Hommel (Mainz, 1883 - 1971) was a German painter. |
| Conroy Maddox (27 December 1912 – 14 January 2005), was an English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer. |
| Constance Frederica “Eka” Gordon-Cumming (1837 - 1924) was a travel writer and painter. She was born May 26, 1837 at Altyre, near Forres in Scotland, the 12th child of a wealthy family. Her parents were Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet, and Elizabeth Maria (Campbell) Cumming. She was the aunt of Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet. She grew up in Northumberland, and was educated at Fulham, London. |
| C.M. Villiers-Stuart (1877-1966) was an English author and water-colour painter. She married Patrick Villiers-Stuart in 1908 and moved to India, allowing her to collect material for her pioneering book, Gardens of the Great Mughals which launched the historical study of Mughal Gardens. Chapter XII, on 'Some garden contrasts and a dream' urges respect for Indian design traditions. The 'dream' in the chapter title concerns the design of New Delhi. |
| Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys (July 21, 1920 – August 1, 2005) was a Dutch painter, and one of the foremost innovators of Unitary Urbanism. In 1941, he became deeply interested in the work of Paul Cézanne, Cubism and German Expressionism. |
| Constant Permeke (July 31, 1886 – January 4, 1952) was a Belgian painter who is considered the leading figure of Flemish expressionism. |
| Constantin Daniel Rosenthal (Hungarian: Rosenthal Konstantin, 1820—July 22, 1851) was a Hungarian-born painter and 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects. |
| Constantin Daniel Stahi (November 14, 1844 - June 18, 1920) was a Romanian painter and gravure artist. |
| Constantin Guys, Ernest-Adolphe-Hyacinthe-Constantin, (Vlissingen Dec 3 1802 - Paris 1892) was a Crimean War correspondent, water color painter and illustrator for British and French newspapers. Baudelaire called him the "painter of modern life". His subjects were Second French Empire life. |
| Carl Christian Constantin Hansen (Constantin Hansen) (November 3, 1804 – March 29, 1880) was one of the painters associated with the "Golden Age of Danish Painting". He was deeply interested in literature and mythology, and inspired by art historian Niels Lauritz Høyen, he tried to recreate a national historical painting based on Norse mythology. |
| Constantin Kousnetzoff (Russian: Константин Кузнецов) (August 22, 1863 – 1936) was a Russian painter from Nijny-Novgorod (Russia) active in France. |
| Constantin Lecca (1807 - 1887) was a Romanian painter and muralist. |
| Constantine Andreou (Also: Costas Andreou, Kostas Andreou; French: Constantin Andréou, Costas Andréou; Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Ανδρέου, Κώστας Ανδρέου), (March 24, 1917 – October 8, 2007) was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades. Andreou has been praised by many as an eminent figure in international art of the 20th century. |
| Constantino Brumidi (July 26, 1805, Rome – February 19, 1880, Washington, DC), was an Italian/Greek-American historical painter, best known and honored for his fresco work in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. |
| Constantino Prinetti (1830-1855) was an Italian landscape painter. |
| Constantino Vaprio (active c. 1460) was an Italian painter. He was born in [Milan]]. |
| Convent Thoughts is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Charles Allston Collins which was created between 1850 and 1851. Collins sent it to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1851 where it was exhibited. |
| Conversation pieces are small-scale group portraits mainly painted in Britain in the 1720s. People in the portrait are portrayed sharing common activities such as hunts, meals, or musical parties. Dogs and/or horses are also frequently featured. Arthur Devis was a painter famous for his conversation pieces. Conversation pieces, sometimes called "Conversation Portraits", typically depict elegant social gathering. The picture tends to portray details of extravagances. |
| Cooke is the surname of several notable people: *Alan Cooke, English table tennis player, 2006 world champion 40+ at the World Veterans Table Tennis Championships in Bremen, Germany *Alfred Tyrone Cooke, hero of the Indo-Pakistani wars *Alistair Cooke KBE (1908-2004), journalist and broadcaster *Anna Rice Cooke (1853-1934), patron of the arts and founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts *Anthony Cooke (1505-1576), British scholar *Baden Cooke (1978-), Australian cyclist *Barrie Cooke (1931-), Irish painter *Benjamin Cooke (1734-1793), English musician *C. |
| Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855) commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax, Lancashire and famous for his watercolour landscapes. Copley Fielding became at an early age a pupil of John Varley. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Old Water-colour Society, in 1813 a full member, and in 1831 president of that body. He also engaged largely in teaching the art, and made ample profits. His death took place at Worthing in March 1855. |
| Coppo di Marcovaldo (c. 1225 – c. 1276) was an Italian painter. |
| Corneille de Lyon (early 1500s, The Hague - buried Nov 8 1575, Lyon ) was a Dutch painter who was active from 1533 until his death in Lyon, France. In France and the Netherlands he is still known as Corneille de La Haye after his birthplace. |
| Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (November 9 1831-January 4 1898) was an American painter, best remembered for her political portraits. Her most famous work is her painting of the Electoral Commission of 1877. |
| Cornelis Bloemaert II (Utrecht, 1603 – Rome September 28 1692), was a Dutch painter and engraver. |
| Cornelis Engelbrechtsen (ca. 1468, Leiden - 1533, Leiden) was a Dutch painter. |
| Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (also Cornelius Jonson van Ceulen, Cornelius Johnson, Cornelis Jansz. van Ceulen) (bapt. October 14 1593, London – bur. August 5 1661, Utrecht) was a Dutch portrait painter. |
| Cornelis Mahu (1613–1689) was a Flemish Baroque painter who painted monochromatic "breakfast" (ontbijt) still-lifes similar to those made in Haarlem by Dutch artists such as Pieter Claesz and Willem Claeszoon Heda. |
| Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts or Gijsbrechts (Antwerp ca 1630 - after 1683) was a Flemish painter of still life and trompe l'œil active in the second half of seventeenth century. His first known paintings date from 1659 in Antwerp. He painted in 1664 in Regensburg, from 1665-1668 in Hamburg and from 1668 to 1672 at the court in Copenhagen. |
| Cornelis Saftleven (ca.1607, Gorinchem - 1 June 1681, Rotterdam) was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. |
| Cornelis Schut (13 May 1597–29 April 1655) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and engraver active in Italy and Antwerp. His early works show the influence of Abraham Janssens, but during his Italian sojourn during the 1620s he adopted elements of the High Baroque style of Pietro da Cortona, Guercino and classical tendencies informed by Domenichino and Guido Reni. While in Rome, he was also a founding member of the Bentvueghels. |
| Cuca is a Mexican Rock & Roll band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Formed in 1989 by musician and painter José Fors (vocals). Their first official concert according to the band was February 14, 1990. Their first album, "Invasion de los blátidos" set them apart from any other Mexican rock band, since the album contained irreverent, humorous, curse-word laden lyrics and aggressive sound, that at the time were not expected in Mexican music. |
| Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter and polymath who achieved legendary fame and iconic status within his own lifetime. His renown primarily rests upon his brilliant achievements as a painter, the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, being two of the most famous artworks ever created, but also upon his diverse skills as a scientist and inventor. |
| Curt Lahs (1893 Düsseldorf -1958 Berlin) was a German painter |
| José Custodio Cayetano García Rovira (March 2, 1780 - August 8, 1816) was a Neogranadine general, statesman and painter, who fought for the independence of New Granada from Spain, and became President of the United Provinces of the New Granada in 1816. He was executed a month later during the Reconquista, at the hands of Pablo Morillo. |
| Cybèle Varela (Petropolis, 1943) is a Brazilian born, Europe based, contemporary mixed-media artist. She is a painter, video artist and photographer. |
| Cyprian Kamil Norwid, a.k.a. Cyprian Konstanty Norwid (September 24, 1821– May 23, 1883) is a nationally esteemed Polish poet, dramatist, painter and sculptor. He was born in the Masovian village of Laskowo-Głuchy near Warsaw. Norwid is regarded as one of the second generation of romantics. He wrote many well-known poems including Fortepian Szopena ("Chopin's Piano") and Bema pamięci żałobny-rapsod ("Bem's Rhapsody"). Norwid led a tragic and often poverty-stricken life. |
| Cyrus M. Running (1913-1976) was a regionally distinguished painter. A student of Grant Wood, he is sometimes considered a regionalist. Much of his art foucses on themes common to Minnesota or Norway. He was on the faculty of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN for many years. |
| Cándido López (1840-December 31, 1902) was an Argentine painter and soldier. Born in Buenos Aires, he is considered one of Argentina's most important artists. He is most famous for his detailed paintings and drawings of battles of the War of the Triple Alliance, in which he also fought, losing his right arm. As a result, he learned to paint with his left hand. |
| César Calvo de Araujo was a Peruvian writer and painter. He was born in Yurimaguas, Loreto, Peru in 1910 and died in Lima in 1970. A street and an art gallery in Iquitos are named after him. |
| Calin Alupi (1906-1988) is a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter, cited along with Corneliu Baba or Alexandru Ciucurencu as one of the greatest painters of the period amongst his countrymen. |
| d'Arcy Doyle (19 November 1932 – 28 August 2001) was born in Ipswich, Queensland in 1932. He is a self-taught painter of Australian landscapes and historical scenes. From an early age he took a keen interest in drawing. Doyle joined the Royal Australian Navy and served seven years, after which he took up full-time painting in 1961. |
| D.A. (David Alan) Blyler (born July 13, 1967) is the author of the expatriate novel Steffi’s Club (BurnhillWolf, 2003) and two published works of poetry, Shared Solitude and Diary of a Seducer (a collaboration with painter and filmmaker Marcus Reichert). A political and cultural satirist, he has written for many international and online publications, including Bangkok’s The Nation, The Korean Herald, Democratic Underground, and. |
| Dafen is a suburb of Shenzhen in the Longgang District. In the early nineties a group of about twenty artists under the leadership of the painter and businessman Huang Jiang took up residence in this town. They specialised in the making of large numbers of replicas of oil paintings by masters such as Van Gogh, Dali, Da Vinci, Rembrandt or Warhol.[http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/workshop_of_the_world_fine_art.php] |
| Dagny Tande Lid was a Norwegian painter and illustrator with international renown. |
| Dai Xi (戴熙) or Tai Hsi (1801 – 1860) was a Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner. His sobriquet was Shunshi or “Pure-Minded Scholar” and his pen name was Yu’an or “Elm Retreat”, among others. |
| Daisen-in (大仙院) is a subtemple in the compound of Daitoku-ji. It was built between 1509 and 1513. Although the subtemple is founded by a Zen priest, Kogaku (1464-1584), the screen paintings (Fusuma) inside the temple and the garden are attributed to Soami, an ink landscape painter. Which has more influence from Taoist and Confucius teachings being that the style comes from Song Dynasty ink painting. |
| Dale Nichols (1904-1995), also published under his full name, Dale William Nichols, was an American visual artist whose works included illustrations, paintings, lithographs, and wood carvings. He is best known for his work as a rural landscape painter. Nichols' work is often classified with that of other regional American landscape artists, like Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. |
| Dalhart Windberg (Born 1933 in Goliad County, Texas) is an American painter known for his masterful use of light, color, and shadow in still life and landscape paintings. |
| David Stein (? - 1999) was a French-born painter who become an art forger. |
| Damian Loeb (born May 9, 1970 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American painter. Self-taught, he moved to New York City in the early 1990s. |
| Damious McDreary: A Boy And His Bat is the first book to be published by American guitarist Billy Martin, from the band Good Charlotte. The book is a children's book about a boy and his pet bat. The bat gets let out of his cage and Damious goes on a journey trying to find his pet. Martin, known for being a talented illustrator and painter, designed and created the album art for Good Charlotte's third album, The Chronicles of Life and Death. |
| Damon Denys (13 December 1974 – ) is a contemporary American artist working out of Salt Lake City, Utah, the bay area, California, and Scottsdale, Arizona. He is an oil painter, mainly figurative, working in the styles of romantic realism and Classical realism. Third son and youngest child of Texas-born western landscape painter, George Frederick Denys, Jr., his full name is Damon-Armand Heslington Denys. He was born and raised in Orem, Utah. |
| Daniel Attoe is an American painter and sculptor. He was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1975. |
| Dan Bern (aka Bernstein, a name which he sometimes performs under) is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, novelist, and painter. |
| Dan Dănilă (born 1954) is a Romanian poet, translator and painter living in Leonberg, Germany, since 1990. |
| Dan Namingha (born in 1950) is an important Native American painter and sculptor. He was born in Keams Canyon, Arizona and is a member of the Hopi-Tewa tribe. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| Dan Charles Piraro (1958) is a surrealist painter, illustrator, and cartoonist best-known for his award-winning syndicated panel cartoon Bizarro. Formerly from Dallas, he went to high school at Booker T. Washington in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and dropped out of Washington University in St. Louis. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York City with his wife, Ashley. Piraro, a vegan, often presents animal rights issues in a humorous way in his comic strips. |
| Dan Walsh (b.1960, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a painter based in New York. |
| Dana Levin (born Dana Elizabeth Levin June 26, 1969, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American Classical Realism painter. Classical Realism is also known as academic art. Levin is a portrait, landscape, still life, figurative, and interior painter. |
| Dana Schutz (b.1976) is a painter in New York. |
| Daniel Alexander Williamson (1823-1903) was a British artist, part of a group of Liverpool painters who were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style. |
| Daniel Arnaldo Román (April 21, 1974 born in Ponce, Puerto Rico), is a painter, musician, video-artist and designer. Román was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico's second largest city which is located on the southern coast of the island. He received his primary and secondary education in Jayuya, a town located in the central region of the island. |
| Daniel Christian Manuel Boemle, Dänu Boemle, "Sleepy Dan", "Öml" (* November 7 1960 in Berne; † February 21 2007 in Les Ponts-de-Martel) was a well-known Swiss radio DJ. He presented various shows on DRS3 between 1988 and 1994. He was also a singer, author, culture critic and painter. |
| Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (October 16, 1726 – 1801) was a Polish-German painter and printmaker with Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art. |
| Daniel Conrad is an American light artist, painter, sound artist, teacher and writer. His father Arthur Conrad, a portrait painter whose work hangs in the U.S. Senate reception room, worked with Everett Warner during World War II in designing dazzle camouflage for the US Navy. His brother Tony Conrad is a video artist, filmmaker and musician. |
| Daniel Garber (1880-1958) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River. He also painted figurative interior works and excelled at etching. In addition to his painting career, Garber taught art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for over forty years. |
| Daniel Gran (1694-1757) is a painter born at Vienna in 1694 died at Sankt Pölten in 1757. His pictures ornament several public buildings in his native city and he was of some consideration in his time but his works are not known out of Austria and Germany. |
| Daniel Hauben is an American painter who grew up in the Bronx and has received critical acclaim for his paintings and murals. |
| Daniel Hernández (August 1 1856 - October 23 1932) was a Peruvian painter. |
| Daniel Hesidence (b.1975 Akron, Ohio) is an United States painter based in New York. |
| Daniel Levigoureux, born 1945, Liévin is a French painter. He started as an abstract painter, then moved to figurative painting (mostly landscapes) during the seventies. |
| Daniel Louis Rivas (born in New York City, New York on January 17 1977) is an actor, model and painter. He is the brother of actress Sara Rivas. |
| Sir Daniel Macnee (1806 – 1882) was a Scottish portrait painter. |
| Daniel Merriam is a painter who was born on 1963 in York, Maine and grew up in Naples, Maine, a rural town in central Maine. He was one of seven children in an artistic family and taught himself to paint at an early age. He studied mechanical and architectural design at Central Maine Vocational Technical Institute. While still in school he applied his skills in architecture to his family’s design and construction business. |
| Daniel Minter is an African American artist who works in paint and sculpture. He was born in the small rural community of Ellaville, Georgia during 1963. Minter is a graduate of The Art Institute of Atlanta and is a professional illustrator, arts educator, painter and sculptor. He created of the new Kwanzaa stamp issued in 2004. |
| Daniel (Dan) O'Neill (1920 – March 9, 1974) was a Romantic painter born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The son of an electrician, and himself an electrician by trade, he was largely self-taught, although he briefly attended Belfast College of Art life classes, before working with and studying under fellow Belfast artist Sidney Smith. He quickly developed an expressionist technique, and strong romanticism, with imagery, often full of pathos, evoking the themes of love, life and death. |
| Daniel Patrick Kessler is an American painter living in Washington D.C. |
| Daniel Pinchbeck, (born June 15, 1966) is an author and advocate of the use of psychedelic substances such as LSD, Psilocybin mushrooms and peyote for enriching people's intellectual, psychological and spiritual beliefs through the psychedelic experience. He is the son of painter Peter Pinchbeck and writer Joyce Johnson. Daniel graduated from Wesleyan University. |
| (Georg) Daniel Schultz the Younger (1615 – 1683) was a famous painter of the Baroque era, who painted many Patricians, such as the astronomer Johannes Hevelius, as well as animals. He became leading artist at the court of the Polish kings in the second half of the 17th century as well. |
| Daniel Seghers (Antwerp, 3 December 1590—2 November 1661) was a Jesuit Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in Counter Reformation flower still lifes. He was trained by Jan Brueghel the Elder and continued the genre of the "Madonna and Child within a flower garland". |
| Daniel Seiter (or Saiter) (c. 1642 or 1647-1705) was a Viennese born painter of the Baroque, who trained in Italy. |
| Daniel Taylor is the name of: *Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Canadian countertenor *Daniel Taylor (painter), Canadian painter *Stereodan, Australian Music producer *Daniel Taylor (Sierra leon footballer) *Daniel Taylor (athlete), American shot putter *Daniel Taylor (software developer), free-thinker |
| Daniel du Janerand (1919 - 1990) was a French painter artist born in the "Marais", center of Paris, on July 18, 1919. |
| Daniele Crespi (1590 - july 19 1630) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era. He was born in Busto Arsizio, and active mostly in the Milan of Federico Borromeo. |
| Daniele Nadone (June 24, 1979 - October 9, 2005) was an Italian post-modern painter and photographer who committed suicide at his home in 2005 in Trastevere, Rome at the age of 26. |
| Daniele Ricciarelli (c. 1509 - April 4 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra, was an Italian mannerist painter and sculptor. |
| Danielle Eubank is an oil painter from a coastal village in Northern California. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her outlook and career have a strong international character and, from studios in the London subburb of Highgate, she travels the world to find the rich variety which characterizes her work. Danielle held a solo show at Thompson’s Gallery [http://www.thompsonsgallery.com] in London in March-April 2007. |
| Daniello Porri (died 1566) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in his native Parma as a portrait and historical painter in the early years of the 16th century. His family was Milanese by origin. He worked under both Correggio and Parmigianino, and afterwards in collaboration with Taddeo Zucchero in the church of Santa Maria d'Alvito. Of their combined work only a ' 'Madonna and child between St. Francis and St. Nicholas of Bari remains. |
| Daniël Mijtens (Delft c. 1590 - The Hague 1647-48), known in England as Daniel Mytens the Elder, was a Dutch portrait painter who spent the central years of his career working in England. He was born in Delft into a family of artists and trained in The Hague, possibly in the studio of Van Mierevelt. No known work survives from his first Dutch period. |
| Dante's Inferno is a 1935 motion picture that draws for inspiration on The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Its sole substance lies in a ten minute depiction of hell realised by director Harry Lachman, himself an established post-impressionist painter. |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 – April 09, 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator. |
| The Danube School or Donau School (German:Donauschule or Donaustil) is the name of a circle of painters of the first third of the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria (also along the Danube valley). Many also were innovative printmakers, usually in etching. They were among the first painters to regularly use pure landscape painting, and their figures, influenced by Matthias Grünewald, are often highly expressive, if not expressionist. |
| Kim Hongdo, better known as Danwon (1745–c. 1806), was a painter of the late Joseon period. A member of the Gwangju Kim clan, he grew up in present-day Ansan, South Korea, where he was taught by Pyoam Kang Sehwang, one of the most famous calligraphers of the day. He entered royal service as a member of the Dohwaseo, the official painters of the Joseon court, and drew the portrait of King Jeongjo. |
| Dario Varotari the Elder (c. 1539–1596) was a Italian painter, sculptor, and architect of the Renaissance. |
| Dario Varotari the Younger (active 1660) was a Italian painter, engraver, and poet of the Baroque. |
| The Darius Painter was an Apulian vase painter and the most eminent representative at the end of the "Ornate Style" in South Italian red-figure vase painting. His works were produced between 340 and 320 BC. |
| Darmin Veletanlić is a Bosnian-herzegovinian artist/painter born on October 3, 1962 in Bosanska Dubica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied at the Art Institute in Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia). His professors were: prof. Josip Bifel, prof. Nikola Koydl, and prof. Vasilije Jordan. Veletanlić received his art degree in 1989. Due to the Bosnian war, Veletanlić moved to Paris, France. There he continued his art career and married a french woman. |
| Darren Coffield (born 1969 in London) is a British painter. He studied at Goldsmiths College, Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art in London where he received his Bachelors in 1993 in Fine Arts. In the early nineties Coffield worked with Joshua Compston on the formation of Factual Nonsense - the centre of the emerging YBA scene. |
| Daubigny's Garden is one of the last works of Vincent van Gogh. It depicts the garden of the late Charles-François Daubigny, a painter Van Gogh admired all of his life-time. |
| Artist Dave White was born in Liverpool, England in 1971. He went to art school at the age of 16 where he discovered oil painting. His first solo exhibition at the age of 18 entitled 'Animals and Other Thingies' at the Bridewell Gallery in Liverpool was a sell out success and reviewed by Adrian Henri with whom Dave later became friends. Dave was part of the unofficial Liverpool school of painters including the likes of Dick Young and others whom now have sadly departed. |
| David Alfaro Siqueiros (December 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico - January 6, 1974 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a social realist painter (muralist), and also a Stalinist, known for large wall works in fresco that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. |
| David Allan (February 13, 1744–August 6, 1796) was a Scottish painter, best known for historical subjects. |
| David Andrew Sitek (born 1972) is a guitarist and record producer based in New York City, best known as a member of the band TV on the Radio. He has also worked with bands such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Foals, and Celebration, and produced free jazz-influenced remixes of songs by artists such as Beck and Nine Inch Nails. He is also a photographer and painter. Sitek lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. |
| David Avidan (born february 21 1934 - May 11, 1995) was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright" (as he often put it). He wrote twenty published books of Hebrew poetry, and is one of the most prominent and influential poets in Israeli history. |
| David Beck (or Beek) (May 25 1621, Delft – Dec 20 1656, The Hague) was a Dutch portrait painter Beck was the son of a schoolmaster in Delft, where he learned painting from Michiel van Mierevelt, a most prominent portrait painter in the Netherlands. Late in 1640 he moved to London to join Anthony van Dyck's studio as a pupil and assistant, but had little time to learn from Van Dyck himself as the latter fell ill and died in 1641. |
| David Bierk (b. circa 1944, Appleton, Minnesota – d. August 28 2002), was an American painter. His work is exhibited at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City. |
| David Bomberg (December 5, 1890 – August 19, 1957) was a painter, born in Birmingham, England. |
| David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957, and first recognized during the early 1980s in New York's East Village. Bowes was a lover of Jean Michel Basquiat. |
| David Burroughs Mattingly (born June 29, 1956, Fort Collins, Colorado) is an American illustrator and painter best known for his numerous book covers of science fiction and fantasy literature. |
| David Campbell Wilson(Born October 26, 1973 Wayne, PA) is a figurative painter. He began formal art training through the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at the age of twelve, and later studied painting at Syracuse University with professor Jerome Witkin.David moved to Seattle in 1996, where he spent several years developing larger installation projects, showing in local galleries and spinning fire with members of Magmavox. |
| David Cobley (27 June 1954) is an English portrait and figure painter. |
| David Cox (April 29, 1783 - June 7, 1859) was an English landscape painter. |
| David Dewey is an American painter, usually known for his pioneering of landscapes in watercolor. Dewey graduated in 1968 from Philadelphia College of Art, and then received his MFA from Washington State University in 1974. He is represented by Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, in New York City, NY. |
| David Geiser (born on June 18, 1948) is an American painter and creator of several underground comix. |
| David Griffiths (born February 16, 1939 in Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a Welsh portrait painter. The family moved to Pwllheli when Griffiths was seven. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London under the direction of Professor Sir William Coldstream. |
| David Nkrumah Liebe Unger Hart is a church musician, sign painter, artist, puppeteer and actor. He is best known for his role as a puppeteer on The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show. His work has been featured on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! He can often be seen performing with his puppet "Doug the Dog" just outside the Hollywood Bowl after shows. |
| David I. Arkin was a teacher, painter, writer, and lyricist and is the father of actor Alan Arkin. |
| David Inshaw (born March 21, 1943) is a British artist and pain |