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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Finnish painter (1865-1931)

19th-century French painter

Czechoslovak photographer, painter and illustrator

Amedeo Modigliani

Italian painter and sculptor

French painter and engraver

American artist, film director and producer

Antoine-Jean Gros

Arnold Böcklin

Swiss Symbolist painter (1827–1901)

Armenian-American painter

German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter

19th-century French artist

Australian artist (1939-1992)

British painter

Camille Pissarro

Swedish painter (1853-1919)

Caspar David Friedrich

German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)

American painter

American painter

French painter (1840–1926)

American painter

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Mexican social realist painter

British artist (born 1937)

Mexican muralist (1886–1957)

19th-century French painter

Norwegian painter and printmaker

20th-century American painter

English painter

Austrian painter

Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect

German artist (1867–1956)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

German expressionist painter (1880–1938)

Eugène Delacroix

19th-century French painter

Francesco Hayez

Italian painter (1791–1882)

Francis Bacon (artist)

Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)

Frederic Leighton

English painter and sculptor

Frederic Remington

19th and 20th-century American artist

Mexican painter (1907–1954)

German artist known for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s

19th-century French artist

Georgia O'Keeffe

American artist

Gerhard Richter

German visual artist

Giorgio de Chirico

American painter

American painter

Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)

Gustave Caillebotte

French painter (1848–1894)

Gustave Courbet

19th-century French painter

19th century French Symbolist painter

Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, set designer

Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator (1840-1884)

Helen Frankenthaler

American painter

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)

20th-century French artist

French painter (1844–1910)

Swedish painter and mystic

Russian realist painter (1844–1930)

Ivan Aivazovsky

Russian marine painter

Russian painter (1837–1887)

Russian landscape painter

J. M. W. Turner

British painter (1775–1851)

Jackson Pollock

American painter (1912–1956)

American painter

James McNeill Whistler

American painter (1834-1903)

Polish painter (1838–1893)

American painter

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

19th-century French Neoclassical painter

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

19th-century French landscape painter and printmaker

Jean-François Millet

19th-century French painter

Jean-Léon Gérôme

French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)

Jean-Michel Basquiat

American artist (1960–1988)

British painter (born 1970)

Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist

English painter 1776–1837

John Everett Millais

British painter and illustrator (1829-1896)

John Singer Sargent

American painter (1856–1925)

John Steuart Curry

American painter

John William Waterhouse

19th and 20th-century English painter

German-American designer, painter, educator and typographer (1888–1976)

Russian painter (1799-1852)

Kazimir Malevich

Russian artist and painter (1879–1935)

László Moholy-Nagy

Hungarian painter and photographer

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912)

American abstract expressionist painter (1908-1984)

Lois Mailou Jones

American artist (1905-1998)

Russian and French artist (1887–1985)

Abstract painter (1903–1970)

American painter and printmaker (1844–1926)

Maurice de Vlaminck

French painter (1876–1958)

Nicholas Roerich

Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)

Georgian artist (1862-1918)

French painter (1840–1916)

German painter and printmaker (1891–1969)

Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)

French painter (1839–1906)

French artist (1848–1903)

Swiss-German painter (1879–1940)

French painter (1863–1935)

Paula Modersohn-Becker

German expressionist painter (1876–1907)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

French painter and sculptor

Dutch painter (1872–1944)

Belgian painter (1898–1967)

Robert Delaunay

French painter and sculptor (1822-1899)

Roy Lichtenstein

American pop artist (1923–1997)

Rufus Porter (painter)

American painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine (1792-1884)

Russell Drysdale

Australian artist

Spanish surrealist artist

Australian artist (1917-1992) –

Suzanne Valadon

French painter (1865—1938)

Tamara de Lempicka

Polish painter (1894–1980)

Tarsila do Amaral

Brazilian painter, draftswoman and translator

Theo van Doesburg

Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer (1883–1931)

Théodore Géricault

19th-century French painter

19th-century American painter

Late 19th-early 20th century American artist

Thomas Hart Benton (painter)

American painter and muralist

American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects

Australian artist (1856–1931)

Umberto Boccioni

Italian painter and sculptor (1882–1916)

Russian painter (1865–1911)

Vasily Vereshchagin

19th-century Russian painter

Victor Vasarely

French-Hungarian painter and printmaker (1906–1997)

Viktor Vasnetsov

Russian artist (1848-1926)

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch painter (1853–1890)

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian painter and art theorist

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American painter

English painter (1787–1849)

William Holman Hunt

Pre-Raphaelite English artist (1827–1910)

William Utermohlen

American artist with Alzheimer's disease who drew self-portraits

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

French academic painter (1825–1905)

American landscape painter