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Renaissance to early modern era

21st century contemporary

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Finnish painter (1865-1931)

Albrecht Dürer

German painter, printmaker and theorist (1471–1528)

19th-century French painter

Czechoslovak photographer, painter and illustrator

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Italian painter (1290–1348)

Amedeo Modigliani

Italian painter and sculptor

French painter and engraver

Andrea del Sarto

Italian painter (1486-1530)

Andrea Mantegna

Italian Renaissance painter (1431–1506)

Medieval Russian artist

American artist, film director and producer

Angelica Kauffman

18th/19th-century Swiss Neoclassical painter

Annibale Carracci

Bolognese painter (1560–1609)

Anthony van Dyck

17th-century Flemish Baroque artist

Antoine Watteau

Antoine-Jean Gros

Anton Raphael Mengs

German-Bohemian painter active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid (1728-1779)

Antonello da Messina

15th-century Italian painter

Antonio da Correggio

Italian Renaissance painter (1489–1534)

4th century BC Greek painter

Arnold Böcklin

Swiss Symbolist painter (1827–1901)

Armenian-American painter

Artemisia Gentileschi

Italian painter (1593–1650s)

German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Spanish Baroque painter (1617-1682)

19th-century French artist

Australian artist (1939-1992)

British painter

Italian Mannerist painter (1503-1572)

Camille Pissarro

Italian painter of landscapes (1697-1768)

Italian painter (1571–1610)

Swedish painter (1853-1919)

Caspar David Friedrich

German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)

American painter

Charles Le Brun

17th-century French painter and art theorist

American painter

Italian artist (1240–1302)

French painter, draughtsman and etcher

French painter (1840–1926)

American painter

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Mexican social realist painter

British artist (born 1937)

Mexican muralist

Diego Velázquez

17th-century Spanish painter

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448-1494)

13th and 14th-century Italian painter

19th-century French painter

Norwegian painter and printmaker

20th-century American painter

English painter

Austrian painter

Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance (1541–1614)

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

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

French portrait painter (1755–1842)

German artist (1867–1956)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

German expressionist painter (1880–1938)

Eugène Delacroix

19th-century French painter

15th-century Italian Renaissance painter

15th-century early Italian Renaissance painter

Francesco Hayez

Italian painter

Francis Bacon (artist)

Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)

Francisco de Zurbarán

Spanish painter (1598–1664)

18th and 19th-century Spanish painter and printmaker

François Boucher

18th-century French painter

17th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands

Frederic Leighton

English painter and sculptor

Frederic Remington

19th and 20th-century American artist

Mexican painter (1907–1954)

Gentile Bellini

Italian painter

Gentile da Fabriano

Italian painter

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

French painter and sculptor

Georges de La Tour

17th-century French painter

19th-century French artist

Georgia O'Keeffe

American artist

Gerard van Honthorst

Dutch Golden Age painter

Gerhard Richter

German visual artist

American painter

Giorgio de Chirico

Italian painter

Italian painter and architect

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

18th-century Italian painter

Giovanni Bellini

15th and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

16th-century Italian painter of the late Renaissance

American painter

American painter

17th-century Bolognese 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

Hans Holbein the Younger

German artist and printmaker

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

15th century German / Flemish painter

Helen Frankenthaler

American painter

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)

20th-century French artist

French painter (1844–1910)

Hieronymus Bosch

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

Jacob van Ruisdael

Dutch landscape painter and engraver ( c. 1629 – 1682)

Jacques-Louis David

James McNeill Whistler

American painter (1834-1903)

Jan Brueghel the Elder

Flemish painter (1568–1625)

Polish painter (1838–1893)

Flemish painter (died 1441)

American painter

French painter (c. 1420 – 1481)

Jean Siméon Chardin

18th-century French 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-Honoré Fragonard

18th and 19th-century French Rococo 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

Johannes Vermeer

17th-century Dutch painter

English painter 1776–1837

John Everett Millais

British painter and illustrator (1829-1896)

John Singer Sargent

American painter (1856–1925)

John Singleton Copley

Anglo-American painter (1738–1815)

John Steuart Curry

American painter

John William Waterhouse

19th and 20th-century English painter

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

Joshua Reynolds

English painter (1723–1792)

Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1609-1660)

Jusepe de Ribera

Spanish painter

American contemporary artist

Russian painter (1799-1852)

Kazimir Malevich

Russian artist and painter (1879–1935)

American artist (born 1977)

László Moholy-Nagy

Hungarian painter and photographer

Lavinia Fontana

Italian painter (1552–1614)

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912)

American abstract expressionist painter (1908-1984)

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452–1519)

Lois Mailou Jones

American artist (1905-1998)

Luca Signorelli

Italian Renaissance painter

Lucas Cranach the Elder

16th-century German Renaissance painter and printmaker

Lucas van Leyden

Artist, painter (1494-1533)

Russian and French artist (1887–1985)

Abstract painter (1903–1970)

American painter and printmaker (1844–1926)

15th-century Italian Renaissance painter

Matthias Grünewald

German Renaissance painter (c.1470-1528)

Maurice de Vlaminck

French painter (1876–1958)

Nicholas Roerich

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

Nicolas Poussin

17th-century French Baroque painter

Georgian artist (1862-1918)

French painter (1840–1916)

German painter and printmaker (1891–1969)

Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)

Italian painter and mathematician (1397–1475)

Italian Renaissance painter (1528–1588)

Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (1503–1540)

Parrhasius (painter)

Late 5th/early 4th-century BC Greek painter

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)

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish artist and diplomat (1577-1640)

Piero della Francesca

Italian painter

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

French painter and sculptor

Dutch painter (1872–1944)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Flemish Renaissance painter

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Flemish painter

Pietro Perugino

Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school (1448-1523)

Plautilla Nelli

Painter from Italy (1524-1588)

5th-century BC Greek painter

Flemish painter in the Early Netherlandish tradition (1466-1530)

16th-century Italian painter and architect

17th-century Dutch painter and printmaker

Belgian painter (1898–1967)

Belgian painter

Robert Delaunay

Rogier van der Weyden

Early Netherlandish painter (c. 1399 – 1464)

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

Sandro Botticelli

Italian Renaissance painter (1445–1510)

Australian artist (1917-1992) –

Italian painter from the 14th century (1284–1344)

Sofonisba Anguissola

Italian painter (c.1532-1625)

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 Gainsborough

18th-century English portrait and landscape painter

Thomas Hart Benton (painter)

American painter and muralist

American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects

16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance

Italian painter (c. 1477/88/90–1576)

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 Hogarth

English artist and social critic

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

5th-century BCE Greek painter