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24 February 2026
Albert Bierstadt (Father: Henry Bierstadt; Mother: Christina Bierstadt; Brother: Edward Bierstadt, a famous photographer; Spouse: Rosalie Ludlow)
Albert...
20 February 2026
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) was a towering figure in postwar American painting, credited with bridging the gap between the aggressive energy of Abstract...
27 February 2026
Bahman Mohasses (Cousin to the celebrated illustrator Ardeshir Mohasses)
Bahman Mohasses (1931–2010) was a pioneering and provocative figure in Iranian...
15 March 2026
George Joseph Herriman (Father: George Herriman Jr.; Mother: Clara Morel; Spouse: Mabel Lillian Bridge; Children: Mabel and Barbara)
George Herriman (1880–1944)...
09 March 2026
Pieter Bruegel (Spouse: Mayken Coecke; Children: Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder, both of whom became prominent painters)
Pieter...
23 February 2026
Lourens Alma Tadema (Father: Pieter Jiltes Tadema, a notary; Mother: Hinke Dirks Brouwer; Spouses: Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin, Laura Theresa Epps;...
14 November 2022
At the age of 17, Fildes became a student at the Warrington School of Art. Fildes moved to the South Kensington Art School where he met Hubert von Herkomer and Frank...
08 August 2021
eeks was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1849. His parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston, and as such they were...
25 November 2022
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico (/ˈkɪrɪkoʊ/ KIRR-ik-oh, Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo deˈkiːriko]; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian[2][3] artist...
03 December 2021
Paul Victor Jules Signac (Father: Jules Jean-Baptiste Signac; Mother: Héloïse Anaïs Deudon; Spouse: Berthe Roblès; Partner: Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange;...
15 February 2026
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (c. 1290–1348) was an exceptionally original Italian painter of the Sienese school, active from approximately 1317 to 1348. Along with...
28 November 2022
Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (24 October 1843 – 23 August 1902) was a Russian-born Polish painter based in Rome, best remembered for his monumental academic...
31 July 2021
Shishkin was born in Yelabuga of Vyatka Governorate (today Republic of Tatarstan) and graduated from the Kazan gymnasium. Then he studied at the Moscow...
15 March 2026
Boleslav William Felix Robert Sienkiewicz (Spouse: Frances Sienkiewicz)
Bill Sienkiewicz (pronounced sin-KEV-itch) is a revolutionary American artist and...
04 March 2026
Andō Tokutarō (Father: Andō Gen’emon, a samurai and official fire warden; Mother died when he was 11; Spouses: Okabe Yayoi, Oyasu)
Utagawa Hiroshige...
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Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔːrhɒl/;[1] born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship …
Tintoretto (1518–1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and arguably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. Born Jacopo Robusti, he earned his nickname “Tintoretto” (little dyer) because his …
François Boucher (UK: /ˈbuːʃeɪ/ BOO-shay, US: /buːˈʃeɪ/ boo-SHAY; French: [fʁɑ̃swa buʃe]; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral …
Norman Percevel Rockwell (Parents: Jarvis Waring Rockwell and Anne Mary Hill; Spouses: Irene O’Connor, Mary Barstow, Mary Leete Punderson; Children: Jarvis, Thomas, and Peter) Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894–1978) was a prolific 20th-century American painter …
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. His career benefited decisively from his …
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was “arguably the world’s most famous living artist by 1880.”[1] The …
Jean-Antoine Watteau (UK: /ˈwɒtoʊ/, US: /wɒˈtoʊ/,[2][3] French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan vato]; baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 1721)[4] was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the …
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard | Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (Father: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a renowned Rococo painter; Mother: Marie-Anne Gérard, a miniaturist painter) Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (1780–1850) was a highly versatile French painter, sculptor, and designer who successfully bridged the …
Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( 5 April 1732[2][3] – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien …
Andrew Newell Wyeth ( July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. …
Paul Klee ( 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented …
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art.[1] Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa (today Ukraine), where …
John William Waterhouse (Father: William Waterhouse, a painter; Mother: Isabella Cassel; Spouse: Esther Kenworthy) John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) was a prominent English painter known for his large-scale paintings of women inspired by both ancient …
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (Parents: Edmé Tiburce Morisot and Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas; Sister and fellow artist: Edma Morisot; Spouse: Eugène Manet; Child: Julie Manet) Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) was a foundational figure of the Impressionist movement …
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (French: [ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃dʁe teɔdɔʁ ʒeʁiko]; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Although he died young, he was one of …