Biography of Artists

Hans van Aachen - German mannerist painter.
Oswald Achenbach - German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Pieter Coecke van Aelst - Flemish painter and architect-designer, known for his edition of Vitruvius in Dutch.
Albrecht Adam - German painter of battles and horses.
Francesco Albani or Albano was an Italian Baroque painter.
Alexander Archipenko - Ukrainian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist.
Alexander Adriaenssen also spelt Adriansen was a Flemish Baroque still-life painter, particularly known for his renderings of fish.
Konstantin Yakovlevich Afanasyev - Russian painter and the author of 446 engravings of the Russian famous public figures, vignettes, paintings.
Fyodor Alekseyev - Russian painter, his contemporaries often called him the Russian Canaletto, in recognition of his masterful vedute.
Peder Als (16 May 1725 - 8 July 1775) was a Danish historical and portrait painter.
Adolsky (Odolsky) Ivan / Grigoryevich
Albrecht Adam (16 April 1786 - 28 August 1862) was a German painter of battles and horses.
Andreas Achenbach was a German landscape painter.
Max Emanuel Ainmiller was a German artist and glass painter.
William Allan - Scottish historical painter known for his scenes of Russian life.
Alessandro Allori - Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
Albrecht Altdorfer - German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg.
Ando Hiroshige or Utagawa Hiroshige - Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Fra Angelico - Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects as having "a rare and perfect talent".
Jose Claudio Antolinez - Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Gioacchino Assereto - Italian painter of the early Baroque period, active in Genoa.

Jacob Adriaensz Backer - Dutch Golden Age painter. He produced about 140 paintings in twenty years, including portraits, religious and history subjects, and mythological paintings.
Johann Bardou was a German portrait painter, engraver and pastellist.
Karl (Carl) Wilhelm Bardou - Well-known German-Russian painter and graphic artist.
Francesco Bassano - Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Leandro Bassano - Italian artist from Bassano del Grappa, the younger brother of Francesco Bassano the Younger and third son of Jacopo Bassano, who took their name from their town of Bassano del Grappa.
Paul Jacques Aime Baudry was a French painter.
Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov - Russian neoclassical architect, graphic artist, architectural theorist and educator.
Jacques Bellange - An artist and printmaker from the Duchy of Lorraine whose etchings and some drawings are his only securely identified works today.
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky - Russian painter, he studied art at the Semyon Rachinsky fine art school, icon-painting at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1883, modern painting at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1884 to 1889, and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1894 to 1895.
Giulio Benso - Genovese painter of the early Baroque. He is known as one of the followers of the style of Luca Cambiasi.
Pompeo Batoni - Italian painter whose style incorporated elements of the French Rococo, Bolognese classicism, and nascent Neoclassicism.
Karl Petrovich Beggrov - Painter, watercolourist and lithography Russian of German origin.
Bernardo Bellotto or Canaletto - Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities.
Alexandre Benois - An influential artist, art critic, historian, preservationist, and founding member of Mir iskusstva, an art movement and magazine.
Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem - Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures.
Giovanni Biliverti - Italian painter of the late-Mannerism and early-Baroque period, active mainly in his adoptive city of Florence, as well as Rome.
Abraham Bloemaert - Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving.
Ludwig Franz Karl Bohnstedt - German architect, variety of buildings in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Helsinki, Baden-Baden and Gotha was his masterpiece.
Louis Leopold Boilly - French painter and draftsman. A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings.
Ferdinand Bol - Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman. Bol favored historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-portraits, and single figures in exotic finery.
Pierre Bonnard - French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis.
Balthasar van den Bossche - Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in histories, genre and picture gallery interiors.
Francois Boucher - French painter in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes.
Valentin de Boulogne sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style.
Sebastien Bourdon - French painter and engraver. His chef d'œuvre is The Crucifixion of St. Peter made for the cathedral of Notre Dame.
Pieter Bout - Painted chiefly in conjunction with Boudewyns, whose landscapes he ornamented with figures, representing assemblies, merry-makings, and such like subjects.
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - One of the leading French artists of the naturalist school.
Moretto da Brescia - Italian Renaissance painter of Brescia and Venice.
Jan Brueghel I - Flemish painter, son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger.

Jacques Callot - Baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an important person in the development of the old master print.
Charles Cameron - Scottish architect who made an illustrious career at the court of Catherine II of Russia
Michele Pace del Campidoglio (1610-1670), was an Italian painter of fruit and flowers.
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
Canaletto or Giovanni Antonio Canal - Italian painter of landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.
Bartolome Carducho - Italian painter, the Spanish corruption of his Italian patronymic.
Luca Cambiasi - Italian painter and draftsman, familiarly known as Lucchetto da Genova.
Annibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque painter.
Rosalba Carriera - Venetian Rococo painter.
Louis de Caullery was one of the pioneers of the art genre of courtly gatherings in Flemish painting of the 17th century.
Paul Cezanne - French artist and Post-Impressionist painter.
Charles-Louis Clerisseau - French architectural draughtsman, antiquary and artist.
Francisco Collantes was a Spanish Baroque era painter.
Lucas Cranach the Elder - German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving.
Gaspar de Crayer (18 November 1582 - 27 January 1669), sometimes called Gaspard or Caspar de Crayer was a Flemish painter.
Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.
Juan Pantoja de La Cruz - Spanish painter, one of the best representatives of the Spanish school of court painters.
Aelbert Cuyp - Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century.
Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (also Spelled Cuijp) - Portrait and landscape painter, best known for his portraits. He was born and died in Dordrecht, and was the son of the stained glass designer Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp, who moved to Dordrecht from Venlo. He was the half-brother of Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp and the father of the much more famous Aelbert Cuyp.

Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet RA was a notable English portrait painter and later a politician.
Cesare Dandini - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native city of Florence.
Charles-Francois Daubigny - Painters from the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism.
Honore Daumier was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.
George Dawe - English portraitist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon's invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace.
Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas; was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps - French painter and reproduced Oriental life and scenery with a bold fidelity to nature that puzzled conventional critics.
Eugene Delacroix - French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
Hippolyte Delaroche - French painter who was trained by Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, who was painting life-size historical subjects and had many students.
Maurice Denis - French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements.
Andre Derain - French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.
Louis Jean Desprez - French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.
Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille - French academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army".
Giuseppe Diamantini - Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period, active mainly in Venice.
Antoine Dieu was a French painter, was a son of Edouard Dieu, an engraver.
Kees van Dongen was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits.
Gerard Dou - Dutch Golden Age painter, He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe l'oeil "niche" paintings and candlelit night-scenes with strong chiaroscuro.
Clark D. Dubourg
Dael Jean Francois van (1764-1840) was a Flemish painter of fruit and flowers.

Albert Edelfelt was a Finnish painter.
Gerard Edelinck - Copper-plate engraver and print publisher of Flemish origin.
Heinrich Ehmsen was a German painter and graphic artist.
Kikukawa Eizan - Designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints.
Adam Elsheimer was a German artist working in Rome, his relatively few paintings were small scale, nearly all painted on copper plates, of the type often known as cabinet paintings.
Virgilius Erichsen - Danish painter. He was the royal portraitist to Christian VI of Denmark.

Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
Anselm Feuerbach - German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school.
Francois Flameng - French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th.
Jean-Louis Forain - French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolorist and etcher.
Jean-Honore Fragonard - 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 Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.
Frans Francken II - Flemish painter and the best-known member of the large Francken family of artists.
Hieronymous Francken II - Flemish Baroque painter and well known member of the famous Francken family of Antwerp artists.
Rudolf Fiodorovich Frentz - Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher.
Caspar David Friedrich - German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.
Othon Friesz - French artist of the Fauvist movement. Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, the son of a long line of shipbuilders and sea captains.
Hans Funk was a Swiss glass painter.
Jan Fyt - Flemish Baroque animal painter and etcher.

Johann Philipp Eduard Gaertner was a German painter who specialized in depictions of urban architecture paintings.
Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (christened 14 May 1727 - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter.
Louis Gallait was a Belgian painter, he lay at the basis of a revival of history painting in Belgium.
Emile Galle - French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement.
Louis Galloche - French painter, a student of Louis de Boullogne.
Daniel Gardner - British painter, best known for his work as a portraitist. He established a fashionable studio in Bond Street in London, specializing in small scale portraits in pastel, crayons or gouache, often borrowing Reynolds' poses.
Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism.
Claude Gellee - French painter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque era. Specializing in landscape painting.
Marguerite Gerard - French painter and etcher.
E. Gilbertson
Jan Pauwel Gillemans I was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Luca Giordano - Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain.
E. Goepfert
Vincent van Gogh - Post-Impressionist painter of Dutch.
Hendrik Goltzius - Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter.
Marie Gomion - Worked in St. Petersburg between the years 1815 and 1824.
Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga was an Italian theatre set designer who worked in Italy and, since 1792, in the Russian Empire.
Francisco Goya - Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.
Jan van Goyen - Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known.
Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist.
Valentine Green - British engraver and print publisher.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter.
Francesco Guardi (October 5, 1712 - January 1, 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, best known as Guercino - Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna.
Renato Guttuso was an Italian painter.

Georg Abraham Hackert was a German painter, brother of Jacob Philipp Hackert. He trained in Berlin with Friedrich Gottlieb Berger and went to Italy in 1776 at the invitation of his elder brother Philipp.
Jakob Philipp Hackert - Landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy.
William Hadfield
Pekka Halonen - Painter of Finnish landscapes and people in the national romantic style.
Edward Petrovich Hau was a Russian painter.
George Hayter - Notable English painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits.
Grigory Petrovich Helmersen - Russian landscapes and mountains painter.
Eduard Hildebrandt was a German painter.
Gosotei Hirosada - Most prolific Osaka-based designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints during the late Edo period.
Katsushika Hokusai - Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.
Daniel Hopfer - German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking, at the end of the fifteenth century.
Theodor Hosemann - German genre painter, draftsman, illustrator and caricaturist.
Jean-Pierre-Laurent Houel - French painter, engraver and draftsman.
Jean Huber - Swiss painter and silhouettiste.
Wolf Huber was an Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School.
Jan van Huysum also spelled Huijsum, (April 15, 1682, Amsterdam - February 8, 1749, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter.
Muhammad Riza Irvani

Dirck Jacobsz - Dutch Renaissance painter. His exact birthplace is unknown, but it was somewhere near Amsterdam.
Ferdinand Jagemann was a German painter.
Hieronymus Janssens - Flemish Baroque painter specialized in dance scenes.
Eero Nicolai Jarnefelt was a Finnish realist painter.
David Jacques-Louis
Christian Albrecht Jensen - Danish portrait painter who was active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting in the first half of the 19th century. Painting more than 400 portraits over the course of his career.
Charles Jervas - Irish portrait painter, translator, and art collector of the early 18th century.
Hans III Jordaens was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Jacob Jordaens - One of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting.
Charles Claude Louis Julienn was a Russia painter.

Wassily Kandinsky - An influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works.
Grigory Anikievich Kachalov, St. Petersburg, was a famous Russian engraver and draftsman.
Angelica Kauffman - Swiss-born Austrian Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
Rockwell Kent - American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer.
Kerstiaen de Keuninck was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Nicaise de Keyser (alternative first names: Nicaas, Nikaas of Nicasius) - Belgian painter of mainly history paintings and portraits who was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting.
Oskar Conrad Kleineh was a Finnish painter.
Ludwig Knaus was a German genre painter of the younger Düsseldorf school of painting.
Nikolaus Knupfer was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
O. Koch
Mina Lukich Kolokolnikov was a Russian painter and teacher.
Salomon Koninck - Dutch painter of genre scenes and portraits, and an engraver.
Isoda Koryusai (1735-1790) was a Japanese printmaker and painter active from approximately 1764 to 1788.
Franz Kruger - German (Prussian) painter and lithographer.
Karl von Kugelgen - Landscape and history painter, a Russian court and cabinet painter in St. Petersburg.

Wilhelm Lachnit - German painter who was primarily active in Dresden.
Charles Lacoste was a French painter.
Adolphe Ladurner - French painter, draughtsman, engraver.
Charles de La Fosse (or Lafosse) - French painter, was born in Paris.
Johann Baptist von Lampi I - Austrian-Italian historical and portrait painter.
Nicolas Lancret - French painter, was born in Paris, and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.
Hieronymus Lang - Glass painter and founder of a traditional glass painter family in Schaffhausen.
Nicolas de Largilliere - Painter born in Paris, France.
Albert Larteau was a French painter.
Thomas Lawrence - Leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.
Charles Le Brun - French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin.
Hippolyte Lecomte - French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs.
Jules Joseph Lefevre was a French figure painter, educator and theorist.
Leon Augustin L'Hermitte - French realist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker.
Max Liebermann - German-Jewish painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany.
Jan Lievens - Dutch painter, usually associated with Rembrandt, working in a similar style.
Maurice Lobre was a French artist.
Johann Carl Loth - German Baroque painter, born in Munich but active most of his life in Venice.

Nicolaes Maes, also known as Nicolaes Maas was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre and portraits.
Alessandro Magnasco also known as il Lissandrino - Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.
Eduard Magnus was a German painter.
Konstantin Makovsky - An influential Russian painter, affiliated with the "Peredvizhniki (Wanderers)". Many of his historical paintings, such as The Russian Bride's Attire (1889), showed an idealized view of Russian life of prior centuries. He is often considered a representative of a Salon art.
Thomas Malton, "the younger", was an English painter of topographical and architectural views, and an engraver. J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Girtin were amongst his pupils.
Hans Makart - Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator; most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists.
Edouard Manet - French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life.
Andrea Mantegna - Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini.
Georges Manzana-Pissarro - French artist, who worked in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles. He was also a designer of textiles, decorative objects, furniture and glassware.
Albert Marquet - French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings.
Johann Fredrik Martin - Swedish artist, graphic artist and cartoonist. He was the brother of Elias Martin.
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo - Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter, the most distinguished of the followers of Velázquez, whose style he imitated more closely than did any other artist. A fine painter himself, Mazo was a master of landscape, as proven by his most celebrated work View of Saragossa.
Simone Martini - Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style.
Andrey Martynov - Russian painter and engraver.
Vasily Vasilyevich Mate (1856-1917), or Mathé, was a Russian artist and engraver. While he was not the author of any major original works, he was one of the major engravers in Russia during the late 19th century. He collaborated with major Russian painters and produced engravings of their paintings, thus helping popularize Russian art.
Jan Mateiko - Polish painter known for paintings of notable historical Polish political and military events.
Henri Matisse - French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
Jules Mayblum
Ilya Moiseyevich Mazel was a Russian and Soviet artist.
James Meader
Claude Mellan - French engraver and painter.
Anton Raphael Mengs - German Bohemian painter, active in Rome, Madrid and Saxony, who became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting.
Adolph von Menzel - German artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings.
Pieter Meulener was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Jan Miel - Flemish painter and engraver who was active in Italy where he formed part of the circle of genre painters influenced by Pieter van Laer who are referred to as 'Bamboccianti'.
Frans Jansz van Mieris I - Northern Dutch painter.
Juan Carreno de Miranda - Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Jan Miense Molenaer - Dutch Golden Age genre painter whose style was a precursor to Jan Steen's work during Dutch Golden Age painting.
Alexander Molinari - Painter, draftsman and miniaturist Prussian Italian origin.
Claude Monet - Founder of French Impressionist painting.
George Morland was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes.
Bartolome Esteban Murillo - Spanish Baroque painter.
Grigory Semyonovich Musikyisky (1670 - 1740, also known as Grigoriis Semyonovich Musikiysky or Grigory Musikiysky, was a Russian painter and engraver.

Mariotto di Nardo - Florentine painter. He was the son of the sculptor Nardo di Cione.
Charles-Joseph Natoire - French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome.
Pieter Neeffs I - Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches.
Aert van der Neer - Landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, specializing in small night scenes lit only by moonlight and fires, and snowy winter landscapes, both often looking down a canal or river.
Constantin Netscher, was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Ilya Vasilyevich Neyelov
Ivan Nikitich Nikitin - Russian painter, an author of portraits and battle paintings.
Emil Nolde (7 August 1867 - 13 April 1956) was a German Danish painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century.

Joseph Oleszkiewicz
Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck, a distinguished painter of landscapes and animals, was born at Antwerp in 1755, and studied under Hendricus Josephus Antonissen from 1767.
Pedro Orrente - Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Adriaen van Ostade - Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works.
Amedee Ozenfant (15 April 1886 - 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter and writer. Together with Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (later known as Le Corbusier) he founded the Purist movement.

Giovanni Paolo Panini - Painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view painters").
Bartolomeo Passarotti - Italian painter of the mannerist period, who worked mainly in his native Bologna.
Benjamin Paterssen - Swedish artist, water colour painter and engraver, Paterssen worked in portraiture and genre painting, but is most famous for landscapes and cityscapes.
Christopher Paudiss - Bavarian Baroque painter and a student of Rembrandt van Rijn.
Genovese Peirano was a Italy painter.
Gabriel Perelle - French draftsman and printmaker of topographic views and landscapes.
Ferdinand Perrot was a marine painter, born in 1808 in Paimbœuf and died in 1841 in St. Petersburg (Russia).
Master Yegor Petrov
Pablo Picasso - Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
Francesco Pesellino was an Italian painter.
Charles Pierron
Camille Pissarro - Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas.
Joseph Plepp was since 1632 the city architect of Bern and gave the cage tower its present appearance.
Paulus Potter - Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point.
Nicolas Poussin - Leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.
Luigi Premazzi was an Italian painter, mainly of watercolor vedute.
Pavel Yakovlevich Pyasetsky

Giacomo Quarenghi - Italian Neoclassical architect and painter, best known as the builder of numerous works in Russia during and immediately after the reign of Catherine II.

Henry Raeburn - Scottish portrait painter and Scotland's first significant portrait painter since the Union to remain based in Scotland. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland.
Odilon Redon - French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.
Felix Regamey - Born in Paris on 7 August 1844 and died on 7 May 1907, is a painter, illustrator and cartoonist French. He is the son of the painter Louis Pierre Guillaume Régamey and brother painters and designers Frédéric and Guillaume Régamey.
Nicolas Regnier alternatively Nicolas Renieri in Italian - Flemish painter and art collector, active in Italy during the Baroque period.
Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
Jose de Ribera - Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, better known as Jusepe de Ribera or Giuseppe Ribera.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history.
Hubert Robert - French painter, noted for his landscape paintings and picturesque depictions of ruins.
Christina Robertson - Scottish artist particularly known for the many portraits she made of the imperial family and the Russian aristocracy.
Alexander Roslin - Swedish portrait painter who worked in Scania, Bayreuth, Paris, Italy, and St. Petersburg, primarily for members of aristocratic families.
Alexei Ivanovich Rostovtsev - Russian engraver.
Gandolfino da Roreto or Gandolfino d'Asti was an Italian painter, who was active in Piedmont during the early Renaissance. He worked between Asti, Alessandria and Montferrat.
Georges Rouault - French painter, draughtsman, and printer, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism.
Theodore Rousseau - French painter of the Barbizon school.
Thomas Rowlandson - English artist and caricaturist.
Pieter Paul Rubens - Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality. He is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.
Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael - Dutch Golden Age landscape painter, and is considered the most famous of four Haarlem family members who created landscape paintings.
David Ryckaert III - Flemish Baroque painter. He started his career as a landscape painter but later specialized in genre paintings.

Master E. S. - German engraver, goldsmith, and printmaker of the late Gothic period. He was the first major German artist of old master prints and was greatly copied and imitated.
Vasily Semyonovich Sadovnikov - Russian painter, and a leading Russian master of perspective painting.
Herman Saftleven II was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period.
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin - French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter.
George Sanders
Raphaello Santi, better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
Petrus Schenk - German engraver and cartographer active in Amsterdam and Leipzig.
Valentin Schertle was a Russian painter.
Julius Schoppe - German portrait, landscape, decorative and historical painter. He was one of the best portraitists of the Biedermeier period and the decades thereafter. His work in this area are from today's perspective the lasting achievements.
Daniel Schultz - Famous painter of the Baroque era, born and active in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Giovanni Segantini - Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by major museums. In later life he combined a Divisionist painting style with Symbolist images of nature. He was active in Switzerland for most of his life.
Corneille Seghers was a Belgian painter.
Ary Scheffer - Dutch - French Romantic painter.
Johann Heinrich Schonfeld was a Baroque painter of Germany.
Rene Seyssaud - Painter of Provence, the precursor of Fauvism.
Semyon Shchedrin - Russian landscape painter, the uncle and mentor of Sylvester Shchedrin.
Paul Victor Jules Signac - French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style.
Saint Jean Simon - Ultimately embraced the Lyon tradition of flower painting and textile design and became the most successful of all Lyonnais flower painters.
Jacques Smeyers
Dominicus Smout was a Southern Netherlandish painter.
Pieter Snayers - Flemish art collector, painter, draughtsman and engraver who worked in a wide variety of genres.
Frans Snyders or Snijders - Flemish painter of animals and still lifes.
Francesco Solimena - Prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen.
Roger Somville - Modern Belgian painter. He defended realism against modern abstract art, which he believed de-humanize human beings.
Hendrick van Steenwyck II - Baroque painter mostly of architectural interiors, but also of biblical scenes and still lifes.
Jan Steen / Jan Havickszoon Steen - Dutch genre painter of the 17th century.
Jacob Storck was a Dutch Golden Age marine painter.
Bernardo Strozzi - Prominent and prolific Italian Baroque painter born and active mainly in Genoa, and also active in Venice.
Eustache Le Sueur - one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting, was born in Paris, where he passed his whole life.

David Teniers II - Flemish artist born in Antwerp, the son of David Teniers the Elder. His son David Teniers III and his grandson David Teniers IV were also painters. His wife Anna, née Anna Breughel, was the daughter of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the granddaughter of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice.
Benvenuto Tisi was a Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara.
Titian / Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.
Lodewyk Toeput or il Pozzoserrato - Mannerist landscape painter active in Italy.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times.
Jean-Francois de Troy - French Rococo painter and tapestry designer. He was one of a family of painters, being the son of the portrait painter François de Troy (1645-1730), under whom he first studied, and at whose expense he first went to Italy from 1699 to 1706, staying in Rome, but also visiting many north Italian cities.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Japanese artist. He is widely recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting.

Lucas van Uden was a Flemish Baroque painter specializing in landscapes.
Konstantin Andreyevich Ukhtomsky - Russian watercolourist who recorded with precision the interiors in the New Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi - One of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. He was a member of the Utagawa school.
Maurice Utrillo - French painter who specialized in cityscapes.

Perino del Vaga (1501 - October 19, 1547) was an Italian painter of the Late Renaissance/Mannerism.
Juan de Valdes Leal was a Spanish painter and etcher of the Baroque era.
Gerard Valck was a Dutch mezzotint engraver and publisher.
Lucas van Valckenborch was a Flemish painter, mainly paint on landscapes, portraits and allegorical scenes.
Felix Edouard Vallotton - Swiss painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis.
Louis Valtat was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves ("the wild beasts", so named for their wild use of color), who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d'Automne. He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse.
Aachen Hans Van
Jean-Baptiste Van Loo was a French subject and portrait painter.
Charles Vanloo - French painter of allegorical scenes and portraits.
Palma il Vecchio (c. 1480 - July 1528), Jacopo Palma or known as Jacopo Negretti, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school born at Serina Alta near Bergamo.
Bonifazio Veronese also Bonifazio Veneziano was an Italian painter. He was born as Bonifazio de' Pitati in Verona.
Caterino Veneziano - Italian painter. He worked in Venice with Donato.
Charles-Louis Verboeckhoven, March 5 1802 (or 14 Ventôse X) - Brussels, September 25 1889) was a Belgian marine painter from the romance.
Nicolaes van Verendael - Flemish painter of flower still lifes.
Tobias Verhaecht - Flemish painter primarily of landscapes. His style was indebted to the mannerist world landscape developed by artists like Joachim Patinir and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Claude Joseph Vernet - French painter, his son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.
Horace Vernet - French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects.
Paolo Veronese - Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, most famous for large history paintings of both religious and mythological subjects.
Jan Victors - Dutch Golden Age painter that focused mainly on painting subject from the Bible.
Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun also known as Madame Lebrun - French painter, and is recognized as the most important female painter of the 18th century.
Yefim Grigoryevich Vinogradov was a Russian painter.
Antonio Visentini was an Italian architectural designer, painter and engraver, known for his architectural fantasies and capricci, the author of treatises on perspective and a professor at the Venetian Academy.
Simon de Vos - Flemish Baroque painter of genre, cabinet pictures and history paintings.
Simon Vouet - French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France.
Sebastiaen Vrancx also as Sebastiaan Vrancx, Sebastiaen Vrancx - Flemish Baroque painter and etcher of the Antwerp school.
Hans Vredeman de Vries - Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer.

Pierre Waidmann was a French artist, landscape painter and photographer.
Jean-Antoine Watteau - French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens.
Jan Wildens - Flemish Baroque painter and draughtsman specializing in landscapes.
Rudolf Wimmer was a German painter.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter - German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century.
Emmanuel de Witte - Dutch perspective painter.
Victor II Wolfut
Christian-Albert Wortmann (1680-1760) was a painter and engraver.
Joseph Wright - English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution".

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Grigory Yakovlev was a Russia painter.
I.P. Yelyakov was a Russia painter.
Utagawa Yoshitora - Designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers.

Alexander Zauerweid - Baltic German painter who taught battle painting at the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts.
Pyotr Gerasimovich Zharkov was a Russian painter.
Mihaly Zichy was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.
Alexey Fyodorovich Zubov was a Russian etcher.
Federico Zuccaro, also known as Federico Zuccari (c. 1540/1541 - August 6, 1609), was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad.
Francesco Zuccarelli was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period.