12/22/1768 - 04/22/1821
John Crome (December 22, 1768 – April 22, 1821) was an English landscape artist of the Romantic era, one of the principal artists of the "Norwich school". He is known as Old Crome to distinguish him from hi...
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03/30/1853 - 07/29/1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) is generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, though he had little success during his lifetime. Van Gogh produced all of his work (some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings)...
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05/11/1823 - 09/24/1906
Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (11 May 1823 – 24 August 1906) was a Belgian painter
12/02/1859 - 03/29/1891
Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. His large work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), his most famous painting, altered the d...
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07/14/1862 - 02/06/1918
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt...
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03/04/1756 - 07/08/1823
Sir Henry Raeburn (4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter, the first significant Scottish portraitist since the Act of Union 1707 to remain based in Scotland.
07/19/1789 - 02/17/1854
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator.
01/29/1960 - 11/18/1986
Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carangi was considered by some to be the first supermodel, although that title has also been given to others, inclu...
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03/24/1834 - 10/03/1896
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement....
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12/16/1866 - 12/13/1944
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.
07/10/1834 - 07/17/1903
The American painter, etcher, and lithographer James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) created a new set of principles for the fine arts, championed art for art's sake, and introduced a subtle style of painting in w...
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12/04/1738 - 09/09/1815
John Singleton Copley (1738 – 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of impor...
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10/31/1632 - 12/15/1675
Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized in Delft on 31 October 1632 as Joannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. V...
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10/27/1923 - 09/29/1997
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City.
His work defined the basic premise of pop art bette...
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05/24/1816 - 07/18/1868
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816, – July 18, 1868) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.