07/06/1840 - 08/26/1912
José María Velasco (6 July 1840 – 26 August 1912) was one of Mexico’s most important and accomplished landscape artists. An academically trained painter who focused exclusively on the landscape of his native country,...
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01/28/1912 - 08/11/1956
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and no...
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09/01/1714 - 05/15/1782
Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales...
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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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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio daUrbino)
03/28/1483 - 04/06/1520
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Toge...
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05/14/1727 - 09/02/1788
Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter.
07/16/1723 - 02/23/1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on...
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05/11/1823 - 09/24/1906
Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (11 May 1823 – 24 August 1906) was a Belgian painter
07/04/1606 - 10/04/1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contr...
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01/07/1830 - 02/18/1902
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his large landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Wes...
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Jim Carroll (James Dennis Carroll)
08/01/1949 - 09/11/2009
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995...
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08/12/1886 - 11/24/1975
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter. His large wall works in fresco helped establish...
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03/20/1811 - 07/07/1879
George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity,...
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12/31/1869 - 11/03/1954
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, leader of the Fauve group, regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20th-century art, a master of the use of color and form to convey...
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04/13/1769 - 01/07/1830
Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.