The Curious Lives of Famous Painters

Biographies of Famous Painters

John James Audubon	Haitian, 1785-1851	Naturalist, Painter
Francis Bacon	British, 1909-1992	Expressionist Painter
George Bellows	American, 1882-1925	Ashcan School
Thomas Hart Benton	American, 1889-1975	Regionalist Painter
Albert Bierstadt	American, 1830-1902	Hudson River School
George Bingham	American, 1811-1879	Realist Painter
William Blake	British, 1757-1827	Visionary Painter
Umberto Boccioni	Italian, 1882-1916	Futurist Painter
Giotto Bondone	Italian, 1267-1337	Early Renaissance
Pierre Bonnard	French, 1867- 1947	Nabi Painter
Hieronymus Bosch	Dutch, 1450-1516	Late Gothic, Surrealism
Fernando Botero	Colombian, 1932-	Modern Visionary Painter
Sandro Botticelli	Italian, 1445-1510	Early Renaissance
Francois Boucher	French, 1703-1770	Rococo Painter
Adolphe Bouguereau	French, 1825-1905	Academic Realist Painter
Georges Braque	French 1882-1963	Fauvist Cubist Painter
Pieter Brueghel the Elder	Dutch, 1525-1569	Northern Renaissance
Marie Vigee le Brun	French, 1755-1842	Neoclassical Painter
Alexander Calder	American, 1898-1976	Modern Abstract Sculptor
Canaletto	Italian, 1697-1768	Rococo Painter
Caravaggio	Italian, 1573-1610	Baroque Painter
Emily Carr	Canadian, 1871-1945	Modern Realist Painter
Mary Cassatt	American, 1844-1926	Impressionist Painter

George Catlin	American, 1796-1872	Realist Western Painter
Paul Cezanne	French, 1839-1906	Post-Impressionist
Marc Chagall	Russian, 1887-1985	Surrealist Painter
Jean Siméon Chardin	French, 1699-1779	Rococo Painter
John Collier	English, 1850-1934	Classicist Realist Painter
John Constable	English, 1776-1837	Romantic Painter
John Copley	American, 1738-1815	Realist Painter
Pierre-Auguste Cot	French, 1837-1883	Academic Painter
Gustave Courbet	French 1819-1877	Realist Painter
Lucas Cranach	German, 1472-1553	Northern Renaissance
Salvador Dali	Spanish, 1904-1989	Surrealist Painter
Honore Daumier	French, 1808-1879	Realist Illustrator
Jacques-Louis David	French, 1748-1825	Neoclassical Painter
Edgar Degas	French, 1834-1917	Impressionist painter
Eugène Delacroix	French, 1798 - 1863	Romantic Painter
Paul Delaroche	French 1797 - 1856	Academic Painter
Sano di Pietro	Italian, 1406-1481	Early Renaissance
Arthur Dove	American, 1880-1946	Abstract Realist Painter
Leonardo Da Vinci	Italian, 1452-1519	High Renaissance
Tamara de Lempicka	Polish, 1898-1980	Art Deco Painter
Marcel Duchamp	French, 1887-1968	Dadaist Conceptual
Raoul Dufy	French, 1877-1953	Fauvist Painter

Albrecht Dure	German, 1471 - 1528	Northern Renaissance
Thomas Eakins	American, 1844-1916	Realist Painter
M.C. Escher	Dutch, 1898-1972	Surrealist Illustrator
El Greco	Greek, 1541-1614	Mannerist Painter
James Ensor	Belgian, 1860-1949	Expressionist Painter
Max Ernst	German, 1891-1976	Surrealist Painter
Lyonel Feininger	American, 1871-1956	Expressionist Cubist
Tsugoharu Foujita	Japanese, 1886-1968	Modern Painter
Jean Fragonard	French, 1732-1806	Rococo Painter
Helen Frankenthaler	American, 1928-	Abstract Expressionism
Thomas Gainsborough	English, 1727 - 1788	Romantic Rococo Painter
Paul Gauguin	French, 1848-1903	Post-Impressionist
Jean-Léon Gérôme	French, 1824-1904	Academic Painter
Adolph Gottlieb	American, 1903-1974	Abstract Expressionist
Francisco de Goya	Spanish, 1746-1828	Rococo Romantic Painter
Juan Gris	Spanish,1887-1927	Cubist Painter
Frans Hals	Dutch, 1583 - 1666	Baroque Painter
Keith Haring	American, 1958-1990	Pop Painter
Meindert Hobbema	Dutch, 1638-1709	Baroque Painter
David Hockney	British 1937-	Pop Artist

Edward Hicks	American, 1780-1849	Naive Folk Painter
Pieter de Hooch	Dutch, 1629-1684	Baroque Painter

Edward Hopper	American, 1882-1967	Contemporary Realist
Hans Holbein	Bavaria, 1497-1543	Northern Renaissance
Edward Hughes	English, 1851-1917	Pre-Raphaelite Painter
Jean Auguste Ingres	French, 1780-1867	Neoclassical Painter
Alexei Jawlensky	Russian, 1864-1941	Expressionist Painter
Jasper Johns	American, 1930-	Expressionist Pop
Frida Kahlo	Mexican, 1907-1954	Surrealist Painter
Wassily Kandinsky	Russian, 1866-1944	Expressionist Painter
Ernst Kirchner	German, 1880-1938	Expressionist Painter
Paul Klee	Swiss, 1879-1940	Expressionist Painter
Gustav Klimt	Austrian, 1862-1918	Art Nouveau Painter
Oskar Kokoschka	Austrian, 1886-1980	Expressionist Painter
Toulouse-Lautrec	French, 1864-1901	Post-Impressionist
Fernand Léger	French, 1881-1955	Cubist Painter
Frederick Leighton	English, 1830-1896	Pre-Raphaelite Painter
Henri Le Sidaner	French, 1862-1939	Sentimental Realism
Roy Lichtenstein	American, 1923-1997	Pop Painter
Jacopo Ligozzi	Italian, 1547-1627	Renaissance
August Macke	German, 1887-1914	Expressionist Painter
Mapplethorpe	American, 1946-1989	Photographer
Franz Marc	German, 1880-1916	Expressionist / Fauvist
Rene Magritte	French	Surrealist Painter
Edouard Manet	French, 1832-1883	Impressionism
Michelangelo	Italian, 1573-1610	High Renaissance
Henri Matisse	French, 1869-1954	Fauvist Painter

Joan Miro	Spanish, 1893-1983	Surrealist Abstract Painter
Quentin Metsys	Flemish, 1465-1530	Northern Renaissance
Piet Mondrian	Dutch, 1872-1944	Abstractionist
Amedeo Modigliani	Italian, 1884-1920	Expressionist Painter
Gustave Moreau	French 1826-1898	Symbolist Painter
Berthe Morisot	French, 1841-1895	Impressionist
Grandma Moses	American, 1860-1961	Naive Folk Painter
Claude Monet	French, 1840 - 1926	Impressionist Painter
Robert Motherwell	American, 1915-1991	Abstract Expressionist
Alphonse Mucha	Czech, 1860-1939	Art Nouveau
Edvard Munch	Norwegian, 1863-1944	Symbolist/Expressionist
Louise Nevelson	Russian, 1899-1988	Abstract Expressionist
Emile Nolde	German, 1867-1956	Expressionist Painter
Georgia O'Keeffe	American, 1887-1986	Abstract/ Sybolist Painter
James Peale	American, 1749-1831	Realist Painter
Pablo Picasso	Spanish, 1881-1973	Cubist/Abstract/Symbolist
Camille Pissarro	,Caribbean, 1830-1903	Pointillist/Impressionist
Jackson Pollock	American, 1912-1956	Abstract Expressionist
Nicolas Poussin	French, 1594-1665	Baroque Painter
Raphael	Italian, 1483 - 1520	High Renaissance
Robert Rauschenberg	American, 1925-	Pop/Expressionist Painter
Odilon Redon	French, 1840-1916	Symbolist Painter
Man Ray	American 1890-1976	Dadaist/Surrealist/Symbolist
Rembrandt	Dutch, 1606-1669	Baroque Painter

Remington	American, 1866-1909	Realist Western Painter
Pierre-Auguste Renoir	French, 1841-1919	Impressionist Painter
Diego Rivera	Mexican, 1886-1957	Social Realist/Symbolist
Mark Rothko	American, 1903-1970	Abstract Expressionist
Rouault	French, 1871-1958	Expressionist Painter
Norman Rockwell	American, 1894-1978	Social Realist Illustrator
Peter Paul Rubens	Flemish 1577-1640	Baroque Painter
Rousseau	French, 1844-1910	Naive Folk Painter
Charles Russell	American, 1864-1926	Realist Western Painter
Egon Schiele	Austrian, 1890-1918	Expressionist Painter
Georges Seurat	French, 1859-1891	Pointillism
Paul Signac	French, 1863-1935	Pointillism
Alfred Sisley	French, 1839 -1899	Impressionist Painter
Théophile Steinlen	Swiss, 1859-1923	Art Nouveau Painter
Dorothea Tanning	American, 1910-	Surrealist Painter
Jacob Tintoretto	Italian, 1518-1594	High Renaissance
Titian	Italian, 1490-1564	High Renaissance
Joseph Mallord Turner	English, 1775-1851	Romantic Painter
Kitagawa Utamaro	Japanese, 1754-1806	Ukiyo-e Printmaker
Jan Van Eyke	Flemish, 1395-1441	Northern Renaissance
Diego Velasquez	Spanish, 1599-1660	Baroque Painter
Jan Vermeer	Dutch, 1632-1675	Baroque Painter
Paolo Veronese	Italian, 1528-1588	Mannerist Painter
Andrea del Verrocchio	Italian, 1435-1488	Early Renaissance
Vincent van Gogh	Dutch, 1853-1890	Post-Impressionist

Edouard Vuillard	French, 1868-1940	Nabi/Post-Impressionist
Andy Warhol	American, 1928-1987	Pop Painter
John William Waterhouse	English, 1849-1917	Pre-Raphaelite
Jean-Antoine Watteau	French, 1684-1721	Rococo/Sentimental Realism
Grant Wood	American, 1892-1942	Regionalist Painter
Andrew Wyeth	American, 1917	Contemporary Realist

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