Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1609 –27 August 1651) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He produced about 140 paintings in twenty years. In his style he was influenced by Wybrand de Geest, Rubens and Abraham Bloemaert. Also his drawings (male and female nudes) are highly interesting and skilful. He never painted a town or landscape.

Abram Arkhipov

Abram Efimovich Arkhipov (Russian: Абра́м Ефи́мович Архи́пов) (August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1862 – September 25, 1930) was a Russian realist artist, who was a member of the art collective The Wanderers as well as the Union of Russian Artists.

Antony Troncet

French artist 

born 1879- died 1939

Alexandre Antigna

Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna (March 7, 1817 – February 26, 1878) was a French painter.

Avni Lifij

Avni Lifij, who is one of the main figures in Turkish painting, has the characteristics of a typical Constitutional Period artist. In fact, as a result of a historical coincidence, 1908 is both the year when the Second Constitution was declared and the year when Avni Lifij proved his artistic level through his self-portrait. The year of his death, 1927, is the year, when the first generation of artists who had been sent to western countries in the beginning of the Republican Era, returned to the country bringing new knowledge and outlook.

Thomas Pollock Anshutz

Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Co-founder of The Darby School and leader at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Anshutz was known for his award winning portraiture work and working friendship with Thomas Eakins.

Andreas Achenbach

Andreas Achenbach^[1] (September 29, 1815 – April 1, 1910) was a German landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Alexandre Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter.

Ivan Aivazovsky

Ivan Aivazovsky (Armenian: Հովհաննես Այվազովսկի Hovhannes Aivasovsky, originally Aivazian; Russian: Иван Константинович Айвазовский) (July 29, 1817 – May 5, 1900) was a Russian^[1][2][3][4] world-renowned painter of Armenian descent living and working in Crimea, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings. Aivazovsky is widely considered as one of the greatest seascape painters of all times.^[5][6][7]

Adolf Schreyer

Adolf Schreyer (July 9, 1828 Frankfurt-am-Main – July 29, 1899 Kronberg im Taunus) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Claude Monet

Claude Monet (French pronunciation: ​[klod mɔnɛ/mɔne]) (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.^[1][2] The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)soːn vɑn ˈrɛin]; 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 historyand the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to theBaroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative.