12/03/1830 - 01/25/1896
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. Leighton was...
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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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09/01/1926 - 06/23/2011
Gene Colan, a Bronx-born artist and legend in the comic book industry, Thursday, June 23, 2011. He was 84.
03/19/1920 - 01/27/2007
Tige Andrews (March 19, 1920 – January 27, 2007) was an American character actor.
09/05/1774 - 05/07/1840
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.He is best known for his mid-period...
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07/19/1789 - 02/17/1854
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator.
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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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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01/12/1856 - 04/14/1925
John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career...
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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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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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02/23/1817 - 07/01/1904
George Frederic Watts, (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement
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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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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02/25/1841 - 12/03/1919
Pierre Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that...
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