Paolo Uccello, Saint George and the Dragon c. 1470. Paolo Uccello (born Paolo di Dono) was an Italian painter, mosaicist, and mathematician, one of the inventors of direct linear perspective in art.

Paul Signac, The Papal Palace, Avignon 1909. Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style.

Henriette Browne, A Harem Interior c. 1861. Henriette Browne (real name Sophie de Bouteiller) was a French Orientalist painter. Many of her works have been lost. Between 1851 and 1853, Sophie adopted the pseudonym Henriette Browne, the name of her maternal grandmother. In 1853, under her newly chosen pseudonym, Browne submitted her …

Stanhope Forbes, The Fishermen's Expedition. Stanhope Alexander Forbes was a British (born in Ireland) painter and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters. He was often called "the father of the Newlyn School".

Hugues Merle, Mary Magdalene in the Cave 1868. Hugues Merle was a French painter who mostly depicted sentimental or moral subjects. His son Georges Merle was also a painter.

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Adoration of the Shepherds 1483-1485. Domenico Ghirlandaio was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Ghirlandaio led a large and effective workshop through which many pupils passed, including the famous Michelangelo.

Wallace Smith, Fantazius Mallare 1922. Wallace Smith was an American book illustrator, comic book artist, journalist, and writer. He became Washington correspondent for the Chicago American at the age of 20 and was one of the brightest reporters.

Hans Thoma, Loneliness 1896. Hans Thoma was a German painter and graphic artist. Thoma's creative legacy includes about 900 paintings, engravings, and lithographs.

James McNeill Whistler, Portrait of the Artist's Mother (Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1) 1871. James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter who spent most of his life in England.

Jacek Malczewski, In the Dust Storm 1893-1894. Jacek Malczewski was a Polish symbolist painter. In 1871, at the age of 17, he moved to Krakow, where in his spare time from his grammar school studies he attended the School of Fine Arts (now The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow). One of his teachers was Jan Matejko .  The ma…

Gabriel von Max, The Raising of the Daughter of Jairus 1881. Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max was a Prague-born Austrian painter, son of the famous Prague sculptor Josef Max. Max painted  mostly religious, mystical, vague, melancholic and gloomy paintings, sometimes of obscure content.

Giovanni Lanfranco, Sant'Agata in Carcere c. 1613-1614. Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian Baroque painter famous for his  altarpieces and frescoes. The main themes of his paintings were mythological and religious subjects.

Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty c. 1862. Eastman Johnson was an American painter who has been called the "American Rembrandt" because of his later works in which the influence of the Dutch masters of the 17th century. Co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance.

Hans von Marees, Double Portrait Marees and Lenbach 1863. Johann Reinhard von Marées (Hans von Marées) was a German painter who initially painted portraits and later switched to mythological subjects. Marees is a representative of German Symbolism along with Arnold Bocklin and Anselm Feuerbach . These three artists later became kno…

Anselm Feuerbach, Self-Portrait c. 1854. Anselm Feuerbach was a German painter, a representative of academism. He was the son of the archaeologist Joseph Anselm Feuerbach, and his grandfather was a famous lawyer. The house of his birth is now a small museum.

William Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat 1854-1855. William Holman Hunt was an English painter and one of the founders of the  Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood .

Salvator Rosa, Return of Astrea c. 1640-1645. Salvator Rosa was an Italian painter, poet, and printmaker known for his dark nature landscapes and paintings on religious, mythological, and occult themes. During his lifetime he was one of the most famous painters.

Odilon Redon, Figure 1876. Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon) was a French painter and printmaker  whose work is divided into two periods: black and color.  Redon is considered one of the founders of Symbolism and a precursor of such movements as Expressionism and Surrealism.

Eero Jarnefelt, French Wine Bar 1888. Erik "Eero" Nikolai Jarnefelt was a Finnish painter, graphic artist and art professor. He was known for his portraits and landscapes, his church paintings, and his book illustrations.

Theodore Ralli, Veiled Woman 1880. Theodore Jacques Ralli (Theodoros Ralli) was a Greek orientalist painter. Ralli made many trips to Greece, France, Palestine and Egypt, collecting materials for his works.

Edouard Manet, The Races at Longchamp 1866. Edouard Manet was a French painter, printmaker, and one of the founders of Impressionism. He participated in the Franco- Prussian War, after which he continued his career as a painter.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, The Return of the Crusader 1835. Karl Friedrich Lessing was a German Romantic painter born in Wroclaw who was the grandnephew of the famous poet, playwright and art critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Early in his career he painted dark, melancholic and romantic landscapes in the style of Caspar David Friedric h…

Anton Raphael Mengs, Diana as Personification of the Night c. 1765. Anton Raphael Mengs was a German Neoclassical painter, son of the Saxon court painter Ismael Mengs.

Francesco Parmigianino, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 1523-1524. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Parmigianino) was an Italian painter and printmaker.

Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair 1852-1855. Rosa Bonheur was a French sculptor and painter, one of the greatest animalists of the 19th century. She studied under her father, who was a landscape and portrait painter.

John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily and Rose c. 1885. John Singer Sargent was an American painter born in Florence, a cousin of the famous botanist Charles Sargent. Sargent's oeuvre includes some 900 oil paintings and 2,000 watercolors,  and he also painted murals.

Antonietta Brandeis, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria 1889. Antonietta Brandeis was an Italian landscape painter of Czech origin.

John Collier, All Hallowe’en 1895. John Maler Collier was a British writer and painter who painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style. Sixteen of John Collier's paintings are now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, and two are in the Tate Gallery. Other paintings can be seen in homes and institutions open to …

Bruno Liljefors, Hunter with Dog 1891. Bruno Liljefors was a Swedish animal painter, the older brother of the composer Ruben Liljefors. All his life Liljefors was engaged in hunting, the theme of which occupies no small place in his paintings. In addition to hunting and animals he painted landscapes and portraits.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Lemminkainen's Mother 1897. Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter and illustrator. In 1918 Gallen-Kallela and his son took part in the fighting of the Finnish Civil War.

Joshua Reynolds, Recovery from Sickness, an Allegory c. 1768. Sir Joshua Reynolds was an English portrait painter. He was founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts and was knighted by George III in 1769.

Albert Edelfelt, Bishop Henry Killed by Lalli 1877.

Alexandre Cabanel, Fallen Angel 1847. Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter and teacher. A great number of famous French painters graduated under his wing.

Antoine Caron, The Massacre of the Triumvirate c. 1560-1570. Antoine Caron was a French painter, book illustrator and  master glassmaker. He belonged to a group of masters called the  School of Fontainbleau, which included sculptors, jewelers, architects and painters. Not many of his works have survived; they  are in the Louvre, the…

Mykhaylo Berkos, Iskriya Island 1899. Mykhaylo Andriyovych Berkos was a Ukrainian landscape painter of Greek origin, born in Odesa. Almost all of Berkos' paintings, which were kept in his house, were burned by his wife after his death.

Evelyn de Morgan, Earthbound 1897. Evelyn de Morgan (née Evelyn Pickering) was an English painter,  a follower of the Pre-Raphaelites . She studied with her uncle, who was a painter, in Florence. Her style was influenced by Renaissance painters, particularly Botticelli . In October 1991, 16 of her paintings burned in a fire at the B…

Francois de Nome, St. Paul Preaching to the Athenians c. 1620-1624. Francois de Nome was a French painter who worked under the  collective pseudonym of Monsu Desiderio.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, A Competition Among Powerful Magicians 1869. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (also named Taiso Yoshitoshi) was a Japanese  printmaker, recognized as the last great master of ukiyo-e. He is  known as the first Japanese illustrator of Alexander Pushkin's  The Captain's Daughter.

Alice Pike Barney, Ophelia c. 1909. Alice Pike Barney was an American portrait painter from Los Angeles. Alice Pike Barney, Easter Lilies. Alice Pike Barney, Lucifer (Natalie Clifford Barney) 1902. Alice Pike Barney, Blond Man. Alice Pike Barney, The Necklace 1898. Alice Pike Barney, Ballerine 1896. Alice Pike Barney, Medusa (Laura …