Hieronymus Bosch, The Haywain Triptych c. 1515. Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken (better known as Hieronymus  Bosch) was a  Dutch painter. His works mostly contain fantastic  illustrations of religious concepts and narratives.  Pieter Bruegel the Elder was his most famous follower.

Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii 1830-1833. Karl Bryullov (original name Charles Bruleau, also  transliterated Briullov  and Briuloff) was a Russian painter,  watercolorist, representative of Classicism and Romanticism, who had a great influence on Russian painters.  Born into a family of hereditary artists, his first teacher …

Alfred Guillou, It Was My Father  Who Caught It! 1903.

Nikolaos Gyzis, Historia 1892. Nikolaos Gyzis was one of the  most  famous Greek painters of the 19th century.

Alexander Rothaug, Curse. Alexander Theodor Rothaug was an Austrian painter and  illustrator, the  younger brother of Leopold Rothaug . He received his  first lessons in painting from his father, and his maternal  ancestors were also painters and sculptors.

Taras Shevchenko, Self-Portrait 1840. Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (also known as Kobzar) was a  Ukrainian poet, writer, painter and illustrator. He was a fellow  of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Pedro Americo, The Liberation of Slaves 1889. Pedro Americo was a Brazilian painter, writer, scientist,  philosopher and poet.  He studied painting at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro and then in Paris. He was a pupil of  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Carle Vernet.

Alphonse de Neuville, The Cemetery of Saint-Privat 1881. Alphonse de Neuville he was a French battle-painter  and  illustrator who studied under Eugene Delacroix .

Josef Brandt, Zaporizhian Camp c. 1880. Josef von Brandt was a Polish realist painter, a representative of the  Munich School. His paintings focus mainly on military life in the  17th century.

John Austen, Illustration for "Hamlet" by William  Shakespeare 1922. John Archibald Austen was a British illustrator who  designed  books, advertisements and posters. He was friends with the  Irish illustrator Harry Clarke , with whom he exhibited at the St. George Gallery in 1925.

Alexander Pope, Trophies of the Hunt 1899. Alexander Pope Jr. was an American painter who painted still lifes on the subject of sports and hunting. In addition to drawing, he also did woodcarving, and his animal figures were quite  popular. Pope's work is in many private collections and museums, including the Metropolitan Museum…

Antonio de Pereda, Allegory of Vanity 1632-1636. Antonio de Pereda y Salgado was a Spanish painter and  representative  of the Spanish Baroque. He was known for his  still life paintings as well as paintings of a religious and  historical character. His father, mother and two brothers were  also painters.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper 1495-1498. Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, architect, sculptor, scientist  and inventor. Born April 15, 1452, near the town of Vinci. His parents were  Piero, a 25-year-old notary, and a peasant woman named Caterina.  Because he was illegitimate child he had no last name, his full name wa…

James Ferrier Pryde, The Monument 1917. James Ferrier Pryde was a British artist and poster designer. He was a  member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers. In  1893 he and the artist William Nicholson formed the Beggarstaff  partnership, which produced innovative poster and sign designs.

Luc-Olivier Merson, Rest on the Flight into Egypt 1880. Luc-Olivier Merson was a French painter, illustrator and engraver. Merson made a major contribution to the decoration of such  architectural structures in Paris as the Palais de Justice and  the Musée Pasteur.

Johan Christian Dahl, View of Dresden by Moonlight 1839. Johan Christian Klausson Dahl was a Norwegian painter,  the founder of the Norwegian national landscape.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Four Seasons in  One Head c. 1590. Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter and  decorator known for his depictions of anthropomorphic  portraits composed entirely of objects such as fruits,  vegetables, flowers, etc. His father was also a painter, Giuseppe helped him from  a young age to create church murals …

Thomas Francis Dicksee, Ophelia 1873. Thomas Francis Dicksee was an English portrait  painter. In addition to portraits, he painted  scenes from the works of Shakespeare and other  literary works.

Girodet, Jean-Baptiste Belley, Member of the National  Convention 1797. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (also known as  Girodet) was a French painter, printmaker and  writer. He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David.

Albert Pinkham Ryder, Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens 1888-1891. Albert Pinkham Ryder was an American tonalist painter. He was  known for his atmospheric and melancholy paintings. Ryder's work influenced many artists of the next generation,  including the young Jackson Pollock.

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait (Portrait of Giovanni  Arnolfini and His Wife) 1434. Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter working in Bruges. He  studied with his older brother, who was also a painter, but  less famous. Jan is the author of more than a hundred paintings on religious  subjects, and some writers attribute to him the…

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, View of the Interior of the  Colosseum 1815-1816. C. W. Eckersberg was a Danish artist, the founder of the Golden  Age of Danish art.

Henry Fuseli, Satan and Death with Sin Intervening 1799-1800. Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Fussli) was a Swiss painter and  historian who spent most of his life in Britain. Most of his works  focus on dark fantastical subjects, supernatural beings and  grotesque depictions of states of fear and madness. His style influenced many yo…

Kay Nielsen, Illustration to East of the Sun and  West of the Moon 1914. Kay Nielsen was a Danish illustrator of children's books,  a representative of the "Golden Age of Illustration" in England  and the United States. He is known for his collaboration with Disney, for which he  provided sketches and illustrations for…

Edvard Munch, The Murderer 1910. Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter, graphic artist and postmodernist.  He was one of the first representatives of Expressionism. There are several hundred paintings in Munch's work, the most famous of  which "The Scream" has four copies painted between 1893 and 1910. In  2012, a versi…

Albrecht Altdorfer, The Battle of Alexander at Issus 1529. Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter, architect and  engraver who reflected in his genre-diverse paintings a  dreamlike and fantastic vision of the world. He is considered the founder of the landscape school  of German art.

Henryk Siemiradzki, Parnassus 1900. Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki was a Polish painter known for his  depictions of scenes from the ancient Greco-Roman world, biblical scenes  from the New Testament, historical subjects, portraits and landscapes.

Viktor Madarasz, The Exile’s Dream 1856. Viktor Madarasz was a Hungarian Romantic painter.  He came from an impoverished noble family.