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 .