Artists

Every painter I have written a full guide for, in one place. 239 artists, from the Renaissance to today, each with the life, the scandals, the technique and the paintings worth knowing.

Sorted by surname. If you are after a term rather than a person, the glossary is at the bottom of this page.

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The complete artist guides

• Afremov, Leonid

• Aivazovsky, Ivan

• Angelico, Fra

• Anguissola, Sofonisba

• Baishi, Qi

• Balthus

• Banksy

• Basquiat, Jean Michel

• Bearden, Romare

• Beardsley, Aubrey

• Beeple

• Beksinski, Zdzislaw

• Bellini, Giovanni

• Berni, Antonio

• Bierstadt, Albert

• Boccioni, Umberto

• Böcklin, Arnold

• Boldini, Giovanni

• Bonheur, Rosa

• Bonnard, Pierre

• Bosch, Hieronymus

• Botero, Fernando

• Botticelli

• Boucher, Francois

• Bouguereau, William Adolphe

• Bronzino

• Brun, Élisabeth Vigée Le

• Cabanel, Alexandre

• Caillebotte, Gustave

• Canaletto

• Caravaggio

• Carr, Emily

• Carracci, Annibale

• Carrington, Leonora

• Cassatt, Mary

• Cézanne, Paul

• Chagall, Marc

• Chardin, Jean-Simeon

• Chirico, Giorgio de

• Church, Frédéric Edwin

• Cimabue

• Close, Chuck

• Cole, Thomas

• Collier, John

• Constable, John

• Corot, Camille

• Correggio

• Courbet, Gustave

• Crivelli, Carlo

• Crosby, Njideka Akunyili

• Dali, Salvador

• Daumier, Honoré

• David, Jacques Louis

• Degas, Edgar

• Delacroix, Eugène

• Delaunay, Robert

• Dix, Otto

• Dore, Gustave

• Dubuffet, Jean

• Duccio

• Duchamp, Marcel

• Ducreux, Joseph

• Dufy, Raoul

• Dürer, Albrecht

• Dyck, Anthony van

• Eakins, Thomas

• Elder, Lucas Cranach the

• Elder, Pieter Bruegel the

• Ensor, James

• Ernst, Max

• Escher, MC

• Eyck, Jan van

• Fairey, Shepard

• Fantin-Latour, Henri

• Fontana, Lucio

• Fragonard, Jean-Honore

• Francesca, Piero della

• Frankenthaler, Helen

• Freud, Lucian

• Friedrich, Caspar David

• Fuseli, Henry

• Gainsborough, Thomas

• Gauguin, Paul

• Gentileschi, Artemisia

• Géricault, Théodore

• Gérôme, Jean-Léon

• Ghirlandaio, Domenico

• Giger, HR

• Giorgione

• Giotto

• Gogh, Vincent van

• Goya, Francisco

• Greco, El

• Grunewald, Matthias

• Hals, Frans

• Hassam, Childe

• Hasui, Kawase

• Hiroshige, Utagawa

• Hirst, Damien

• Hockney, David

• Hodler, Ferdinand

• Hogarth, William

• Hokusai, Katsushika

• Homer, Winslow

• Hopper, Edward

• Hunt, William Holman

• Ingres

• Johns, Jasper

• Kahlo, Frida

• Kandinsky, Wassily

• KAWS

• Kelly, Ellsworth

• Kiefer, Anselm

• Kinkade, Thomas

• Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

• Klee, Paul

• Klein, Yves

• Klimt, Gustav

• Klint, Hilma af

• Kooning, Willem de

• Koons, Jeff

• Krasner, Lee

• Kusama, Yayoi

• Lam, Wifredo

• Lautrec, Henri de Toulouse

• Lawrence, Jacob

• Léger, Fernand

• Leighton, Frédéric

• Lempicka, Tamara de

• Lichtenstein, Roy

• Lippi, Filippo

• Macke, August

• Magritte, René

• Malevich, Kazimir

• Manet, Edouard

• Mantegna, Andrea

• Marc, Franz

• Marshall, Kerry James

• Martin, Agnes

• Masaccio

• Matejko, Jan

• Matisse, Henri

• Memling, Hans

• Michelangelo

• Millais, John Everett

• Millet, Jean-Francois

• Miró, Joan

• Modigliani, Amedeo

• Mondrian, Piet

• Monet

• Moran, Thomas

• Morandi, Giorgio

• Moreau, Gustave

• Morisot, Berthe

• Moses, Grandma

• Mucha, Alphonse

• Munch, Edvard

• Murakami, Takashi

• Murillo, Bartolome Esteban

• Nara, Yoshitomo

• Nelli, Plautilla

• O'Keeffe, Georgia

• Painter, Francis Bacon the

• Parmigianino

• Parrish, Maxfield

• Perugino, Pietro

• Picasso, Pablo

• Pippin, Horace

• Pissarro, Camille

• Pollock, Jackson

• Pontormo

• Poussin, Nicolas

• Raphael

• Rauschenberg, Robert

• Redon, Odilon

• Rembrandt

• Reni, Guido

• Renoir, Pierre Auguste

• Repin, Ilya

• Reynolds, Joshua

• Ribera, Jusepe de

• Richter, Gerhard

• Ringgold, Faith

• Rivera, Diego

• Rockwell, Norman

• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

• Rothko, Mark

• Rousseau, Henri

• Rubens, Peter Paul

• Rublev, Andrei

• Sargent, John Singer

• Sarto, Andrea del

• Saville, Jenny

• Schiele, Egon

• Serebriakova, Zinaida

• Seurat, Georges

• Signac, Paul

• Sisley, Alfred

• Sorolla, Joaquin

• Soutine, Chaim

• Spilliaert, Léon

• Steen, Jan

• Stella, Frank

• Tamayo, Rufino

• Thiebaud, Wayne

• Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista

• Tintoretto

• Tissot, James

• Titian

• Tooker, George

• Tour, Georges de la

• Turner, JMW

• Twombly, Cy

• Uccello, Paolo

• Utrillo, Maurice

• Valadon, Suzanne

• Vallotton, Félix

• Varma, Raja Ravi

• Varo, Remedios

• Velazquez, Diego

• Vermeer

• Veronese, Paolo

• Vinci, Leonardo da

• Vuillard, Edouard

• Walker, Kara

• Warhol, Andy

• Waterhouse, John William

• Watteau, Antoine

• Wegener, Gerda

• Weyden, Rogier van der

• Whistler, James McNeill

• Wiley, Kehinde

• Wood, Grant

• Wou-Ki, Zao

• Wyeth, Andrew

• Younger, Hans Holbein the

• Zeuxis

• Zorn, Anders

• Zurbaran, Francisco de

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Looking for something else

If you want a term explained rather than a painter, the art glossary covers every word you will meet on a museum label. And if you would rather browse by theme, the thematic lists gather paintings by subject, era and mood.